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The Indonesian port city of Balikpapan, on the island of Borneo, has declared a state of emergency after an oil spill spread along the coast, killing five fishermen when the oil caught fire.

Balikpapan is home to one of Indonesia's largest oil refineries. But the country's state energy company, Pertamina, has denied the spill was a result of its operations.

Al Jazeera's Step Vaessen reports from Jakarta.

The UN's refugee agency says it is disappointed that Israel has scrapped a deal to relocate half of the African asylum seekers living there.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faced intense pressure from right-wing groups which oppose the agreement, which would have let at least 16,000 Africans stay, and another 16,000 resettled in Western countries.

Al Jazeera's Stefanie Dekker reports from Tel Aviv.

US President Donald Trump has spoken again of his desire to pull American forces out of Syria, suggesting that victory over the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) is 'imminent'.

He says he expects to make a decision 'very quickly', but declined to offer any specific timetable.

The United States has about 2,000 troops on the ground in Syria, and launches air strikes almost every day.

The Pentagon says there is still a lot of work left to beat ISIL, and stabilise the areas recaptured from it.

Trump says if allies like Saudi Arabia want America to stay in Syria, they may have to pay for it.

Al Jazeera's Alan Fisher reports from Washington.

The first sentence has been handed down in special counsel's Russia investigation.

Alex van der Zwaan, a former lawyer of a top campaign aide of US President Donald Trump, has been sentenced to 30 days in jail and fined $20,000 for lying to the special counsel in an ongoing probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential elections.

Meanwhile, US media is reporting that Trump is not currently a criminal target, but is still part of the ongoing investigation.

The Washington Post says a conversation took place between Special Counsel Robert Mueller and Trump's attorneys last month.

Al Jazeera's Shihab Rattansi reports from Washington, DC.

Moscow has agreed to speed up delivery of S-400 missile systems to Turkey, a move that has alarmed its NATO allies.

The announcement followed talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

They also launched the construction of Turkey's first nuclear power plant.

Al Jazeera's Osama Bin Javaid reports from Ankara.

Trains have been cancelled across France, as railway workers strike against President Emmanuel Macron's planned reforms.

In Paris, just one in four trains in Paris has been running - as rail unions demand the government give up its plans to cut benefits and pensions.

Al Jazeera’s Natacha Butler reports from Paris.

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has declared that Israel has the right to its own land alongside Palestinians.

In an interview with the US-based The Atlantic magazine, the 32 year old heir to the Saudi throne declared: "I believe that each people, anywhere, has a right to live in their peaceful nation."

The crown prince said that "there are a lot of interests" his country shares with Israel.

Al Jazeera's Senior Political Analyst Marwan Bishara talks about why the timing of the statement was suspicious.

Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa is in China seeking investments that his administration believes could help the country's struggling economy.

Mnangagwa has met Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing where the two sides have signed a range of business deals.

Economists say that this is a positive move, but warn that Zimbabwe has sometimes failed to pay back loans it has received from China.

Al Jazeera's Haru Mutasa reports from Harare on the impact Chinese investment has already had.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin has just arrived in Turkey ahead of a summit on Syria.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani will also be attending the meeting in Ankara on Wednesday.

Even though the leaders are supporting opposing sides in the Syria conflict, they are coming together for these talks, which the Turkish government says are about reviving peace efforts.

They are expected to discuss strategy regarding Syria's Kurdish fighters. Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr reports from Beirut.

The UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has called for an independent investigation into the deaths of 17 Palestinians shot by Israeli forces during Friday's protests in Gaza.

More than 1,400 protesters were injured, half of them by Israeli gunfire.

The protestors were marking Land Day, when 2,000 hectares of land was confiscated from Palestinian citizens of Israel in 1976.

Six people died in subsequent protests then.

As the two state solution peace process dies, are frustrations rising? And can a Jewish majority in Israel be maintained if Palestinian refugees are ever allowed to return to their land?