Tag: Al Jazeera

Russia-US escalation: How did we get here? (Leonid Ragozin, Al Jazeera)

Over the past year, tensions between Russia on one side and Ukraine and the West on the other, have flared, fuelling fears of another...

Guatemala massacre victims’ community defies state of siege (Al Jazeera)

Hundreds of Indigenous people defied a state of siege on Tuesday and blocked a major road in Guatemala’s west for the second successive day, demanding the...

Mexico’s lithium and the global race to lock in ‘white gold’ (Ann Deslandes, Al Jazeera)

This year’s political moves surrounding Mexico’s lithium reserves have tested the limits of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s (AMLO) pledges to keep the country’s...

Mexico says refugee requests tripled in 2021 (Al Jazeera)

Applications for refugee status in Mexico have roughly tripled this year compared with 2020, the government has said, in the face of a significant...

Dozens killed in ‘barbaric, senseless’ violence in Nigeria (Al Jazeera)

Nigeria’s presidency says dozens of people have been killed in violence between farmers and herders in the country’s central Nasarawa state. In a statement late...

Has the political process in Libya failed? (Al Jazeera)

Libya was among the Arab Spring nations, and since a revolution toppled the government a decade ago, it has not known peace or political...

UN’s Guterres calls on Lebanese leaders to respond to grievances (Kareem Chehayeb, Al Jazeera)

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has urged Lebanese leaders to listen and respond to their population’s grievances, as the country’s economy continues to spiral. “I am...

5 things to know about Erdogan’s plan to shore up Turkey’s lira (Asli Kandemir, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera)

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan unveiled an emergency plan to curb the lira’s unprecedented depreciation and protect investors against wild swings in the currency....

Two deaths, 13 rape allegations reported after Sudan protests (Al Jazeera)

The United Nations Human Rights Office has said that it had received 13 allegations of rape and gang rape by security forces during protests...

Libya electoral commission dissolves poll committees (Al Jazeera)

Libya’s head of the High National Electoral Commission (HNEC) has ordered the dissolution of the electoral committees nationwide, in a move that effectively postpones...

New Syrian migrants seek Europe, driven by post-war misery (Al Jazeera)

She had already walked for 60 hours through the wet, dark forests of Poland, trying to make her way to Germany, when the 29-year-old...

Turkish lira rockets after Erdogan’s promise to protect deposits (Al Jazeera)

The Turkish lira rocketed off record lows on Tuesday after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced new measures to safeguard local currency deposits against severe...

Luxury jewellers risk funding military abuses in Myanmar: Report (Al Jazeera)

An anti-corruption group has put luxury jewellers on alert about their possible role in funding human rights abuses in Myanmar, saying the country’s lucrative...

‘Let us eat’: Afghan protesters call for release of frozen assets (Al Jazeera)

Hundreds of protesters have marched through the streets of Kabul towards the shuttered United States’ embassy, urging the release of Afghanistan’s frozen assets. Holding banners reading,...

Indian rupee to end year as Asia’s worst-performing currency (Ronojoy Mazumdar and Subhadip Sircar, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera)

The Indian rupee is set to end a tumultuous year as Asia’s worst-performing currency with foreign funds fleeing the nation’s stocks. The currency declined 2.2%...

Several killed as protests rock Goma in eastern DRC (Al Jazeera)

Several people have been reported dead as protesters clashed with security forces in the city of Goma, in the restive east of the Democratic...