Tag: Al Jazeera

AUSTRALIA/AFGHANISTAN – Australian war crimes and racist fantasies in Afghanistan (Sahar Ghumkhor, Al Jazeera)

Last week the distressing details of a four-year inquiry into the Australian Defence Force’s war crimes in Afghanistan were finally released to the public....

BOLIVIA – Exile or Return (Al Jazeera)

What will the future hold for Bolivia and its former president, Evo Morales? In late 2019, mass protests triggered by a fiercely disputed election forced...

USA/CHINA – US bans cotton imports from China producer, citing ‘slave labour’ (Al Jazeera)

The administration of United States President Donald Trump raised the economic pressure on China’s western region of Xinjiang, banning cotton imports from a powerful...

USA/CHINA – Threat to China firms on US exchanges grows with bill’s progress (Al Jazeera)

The United States House of Representatives passed legislation to kick Chinese companies off US stock exchanges if they do not fully comply with the...

USA – CDC warns US of COVID-19 ‘rough times’ as hospitalisations surge (Al Jazeera)

The head of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned the country faces “rough times” amid a deepening COVID-19 pandemic that...

USA – Biden, top Democrats back bipartisan COVID-19 relief bill (Al Jazeera)

President-elect Joe Biden swung behind a bipartisan COVID-19 relief effort in the United States Congress and his top congressional allies cut their demands for...

INDIA – India court orders installation of CCTVs at every police station (Bilal Kuchay, Al Jazeera)

India’s Supreme Court has ordered the installation of security cameras at all police stations and offices of investigating agencies which conduct interrogations and have...

INDIA – India farmers’ protests: Gov’t resumes talks with farmers (Al Jazeera)

Indian government ministers began talks with farmers’ leaders on Thursday to try and break a deadlock over laws passed earlier this year seeking to...

PAKISTAN – Pakistan sentences three top JuD leaders for ‘terror financing’ (Asad Hashim, Al Jazeera)

A Pakistani anti-terrorism court has convicted three top Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) leaders on terrorism-financing charges, a senior prosecutor says, as the country continues to crack...

NIGERIA – Anger, trauma over years of tensions with police in Lagos suburb (Ope Adetayo, Al Jazeera)

It was 1pm on October 20 – just hours before the now-infamous Lekki tollgate shooting left 15 people dead – when another police shooting took place...

KURDS/USA – What Biden can and cannot do for the Kurds (Yerevan Saeed, Al Jazeera)

Many Kurds across the Middle East welcomed Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump in the recent elections in the United States. The former vice...

GAZA – Life ‘extraordinarily difficult’ for people with disability (Al Jazeera)

People with disabilities can face an “extraordinarily difficult” life in the Gaza Strip due to the Israeli blockade and lack of assistance from Hamas...

AFGHANISTAN – Afghan gov’t, Taliban announce breakthrough deal in peace talks (Al Jazeera)

Afghan government and Taliban representatives said they have reached a preliminary deal to press on with peace talks, their first written agreement in 19...

RUSSIA/ARMENIA/NAGORNO KARABAKH – Putin hails Armenian PM’s ‘courage’ in signing Karabakh deal (Al Jazeera)

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday hailed Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s “courage” in agreeing to a peace deal over Nagorno-Karabakh that triggered a...

PAKISTAN – Pakistan’s new regulations aim to ‘silence the internet’ (Asad Hashim, Al Jazeera)

As journalist Bilal Farooqi was led to a dark cell in a police station in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, a dirty towel...

ETHIOPIA/UN – Ethiopia gives UN ‘unimpeded’ access to Tigray to deliver aid (Al Jazeera)

Ethiopia and the United Nations have reached an agreement to channel desperately needed humanitarian aid to a northern region where a month of war...