Tag: Al Jazeera

SAUDI ARABIA – Hundreds of migrants abused in Saudi deportation centre: HRW (Al Jazeera)

Saudi Arabia is detaining hundreds of migrants in squalid conditions in Riyadh, Human Rights Watch (HRW) says, quoting some who claimed they had been...

EUROPE/GREEN DEAL/ROMA – The EU should not exclude the Roma from the Green Deal (Zeljko Jovanovic, Al Jazeera)

Last week the leaders of the European Union struck a deal on a stimulus package and tough emission cuts by 2030. In the next...

USA/MEXICO/BRAZIL – Leaders of Mexico, Brazil congratulate Biden on US election win (Al Jazeera)

The leaders of Latin America’s two biggest economies, Brazil and Mexico, congratulated Joe Biden on Tuesday on his election victory after a long delay...

CHINA/TAIWAN/FIJI/USA – The Taiwan ‘prize’ and the US-China rivalry in the Pacific (Sheldon Chanel, Al Jazeera)

The uproar over the recent fisticuffs between Chinese and Taiwanese diplomats in Fiji may have subsided, with the Fijian police declaring the case closed,...

USA – Joe Biden rallies for Georgia Democratic Senate candidates (Chris Moody, Al Jazeera)

President-elect Joe Biden travelled to Georgia on Tuesday to campaign for two Democratic Senate candidates facing runoff elections that will determine control of the...

AFGHANISTAN – Five million more Afghans will need help in 2021: UN (Al Jazeera)

The United Nations expects to have to help five million more Afghans in 2021 than this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic and an...

YEMEN – Yemen most at risk of humanitarian catastrophe in 2021: IRC (David Child, Al Jazeera)

Yemen is the country most at risk of a humanitarian catastrophe in 2021, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) has warned, marking the third year...

INDIA – Torrent of foreign money threatens India’s tight grip on rupee (Subhadip Sircar and Anirban Nag, Al Jazeera, Bloomberg)

A relentless torrent of funds rushing into India’s markets may tip the central bank’s delicate balancing act in 2021. For most of this year, the...

PAKISTAN – It is time to talk about caste in Pakistan and Pakistani diaspora (Shaista Abdul Aziz Patel, Al Jazeera)

On September 29, Manisha Valmiki, a 19-year-old Dalit girl succumbed to her injuries from a gang rape committed by four Thakur (upper-caste) men in...

INDIA – Thousands of nurses at India’s premier AIIMS strike amid pandemic (Bilal Kuchay, Al Jazeera)

At least 5,000 nurses and paramedic staff at one of India’s premier medical institutes have gone on an indefinite strike over “long-pending” demands, severely...

CANADA/INDIA – Canadians rally for Indian farmers, say farm laws ‘simply unjust’ (Usaid Siddiqui, Al Jazeera)

Braving near-freezing temperatures and rains, hundreds of people in Canada’s major cities came out during the weekend to demonstrate their solidarity with the protesting...

UK/INDIA – UK PM Johnson to visit India in January to strengthen trade ties (Al Jazeera)

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will travel to India in January, his first bilateral visit since taking office, to try to strengthen trade and...

ROHINGYA – Video shows smugglers beating Rohingya on trafficking boat (Al Jazeera)

Smugglers mercilessly beat rake-thin refugees crowded onto a fishing boat, in a video obtained by AFP news agency that shows rarely seen images from...

AFGHANISTAN – Afghanistan: Kabul’s deputy governor killed in IED blast (Al Jazeera)

Kabul’s deputy governor and his assistant have been killed in a blast in Afghanistan, police say, adding that a sticky bomb was attached to...

COVID19/POVERTY – 2.7 billion people did not get state aid during pandemic: Oxfam (Al Jazeera)

The COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown measures to contain it have hit millions of people hard, with poverty set to increase sharply in almost...

SOMALIA/KENYA – Somalia cuts diplomatic ties with Kenya citing interference (Al Jazeera)

Somalia has severed diplomatic ties with Kenya, accusing it of violating Somali sovereignty and territorial integrity. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/12/15/somalia-cuts-diplomatic-ties-with-kenya-citing-interferences