Tag: Al Jazeera

Sri Lanka unveils $1BN relief plan as soaring food prices bite (Asantha Sirimanne, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera)

Sri Lanka will increase pay and pension for government employees, remove some taxes on food and medicine, and provide cash for its poorest citizens...

Can democracy return to Mali? (Al Jazeera)

Mali was supposed to hold presidential and parliamentary elections next month but the military-led government has pushed that back by up to five years. Army...

Mali opposition rejects election delay in new transition plan (Al Jazeera)

A major coalition of political parties in Mali has rejected the military-dominated government’s plan to extend a transition period for up to five years before the...

Infographic: How COVID has spread globally in the last two years (Mohammed Haddad, Al Jazeera)

Nearly 300 million people have tested positive for COVID-19 worldwide over the past two years, and more than five million deaths have been reported. The...

Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah accuses Saudi Arabia of ‘terrorism’ (Kareem Chehayeb, Al Jazeera)

Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah has accused Saudi Arabia of exporting ISIL (ISIS) ideology and transporting cars rigged with explosives for suicide attacks to Iraq. In...

Turkey’s Erdogan says he will visit Saudi Arabia in February (Al Jazeera)

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said he will travel to Saudi Arabia next month, the Turkish leader’s first visit since the 2018 murder of...

OPEC taps Kuwait’s Haitham al-Ghais as its next public face (Grant Smith and Fiona MacDonald, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera)

OPEC chose veteran Kuwaiti oil executive Haitham al-Ghais to become the organization’s top diplomat, as the group and its allies navigate a delicate recovery...

Hong Kong’s Citizen News to close, amid fears for staff’s safety (Al Jazeera)

Hong Kong independent online news outlet Citizen News is to close on Tuesday after five years, in the face of what it described as...

Biden says US to ‘respond decisively’ if Russia invades Ukraine (Al Jazeera)

US President Joe Biden on Sunday reassured his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy that Washington and its allies “will respond decisively” if Russia moves to...

Gas shortage hits Pakistan’s exports, adding to economic stress (Ann Kohm, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera)

Pakistan’s natural gas shortage is hurting its most important export industry, putting even more stress on an economy already struggling with accelerating inflation and...

Sudan’s Hamdok resigns as prime minister amid political deadlock (Al Jazeera)

Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has resigned amid political deadlock and widespread protests following a military coup that derailed the country’s fragile transition to...

Sudan security forces kill two anti-coup protesters, say medics (Al Jazeera)

Sudanese security forces have killed two anti-coup protesters in Omdurman, twin city of the capital Khartoum, medics say, as thousands rally against the military. The...

Iran calls for UN action on US over killing of Qassem Soleimani (Maziar Motamedi, Al Jazeera)

Iran has called on the United Nations to take formal action against the United States for the assassination of its top general two years...

Tunisia: Calls mount for release of detained Ennahdha official (Al Jazeera)

Appeals have mounted for word on the whereabouts of detained Tunisian politician Noureddine Bhiri, a leader of the Ennahdha party, the largest in the North African...

Israel hits Hamas positions in Gaza after rocket attacks (Al Jazeera)

Israel’s military said it launched air attacks on Hamas positions in the Gaza Strip, a day after rockets fired from Gaza landed in the...

US removes Ethiopia, Mali and Guinea from AGOA trade programme (Al Jazeera)

The United States has cut Ethiopia, Mali and Guinea out of a duty-free trade programme over alleged human rights violations and recent coups. In a statement...