Spokesman for Great March of Return protest on Gaza border told Al Jazeera that despite use of ‘shoot-to-kill and shoot-to-maim’ tactics, ‘people are quite determined to come, to organise non-violent peaceful protests’. Gaza’s health ministry says Israeli soldiers have killed more than 30 protesters and injured at least 1,600 others with live fire, since demonstrations […]

Jacqueline O’Connell has not been seen since 2pm on Saturday after not coming home from work. Police have issued an appeal for information – describing her disappearance as “extremely out of character”. The 41-year-old has not made contact with friends or family after leaving home in Ibstock, Leics. Her company, JCL Investigations Services, offers lie detector […]

Ms Caputova, 45, has almost no political experience and was elected as Slovakia’s head of state in a second round run-off vote on Saturday. The liberal lawyer and anti-corruption campaigner fought a positive campaign based on progressive values and political reform, becoming one of the few pro-European Union politicians to have made gains across the […]

Zimbabwe’s new President Mnangagwa lit the independence flame this year. Zimbabweans have celebrated their first Independence Day without Robert Mugabe as the country’s leader. The economy and upcoming elections are big tests for new President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who took over when the military forced Mugabe to resign.   Al Jazeera’s Haru Mutasa reports from celebrations […]

President Rodrigo Duterte has approved the six-month closure of the popular holiday destination he says tourists turned into a ‘cesspool’. The livelihoods of thousands of workers on the Philippines holiday island of Boracay could be in jeopardy after President Rodrigo Duterte ordered it closed for six months. Duterte says tourists have turned the place into […]

For years China was the world’s top destination for recyclable waste, but a ban on certain imports has left nations scrambling to find new dumping grounds for growing piles of rubbish. The world’s recycling industry is facing a shake-up. Previously, China imported half the world’s recycled plastic and paper – but not any more. New […]

Bouncy castle filled with children is flipped upside down and blown away by a dust tornado, leaving two dead and 20 injured Horrifying incident happened yesterday at a busy fairground in Henan, China Footage shows the large inflatable bounce house twisting around the tornado Parents are seen holding their children tightly in their arms and […]

A total of 22 residents fell ill after dinner last night at a residential care facility in Toulouse, southern France. Along with the fatalities, 15 people are in intensive care and the others are “very seriously ill”. A Red Cross crisis unit has since been set up at the Cheneraie retirement home in the village […]

Piers Morgan blasts uninsured cyclists as ‘completely unaccountable’ as he weighs in on licence plate row in GMB debate with Boris Johnson’s father Stanley Stanley Johnson and Piers Morgan were embroiled in cycling debate on GMB  Sparked by Lord Winston demanding licence plates for cyclists after altercation Piers said bike riders were ‘completely unaccountable’ and […]

Tomas Drucker’s resignation comes amid mass public protests demanding the sacking of the country’s police chief following the murder of an investigative journalist that has shaken the nation. Tens of thousands of Slovaks rallied through the capital, Bratislava, on Sunday, demanding the head of the police force step down. But instead of the police chief […]