Tag: Al Jazeera

A woman has been shot dead by police in New York’s iconic Times Square. Police say the woman, who was armed with two large knives, had stabbed two people, one fatally.  A warning this video could distress some viewers.

The Zabaleen area, where the waste from Egypt’s capital is sorted, is seeing demand for its recycled materials surge as the war on Iran disrupts imports. But rising costs and new competitors mean the traditional recyclers aren’t necessarily better off.

Hundreds turned out for a Zohran Mamdani lookalike contest in New York, where nine contestants competed for the crowd’s vote. Part-time actor and Mamdani impersonator Amadeo Fusca won the contest and took home a prize of $100.

The US has launched its first strikes on Iran in a month, hitting sites on Larak Island. Iran hit back targeting bases hosting US forces in Jordan. As Al Jazeera’s Manuel Rapalo reports from Washington DC the US says those missiles were shot down.

Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodriguez has given a televised address to defend a deal to hand over 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan oil to the United States. Caracas has been under pressure to meet Washington’s demands since the US abducted President Nicolas Maduro in January.

Demonstrators rallied against a ‘Universal Oneness’ celebration in New York City that was hosting Mohan Bhagwat, chief of India’s Hindu nationalist group, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).

Footage shows an Arkansas state patrol officer pulling a passenger by his hair and punching him during an arrest following a high-speed police chase. The man was charged with resisting arrest and obstructing governmental operations.

The US has revoked an award-winning former Iraqi finance minister’s visa after the FBI placed her on a ‘terrorism watchlist’. The move comes four years after Washington honoured Taif Sami Mohammed al-Shakarchi for her work fighting corruption.