The restart of the world's largest nuclear power plant was suspended in Japan on Thursday just a day after it went online for the first time in about 14 years, with the operator saying it does not know when the problem will be solved. The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata province had been closed since the 2011 Fukushima disaster, but operations to relaunch it began on Wednesday after it received the final green light from the nuclear regulator.
MELBOURNE, Australia -- Third round singles action begins at the Australian Open on Friday with world No. 1s Carlos Alcaraz and Aryna Sabalenka, as well as American star Coco Gauff, highlighting the day session. The evening session will be headlined by Australia's top-ranked Alex de Minaur, who will do battle with American Frances Tiafoe. Also featuring on the program is Alexander Zverev, Daniil Medvedev, Andrey Rublev, and Cameron Norrie.
The attack on Wednesday targeted a convoy carrying Hamdi Shukri, a commander in the pro-government Giants Brigades, Yemen's Presidential Leadership Council said in a statement carried by state-run media. The bombing was a desperate attempt to undermine efforts to stabilise the security situation in the country at a time when tangible progress was being made with the support of Saudi Arabia, the Saudi-backed council said.
Memorial services will be held at the Sydney Opera House and Bondi's Chabad House, a Jewish community centre. Most of the 15 victims of the attack were Jewish, including a 10-year-old child. The theme of the memorials is Light will win, and the government will stage light installations in the capital of Canberra and other cities featuring pillars of light for each of the 15 victims.
Capitalizing on the inaction of the international community, which failed to apply meaningful pressure on Israel to halt its genocidal war in Gaza, the Israeli state has fast-tracked its efforts to carve up the West Bank through land grabs, home demolitions, and the mass expulsion of Palestinians. The purpose of the E1 project has always been clear; as Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said last August, it is intended to "bury the idea of a Palestinian state."
Speaking before the US president's backdown on his threats to take control of Greenland by any means necessary, Carney told assembled leaders it was time to recognise the brutal reality where geopolitics among the great powers is not subject to any constraints. Stop invoking rules-based international order as though it still functions as advertised. Call it what it is: a system of intensifying great power rivalry where the most powerful pursue their interests using economic integration as coercion.
Barrack also renewed US backing for an agreement signed on January 18 between the Syrian government and the SDF on integrating the Kurdish-led forces into state institutions, as part of Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa's push to unify Syria. Disagreement over how such integration would work had led to recent bouts of conflict between the government and the SDF, which had sought continued autonomy for some Kurdish-majority areas.
The deaths from a fire in a mall in Pakistan's Karachi have risen to at least 50 as firefighters recovered more bodies from the debris of the charred building. "We have found 20 to 25 dead bodies, or you call them remains," Deputy Commissioner Javed Nabi Khoso told the media on Wednesday. The Gul Plaza mall in Karachi the country's biggest city caught fire late on Saturday. The blaze raged on for more than 24 hours before it could be doused.
According to the UN, more than 1,800 Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians about five per day were documented in 2025. Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has approved the issuance of gun licences to Israelis in 18 additional illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, as the right-wing government headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pushes to expand illegal outposts that undermine prospects for a two-state solution.
Members of the opposition coalition expressed joy at the news of Tudares Bracho's release. After 380 days of unjust and arbitrary detention having endured more than a year of the inhumane reality of enforced disappearance my husband Rafael Tudares Bracho returned home this morning, Edmundo Gonzalez's daughter, Mariana Gonzalez, wrote on the social media platform X. It has been a stoic and profoundly difficult struggle.
Syrian transitional government troops and Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) had been fighting for weeks in northern Syria. On Tuesday evening, the announcement of a four-day ceasefire restored a measure of calm. SDF fighters were close allies of the international coalition battling the extremist "Islamic State,", or IS, group in Syria and managed to take control of strategically important areas in Syria during 14 years of civil war. Recent clashes with Syrian government troops has pushed them out of these areas.
Some 182,000 Kurds living in Iraqi Kurdistan were killed in 1988 by chemical weapons launched by Saddam Hussein's regime in a series of attacks known as the Anfal campaign. That campaign included chemical attacks on Halabja, a village on the Iraq-Iran border, and other communities. Five thousand people are estimated to have died in Halabja. They were the victims of sarin and VX nerve agents, and mustard gas.
The prime minister said the day was about remembering the 15 victims of the 14 December attack, which he called a stain on our nation. It's an opportunity for us as a nation to wrap our arms around the Jewish community because people were targeted because they were Jewish Australians. Every Jewish Australian felt that very deeply that evening, and ever since as well, he said on Thursday. Today, we share their grief. A grief with no ending, only a beginning.
And yes, it is true, the Russians have lost in December 1,000 people dead-not seriously wounded, dead-a day. That's over 30,000 in the month of December. In the 1980s in Afghanistan, the Soviets lost 20,000 in 10 years. Now they (Russia - ed.) lose 30,000 in one month.
Peru's interim president, Jose Jeri, has denied lying to the country and claimed he was the victim of a plot to discredit him amid a growing political scandal over his secretive meetings with Chinese businessmen. Jeri, 39, who took office in October after his predecessor Dina Boluarte was forced out, told a congressional oversight committee on Wednesday that he had been the target of a smear campaign designed to destabilise the country ahead of elections in April.
