Tag: Al Jazeera

DR Congo President Felix Tshisekedi orders mining licences audit (Al Jazeera)

Felix Tshisekedi, president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), has demanded a ban on issuing and trading mining permits until the country’s...

Houthis say drone attacks target several Saudi cities (Al Jazeera)

Yemen’s Houthi fighters said they fired 14 drones at several Saudi cities on Saturday, including at Saudi Aramco facilities in Jeddah, with the Saudi...

Qatar welcomes ILO report despite admitted data gaps (Al Jazeera)

An analysis of deaths of migrant labourers in Qatar has shown gaps in the county’s data collection and differences in the way work-related incidents...

China uses maritime militia to assert claim on South China Sea (Erin Hale, Al Jazeera)

There may be as many as 300 vessels from China’s maritime militia patrolling the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea at any one...

Collapse of tourism cost five Asian nations 1.6 million jobs: UN (John Power, Al Jazeera)

The collapse of tourism due to the pandemic wiped out 1.6 million jobs in five Asian countries alone last year, according to the International...

Taiwan opens Lithuania office as China condemns ‘egregious’ move (Al Jazeera)

Taiwan has opened a de facto embassy in Lithuania in a diplomatic breakthrough for the self-ruled democratic island that China, which described the move...

Amazon deforestation in Brazil surges to 15-year high (Al Jazeera)

Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest soared 22 percent in one year to the highest level since 2006, according to the government’s annual report, undercutting President Jair...

‘We are all suffering’: What’s going on inside Ecuador’s prisons? (Kimberley Brown, Al Jazeera)

More than 300 people have been killed inside Ecuador’s prisons so far this year, as a series of violent riots between rival gangs left officials scrambling...

Yunior Garcia: Cuban activist who fled promises to return home (Al Jazeera)

A leading Cuban pro-democracy activist has pledged to return to his home country after arriving in Spain with his wife. Yunior Garcia, a 39-year-old playwright, told reporters...

Biden’s $1.75 trillion domestic investment bill closer to law (Al Jazeera)

Democrats in the United States House of Representatives on Thursday advanced President Joe Biden’s $1.75 trillion domestic investment bill — despite a non-partisan arbiter’s...

Families bury bodies of Kashmir civilians, shutdown in protest (Al Jazeera)

Authorities in Indian-administered Kashmir have exhumed the bodies of two civilians and returned them to their families who claim Indian troops used them as...

India’s Modi says will repeal controversial farm laws (Al Jazeera)

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi says he has decided to repeal three controversial farm laws against which farmers have protested for more than a...

Afghanistan ‘on the brink of catastrophe’: UN envoy (Al Jazeera)

The UN envoy for Afghanistan says the country is “on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe”, urging the international community to find ways to...

India to probe Kashmir civilian killings, residents say ‘eyewash’ (Rifat Fareed, Al Jazeera)

Following widespread outrage over the killing of four people, including at least two civilians, in a gun battle in Indian-administered Kashmir, the disputed region’s New...

US issues religious freedom ‘concern’ list, removes Nigeria (Al Jazeera)

The United States has removed Nigeria from a list of “countries of particular concern” regarding religious freedom, a day before US Secretary of State...

Oil climbs after touching six-week lows as China eyes reserves (Al Jazeera)

Oil prices rose slightly on Thursday after dropping to six-week lows as investors wondered about how much crude major economies would release from their...