Vehicles drive past the Saint Sarkis church and a painting of the late Iranian revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini in downtown Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2026. Vahid Salemi/AP hide caption toggle caption Vahid Salemi/AP GENEVA — Iran and the United States prepared to meet Thursday in Geneva for nuclear negotiations, talks viewed as a last … Read more
Emergency workers continue to search for missing residents of towns reeling from recent floods. Listen to this article | 3 mins info Published On 26 Feb 202626 Feb 2026 Click here to share on social media share2 Share plus2googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Authorities in the state of Minas Gerais in southeastern Brazil have updated the death … Read more
FILE – Paramilitary soldiers and a police officer with a sniffer dog march past the main entrance gate of China’s Ministry of Commerce, in Beijing, on April 3, 2025. Andy Wong/AP hide caption toggle caption Andy Wong/AP BANGKOK — China on Tuesday restricted exports to 40 Japanese entities it says are contributing to Japan’s “remilitarization,” … Read more
These are the key developments from day 1,462 of Russia’s war on Ukraine. Listen to this article | 6 mins info Published On 25 Feb 202625 Feb 2026 Click here to share on social media share2 Share Here is where things stand on Wednesday, February 25 : Fighting At least 15,172 Ukrainian civilians have been confirmed killed … Read more
Good morning. You’re reading the Up First newsletter. Subscribe here to get it delivered to your inbox, and listen to the Up First podcast for all the news you need to start your day. Today’s top stories Millions of pages of Epstein files have been released to the public, but an NPR investigation reveals a gap: The Justice Department … Read more
Kyiv, Ukraine – Hennady Kolesnik never expected the full-scale Russian invasion to last this long. “These are the worst and longest years of my life,” the 71-year-old retired welder told Al Jazeera four years after the aggression that began on February 24, 2022. Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list In the first days … Read more
Father Andriy Zelinskyy, a chaplain in wartime Ukraine, talks about what he sees in the trenches and what he’s learned about the fragility of humanity, years into the war with Russia. EMILY KWONG, HOST: This week marks four years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began, four years where the reality of war has highlighted … Read more
Bodies of five asylum seekers wash ashore in Libya as three others die in a separate incident off the coast of Greece. Listen to this article | 3 mins info Police in Libya have recovered the bodies of five asylum seekers that washed ashore near the capital, Tripoli, as authorities in Greece announced the deaths of three … Read more
A journalist looks at Friday’s newspaper front pages in London after Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested and held for hours by British police on suspicion of misconduct in public office related to his links to Jeffrey Epstein. Kin Cheung/AP hide caption toggle caption Kin Cheung/AP LONDON — Police searched the former home of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor again … Read more
Nigerian lawmaker reports ‘at least 50 people dead’ after attack as list of missing is still being compiled. Listen to this article | 3 mins info Published On 21 Feb 202621 Feb 2026 Click here to share on social media share2 Share Gunmen killed at least 50 people and abducted women and children in an overnight assault … Read more