Tag: Al Jazeera

AUSTRALIA/CLIMATE CHANGE – Making sense of Australia’s climate exceptionalism (Stephen Pascoe, Al Jazeera)

2020 has had no shortage of images of catastrophe and suffering, but the ones that haunt me the most are from the inferno that...

USA/CHINA – New York Stock Exchange starts delisting China telecoms firms (Al Jazeera)

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is starting the process of delisting securities of three Chinese telecommunications companies, China Telecom Corporation Limited, China Mobile...

AFRICA – African genomics: The scientists unlocking cures encoded in DNA (Colin Baker, Al Jazeera)

Dr Ambroise Wonkam carries hundreds of thousands of years of history in his blood. The impacts of pathogens, migration, environment and geography are written...

MALI – Mali charges prominent figures with ‘attempted coup’ (Al Jazeera)

Malian authorities have charged six prominent figures, including a former prime minister, with seeking to mount a coup in August last year, their lawyers...

YEMEN – Are hopes of ending Yemen’s civil war slipping away? (Al Jazeera)

Yemen’s new unity government was targeted in an attack at Yemen’s Aden airport. Yemen’s new unity government has come under attack, just a week after...

VIETNAM – Vietnamese pick up the pieces after 2020’s relentless storms (Sen Nguyen, Al Jazeera)

Before floodwater inundated half their living room one night during the storm season this year, the Trans put their most valuable possessions – their...

VENEZUELA – Venezuela Supreme Court rules parliament’s term extension invalid (Al Jazeera)

Venezuela’s Supreme Court has ruled that a move by the opposition-controlled National Assembly to extend its term an additional year was invalid, paving the...

USA – US jobless claims unexpectedly edge downward for second week (Al Jazeera)

The number of Americans filing first-time claims for unemployment benefits has unexpectedly fallen for a second straight week. But the United States’s jobless numbers...

PAKISTAN – Pakistan arrests more than a dozen over Hindu temple attack (Al Jazeera)

Police in Pakistan have arrested more than a dozen people in overnight raids a day after Shri Paramhans Ji Maharaj Samadhi, a Hindu temple,...

CHINA – How 2020 left China ‘diplomatically diminished’ (Zaheena Rasheed, Al Jazeera)

China alerted the World Health Organization (WHO) to the first cases of COVID-19 a year ago. As the respiratory illness spread rapidly across the globe,...

IRAN/UK/USA/GERMANY – Iran implicates UK firm, US base in Germany in Soleimani killing (Maziar Motamedi, Al Jazeera)

An Iranian prosecutor has said a British security firm and an airbase in Germany had a hand in the assassination of Qassem Soleimani almost...

GCC – What’s behind the latest GCC reconciliation efforts? (Farah Najjar, Al Jazeera)

At the start of 2020, talks to end the years-long Gulf diplomatic crisis abruptly came to an end. For nearly a whole year, the regional...

USA/GULF/IRAN – US bombers fly over the Gulf amid tensions with Iran (Al Jazeera)

The United States flew strategic bombers over the Gulf on Wednesday for the second time this month, in what Washington says is a show...

EGYPT – Egypt clears officers in murder of Italian student Giulio Regeni (Al Jazeera)

Egypt’s public prosecutor has cleared five policemen of responsibility in the 2016 murder of Italian student Giulio Regeni and said he will not pursue...

IRAN – Iran sets $150,000 compensation for Ukrainian Airlines victims (Maziar Motamedi, Al Jazeera)

Iran’s government has pledged to pay $150,000 to each of the families of the victims of a Ukrainian Airlines flight that was downed by...

IRAQ’S KURDISH REGION – It is time for a system overhaul in Iraq’s Kurdish region (Dara Salam, Al Jazeera)

On December 2, teachers and public employees peacefully demonstrated in the city of Sulaymaniyah in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI), demanding their...