Tag: Al Jazeera

UK gives Ukraine anti-tank weapons as Canada sends special forces (Al Jazeera)

The United Kingdom has begun supplying Ukraine with anti-tank weapons and Canada has reportedly deployed a small contingent of special forces to Kyiv amid...

Hindu monk in India charged over call for ‘genocide’ of Muslims (Al Jazeera)

Indian authorities have charged a Hindu monk with inciting religious violence after he called for the “genocide” of India’s Muslims at a meeting of right-wing supporters,...

Valued at $203 billion, India readies LIC IPO, its biggest ever (Suvashree Ghosh, Vrishti Beniwal, Baiju Kalesh, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera)

In Mumbai’s sleek skyscrapers, harried bankers race the clock to appraise a company that hasn’t been valued in decades. Bureaucrats burn the midnight oil...

Saudi-led coalition launches deadly air raids in Yemen’s Sanaa (Al Jazeera)

The Saudi-led coalition has carried out air raids in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, killing more than 12 people, according to residents, a day after...

North Korea fires two suspected ballistic missiles, Seoul says (Al Jazeera)

North Korea has fired two suspected short-range ballistic missiles into the sea in its fourth weapons test this month, South Korea’s military said, as...

Moscow refuses to rule out Latin America military deployments (Al Jazeera)

Moscow has again refused to rule out deploying military units to Cuba and Venezuela as tensions with the West over Ukraine simmer, saying it is “exploring...

Voting rights: Is US democracy really in danger? (William Roberts, Al Jazeera)

As the US commemorates the death of slain Black civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr, 54 years after his assassination, the battle over...

The prospects of another American (un)civil war (Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera)

There are probably nicer ways to say it, but when I read that in a 2021 national poll, 46 percent of Americans believed that “another...

Taliban says all Afghan girls will be back in school by March (Al Jazeera)

Girls’ schools across Afghanistan will hopefully reopen by late March, a senior Taliban leader has told the Associated Press, offering the first timeline for...

Global employment won’t recover before 2023: UN labour body (Al Jazeera)

Global employment will not recover to pre-pandemic levels until at least 2023, with a projected shortfall in hours worked this year equivalent to 52...

Crypto investing is alive and well in Turkey, thanks to lira woes (Umar Farooq, Al Jazeera)

Just off of Istiklal street, Istanbul’s busiest pedestrian walkway, the occasional passerby stops to glance at a screen displaying the prices of cryptocurrencies in...

Suspected drone attack in Abu Dhabi causes fire, kills three (Al Jazeera)

At least three people have been killed and six others wounded when three oil tankers exploded in Abu Dhabi in a suspected drone attack,...

Iran to reopen OIC representative office in Saudi Arabia (Al Jazeera)

Three Iranian diplomats have arrived in Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah to reopen Iran’s representative office to the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). Semi-official Iranian media reported...

Kazakh ex-leader’s in-laws leave key energy sector jobs (Reuters)

Two members of former Kazakh president Nursultan Nazarbayev's extended family have resigned from the leadership of state oil and gas shipping companies, the Central...

North Korea fires railway-borne missiles as US tension rises (Al Jazeera)

North Korea confirmed on Saturday it test-launched ballistic missiles from a train in what was seen as an apparent retaliation against new sanctions imposed by the...

Ousted Myanmar leader Suu Kyi faces five new corruption charges (Al Jazeera)

Myanmar’s military-installed government has filed five new corruption charges against ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi in connection with granting permits to rent and...