Tag: Al Jazeera

US must ‘accept reality’ and lift sanctions: Iran negotiator (Maziar Motamedi, Al Jazeera)

The United States must “accept reality” and agree to lift its sanctions on Iran during next week’s nuclear talks in Vienna, according to Tehran’s...

Egypt used French military support to ‘kill civilians’: Report (Al Jazeera)

Egypt has used intelligence supplied by the French military to target and kill civilians suspected of smuggling, according to a report by investigative website...

Sudan’s reinstated PM Hamdok promises a path to democracy (Al Jazeera)

Newly reinstated Sudanese Prime Minister Abdulla Hamdok has pledged to introduce a “technocratic government” made up of qualified professionals who will lead the country...

Venezuela ruling socialist party, allies sweep regional elections (Al Jazeera)

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s United Socialist Party of Venezuela and its allies have won big in regional elections participated by the opposition for the first time...

Runoff looms in Chile as far-right Kast leads presidential vote (Al Jazeera)

A far-right former congressman is leading Chile’s presidential election and looks likely to face a runoff with a former student activist. With nearly 97 percent...

El Salvador to build first ‘Bitcoin City’ backed by BTC bonds (Al Jazeera)

El Salvador plans to build the world’s first “Bitcoin City”, funded initially by Bitcoin-backed bonds, President Nayib Bukele says, doubling down on his bet...

Two of 17 missionaries kidnapped in Haiti released (Al Jazeera)

Two of the 17 Christian missionaries kidnapped in Haiti last month have been released, according to the group’s United States-based church organisation. In a statement...

Amnesty urges Pakistan to end ‘abhorrent’ enforced disappearances (Asad Hashim, Al Jazeera)

Human rights group Amnesty International has called for Pakistani authorities to end the use of enforced disappearances as a tool of state policy, as...

Infographic: The 100 most polluted cities in the world (Hanna Duggal, Al Jazeera)

Every year, a thick smog covers India’s capital New Delhi. Last week, it got so bad for the 20 million residents that authorities shut schools. New...

Pakistan rejects India defence minister’s ‘provocative’ statement (Asad Hashim, Al Jazeera)

Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) has reacted strongly to remarks by India’s defence minister over the weekend, terming threats to carry out military...

What role can nuclear energy play in Africa’s climate transition? (Olamide Samuel, Al Jazeera)

I was following activist messaging and protests around the COP26 proceedings rather closely, with a particular focus on whether African interests are being fairly...

US defence chief pledges to counter Iran during Bahrain visit (Al Jazeera)

The United States’s top defence official has pledged to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, as negotiations remain stalled over Tehran’s tattered atomic...

US and Taiwan to hold second round of economic dialogue (Al Jazeera)

The United States and Taiwan next week will hold the second session of an economic dialogue launched last year in the face of increasing...

‘Born as US citizen’: Afghan refugees welcome newborns in US (Ali Harb and Zubair Babakarkhail, Al Jazeera)

Ahmadzai* had imagined the birth of his first child as a typical Afghan family affair with relatives visiting his home in Kabul to deliver...

What is behind India’s U-turn on its farming laws? (Al Jazeera)

For more than a year, farmers across India have been holding mass protests, strikes and sit-ins. Their actions have been against a set of farm...

Al-Shabab suicide bomber kills prominent journalist in Mogadishu (Al Jazeera)

A prominent Somali journalist who was a critic of the al-Shabab armed group was killed by a suicide bomber as he was leaving a...