Tag: Al Jazeera

SAUDI ARABIA/OPEC – Oil climbs five percent on Saudi voluntary oil production cut (Al Jazeera)

Oil prices climbed nearly five percent on Tuesday after news that Saudi Arabia will make voluntary cuts to its oil output, while tension simmered...

QATAR/GCC – ‘Welcome development’: Reaction to the Qatar-GCC agreement (Al Jazeera)

The Saudi foreign minister has said Saudi Arabia and its three Arab allies agree to restore full ties with Qatar. His remarks came after Gulf...

QATAR – How the Gulf crisis spurred Qatar to expand its military (Alex Gatopoulos, Al Jazeera)

Qatar has embarked on one of the most ambitious armament programmes seen in the Middle East in recent times. Its armed forces are growing...

GCC SUMMIT – Saudi FM: Full ties restored between Qatar and blockading nations (Al Jazeera)

Full relations would resume between Qatar and the four nations that had been boycotting it for the past three and a half years, Saudi Arabia’s...

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC – Central African Republic President Touadera re-elected (Al Jazeera)

Central African Republic President Faustin-Archange Touadera has won a second term in office, according to provisional results announced by the electoral commission. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/5/central-african-republic-president-touadera-reelected

MALI/AL QAEDA – Al-Qaeda branch claims killings of French soldiers in Mali (Al Jazeera)

Al-Qaeda’s branch in North Africa has claimed responsibility for killing two French soldiers who died when their armoured vehicle was hit by an improvised...

ZIMBABWE – A teenager in Zimbabwe is using taekwondo to fight child marriage (Al Jazeera)

In Zimbabwe, where girls as young as 10 are forced to marry due to poverty or traditional and religious practices, a teenage taekwondo enthusiast...

GCC SUMMIT – Gulf states sign ‘solidarity and stability’ deal at GCC summit (Al Jazeera)

Gulf leaders have signed a “solidarity and stability” agreement towards ending the diplomatic rift with Qatar at a summit in Saudi Arabia, Saudi Crown...

SYRIA – Research about the Details of the Process of Forced Disappearance and the Fate of the Victims (Al Jazeera)

Families of individuals who were forcibly disappeared in Syria have paid more than $100m in bribes to find out information about them, according to...

IRAN – Iran rebukes European criticism of uranium enrichment (Maziar Motamedi, Al Jazeera)

Iran has rejected European criticism of the country’s enrichment of uranium to 20 percent as China urged restraint and the United States slammed the...

SOUTH KOREA/IRAN – South Korea to send delegation to Tehran after Iran seizes tanker (Al Jazeera)

South Korea is sending a delegation to Iran to seek the release of a tanker seized in Gulf waters by Iranian forces, with a...

PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY – What is behind Mahmoud Abbas’s diplomatic offensive? (Adnan Abu Amer, Al Jazeera)

Over the past two months, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has been actively trying to pull the Palestinian Authority (PA) out of its political isolation....

NIGERIA – Radical social change in Nigeria beyond #EndSARS (Doris Okenwa, Al Jazeera)

2020 is the year we wish we could erase from memory and, if possible, imagine it never happened. But it did happen and some...

EUROPE/BOSNIA – EU offers aid, urges Bosnia to rebuild burned refugee camp (Al Jazeera)

The European Union has announced additional funding to help vulnerable migrants and refugees in Bosnia and Herzegovina, but urged the government there to rebuild...

UK – COVID restrictions likely to get ‘tougher’, warns British PM (Al Jazeera)

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said tougher lockdown restrictions were probably on the way as COVID-19 cases keep rising in the United Kingdom,...

UK – The UK’s newest front-line workers: Afghan fruit sellers (Al Jazeera)

It is 8am in the vibrant South Asian high street of Alum Rock, a predominantly Muslim neighbourhood in Birmingham, the United Kingdom’s second-largest city. https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2021/1/3/the-uks-newest-front-line-workers-afghan-fruit-sellers