Tag: Al Jazeera

Japan’s ruling LDP on defensive ahead of parliamentary polls (Al Jazeera)

Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) faces a fight to maintain its sole majority in this weekend’s lower house election, opinion polls on Friday...

EU top military official voices support for Bosnia’s joint forces (Al Jazeera)

The European Union’s top military official has voiced support for the unified Bosnian armed forces on Thursday, after Serb leader Milorad Dodik had threatened...

Russia ‘weaponising’ gas supply in Moldova dispute, EU says (Al Jazeera)

The European Union’s top diplomat has accused Russia of using natural gas to bully neighbouring Moldova in remarks that are likely to worsen simmering tensions between...

Energy crisis: UK consumers face rising fuel poverty this winter (James Brownsell, Al Jazeera)

David Peacock is a 70-year-old with disabilities, living on his own in a flat in Llandudno, a Victorian resort town in North Wales, the...

Violence targeting Indigenous people surges 61 percent in Brazil (Al Jazeera)

Violence against Indigenous people in Brazil surged by more than 60 percent last year, a rights group has said, as land invasions of Indigenous territories increased...

‘Striketober’ can be a turning point for the US Labour movement (Anthony Pahnke, Al Jazeera)

Typically, the US is not considered a hotbed of labour unrest. Yet this is precisely what we are seeing as, during the month of...

As US freezes funds, a harsh winter awaits cash-strapped Afghans (Ali M Latifi, Al Jazeera)

In its latest report to the United States Congress, the Special Investigator General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) has detailed Washington’s decision to cut off...

Watchdog: 30 recent cases of violence against Afghan journalists (Al Jazeera)

More than 30 instances of violence and threats of violence against Afghan journalists were recorded in the last two months, with nearly 90 percent...

Climate crisis: How Bangladeshis are fighting rising sea levels (Al Jazeera)

Rising sea levels and deadly floods are already putting tens of millions of lives at risk in Bangladesh, but they bring another problem that...

Should western sanctions on Zimbabwean entities be lifted? (Al Jazeera)

Sanctions were placed on individuals and entities in Zimbabwe in 2003. The United States, European Union and United Kingdom imposed them after accusing politicians and...

Death toll rises as Sudan’s capital rocked by more clashes (Al Jazeera)

Security forces have clashed with protesters furious over a military coup that derailed a fragile transition to democracy and sparked an international outcry, with...

UN calls on Sudan’s military to restore transitional government (Al Jazeera)

The United Nations Security Council has issued its first statement since the military dissolved the country’s power-sharing transitional government, expressing “serious concern” but falling...

Why is Israel labelling Palestinian rights groups ‘terrorists’? (Zena Al Tahhan, Al Jazeera)

On October 22, Israel designated six prominent civil society and human rights groups in Palestine as “terrorist” organisations. The designation was widely condemned by the international community...

Climate change and human error shrivel Greek agriculture (John Psaropoulos, Al Jazeera)

The farmers of Ampelonas in central Greece are headed for financial ruin. Last July, as a series of heatwaves struck the country, their electricity...

Ecuador president calls for dialogue with Indigenous protesters (Al Jazeera)

Indigenous and rural Ecuadorans have blocked roads in several provinces on the second day of protests against rising fuel prices amid a state of emergency as...

India tests nuclear-capable missile amid tensions with China (Al Jazeera)

India has test-fired a nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile with a range of 5,000km (3,125 miles) from an island off its east coast amid rising...