Every September, leaders from around the world gather at the United Nations in New York to debate and pass resolutions on the biggest issues facing the planet. The UN General Assembly (UNGA) opens every year on the second Tuesday in September. This year, it began on September 9, when the incoming president took office, the agenda w...

It has been two years since Israel launched its genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. Israel’s assault on Gaza began on October 7, 2023, in response to attacks on southern Israel by fighters from the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, and other Palestinian groups, during which 1,139 people died and about 240 were taken into...

The 80th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has begun its high-level week in New York, during which representatives from all 193 UN member states, as well as the two non-member observers – Palestine and the Holy See – are expected to deliver speeches during the annual general debate. Established in 1945 with a charter signed by...

France, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Andorra and Belgium have formally recognised a Palestinian state at the 80th session of the General Assembly (UNGA). They join Canada, Australia and Portugal, as well as the United Kingdom, which announced its recognition on Sunday, as Israel pushes ahead with settlement expansion in the occupied...

Last week the European Commission said it was preparing to introduce tariffs on Russian oil imports entering the EU through Hungary and Slovakia. It comes as US President Donald Trump has piled pressure on NATO members to stop buying Russian energy, in a bid to end the Russia-Ukraine war. At the UN last week he said, “They’re fundi...

The United States federal government shut down at 12:01am East Coast time (04:01 GMT) on Wednesday after Congress failed to pass a new spending bill, forcing operations considered inessential to close. President Donald Trump has threatened to use the budget deadlock to push through mass layoffs of federal employees. Democrats and R...

The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize is scheduled to be announced on Friday, October 10, at 11:00 am local time in Oslo, Norway (09:00 GMT). The announcement comes from the Norwegian Nobel Institute on behalf of the all-Norwegian, five-member Nobel Committee, appointed by the Norwegian Parliament and responsible for selecting and presenting...

Central bankers and financial delegates have gathered in Washington, DC this week for the annual International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank meetings, which conclude on Saturday. Discussions this week have focused on global economic headwinds, as the IMF warns of signs of distress following US trade tariffs and protectionism....

In the early hours of Wednesday morning in Gaza, United States President Donald Trump announced that Hamas and Israel had agreed on the first phase of his ceasefire and captive-exchange plan. In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump stated : “ALL the hostages will be released very soon, and Israel will withdraw their troops to...

On Thursday, the United States military carried out its latest strike on an alleged Venezuela drug smuggling vessel, as the admiral overseeing the Trump administration’s controversial campaign in the Caribbean Sea announced his early departure. Officials did not offer additional details about the incident, in which they said there...

While much of the globe’s attention remains on the Gaza ceasefire deal, less than 33 kilometres (21 miles) away, Israeli settlers, often backed by soldiers, continue daily assaults and raids across the occupied West Bank. On Monday night, Israeli settlers uprooted 150 olive trees in the village of Bardala, in the northern Jordan Va...

Despite a ceasefire deal with Israel, Palestinians across the devastated Gaza Strip continue to go hungry as food supplies remain critically low and aid fails to reach those who need it most. As per the ceasefire agreement, Israel was supposed to allow 600 humanitarian aid trucks into Gaza per day. However, Israel has since reduced...

Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro has indicated that a suspension of aid from the United States would mean little to his country, but that changes to military funding could have an effect. “What happens if they take away aid? In my opinion, nothing,” Petro told journalists on Thursday, adding that aid funding often moved through U...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has vowed not to bend to pressure from the West after the United States hit Russia’s two biggest oil companies with sanctions. US President Donald Trump imposed sanctions on Russia’s top oil firms, Rosneft and Lukoil, on Wednesday in an effort to pressure Putin to reach a ceasefire in his country’s...

US President Donald Trump has pardoned Changpeng Zhao, founder of the giant Binance cryptocurrency exchange, who was convicted of violating the United States’ money-laundering laws. In a statement on Thursday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Trump had “exercised his constitutional authority by issuing a pardon for...

Dozens of people have been injured at a memorial event in Kenya’s western city of Kisumu as huge crowds gathered to view the body of revered former Prime Minister Raila Odinga, local media reported. The injuries occurred on Saturday at Jomo Kenyatta International Stadium despite authorities deploying military units, police and aeri...

“The ad was for $75,000. They only did this to interfere with the decision of the US Supreme Court, and other courts,” Trump wrote. “Based on their egregious behavior, ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA ARE HEREBY TERMINATED,” Trump added. The foundation also said that Ontario had not received its permission “to use and edit the re...

Kenyans have bid a final farewell to esteemed opposition leader Raila Odinga, days after several people were killed as mourners gathered to pay their respects in the capital Nairobi. Odinga, a pro-democracy champion who also served as prime minister from 2008 to 2013, was buried on Sunday at his family’s homestead in western Kenya’...

The last Ebola patient in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has been released from a treatment centre in Kasai province, according to the United Nations health agency. The patient is the 19th to recover out of 64 total cases recorded since the outbreak was declared in September, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in...

As the Netherlands gears up for a snap parliamentary election on October 29, less than halfway through parliament’s usual four-year term following the collapse of the ruling coalition, the likelihood of another win for the country’s far-right Party for Freedom (PVV) is mounting. An outright win is next to impossible. The Netherland...

A series of drone attacks has hit areas in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, including near its international airport, according to media. Tuesday’s air strikes come a day before the airport’s long-awaited reopening. Witnesses told the news agency AFP that they heard drones over central and southern Khartoum early in the day. Then, a wave...

Madagascar’s coup leader Colonel Michael Randrianirina, who seized power this month after Gen Z-driven protests forced the former president out the country, has appointed a new prime minister. Randrianirina, who was sworn in as president last week, said on Monday that he had chosen businessman Herintsalama Rajaonarivelo as the new...

A massive betting scandal has hit American basketball, with players and a coach now facing charges. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the United States attorney for Brooklyn announced two indictments in what they say is a massive cheating conspiracy involving current and former basketball players, coaches and members of...

A US missionary working for an evangelical Christian organisation has been kidnapped in Niger’s capital Niamey, the US State Department has said, in the latest kidnapping of a foreign national in the country. The US State Department confirmed the abduction to the AFP news agency on Wednesday, saying its embassy in Niamey was doing...

A fuel tanker has overturned and exploded in Nigeria’s northern Niger State, killing at least 35 people, according to the country’s Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC). The vehicle skidded off the road and spilled petrol, which ignited shortly after the crash, Aishatu Saadu, the state’s FRSC sector commander, said on Tuesday. Nigeria’...

At least 46 people have been killed in a major road accident involving multiple vehicles on the highway between Uganda’s capital Kampala and the northern city of Gulu, police have said. The collision took place just after midnight [21:00 GMT on Tuesday] near the town of Kiryandongo, some 263km (163 miles) from Kampala, and was caus...

Leaders across the European Union have agreed to help Ukraine fund its fight against Russia’s invasion, but stopped short of approving a plan that would draw from frozen Russian assets to do so, after Belgium raised objections. EU leaders met in Brussels on Thursday to discuss Ukraine’s “pressing financial needs” for the next two y...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called on allies to sanction all Russian oil companies and help to bolster Ukraine’s long-range missile capabilities after meeting with European leaders in the United Kingdom. Flanked by other leaders at a joint news conference in London on Friday, Zelenskyy praised the United States’s ne...

Two Russian military aircraft have briefly entered Lithuania’s airspace in what appeared to be a new provocation from Moscow as European Union leaders discussed how to strengthen their defences amid deepening concerns the war in Ukraine could spill over into their nations. Lithuania’s armed forces said in a statement that the two a...

Ireland’s voters are electing a new president, with polls indicating a win for left-wing independent Catherine Connolly, whose campaign was rocked by a last-minute deepfake video purporting to show her retreating from the race. Friday’s poll, which closes at 10pm (21:00 GMT), with results expected by Saturday evening, sees Connolly...

Croatian lawmakers have voted to reintroduce mandatory military service to boost the Balkan nation’s defence, in response to rising global tension and conflicts, including Russia’s war in Ukraine. The parliament in the capital Zagreb approved an amendment to the law enacting the reinstatement by a large majority on Friday. The coun...

A man has detonated an explosive device at a railway station in northern Ukraine, killing himself and three women, the State Border Guard Service has said. Twelve others were hurt on Friday at the station in Ovruch, close to the border with Belarus. Among the dead were a border guard and two civilians, aged 29, 58 and 82, the servi...

China has accused Australia of covering up an incursion into Chinese airspace in response to Canberra’s earlier claims about an “unsafe and unprofessional” incident involving the two nations’ military aircraft over the South China Sea. Chinese Ministry of National Defence spokesperson Jiang Bin told reporters on Tuesday that China...

North Korea fired multiple, short-range ballistic missiles in its first launches in months, South Korea’s military says, as experts warn that more could be expected as Seoul prepares to host the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. The launch of missiles on Wednesday morning comes a week before Chinese President Xi Jinp...

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – When US President Donald Trump lands in Malaysia for Southeast Asia’s headline summit this weekend, he will be delivering Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim a diplomatic coup. US presidents rarely visit Malaysia, a multiracial nation of 35 million people sandwiched between Thailand and Singapore, which...

China’s ruling Communist Party has said it will focus on speeding up self-reliance in science and technology, after a four-day meeting that approved a draft of the party’s next five-year development plan. China faces “profound and complex” changes and rising uncertainty, an announcement issued on state media said on Thursday. It ad...

North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un has hailed his country’s “invincible” alliance with Russia, as he marked one year since his troops deployed to fight in Moscow’s war against Ukraine with the opening of a museum honouring soldiers who died in battle. Speaking at the groundbreaking ceremony in the capital Pyongyang on Thursday, Kim a...

United States President Donald Trump will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping ahead of a major regional economic summit being held in South Korea next week, the White House has confirmed. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said at a press briefing on Thursday that Trump is scheduled to participate in a “bilateral meeti...

A gold smuggler implicated in a scandal that robbed Kenya of 10 percent of its GDP in the 1990s has moved his smuggling operation to Zimbabwe and Dubai, Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit (I-Unit) can reveal. Kamlesh Pattni was involved in the so-called Goldenberg scam, a gold smuggling operation that robbed Kenya of $600mn and led to...

They are rival gangs — with many different characters. From new-age pastors to old-school smugglers, and from diplomats to the Zimbabwean president’s niece, Al Jazeera’s latest investigation, Gold Mafia, has uncovered a band of criminals driving gold smuggling and money laundering worth billions of dollars in Southern Africa. These...

An investigation by Al Jazeera has revealed some of Southern Africa’s largest gold-smuggling operations, exposing how these gangs help criminals around the world launder billions of dollars while aiding governments in circumventing international sanctions. Gold Mafia, a four-part series by Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit (I-Unit) b...

One of Zimbabwe’s most influential diplomats, Uebert Angel, offered to use his status to launder millions of dollars through a gold-smuggling scheme, during an undercover operation by Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit (I-Unit). Angel, appointed ambassador-at-large and a presidential envoy by Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa in...

The world’s largest meat company, JBS, has allegedly fuelled illegal deforestation, land grabs and human rights abuses in the Brazilian Amazon by sourcing cattle from ranches operating inside protected areas, according to a new Human Rights Watch investigation. On Wednesday, the nonprofit issued an 86-page report focusing on the st...

A new study by World Weather Attribution and United States-based Climate Central has calculated the increase in dangerous “superhot days” – defined as warmer than 90 percent of comparable days between 1991 and 2020 – due to climate change. The report, which is not yet peer-reviewed but uses established techniques for climate attrib...

Thousands of residents of a Philippine island have fled their homes along the Pacific coast as weather experts warned of coastal flooding ahead of the approach of Tropical Storm Fengshen, rescue officials said. The eye of the storm was forecast to brush past Catanduanes, an impoverished island of 270,000 people, later on Saturday w...

Members of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) have voted to postpone approving a plan to curb shipping emissions, after United States President Donald Trump threatened to impose sanctions on countries that supported the measure. The vote on Friday set back plans to regulate the shipping industry’s contributions to climat...

A Palestinian teenager has died of wounds sustained during an Israeli military raid in the Askar camp in Nablus, in the latest violence against civilians in the occupied West Bank, as a fragile ceasefire in Gaza brings little respite to Palestinians in the destroyed enclave. Eighteen-year-old Mohammed Ahmed Abu Haneen died on Frida...

At least five people have been killed and two reported missing as Tropical Storm Fengshen sweeps through the Philippines, triggering heavy flooding on the main island of Luzon and a vast landslide on the southern island of Mindanao. In Quezon province in the north of the country, five members of one family, including two children,...

The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have targeted Sudan’s capital Khartoum and its main airport with drones for a fourth consecutive day, as the government-aligned Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) attempts to resume air traffic after regaining control of the city several months ago. Drones and surface-to-air missiles were heard...

Nearly half of all countries lack early-warning systems for extreme weather events, leaving millions – especially those in developing nations – vulnerable. As it released a new report on Monday, the UN’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO) called for gaps in global monitoring and forecasting networks to be plugged. Timely alert...

A Turkish court has thrown out a case against the country’s main opposition party that would have unseated its leader, Ozgur Ozel, on grounds that the charges had no substance. The case, which centred on allegations of vote buying and procedural irregularities at a 2023 congress held by the Republican People’s Party (CHP), was dism...

Most of the bodies of the more than 100 dead Palestinians Israel released remain unidentified. They were sent back to Gaza with numbers instead of their names, leaving family members of missing Palestinians to pore desperately through pictures of the bodies, hoping to spot their loved ones. One thing is clear from the marks left on...

An Israeli drone strike has killed two people in southern Lebanon, according to the country’s Ministry of Public Health, a day after Israeli warplanes launched a series of deadly strikes on the country’s eastern mountain range and south. It’s the latest in near-daily Israeli violations of the United States-brokered ceasefire betwee...

Tropical Storm Melissa is threatening the Caribbean Sea islands with dangerous landslides and life-threatening flooding, as officials urge residents of flood-prone areas to seek higher ground and shelter. Jamaica’s eastern region could see up to 12 inches (300mm) of rain. “Now that is significant rainfall, and that is the main thin...

A massacre of African World War II riflemen demanding pay for fighting for France in 1944 was premeditated, covered up and its death toll vastly underestimated, according to a paper submitted to the Senegalese president and seen by the news agency AFP. According to French colonial authorities at the time, at least 35 infantrymen we...

At least 14 refugees died when their inflatable dinghy capsized in the Aegean Sea off the Turkish resort of Bodrum, according to the provincial governor. The office of Mugla governorate said on X on Friday that an Afghan man who survived the disaster and swam back to the mainland had raised the alarm shortly after 1am (22:00 GMT)....

A New York jury has found that French banking giant BNP Paribas’s work in Sudan helped to prop up the regime of former ruler Omar al-Bashir, making it liable for atrocities that took place under his rule. The eight-member jury on Friday sided with three plaintiffs originally from Sudan, awarding a total of $20.75m in damages, after...

The United States and Belize have signed a “safe third country” immigration agreement, which will allow the administration of President Donald Trump to transfer asylum seekers to the Central American country. The deal marks the latest effort by the Trump administration to limit asylum applications in the US and carry out a campaign...

Zimbabwe’s governing ZANU-PF has said it will begin a process to extend President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s term by two years, potentially keeping him in power until 2030. The plan was endorsed on Saturday at the movement’s annual conference in the eastern city of Mutare, where delegates instructed the government to begin drafting legis...

Yemen’s Houthi authorities have detained about two dozen United Nations employees after raiding another UN-run facility in the capital Sanaa, the UN has confirmed. Jean Alam, spokesperson for the UN’s resident coordinator in Yemen, said staff were detained inside the compound in the city’s Hada district on Sunday. Those held includ...

Abidjan, Ivory Coast – In the working-class neighbourhood of Yopougon in Abidjan, at the famous Sapeurs-Pompiers crossroad, the aroma of grilled chicken and fish wafts through the air, as food stalls compete for attention along a stretch of lively local eateries. But the bustling intersection in the country’s economic capital – nor...

The United States has conducted two more military strikes on vessels alleged to be carrying illicit drugs across international waters, killing five people. For the first time, however, the boats in question were not in the Caribbean Sea but instead in the Pacific Ocean. There have now been at least nine strikes in total, bringing t...

A general strike and tens of thousands of protesters have brought the southern Tunisian city of Gabes to a standstill as anger intensifies over a state-run chemical plant that residents blame for a pollution crisis. Shops, markets, schools, and cafes shut down in the general strike, halting economic activity in coastal Gabes on Tue...

In both Israel and among its Western allies, the Gaza ceasefire deal is seen as an opportunity – to move on from the accusations of genocide against it, and to restore close relations weakened as a result of public anger. Over two years of its unrelenting war on Gaza, Israel has killed more than 67,900 Palestinians and injured more...

Defense for Children International – Palestine (DCIP) has obtained testimony from Palestinian American teenager Mohammed Ibrahim, whose case has become a symbol for the mistreatment of minors in Israeli jails. In an interview with a DCIP lawyer, published on Tuesday, 16-year-old Mohammed described the harsh conditions he has faced...

A group of United States lawmakers have urged the Trump administration to secure the release of a 16-year-old Palestinian American who has been held in Israeli detention centres for eight months. In a letter sent to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, 27 members of the US Congress called for t...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to visit Hungary in the very near future, where he will meet United States counterpart Donald Trump for a second summit on ending the war in Ukraine. The first – in Alaska in August – failed to result in any agreement. But, with an International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant issued in 2023 for...

The United States has announced its 10th missile strike on a maritime vessel accused of trafficking illegal narcotics, killing all six people on board. Friday’s attack brings the total known death toll to 43 since the bombing campaign began. It also marks an escalating pace to the air strikes: The US government has announced three...

The United States Department of Justice is preparing to send federal election observers to California and New Jersey next month, targeting two Democratic strongholds holding off-year elections following requests from state Republican parties. The Justice Department announced Friday that it is planning to monitor polling sites in Pa...

Two bills aimed at annexing the occupied West Bank have limped through Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, on Tuesday night in defiance of both the United States and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing Likud party. Responding to news of the vote, US President Donald Trump said simply, Israel is “not going to do anything wit...

Lucknow, India – On the evening of September 4, an illuminated signboard lit up a predominantly Muslim neighbourhood in Kanpur, an industrial town in India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh. The signboard said: “I love Muhammad” – with a red heart standing in for the word, love. It was the first time the mainly working-class reside...

New York Attorney General Letitia James has entered a not-guilty plea to federal mortgage fraud charges in a contentious case pushed by United States President Donald Trump. On Friday, James appeared in court for the first time after the Trump administration accused her of misrepresenting a property investment to get more favourabl...

United States top diplomat Marco Rubio says the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) “is not going to play any role” in aid delivery in Gaza, as he also rejected the possibility of Hamas being involved in any future governance of the Strip. Speaking during a news conference while on a visit to Israel on Friday, th...

Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif has said that his country’s fragile ceasefire agreement with Afghanistan depends on whether the latter reins in armed groups attacking across their shared border. “Everything hinges on this one clause,” said Asif in an interview with news agency Reuters on Monday, after the two coun...

Japan’s parliament has elected ultraconservative Sanae Takaichi as the nation’s first female prime minister. A protege of assassinated former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Takaichi received  237 votes in the 465-seat lower house of parliament on Tuesday to confirm her in the role. The victory follows a last-minute coalition deal by he...

Fireworks set off to celebrate the Diwali festival have worsened the air quality in India’s capital New Delhi, making it the most “hazardous” in the world. The city’s air quality index (AQI) measurement hit 442 on Tuesday morning, according to Swiss air quality firm IQAir. As happens every year, the widespread use of fireworks on M...

A major outage at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Monday disrupted a large portion of the internet, taking down apps, websites and online tools used by millions of people around the world, before services were eventually restored. The hours-long breakdown of the cloud system that supports a portion of the internet revealed just ho...

The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), a coalition including the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Gates Foundation, will face a 30 percent budget reduction in 2026 and a $1.7bn funding gap through 2029, threatening efforts to eradicate polio. “The significant reductions in funding … mean that certain activities will...

The Pakistani navy, operating as part of the Saudi-led Combined Maritime Forces (CMF), has seized nearly $1bn worth of narcotics from two vessels sailing through the Arabian Sea. The CMF, the naval network overseeing the operation, said in a statement on Wednesday that last week, the Pakistani navy intercepted the dhows in two sepa...

India’s top importer of Russian oil, the conglomerate Reliance Industries Ltd, says it will abide by Western sanctions, ending several days of speculation about how the company will manage new measures targeting Russia’s two largest oil companies. Reliance “will be adapting the refinery operations to meet the compliance requirement...

A passenger bus has erupted in flames after a crash with a motorcycle, killing at least 25 people and injuring several others in southern India, police said. The fire ripped through the bus on Friday within minutes, trapping dozens of passengers on board, many of whom were sleeping, as it drove along a highway near Kurnool district...

The band of robbers who broke into the Louvre Museum in Paris on Sunday morning and stole eight Napoleonic pieces of priceless jewellery in a four-minute heist were just the latest in a long line of daring thieves who have targeted the iconic museum. The robbers used a truck-mounted ladder to reach the gilded Galerie d’Apollon (Apo...

United States Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr claimed on October 9 that there may be a link between autism and circumcision. However, experts say his claims are not based on rigorous and robust research. “There’s two studies that show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it’...

Massive demolition work began this week on the White House’s East Wing as part of United States President Donald Trump’s plans to build a new ballroom in a space traditionally reserved for the first lady. The construction, which started on Monday, is the first structural change to the complex since 1948, and the first under Trump,...

Sanae Takaichi is set to become the first female prime minister of Japan after winning a leadership vote in the legislature. She was due to meet with Emperor Naruhito on Tuesday following her win, solidifying her place in history. Here’s what you need to know about Japan’s next leader: What is Takaichi’s background?   Takaichi, 64,...

Critics of President Donald Trump have zeroed in on a hefty financial aid package for Argentina that comes as Argentinian soya bean farmers have taken market share from United States producers. “The frustration is overwhelming,” American Soybean Association president Caleb Ragland said on September 24. Senator Chuck Grassley from I...

More doctors and healthcare professionals are mobilising and calling for action to demand the release of Dr Hussam Abu Safia and at least 94 other Palestinian medics currently held captive by Israeli authorities. On Monday, in an event organised by Healthcare Workers Watch (HWW) and Amnesty International UK, doctors and healthcare...

Following the September assassination of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk, United States President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance have shaped their political agenda by blaming the left for political violence. “Political violence, it’s just a statistical fact that it’s a bigger problem on the left,” Vance said while gu...

Plans for an in-person meeting between United States President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, in the next two weeks in Budapest, Hungary, fell apart on Tuesday, after Trump proposed “freezing” the Russia-Ukraine war with a ceasefire along the current front lines. Apparently signalling that no meeting woul...

In September, Pakistan launched its first-ever national human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine campaign, aiming to immunise more than 13 million girls aged nine to 14 in its first phase. HPV is the most common cause of cervical cancer, which kills eight Pakistani women every day, according to Dr Dapeng Luo, the head of the World Health...

The Louvre Museum in Paris, France, reopened to the public on Wednesday after a jewellery heist prompted a three-day closure. During the robbery, a band of thieves broke into the French capital’s iconic museum and stole eight items of jewellery containing precious jewels from the Napoleonic era on October 19. The robbers are still...

Frontrunner Zohran Mamdani, former Governor Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa faced off in the final debate of the New York City mayoral race on Wednesday, in a final push to woo voters before the November 4 vote. But the attack lines they deployed against each other, and their defences, were mostly along predictable lines,...

Mosquitoes were detected in Iceland for the first time this month, resulting in the country losing its status as one of the only places in the world without them. The findings were confirmed by the country’s national science institute on Monday. This follows record-breaking heat this past summer, which has sped up glacial melting i...

“Based on their egregious behavior, ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA ARE HEREBY TERMINATED,” Trump wrote. Ontario Premier Doug Ford said on Friday that he would pause the advertising campaign so that trade talks between the US and Canada could move forward. “Our intention was always to initiate a conversation about the kind of ec...

Satellite imagery analysis by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking agency Sanad shows that the Israeli army holds about 40 active military positions in the part of the Gaza Strip outside the yellow line, the invisible boundary established under the first phase of the ceasefire to which its troops had to move, according to the deal. The image...

Washington has announced new sanctions against Russia’s two largest oil companies, Rosneft and Lukoil, in an effort to pressure Moscow to agree to a peace deal in Ukraine. This marks the first time the current Trump administration has imposed direct sanctions on Russia. Speaking alongside Nato Secretary-General Mark Rutte in the Ov...

United States President Donald Trump has begun construction of a $300m ballroom on the site of what was the White House’s East Wing. The construction, which began on Monday, is the first major structural change to the complex since 1948. It involves tearing down the existing East Wing, which had housed the first lady’s offices and...

United States President Donald Trump has suggested freezing the war in Ukraine at its current front lines and using these lines as a starting point for future negotiations over territory. Peace talks aimed at ending the war in Ukraine have so far stalled despite Trump boasting during his presidential campaign last year that he coul...

Both fans and foes of President Trump see his presidency as something of a wrecking ball. Fans praise him for tearing down broken systems — like the federal bureaucracy or global trade — to build them anew. Foes see him as simply breaking things — like NATO or vital political norms. Then, this week, as if to drive the point home, h...

After a searing ocean heat wave in 2023, two of the most historically important coral species in Florida are functionally extinct from the state’s reef, scientists have found. Elkhorn and staghorn coral, known for their branching limestone arms that create incomparable reef habitat, have all but vanished everywhere except the north...

Regime change. Mission creep. U.S. military intervention overseas. For years, many of President Trump’s ardent supporters rallied around his pledge to avoid another “forever war” after the long U.S. conflicts in the Middle East and Central Asia. Now, several prominent conservative policy advisers and commentators are raising concer...

In Beijing’s version of the trade war, the United States is the bully and China is a victim, a rising power trying to protect the global economy while Washington unfairly hurls tariffs and technology bans its way. That narrative is getting harder to square with the image of China that has emerged in recent days: that of an industri...

President Trump said late Thursday that he was terminating negotiations with Canada over the high tariffs that he imposed on its steel, auto parts and other major exports, adding new uncertainty to the relationship with America’s second-biggest trading partner. On Truth Social, the president said he was ending all trade negotiation...

Hombres armados sacaron a civiles de sus casas, llamándolos cerdos, perros y herejes antes de matarlos. Soldados del gobierno ejecutaron a un voluntario en un hospital. Los combatientes hicieron marchar a los civiles por la calle hacia un pelotón de fusilamiento. Líderes religiosos fueron retenidos a punta de pistola y agredidos.Fu...

Pakistan on Thursday banned a radical Islamist party whose followers clashed with the police in recent protests that left at least five people dead. The decision to ban the party, Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan, or TLP, comes just over a week after the clashes with police, which took place on the outskirts of Lahore, the capital of Punj...

No one can know how long President Trump’s pique with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia will last this time. But the past few days have been an important signal that European persistence in its support for Ukraine has paid off, at least for now. Mr. Trump’s decision to impose sanctions on two of Russia’s largest oil companies,...

On a recent weeknight, Lin Yung-pin was guiding a group of Taiwanese visitors around Myeongdong, a bustling tourist hot spot in Seoul that has also been the site of anti-China protests over the years. To ward off potential harassment, Mr. Lin said, some members of his groups wear badges or carry signs that identify them as being fr...

De joven, a finales de la década de 1970, Sanae Takaichi viajaba seis horas al día en autobús y tren desde la casa de sus padres, en el oeste de Japón, para ir a la universidad. Era una aficionada al heavy metal y a las motocicletas Kawasaki, y ansiaba mudarse. Pero su madre insistió al principio en que se quedara en casa, y le pro...

On Sunday, when thieves climbed to a second-floor window of the Louvre, grabbed jewels of staggering worth and descended to their getaway scooters via a furniture elevator, many in France were stunned and furious. But the German company that made the elevator saw a once-in-a-lifetime marketing opportunity. Alexander Böcker, the chi...

Casi cinco siglos después de que el rey Enrique VIII de Inglaterra rompiera con la Iglesia católica para poder divorciarse y casarse de nuevo (y de nuevo y de nuevo), otro rey inglés que se divorció y se volvió a casar rezó el jueves con el papa en un servicio ecuménico en la Capilla Sixtina. El servicio se celebró en la misma cáma...

El camión rojo estaba adornado con luces azules, amarillas y de neón, y tenía unas bocinas de 3,6 metros de alto y casi 4,5 de ancho. Avanzaba con lentitud por una estrecha calle del pueblo, haciendo retumbar música folclórica javanesa mezclada con ritmos electrónicos. Quienes estaban cerca sentían cómo el bajo recorría todo su cue...

Once mere pit stops, gas stations are now pillars of Ukraine’s war effort. Offering a fleeting taste of regular life for soldiers subsisting on rations and enduring constant Russian fire, they have become symbols of resilience through a grinding conflict and won a place in Ukrainians’ hearts. At the busy station along the road to t...

El comandante de la guardia costera de Ecuador contempló el submarino que se había utilizado para transportar drogas con una mirada de derrota, agotado por los interminables esfuerzos de intercepción que parecen no llevar a ninguna parte, en los que sus marineros arriesgan sus vidas mientras la cocaína sigue fluyendo. Los narcotraf...

The powder was so lucrative that some people here called it cocaine. The men and women making pricey infant formula for Chinese babies at a factory in Askeaton, a small town in the southwestern Irish county of Limerick, had helped to turn around the fortunes of a place long overlooked. So when the people in suits unexpectedly arriv...

Mass at the Church of Jesus the Nazarene rarely lures enough congregants to fill more than a few pews. Trash piles up outside under broken stained-glass windows. The unhoused of Mexico City’s old center perform their bodily functions in its shadows. It could be any run-down church in this vast metropolis, except for a small sign on...

Armed with bags of fireworks and only a rudimentary knowledge of how to use them, Muhammad Sheeb directed a group of fellow revelers to set up pyrotechnics along a darkened street in preparation for the wedding convoy. “They’re coming!” he yelled as a line of vehicles arrived, led by the bride and groom’s white SUV adorned with red...

TOKYO (AP) — For the first time since he resigned as coach of Australia following the team’s disastrous 2023 Rugby World Cup campaign, Eddie Jones is back to face his old team. And in his mind, now as coach of Japan, he hopes to again torment the Wallabies, who never made it out of the group stage in that tournament two years ago i...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The soldiers and airmen stood at the back of the black minivan, arming themselves — with black garbage bags and red-handled trash pickers — and headed for the park around the recreation center. For the Washington, D.C., contingent of the National Guard deployed to the nation’s capital, it marked their 119th beauti...

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams endorsed Andrew Cuomo in the city’s mayoral election Thursday, throwing his weight behind a bitter rival as he cast the Democratic nominee, Zohran Mamdani, as an avatar for radicals and gentrifiers. “Am I angry I’m not the one taking down Zohran, the socialist and communist? You’re dar...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A man who says he was detained by police for following an Ohio National Guard patrol while playing Darth Vader’s theme song from “Star Wars” on his phone sued the District of Columbia on Thursday, claiming the officers violated his constitutional rights. Sam O’Hara’s federal lawsuit says the ominous orchestral mus...

CHICAGO (AP) — Four family members of a Republican running for governor in Illinois were killed in a Montana helicopter crash, his campaign said Thursday. The son, daughter-in-law and two grandchildren of former state lawmaker Darren Bailey, who lost the 2022 gubernatorial election in Illinois and is seeking his party’s nomination...

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — New York Attorney General Letitia James is set to make her first court appearance in a mortgage fraud case on Friday, the third adversary of President Donald Trump to face a judge on federal charges in recent weeks. James was indicted earlier this month on charges of bank fraud and making false statements to a f...

On a sunny fall morning, a dozen people kneel in the freshly turned earth of a carrot patch, chatting as they unearth the bright orange vegetables. Working as a team, they sort the carrots into bunches, tie them off with rubber bands, and toss them into buckets of water to keep them fresh. These carrots are some of the last produce...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services will temporarily bring all its furloughed employees back to work starting Monday to manage health insurance open enrollment, according to an agency spokesperson. The recall to duty amid the more than three-week-long government shutdown is what’s needed to “best serve the...

CHESTER, Pa. (AP) — The U.S. women’s team stumbled Thursday in its first game since July, allowing a goal in each half that sent Portugal to its first win against the Americans, 2-1 on a night two-time World Cup winner Alex Morgan was feted with a star-studded farewell. Portugal not only beat the U.S. for the first time in 12 match...

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador’s Liga de Quito once again topped a Brazilian team in the Copa Libertadores and beat favorite Palmeiras 3-0 on Thursday in their first leg of the tournament’s semifinal. All the goals came in the first half, which left the hosts with confidence they could maintain the advantage next week in Sao Paulo a...

MILWAUKEE (AP) — The resounding nature of Milwaukee’s NL Championship Series loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers hasn’t shaken the Brewers’ belief that they can compete for World Series berths while playing in the majors’ smallest market. Milwaukee posted MLB’s best regular-season record at 97-65, setting a franchise record for victori...

With or without Lamar Jackson, this weekend always felt like a last stand of sorts for the Baltimore Ravens. Fresh off an open date — and with the roster a lot healthier than it was earlier this month — the Ravens host the Chicago Bears on Sunday. At 1-5, Baltimore is already in quite a hole, but after Chicago the schedule eases up...

Jose Fernandez, the longtime women’s basketball coach at the University of South Florida, is set to take over as coach of the WNBA’s Dallas Wings, a person familiar with the hire told The Associated Press on Thursday. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because no announcement had been made. Fernandez and the team still need...

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Pat Murphy says he couldn’t have imagined going directly from coaching in the college ranks to managing in the major leagues. But the Milwaukee Brewers skipper — who previously worked as a head coach at Arizona State and Notre Dame — is confident Tony Vitello can make a successful transition from coaching the Unive...

TORONTO (AP) — Los Angeles Dodgers reliever Alex Vesia was not with the team in Toronto on Thursday, one day before Game 1 of the World Series, because of a “deeply personal family matter,” the Dodgers said in a statement posted on social media. Manager Dave Roberts said the defending champions were still working through how the le...

INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — With his left shoulder in a brace and his right arm seemingly out of magic, Minnesota Vikings quarterback Carson Wentz gave what he had Thursday night. In what could be the veteran’s last start before J.J. McCarthy returns from a high ankle sprain, Wentz was unable to get the Vikings into the end zone until...

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Miami Dolphins star receiver Tyreek Hill hasn’t yet decided if he’s done playing football after suffering a season-ending knee injury against the New York Jets on Sept 29. In an interview on the podcast of Terron Armstead, Hill’s former Dolphins teammate, Hill said he’ll make up his mind about his career...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Tony Vitello’s ascension from college coach to manager in the pros is a journey that is unprecedented in the modern majors. After leading Tennessee to its first College World Series title in 2024, Vitello will try to have similar success in the majors after being hired by Buster Posey to take over the San Franc...

INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert set an NFL record for completions through a player’s initial six seasons with his second pass of Thursday night’s game against the Minnesota Vikings. Herbert’s first-quarter connection with Keenan Allen for 17 yards gave him 2,129 completions, one more than Ha...

TORONTO (AP) — While most of baseball is saying hats off to Shohei Ohtani, Toronto manager John Schneider wants a cap back from the two-way star. Before signing a $700 million, 10-year contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers, the two-way star met with Blue Jays officials on Dec. 4, 2023, at the team’s spring training complex in Duned...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — On a career night for Aaron Gordon, Stephen Curry did what he does so often and stole the show. Curry hit a tying 3-pointer late in regulation and scored 16 straight points for Golden State down the stretch to help the Warriors overcome Gordon’s 50-point night and beat the Denver Nuggets 137-131 on Thursday nig...

TORONTO (AP) — Asked whether he felt like a villain, Dave Roberts tilted his head and widened his eyes, startled that he was being categorized as some baseball equivalent of Darth Vader or Lex Luthor. His Los Angeles Dodgers have been criticized for spending $509 million on its big league roster, more than seven times the $69 milli...

▶ Follow the latest updates on the arrests of Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups and the Miami Heat’s Terry Rozier in a sports betting case Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups, Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier and former Cleveland Cavaliers assistant Damon Jones were arrested Thursday in connection with a federal investiga...

INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Four days after a humbling loss, the Los Angeles Chargers bounced back in a big way. Justin Herbert threw for 227 yards and three touchdowns in a 37-10 win over the Minnesota Vikings on Thursday night, ending a skid of three losses in four games that knocked them from atop the AFC West. “It was a big win fo...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored a career-high 55 points as the Oklahoma City Thunder won their second straight double-overtime game to begin the season, beating the Indiana Pacers 141-135 on Thursday night in a rematch of last season’s NBA Finals teams. The reigning MVP reached 50 for the fifth time, tying Russel...

Follow AP’s coverage of the arrests of Terry Rozier and Chauncey Billups: NBA guard Terry Rozier was averaging nearly 21 points per game for the Charlotte Hornets as the 2022-23 season neared an end. But during a game against the New Orleans Pelicans, he scored only 5 and played less than 10 minutes before claiming he was hurt. The...

HONG KONG (AP) — China’s leaders are vowing to reduce its reliance on foreign advanced technology and spur stronger domestic demand as it weathers “high winds” amid elevated trade tensions with the U.S. An outline of the ruling Communist Party’s blueprint for the next five years was laid out in a 5,000-word communique released Thur...

NEW YORK (AP) — Intel has posted a profit in its first quarterly report since the U.S. government became a major shareholder in the struggling chipmaker. The one-time American tech icon reported a net income of $4.1 billion, or 90 cents per share, in the three months ending in September, up from a loss of $17 billion, or $3.88 per...

LONDON (AP) — Voters in Ireland went to the polls Friday to elect one of two women as their new president for the next seven years, a largely ceremonial role in the European Union member country. Catherine Connolly, a left-wing independent lawmaker who has the backing of Sinn Féin and is known for her strong stance against Israel,...

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s most prestigious literary prize is getting a younger sibling. The Booker Prize Foundation announced Friday that it is setting up the Children’s Booker Prize alongside its existing awards for English-language and translated fiction. Like its sister prizes, the children’s award comes with a 50,000 pound ($67,0...

TORONTO (AP) — The Canadian government is limiting how many vehicles Stellantis and GM can import tariff free after the automakers ended some production in Canada, a government official said Thursday. The official said the companies will no longer be eligible to get the full break on Canadian countertariff duties on autos and auto...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Anyone who watched U.S. President Donald Trump vow to condition financial aid to cash-strapped Argentina on the outcome of a “very big” and “very important” vote in the South American country would be forgiven for thinking that his close ideological ally, Argentine President Javier Milei, was up for r...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is going to Japan and South Korea next week to promote an epic financial windfall — at least $900 billion in investments for U.S. factories, a natural gas pipeline and other projects. Japan and South Korea made those financial commitments in August to try to get Trump to ratchet down his pla...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military flew a pair of supersonic, heavy bombers up to the coast of Venezuela on Thursday, a little over a week after another group of American bombers made a similar journey as part of a training exercise to simulate an attack. The U.S. military has built up an unusually large force in the Caribbean Sea...

HYDERABAD, India (AP) — A passenger bus erupted into flames after a motorcycle crashed into it early Friday, killing at least 25 people and injuring several others in southern India, police said. The fire tore through the bus within minutes, trapping dozens of passengers as it sped along a highway near Kurnool district in Andhra Pr...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The last time U.S. President Donald Trump visited South Korea in 2019, he made a surprise trip to the border with North Korea for an impromptu meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to revive faltering nuclear talks. Now, as Trump is set to make his first trip to Asia since his return to office, spec...

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, in her first major policy speech on Friday, pledged to further accelerate Japan’s military buildup and spending and complete an early upgrade of the country’s security strategy as tensions rise with China, North Korea and Russia. Takaichi took office Tuesday after being elected J...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq is weeks away from parliamentary elections that will set the country’s course during one of the Middle East’s most delicate moments in years. While the ceasefire in Gaza may have tamped down regional tensions, fears remain of another round of conflict between Israel and Iraq’s neighbor, Iran. Iraq managed to sta...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said late Thursday that he was ending “all trade negotiations” with Canada because of a television ad opposing U.S. tariffs that he said misstated the facts and called “egregious behavior” aimed at influencing U.S. court decisions. The post on Trump’s social media site came after Canadian Pr...

A 21-year-old semitruck driver accused of being under the influence of drugs and causing a fiery crash that killed three people on a southern California freeway is in the country illegally, U.S. Homeland Security officials said Thursday. Jashanpreet Singh was arrested and jailed after Tuesday’s eight-vehicle crash in Ontario, Calif...

NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — An American missionary has been kidnapped in Niger’s capital, Niamey, according to security sources and local media. The unidentified man was kidnapped overnight Tuesday into Wednesday by three armed individuals in a Toyota Corolla and was probably driven out of town, according to a security source with direct...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s military killed more than 50 Boko Haram militants in response to drone attacks on military bases in the country’s northeast, the army said Thursday. Army spokesperson Sani Uba said in a statement that militants launched simultaneous attacks on military bases in Borno and Yobe states early Thursday. I...

Follow AP’s coverage of the arrests of Terry Rozier and Chauncey Billups: The indictments announced Thursday of a poker cheating ring involving NBA figures and backed by the mafia emphasized their alleged high-tech cheating methods. But the con tactics they described are as old as poker itself, familiar from heist movies and James...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A major union announced a proposal Thursday to impose a one-time 5% tax on billionaires in California to address federal funding cuts to health care for low-income people. Proponents, including the Service Employees International Union, hope to place the statewide measure before voters next year. The tax w...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia Democrats are taking steps to redraw their state’s U.S. House districts, hoping to boost their party’s chances in next year’s midterm elections and counter President Donald Trump’s push for more partisan districts in Republican-run states. Virginia House Speaker Don Scott sent a letter Thursday to memb...

POWELL, Ohio (AP) — The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium has welcomed its second baby elephant in a single calendar year for the first time in its nearly 100-year history, a milestone that the Ohio attraction is touting as a win for conservation. Thirty-eight-year-old Phoebe gave birth to the male Asian elephant calf at 10:41 p.m. Tuesday...

Target said Thursday that it is eliminating about 1,800 corporate positions in an effort to streamline decision-making and accelerate initiatives to rebuild the flagging discount retailer’s customer base. About 1,000 employees are expected to receive layoff notices next week, and the company also plans to eliminate about 800 vacant...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has signed a multibillion-dollar deal with Google to acquire more of the computing power needed for the startup’s chatbot, Claude. Anthropic said Thursday the deal will give it access to up to 1 million of Google’s AI computer chips and is “worth tens of billions of dol...

SEATTLE (AP) — An information technology outage has prompted Alaska Airlines to ground its planes, the airline said Thursday. The company said in a post on the social platform X that it imposed a “temporary ground stop.” It recommended that passengers check their flight status before heading to the airport. “We apologize for the in...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Friday’s inflation report is likely to show that consumer prices worsened in September for the second straight month as President Donald Trump’s tariffs have lifted the cost of some groceries and other goods. The report on the consumer price index is being issued more than a week late because of the government shu...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A 12-year-old girl who was shot in the head during a deadly attack at a Minneapolis Catholic church in August was released from the hospital Thursday and greeted with cheers as the police chief paraded her around town in a stretch limousine, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Sophia Forchas was the most s...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal jury found a private company running a Louisiana jail liable for the 2015 death of a man who died of head injuries he received while in custody, and awarded the family more than $40 million in damages. Attorneys representing Erie Moore Sr.’s family say they believe the verdict handed down this week in t...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities plan to give an update Friday on the massive blast in Tennessee that killed 16 people earlier this month at an explosives plant, where a painstaking, ongoing investigation has not yet determined the cause of the explosion. The explosion on Oct. 10 at the Accurate Energetic Systems plant claimed t...

The deployment of National Guard troops on the streets of Washington faces challenges in two courts on Friday — one in the nation’s capital and another in West Virginia — while across the country a judge in Portland, Oregon, will consider whether to let President Donald Trump deploy troops there. The hearings are the latest develop...

NEW YORK (AP) — The stunning indictment that led to the arrest of more than 30 people, including Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier and other NBA figures, on charges of illegal sports betting has drawn new scrutiny of the booming business of professional sports gambling across the U.S. In Thursday’s indictment, federal investigators acc...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Statues of Rosa Parks and Helen Keller, pivotal figures who fought for justice and inspired change across the world, will be unveiled Friday on the grounds of the Alabama Capitol. The monuments honoring the two famed native Alabamians — one who fought against racial segregation and one who fought for the rig...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Asian shares were mostly higher Friday after the White House confirmed plans for President Donald Trump to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping next week. The confirmation reduced some of the uncertainty surrounding trade tensions between the two biggest economies, though prospects for a significant trade...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — President Donald Trump was geared up for a show of federal force in San Francisco, a city he’s blasted as everything wrong with liberal governance. Then conversations with some of the Bay Area’s most prominent tech leaders and the mayor changed his mind. “I got a great call from some incredible people, some fri...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Trump administration on Thursday finalized plans to open the coastal plain of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to potential oil and gas drilling, renewing a long-simmering debate over whether to drill in one of the nation’s environmental jewels. U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum announced the dec...

BANGKOK (AP) — Philippine victims of a 2021 typhoon are seeking compensation from energy giant Shell for deaths and damage that they say were intensified by climate change partly resulting from the oil and gas company’s carbon emissions. Shell says it is not legally liable for the disaster wreaked by 2021 Super Typhoon Odette, know...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A 29-year-old man accused of sparking the deadly Palisades Fire, one of the most destructive wildfires in California history, pleaded not guilty Thursday to federal charges. Jonathan Rinderknecht appeared in federal court Thursday afternoon after arriving in Los Angeles from Florida earlier in the day, his attorn...