Tag: Al Jazeera

China’s role in African development (Al Jazeera)

Chinese President Xi Jinping made the commitments virtually as part of the annual Forum on China-Africa Cooperation. As a two-day summit in Senegal comes to...

Why is Turkey’s lira crashing and will currency crisis worsen? (Patricia Sabga, Al Jazeera)

Once again, Turkey is in the throes of a currency crisis. The lira has lost more than 40 percent of its value against the...

Duterte’s chosen successor abandons Philippines presidential race (Al Jazeera)

Philippine Senator Christopher “Bong” Go, the preferred successor to incumbent President Rodrigo Duterte, has announced his withdrawal from the race to be the country’s...

UK spy chief warns China, Russia racing to master AI (Al Jazeera)

The chief of the United Kingdom’s foreign spy service is to warn that China and Russia are racing to master artificial intelligence in a...

US Fed chief says Omicron poses ‘downside risks’ (Bloomberg, Al Jazeera)

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, in his first public remarks on the omicron variant of the coronavirus, said it poses risks to both sides...

India’s economic recovery gathers pace as Omicron looms (Al Jazeera)

India is expected to remain on track to post the fastest economic growth among major economies even as the spread of the Omicron coronavirus...

The human cost of India’s yearlong farmers’ protest (Srishti Jaswal, Al Jazeera)

On the morning of November 10, the tall body of Gurpreet Singh was found hanging from a tree at Singhu outside Indian capital New...

Twitter’s new CEO is latest on list of India-born US tech honchos (Vlad Savov and Saritha Rai, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera)

Twitter Inc. on Monday became the latest Silicon Valley titan to appoint an Indian-born chief executive officer, joining the likes of Microsoft and Google...

Tanzania’s Dar-es-Salaam hit by water shortages as rivers dry up (Priya Sippy, Al Jazeera)

Fridoline Mtunguja, 56, has never been as busy during the 19 years he has delivered water across Dar-es-Salaam as he has been this past...

Amazon deforestation is rising. Guyana offers a rare bright spot (Chris Arsenault, Al Jazeera)

The only English-speaking nation in South America has one of the continent’s best track records for Amazon rainforest protection – and an ad hoc patrol group...

India using cyber-volunteers to silence critical voices: Report (Al Jazeera)

The group that ran the Hindutva Watch handle on Twitter – which flagged instances of violence and bigotry from Hindu nationalist groups – had...

Ethiopia denies attack on Sudan, blames rebels for violence (Al Jazeera)

Ethiopia has denied it staged an attack over the weekend along its shared border with Sudan, blaming unrest in the disputed zone on rebels...

Why Iran may become a latent nuclear state (Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera)

As the negotiations to salvage the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement resume in Vienna, it is a déjà vu all over again. The United States warns of...

Palestine: Femicide highlights need for domestic violence law (Zena Al Tahhan, Al Jazeera)

In the early hours of November 22, Sabreen Yasser Khweira, 30, was allegedly stabbed to death by her husband in a small Palestinian village...

Australia’s forest fires fanned by climate crisis: Study (Al Jazeera)

New research by CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, has found climate change has driven a significant increase in forest fires in the country over...

What triggered tension between Ukraine and Russia? (Al Jazeera)

Ukraine is accusing Russia of mobilising tens of thousands of soldiers near their shared border. Presenter: Imran Khan Guests: Olexiy Haran – Professor at the National University...