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US wholesale price inflation cools in final month of red-hot year (Al Jazeera)

First, the good news: wholesale price inflation in the United States downshifted in December. Now for the bad: the declaration capped off the largest calendar...

CAIR urges US gov’t to probe group accused of ‘spying’ on Muslims (Ali Harb, Al Jazeera)

A prominent Muslim civil rights organisation in the United States has called on the US government to investigate a group it has accused of spying on...

Russia says NATO talks ‘unsuccessful’ as Poland warns of war (Al Jazeera)

Russia has described its security talks with the United States and NATO this week as “unsuccessful”, saying there is continued disagreement on fundamental issues. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry...

Pakistan welcomes P5 statement on preventing nuclear war (Al Jazeera)

The Pakistani government has welcomed a joint statement by the P5 on preventing nuclear war as “a positive development”, the country’s foreign ministry spokesperson...

Majoritarian violence is slowly tearing India apart (Apoorvanand, Al Jazeera)

In India, the new year started with a perverse attack on the country’s Muslims. On January 1, photographs of more than 100 Muslim women...

Nobel panel: Abiy has ‘special responsibility’ to end Tigray war (Al Jazeera)

The panel that awards the Nobel Peace Prize said Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali, who won the honour in 2019, bears a “special...

Nigerians react with joy and resolve to lifting of Twitter ban (Festus Iyorah, Al Jazeera)

Solomon Elusoji, a Lagos-based journalist, felt a rush of relief early on Thursday after being able to access Twitter for the first time in...

Kazakhstan unrest highlights tricky terrain of fuel subsidy cuts (Charu Sudan Kasturi, Al Jazeera)

The government announces a new policy that will increase fuel prices. Street protests break out. An unprepared administration cracks down with excessive force. That...

We need better laws to prosecute atrocities in Syria (Catherine Marchi-Uhel, Paulo Pinheiro, Hanny Megally, Lynn Welchman, Al Jazeera)

Syrian civilians have paid a heavy price for a decade of war in which their government and parties to the conflict, such as ISIL...

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