Tag: Al Jazeera

BAHRAIN/ISRAEL – Bahrain says it will not allow imports from Israeli settlements (Al Jazeera)

Bahrain will not allow the import of Israeli goods produced in settlements in illegally occupied Palestinian territory, state news agency BNA reported on Saturday, disavowing...

ICC/ISRAEL/PALESTINE – The Palestinian case at the ICC is legal, not political (Raji Sourani, Al Jazeera)

It took International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda five years to conclude her preliminary examination of the situation in Palestine, which found “a...

USA – Defeating fascism beyond the ballot (Michael Wilson-Becerril, Al Jazeera)

The world can breathe a sigh of relief that it will not know just how unhinged Donald Trump would have become with the validation...

HONDURAS/USA – Honduras asks US to extend TPS for citizens after hurricanes (Al Jazeera)

Honduras asked the United States on Friday to prolong temporary migration protections for thousands of its citizens to mitigate the devastation of two recent...

INDIA – India’s winter of discontent: Farmers rise up against Modi (Al Jazeera)

A chilly breeze whirls through New Delhi in the mornings and the sun is partly obscured by toxic haze, a marker of another winter...

KASHMIR – What do the local elections mean for Kashmiris? (Rifat Fareed, Al Jazeera)

Kashmiris on Saturday voted in the first local elections since the tumultuous abrogation of the Muslim-majority region’s limited autonomy last August, marking the resumption...

JORDAN/ISRAEL/PALESTINE – Jordan, Israel in rare meeting on Palestinian issue (Al Jazeera)

Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi has held a rare meeting with his Israeli counterpart to press for the restart of stalled negotiations between the...

KUWAIT/SAUDI ARABIA/QATAR – Kuwait says progress made in resolving Saudi-led boycott of Qatar (Al Jazeera)

Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Ahmad Nasser al-Sabah says there have been “constructive and fruitful discussions” on efforts to achieve reconciliation in the Gulf crisis. The...

TURKEY/FRANCE – Erdogan hopes France ‘gets rid of Macron trouble’ (Al Jazeera)

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday said he hopes France will soon get rid of President Emmanuel Macron, describing him as a burden...

YEMEN – Eight civilians killed in Hodeidah shelling (Al Jazeera)

At least eight people have been killed in shelling of an industrial compound in Yemen’s strategic port of Hodeidah, according to the government which...

ETHIOPIA – The conflict in Ethiopia and TPLF’s ultra-nationalist ideology (Mustafa Omer, Al Jazeera)

The Tigray People Liberation Front (TPLF) is at the heart of an ongoing bloody conflict with the federal government of Ethiopia. The TPLF was established...

ETHIOPIA – Ethiopia’s war is threatening domestic and regional stability (Mehari Taddele Maru, Al Jazeera)

On Sunday, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced the end of his government’s military offensive on Tigray after Tigrayan forces withdrew from the regional capital, Mekelle. Debretsion...

EGYPT – Egypt releases rights activists after global pressure (Al Jazeera)

Egypt released three staff members of a leading human rights organisation following a concerted international campaign to free them – including concern expressed by...

UN/YEMEN – UN sounds ‘wake-up call’ to save millions of Yemenis from famine (Al Jazeera)

The window to prevent a famine in war-torn Yemen is narrowing, with a new study showing that millions of people in the country will...

IRAN/ISRAEL – Iran accuses West of backing Israel on scientist assassination (Barbara Bibbo, Al Jazeera)

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has accused Israel of killing its top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh amid the silence and complicity of the...

BAHRAIN/ISRAEL/OCCUPIED WEST BANK – Bahrain open to imports from illegal Israeli settlements (Al Jazeera)

Bahrain’s imports from Israel will not be subject to distinctions between products made within Israel and those from illegal settlements in occupied territory, the...