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US to launch Amazon-wide pact to reduce deforestation: Blinken (Al Jazeera)

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has announced that the United States will soon launch an Amazon-wide regional pact to reduce deforestation, a significant contributor to...

Haiti gang leader threatens to kill American missionary hostages (Al Jazeera)

The leader of the Haitian gang suspected of kidnapping 17 members of a missionary group from the United States has threatened to kill the...

Will Brazil’s president be prosecuted for COVID-19 deaths? (Al Jazeera)

More than 600,000 Brazilians have died of COVID-19, the world’s second-highest death toll. President Jair Bolsonaro famously dismissed the coronavirus as “a little flu”. He touted...

Pakistani foreign minister meets Taliban in Afghanistan (Al Jazeera)

Pakistan’s foreign minister has visited Afghanistan for the first time since the Taliban takeover in August, amid continuing tensions about transport links between the...

UN sets up trust fund for Afghanistan amid cash shortages (Al Jazeera)

The United Nations says it has set up a special trust fund to provide urgently-needed cash directly to Afghans through a system that taps...

Nigerian separatist leader Kanu denies terrorism charges in court (Al Jazeera)

Nigerian separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu has pleaded not guilty to seven charges including “terrorism” and treason in an Abuja court, three months after his...

Ethiopia launches fourth air raid this week on Tigray capital (Al Jazeera)

Ethiopia has said it had launched another air raid on Mekelle, the capital of war-battered Tigray, the fourth such bombardment this week in a...

Benin’s parliament votes to legalise abortion (Al Jazeera)

Parliamentarians in Benin have voted to legalise abortion in the West African country, where it was already authorised under very restricted conditions. Under the new...

As Turks wrestle with inflation, central bank cuts rates again (Umar Farooq, Al Jazeera)

Turkey’s central bank announced a bigger-than-expected interest rate cut on Thursday –  marking the latest in a string of policy moves that have seen...

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