Tag: Al Jazeera

Iran orders crypto-mining ban to prevent winter blackouts (Yasna Haghdoost, Arsalan Shahla, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera)

Iran for the second time this year ordered a shutdown of authorized cryptocurrency mining centers as part of efforts to ease the strain on...

Kuwait names cabinet with opposition MPs, new finance minister (Al Jazeera)

Kuwait has formed a new cabinet with a new finance minister and including three opposition legislators following a standoff between previous governments and the...

Activists denounce China’s secret residential surveillance system (Erin Hale, Al Jazeera)

On September 24, Chinese authorities released Canadians Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig after detaining them for more than 1,000 days. The pair were not held in...

North Korea’s Kim convenes key meeting, marks 10 years in power (Al Jazeera)

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un this week opened a key ruling party meeting, state media reported on Tuesday, as he marks his 10...

How Venezuela this year almost doubled its oil output (Al Jazeera)

Venezuela this year almost doubled its oil production from last year’s decades-low as its state-owned company struck deals that let it pump and process more extra heavy crude into exportable grades. The...

High taxes curb investments, says Bangladesh’s Grameenphone (Arun Devnath, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera)

Bangladesh’s high tax rate is discouraging telecoms operators from investing further in the South Asian nation as it prepares to adopt 5G technology, according...

The Indian economy is growing fast, but problems loom (Charu Sudan Kasturi, Al Jazeera)

In 2022, India will have to deal with ongoing inflation of fuel, food prices as well as rising urban unemployment. The Indian economy is growing...

Sri Lanka shuts three foreign missions as dollar crisis worsens (Al Jazeera)

Sri Lanka has announced the closure of three overseas diplomatic missions in a bid to save foreign currency reserves, as the country’s Central Bank slaps...

India restricts foreign funding for Mother Teresa’s charity (Al Jazeera)

India has moved to cut off foreign funding to a charity founded by Mother Teresa, saying the Catholic organisation did not meet conditions under...

Mali launches four-day forum on return to civilian rule (Al Jazeera)

Mali’s military-dominated government has launched a four-day national forum on returning the country to civilian rule following the country’s August 2020 coup. The authorities are...

2021, the year military coups returned to the stage in Africa (Mucahid Durmaz, Al Jazeera)

This year, there were four successful military takeovers across the continent – in Chad, Mali, Guinea and Sudan – up from one in 2020. 2021,...

Israeli air raid targets key Syrian port of Latakia: State media (Al Jazeera)

An Israeli air raid has struck Syria’s Mediterranean port of Latakia for the second time this month, causing “significant material damage”, according to Syrian...

Elon Musk and all that was wrong with 2021 (Belen Fernandez, Al Jazeera)

Time magazine recently chose Elon Musk – the “richest private citizen in history” and the CEO of rocket firm SpaceX and electric vehicle company...

India’s RBL Bank drops as much as 25 percent (Ashutosh Joshi and Ishika Mookerjee, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera)

RBL Bank Ltd. plunged by a record after a decision by India’s central bank to appoint a new director to the board raised concerns...

India wants to protect your data. Should you worry? (Megha Bahree, Al Jazeera)

India had introduced a personal data protection bill in December 2019 to protect the personal data of individuals and said it would set up a data...

Israel says will ‘double settlements’ in occupied Golan Heights (Al Jazeera)

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has said the country intends to double the number of settlers in the occupied Golan Heights with a multimillion-dollar plan meant...