Tag: Al Jazeera

US CONGRESS/COVID RELIEF LEGISLATION – US Congress agrees deal on COVID relief legislation (Al Jazeera)

After months of negotiations, United States legislators have agreed on a long-awaited COVID-19 relief bill that will boost unemployment payments and aid to small...

IRAQ – Eight rockets target US embassy in Baghdad: Iraq army (Al Jazeera)

A volley of rockets has targeted the United States’ embassy in Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone, Iraq’s military said, sparking fears of renewed unrest...

IRAQ – Will anti-gov’t protests, Soleimani killing decide 2021 in Iraq? (Sofia Barbarani, Al Jazeera)

It was one o’clock in the morning on January 3, 2020, when news arrived that an American drone had targeted a convoy of vehicles...

SUDAN/ETHIOPIA – Sudan, Ethiopia to hold border demarcation talks week after clash (Al Jazeera)

Sudan and Ethiopia will hold negotiations next week to delineate their shared border, a statement from Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok’s office said on...

ROMANI AMERICANS – Romani Americans still struggle with discrimination (Margareta Matache, Mary T Bassett, Al Jazeera)

In 1939, amid the Great Depression, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt met with Roma leader Steve Kaslov in New York City to discuss how the...

BOSNIA – Bosnia’s divided Mostar town holds first local vote in 12 years (Al Jazeera)

Citizens in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s ethnically divided town of Mostar are voting for their city councillors for the first time in 12 years, after...

USA/MEXICO/ASYLUM SEEKERS – Keeping up appearances: Asylum seekers on the US-Mexico border (Lexie Harrison-Cripps, Al Jazeera)

Since the introduction of the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) – also known as “Remain in Mexico” policies – in 2019, asylum seekers hoping to...

NEPAL – Nepal president dissolves Parliament, elections set for next year (Al Jazeera)

Nepal’s president has dissolved Parliament at the request of Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli’s cabinet and announced that general elections would be held in...

GERMANY/FINLAND/SYRIA – Germany, Finland repatriate women and children from Syria camps (Al Jazeera)

Germany and Finland say they have repatriated 23 of their nationals, women and children from Syria, some of whom were under criminal investigation for...

UAE/PAKISTAN – UAE assured visa ban ‘temporary’ to check COVID, says Pakistan (Al Jazeera)

Pakistan says it has been assured by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that the abrupt visa ban imposed last month is “temporary in nature”...

INDIA – India’s Modi visits Sikh temple as farm protests persist (Al Jazeera)

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made an unscheduled visit to a Sikh temple in New Delhi, kneeling in respect and taking pictures with...

AFGHANISTAN – Kabul bomb attack kills women, children; lawmaker wounded (Al Jazeera)

A car bomb in the Afghan capital Kabul has killed at least nine people and wounded more than 15, including a member of parliament https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/12/20/car-bomb-kills-8-wounds-15-in-afghan-capital

LEBANON – Lebanese students protest tuition hikes, clash with riot police (Al Jazeera)

Lebanese riot police on Saturday scuffled with student protesters angered by a decision from top universities to adopt a new dollar exchange rate to...

NETHERLANDS/UK/PANDEMIC – Netherlands bans UK flights after finding new coronavirus strain (Al Jazeera)

The Netherlands has banned flights carrying passengers from the United Kingdom after Dutch authorities found the first case of the new, more infectious coronavirus...

US CONGRESS/PANDEMIC/ECONOMY – US Congress to vote on COVID aid package after Fed compromise (Al Jazeera)

The US Congress appeared poised to vote on Sunday on a $900bn coronavirus aid package after senators struck a late-night compromise to clear one...

ARAB SPRING – Ten years after the Arab Spring (Al Jazeera)

Ten years after Arabs mobilised in their millions, we take a retrospective look at the media’s role and the damage that has been done...