Tag: Al Jazeera

Mexican National Guard fatally shoots migrant, wounds others (Al Jazeera)

Officers from Mexico’s National Guard fatally shot a migrant after opening fire at a pick-up truck attempting to avoid a checkpoint, authorities said. The National...

US unveils sweeping methane restrictions as COP26 enters day two (Al Jazeera)

US President Joe Biden unveiled a wide-ranging plan to reduce methane emissions in his home country on the second day of the United Nations COP26...

After rare clean spell, air quality set to drop in Indian capital (Al Jazeera)

Favourable weather conditions led to a rare drop in pollution in India’s capital New Delhi, with residents last month breathing the cleanest air in...

Book review: No Land’s People indicts India’s NRC process (Saif Khalid, Al Jazeera)

India’s northeastern state of Assam drew the attention of international media in August 2019, when a citizens’ register excluded nearly two million residents, effectively rendering them...

Afghanistan: Deadly blasts near military hospital in Kabul (Al Jazeera)

At least 19 people were killed and 43 wounded when two explosions, followed by gunfire, hit Afghanistan’s biggest military hospital in the capital Kabul,...

Ethiopia asks residents to prepare to defend capital (Al Jazeera)

Authorities in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa have called on residents to prepare to defend their neighbourhoods after rebel forces from Tigray region, who...

Gunmen abduct students, staff at university in Nigeria’s capital (Al Jazeera)

Gunmen abducted members of staff and their children at a university in Nigeria in a rare kidnapping at a large institution in the capital...

Ethiopia accused of limiting rare UN probe on Tigray abuses (Al Jazeera)

Ethiopia has tried to limit a UN human rights investigation into atrocities committed in the blockaded Tigray region, people with knowledge of the probe...

Sudan’s states of exception (Abdelwahab El-Affendi, Al Jazeera)

On October 25, the Sudanese military carried out a coup, announcing the dissolution of the power-sharing Sovereignty Council and the transitional government. It arrested...

Removed Sudan PM demands gov’t reinstatement amid world mediation (Al Jazeera)

Sudan’s deposed Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok said on Monday the reinstatement of his government, dissolved in a military coup, could pave the way to...

New platform documents digital censorship of Palestinians (Zena Al Tahhan, Al Jazeera)

A new open-source online platform has been launched to centralise digital rights violations and censorship by social media companies against Palestinians and Palestine-related content. In...

‘Chilling pattern’: Pakistani journalists ‘targeted’ by cyber law (Asad Hashim, Al Jazeera)

At least 23 Pakistani journalists have been penalised under the country’s draconian cyber-crime law in the last two years, establishing a “chilling pattern” of...

COP26: More than 100 countries pledge to end deforestation by 2030 (Al Jazeera)

More than 100 countries promised to halt and reverse forest loss and land degradation by the end of 2030, underpinned by $19bn in public...

‘Catastrophe’ faces Jordan’s water sector as climate heats up (Al Jazeera)

When Aida Deissat started farming with her husband 30 years ago, she says life was easy. “There was water. A box of Jordanian tomatoes was...

Battlefield Din Daeng: The Thai protesters with ‘nothing to lose’ (Caleb Quinley, Al Jazeera)

Before revealing scars across his body, Gap* glances up at a group of police officers watching closely from across the street. It is only...

China’s revised climate pledge ‘casts shadow’ over Glasgow summit (Al Jazeera)

China has submitted a revised plan to reduce carbon dioxide emissions before the end of this current decade, but critics say the country that produces 27...