Tag: Al Jazeera

US to release 50 million barrels of oil to ease energy costs (Al Jazeera)

United States President Joe Biden has ordered 50 million barrels of oil released from the strategic reserve to help bring down energy costs. The move on...

US warship sails through Taiwan Strait, first since Biden-Xi meet (Al Jazeera)

A US destroyer has sailed through the waterway separating Taiwan and China, the United States Navy said, the first such passage since leaders from...

Azerbaijan’s internally displaced long to return to regained land (Liz Cookman, Al Jazeera)

It has been three decades since Rasmiya Ahmadova last saw her home village in Kalbajar, a leafy district in western Azerbaijan scattered with fruit...

Dreaming of escape: The Pakistani women fleeing domestic violence (Shazia Khan, Al Jazeera)

When my mother was two years old, she was given as a “gift-child” to a wealthy widowed aunt who did not have any children...

Ethiopia’s PM Abiy Ahmed vows to lead army ‘from the battlefront’ (Al Jazeera)

Ethiopia’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has said he will lead his country’s army “from the battlefront” starting on Tuesday, a dramatic...

UAE crown prince to meet Erdogan for talks to ‘improve relations’ (Al Jazeera)

Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the UAE’s de facto ruler, will visit Turkey for talks with President Tayyip Erdogan,...

UNICEF: Generation of children ‘at stake’ in Lebanon crisis (Al Jazeera)

The UN children’s agency has called on Lebanon to take urgent action to protect children after it documented a spike in child labour rates...

Iran, IAEA agree to continue dialogue ahead of Vienna talks (Maziar Motamedi, Al Jazeera)

Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have agreed to maintain communication and dialogue after the nuclear watchdog’s director-general visited Tehran days before...

Turkey’s lira hits record low after Erdogan defends rate cuts (Al Jazeera)

The Turkish lira has hit a record low of 12.49 against the US dollar after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan defended recent sharp rate cuts. The Turkish...

IMF revives $6BN bailout for Pakistan’s economy (Al Jazeera)

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Monday it had agreed with Pakistan on measures needed to revive a stalled $6bn funding programme for...

New Delhi lifts construction ban as air quality ‘slowly improves’ (Al Jazeera)

New Delhi has lifted a ban on construction activities as air quality improved marginally, but schools and offices will remain closed until at least...

The ‘net zero’ myth (Khaled Diab, Al Jazeera)

Earlier this month, the world’s leaders got together to small talk about the weather and to big talk about the climate at the 26th...

Oman, Qatar sign agreements during sultan’s visit to Doha (Al Jazeera)

Oman and Qatar have signed agreements on military cooperation, taxation, tourism, ports, labour and investment as Oman seeks to invigorate its debt-burdened economy, the...

Bahrain says it foiled planned attack, arrests suspects (Al Jazeera)

Bahrain security forces have arrested a number of suspects, and confiscated weapons and explosives ahead of a planned attack, the interior ministry said. The ministry...

The devastating ways women suffer at the Poland-Belarus border (Sara Cincurova, Al Jazeera)

When 28-year-old Shirin*, an Iraqi Kurd, crossed the border from Belarus into Poland with her seven-year-old son Ali*, she did not expect to end...

Israel’s Netanyahu faces key witness in corruption trial (Al Jazeera)

A key prosecution witness has begun testifying in the trial of former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who stands accused of fraud, breach of...