Tag: Al Jazeera

What Germany’s climate movement got right: Breaking rules (Clara S Thompson, Al Jazeera)

In late November 2021, Germany’s new coalition government announced its aim to phase out coal power across the country by 2030, eight years ahead of...

US, Europe present united front before Blinken-Lavrov talks (Al Jazeera)

The United States and its Western allies have insisted they will be united in responding strongly to any Russian incursion into Ukraine before talks...

Pentagon releases footage of deadly Kabul drone strike (Al Jazeera)

The Pentagon for the first time publicly released drone footage of a botched strike in Kabul that killed 10 members of a family, including seven children,...

Rights groups want UN to ban Bangladesh’s RAB from peacekeeping (Al Jazeera)

Human rights organisations documenting abuses committed by the Bangladesh’s Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have requested the United Nations to ban the unit’s members from its peace...

Why Biden’s Jerusalem consulate promise remains unfulfilled (Ali Harb, Al Jazeera)

The United States’s diplomatic presence in Jerusalem predates the establishment of the State of Israel by nearly a century, and an American consulate in...

Israel police chief orders probe into NSO spyware claims (Al Jazeera)

Israel’s police chief says he has ordered an extensive investigation into a newspaper’s claims that the police force had used controversial Israeli spyware to...

Turkey’s central bank hits pause, leaves interest rates unchanged (Umar Farooq, Al Jazeera)

Turkey’s central bank has ended its latest policy-setting meeting by keeping interest rates unchanged, halting a cycle of cuts initiated last September that economists...

N Korea may resume nuclear, long-range missile tests: State media (Al Jazeera)

A meeting of the powerful politburo of North Korea’s ruling party, presided over by leader Kim Jong Un, has said that it will consider...

Cyberattack on ICRC exposes data on 515,000 vulnerable people (Al Jazeera)

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says there has been a hacking attack on its data servers that compromised confidential information on...

CIA finds most Havana Syndrome cases not work of enemies: Report (Al Jazeera)

The CIA has determined a mysterious sickness affecting hundreds of United States diplomatic workers across the world is not part of a widespread targeted campaign by...

Biden’s foreign policy dilemmas (Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera)

After a strong start that included rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement and World Health Organization, both of which Trump abandoned, President Joe Biden has...

US Senate sinks Biden’s major push to protect voting rights (Al Jazeera)

US senators have scuppered President Joe Biden’s push to defend voting rights against what Democrats have framed as an all-out assault by conservative states targeting racial...

Biden ‘not there yet’ on easing tariffs on Chinese goods (Al Jazeera)

United States President Joe Biden on Wednesday said it was too soon to make commitments on lifting US tariffs on Chinese goods, but his...

Pakistani court sentences woman to death for WhatsApp ‘blasphemy’ (Asad Hashim, Al Jazeera)

A Pakistani court has sentenced a Muslim woman to death for committing “blasphemy” by sharing images deemed to be insulting to Islam’s Prophet Muhammad...

Rights groups ask Facebook to release India hate speech report (Al Jazeera)

Facebook critics are calling on the world’s largest social media network to release a human rights impact assessment it commissioned in 2020 to investigate hate...

Facial recognition taken to court in India’s surveillance hotspot (Al Jazeera)

It was lockdown in the Indian city of Hyderabad when activist S Q Masood was stopped on the street by police who asked him...