Tag: Al Jazeera

EUROPE/TURKEY – Europe’s stance on Turkey toughens with sanctions, weapons talk (Al Jazeera)

European Union leaders plan to discuss arm exports to Turkey with the NATO allies and the United States, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on...

LEBANON – Hezbollah operative sentenced to life over Hariri killing (Timour Azhari, Al Jazeera)

The United Nations-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon on Friday sentenced Hezbollah operative Salim Ayache to five concurrent life sentences in absentia for the 2005...

WESTERN SAHARA CONFLICT – Western Sahara conflict in 500 word (Al Jazeera)

In a deal brokered by United States President Donald Trump’s outgoing administration, Morocco became the latest Arab country to normalise ties with Israel. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/12/11/western-sahara-conflict-in-500-words

GLOBAL ECONOMY – The global economy is working against workers and the environment (Katy Wiese, Al Jazeera)

The COVID-19 pandemic killed more than a million people across the world and presents an unprecedented challenge to public health, food systems and the...

ISRAEL/MOROCCO – ‘Doesn’t serve Palestinians’: Israel-Morocco to normalise ties (Al Jazeera)

Morocco’s decision to normalise relations with Israel in a United States-brokered deal has elicited mixed global reactions. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/12/11/world-reacts-to-israeli-moroccan-deal-to-normalise-ties

INDIA – A popular upsurge against neoliberal arithmetic in India (Navyug Gill, Al Jazeera)

On November 26, tens of thousands of Indians marched on foot, trolley and tractor from the states of Punjab and Haryana to the capital,...

CHINA/USA – China slaps visa curbs on US diplomats, NGOs visiting HK, Macau (Al Jazeera)

China has announced that it is revoking visa exemptions for US diplomatic passport holders visiting Hong Kong and Macau, after the United States imposed...

BANGLADESH/ROHINGYA/MYANMAR – UN expert wants scrutiny of conditions at Bhasan Char (Al Jazeera)

A United Nations human rights expert has called for an independent assessment on the conditions at Bhasan Char, the remote island in Bangladesh where...

BREXIT – Food prices to spike without EU trade deal, warn UK retailers (Al Jazeera)

With the prospects for a post-Brexit trade deal between the United Kingdom and the European Union looking increasingly precarious, the UK’s retail industry warned...

USA – US executes Brandon Bernard despite last-minute appeals (Al Jazeera)

The United States federal government has executed Brandon Bernard, a Black man from Texas involved in the 1999 killing of a couple, as appeals...

CANADA/CHINA – Two Canadians in China have ‘not yet gone on trial’, Canada says (Al Jazeera)

Canada said it has confirmed with Chinese officials that detained citizens Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, who were picked up in December 2018 shortly...

USA – US Congress still deadlocked on new COVID-19 aid bill (William Roberts, Al Jazeera)

Politicians in the United States Congress on Thursday remained far apart on the terms of a new COVID-19 economic relief package, making an agreement...

AFRICA/BIOMETRIC ID SYSTEMS – Activists sound alarm over African biometric ID projects (Madeleine Speed, Al Jazeera)

In January this year, Kenya’s High Court halted the roll-out of the country’s controversial biometric ID, the Huduma Namba, citing the lack of a...

NIGERIA – Global activists slam Nigeria for crackdown on protesters (Al Jazeera)

Global activists and celebrities have hit out at the Nigerian government over a violent crackdown on peaceful protesters demonstrating against police brutality two months...

NIGERIA – The wealthy Nigerians buying citizenship overseas (Ollie Williams, Al Jazeera)

Dapo has spent too long at home in Lagos, Nigeria. Back in October, protests against the SARS police unit kept him from going to his office....

GHANA – Ghana’s opposition rejects election results (Al Jazeera)

Ghana’s opposition has rejected the presidential and parliamentary election results after President Nana Akufo-Addo was announced the winner with 51.59 percent of the vote. “Overwhelming...