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Activists in Amsterdam have stormed the site of a proposed Microsoft data centre. The AI boom is fuelling demand for the infrastructure, but locals say it will drain energy and water resources. Al Jazeera’s Step Vaessen reports.

Pope Leo XIV begins a 12-day tour of Uruguay, Argentina and Peru, marking his return to South America after undergoing lung surgery last month.

250 Palestinian couples have celebrated a mass wedding in Gaza, celebrating love and new beginnings despite Israel’s ongoing genocidal war. The event was organised by Operation Chivalrous Knight, a UAE-backed humanitarian relief campaign.

Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu has been sentenced to four years in jail after being arrested on treason charges in April. The court instead convicted him of inciting unrest in a trial that has been widely condemned as politically motivated.

French authorities are investigating more than a hundred cases of alleged police misconduct at cost of living protests. Al Jazeera’s Rosie Birchard spent a day with one woman trying to protect protesters in the northern city of Lille.

Israeli settlers have forced dozens of Palestinians from their homes in Jericho after seizing eight properties and reportedly firing live ammunition, beating residents and throwing stones.

More than 100 activists broke into a Microsoft data centre construction site in Amsterdam, climbing cranes and hanging anti-AI banners. This marks the start of two days of coordinated protests across 16 countries against the rapid expansion of AI infrastructure.

Kenyan cult leader Paul Mackenzie has been sentenced to 200 years in prison for murdering 190 children and an adult. This is what we know about him.

New Delhi’s air quality has deteriorated to hazardous levels days before Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, when celebrations often involve fireworks. Residents report breathing difficulties and eye irritation as the toxic haze blankets India’s capital.

Lawmakers have voted to impeach Paraguay’s President Santiago Pena amid a banking collapse that has roiled the country. Prosecutors have opened three criminal investigations into the collapse of Ueno Bank, including allegations involving the president.

As winter approaches, aid groups in Gaza are turning damaged cooking pots into makeshift seawalls to protect shelters and schools from flooding. Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum reports on efforts to hold back the sea.

Israeli settlers have set fire to olive trees belonging to Palestinian farmers in the village of Burqa, near Ramallah. Farmers said Israeli forces then stopped them extinguishing the fires.

Bomb threats are causing travel disruptions at airports across Europe, targeting at least 27 flights. Officials found nothing suspicious during initial searches of the diverted planes.

Israeli forces demolished five homes in Biddu, northwest of Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank, displacing more than 100 people. Ahmad Abu Eid, a resident of Biddu, said Israeli forces raided the town without warning, despite attempts to prevent them through legal channels.

Spanish footballer Jesus de Miguel has been laid to rest two days after his tragic death. The 30-year-old striker suffered cardiac arrest following an on-field collision during a second-division game.

Hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets across France on Thursday as five unions called a nationwide day of strike action. More than 70,000 police were deployed, but violent clashes broke out.

US First Lady Melania Trump has brought Russian and Ukrainian representatives together at the White House to mark a six-day ceasefire in Russian-occupied Oleshky, which she helped broker. The meeting comes ahead of planned trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi, as Washington pushes for a deal to end the war.

A Jordanian security officer has been killed and another one wounded near the Sri Lankan embassy in Amman, in what authorities say was a terror attack.

Indonesia is deploying thousands of troops in Jakarta amid an alleged wiretapping scandal targeting President Prabowo Subianto, ministers and others. Among those implicated is Gen Listyo Sigit Prabowo, who was appointed presidential chief of staff just last month.

In a peculiar failed smuggling attempt, 3,000 tarantulas were seized at a Peruvian airport, after an anonymous tip led authorities to search the suitcases of two German nationals and a Polish national boarding a flight to Germany.

Germany doesn’t expect Trump to change following the midterm losses. Chancellor Friedrich Merz believes the US president will keep using his powers to bypass the Democrats in Congress, a position he admits he envies.

Dramatic footage captured the moment a powerful tornado struck Chapecó Airport in Santa Catarina, Brazil, sending people rushing for shelter. Airport operations were suspended as emergency teams assessed the damage.