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US judge dismisses Facebook’s request to throw out monopoly case (David McLaughlin, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera)

Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook must face the U.S. government’s monopoly lawsuit alleging that the company abused its dominance and should be broken up, a...

US Supreme Court denies appeal of woman who joined ISIL (Al Jazeera)

The United States Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal by a woman who left the US to join ISIL (ISIS), but then...

US to give additional $308m in humanitarian aid to Afghanistan (Al Jazeera)

The United States will donate an extra $308m in humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, the White House has announced, bringing the total of US aid...

Zimbabwe to put New York Times freelance journalist on trial (Al Jazeera)

A freelance journalist working for the New York Times will appear in Zimbabwe court on Wednesday, his lawyer and the newspaper said, in a...

UN raps Tunisia over arrest of ex-justice minister (Al Jazeera)

The United Nations has expressed concern about human rights abuses in Tunisia and demanded that a former justice minister held in a clampdown on...

Lebanon’s central bank chief Salameh slapped with travel ban (Kareem Chehayeb, Al Jazeera)

A Lebanese judge slapped a travel ban on Banque du Liban Governor Riad Salameh on Tuesday, as the once-vaunted steward of the country’s economy...

World Bank warns of slowing global growth, widening inequality (Al Jazeera)

The global economy is entering a phase of “pronounced slowdown”, the World Bank warned on Tuesday, as the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, and...

Taliban releases prominent Afghan professor from custody: Family (Al Jazeera)

The Taliban have released a prominent university professor and outspoken critic of successive Afghan governments who was arrested during the weekend, a family member said. Hasina...

Do Kazakhstan’s protests signal an end to the Nazarbayev era? (Agnieszka Pikulicka-Wilczewska, Al Jazeera)

The protests and subsequent violence in Kazakhstan last week came as a surprise. Days after hundreds of protesters rallied against rising fuel prices in a western town,...

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