Tag: Al Jazeera

NIGERIA – Nigeria police rescue 10 people after ‘baby factory’ raid (Al Jazeera)

Police in Nigeria have rescued 10 people, including four children, four pregnant women and two other women from an illegal maternity home, a spokesman...

IRAQ/REFUGEES – Displaced people in Iraq left with no refuge as police shut camps (Sofia Barbarani, Al Jazeera)

Displaced families in Iraq are being forced into homelessness and poverty, Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned on Wednesday, as authorities continue to close down...

ISRAEL/PALESTINIANS – Israel releases over $1bn of withheld tax funds to Palestinians (Al Jazeera)

Israel has released more than $1bn in tax money withheld from the Palestinian Authority, a Palestinian minister said, weeks after coordination was renewed between...

INDIA/IRAN/VENEZUELA/USA – India looks to resume Iran, Venezuela oil imports under Biden (Al Jazeera)

India wants to diversify its oil imports, including the resumption of supplies from Iran and Venezuela, after US President-elect Joe Biden takes office, oil...

IRAN/UNSC – UNSC unlikely to act on killing of Iranian scientist: Diplomats (Al Jazeera)

Hours after the assassination of a top Iranian nuclear scientist, Iran demanded the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) condemn the killing and take action...

TANZANIA – Magufuli’s growing authoritarianism is not an exception (Manu Lekunze, Al Jazeera)

The recent re-election of John Magufuli, president of Tanzania, by a landslide, whether achieved by fair or foul means, has increased fears about the...

COVID19/DEBT RELIEF – In the time of pandemic, debt relief efforts need to go further (Patricia Scotland, Al Jazeera)

In the last few months, due to the devastating effect the coronavirus pandemic has had on the global economy, the fiscal clock has been...

NATO – NATO must adapt to global threats, not just Russia: Report (Al Jazeera)

NATO must significantly broaden its scope to help deal with climate change, future pandemics and “terrorism” while focusing on new security threats from China,...

USA – Barr appoints special counsel in Russia probe investigation (Al Jazeera)

Attorney General William Barr has given extra protection to the prosecutor he appointed to investigate the origins of the Trump-Russia probe, giving him the...

INDIA – How will Indian PM Narendra Modi deal with angry farmers? (Al Jazeera)

Farmers demand the repeal of agricultural laws they say will benefit only private players as they protest in New Delhi. More than 60 percent of...

ISRAEL – Israel’s Gantz to back bill to dissolve parliament, force vote (Al Jazeera)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s chief governing partner Benny Gantz said on Tuesday that his party will vote for an opposition bill to dissolve...

LEBANON – ‘Deliberate depression’: World Bank’s dire warning on Lebanon (Al Jazeera)

Lebanon has been ravaged this year by an economic and financial crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, and a deadly explosion at the Port of Beirut....

USA/GCC – Jared Kushner takes on Qatar blockade in Middle East ‘swan song’ (Joseph Stepansky, Al Jazeera)

Jared Kushner, the son-in-law and senior adviser to United States President Donald Trump, has travelled to the Gulf in the waning days of the...

ISRAEL/IRAN – Past and present: Israel’s targeting of Iran nuclear aspirations (Thomas O Falk, Al Jazeera)

The assassination of Iran’s top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh sent shock waves across the Middle East. Tehran accuses Israel of being responsible for the brazen...

IRAQ – Nasiriya: City at the heart of Iraq’s uprisings and rebellion (Sofia Barbarani, Al Jazeera)

From ancient battles to last week’s deadly clashes between protesters and supporters of cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, Iraq’s Dhi Qar governorate has often been referred...

ERITREAN REFUGEES/ETHIOPIA – Food has run out for Eritrean refugees in Tigray camps, UN warns (Al Jazeera)

The United Nations has sounded the alarm over the severe effect of food shortages on the nearly 100,000 Eritrean refugees sheltering in camps in...