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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,...

Senior Pakistani Taliban leader killed in Afghanistan: Official (Asad Hashim, Al Jazeera)

A senior leader of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (Pakistan Taliban or TTP) has been killed in eastern Afghanistan, Pakistani security officials say, as a peace...

Can centuries-old clan rivalry explain the crisis in Kazakhstan? (Mansur Mirovalev, Al Jazeera)

Ancient Turks created a nomadic empire that stretched from Mongolia to Eastern Europe. Thirteen hundred years ago, when Arabs were expanding their caliphate and Western...

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