Tag: Al Jazeera

US envoy to Afghanistan resigns in wake of chaotic withdrawal (Al Jazeera)

Top United States envoy to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad is stepping down, the State Department has announced, less than two months after the chaotic US...

Azerbaijan accuses Armenia of ‘ethnic cleansing’ at UN court (Al Jazeera)

Azerbaijan has gone to the UN top court to accuse Armenia of laying landmines in Nagorno-Karabakh as part of a campaign of “ethnic cleansing”,...

Attacks on freedom of expression ‘devastating’ for public health (Al Jazeera)

Attacks on freedom of expression by governments, and the spread of misinformation globally during the COVID-19 pandemic have had “a devastating impact” on people’s...

Iran: ‘Seriousness’ in nuclear talks means lifting sanctions (Maziar Motamedi, Al Jazeera)

Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi said seriousness on the part of the United States in upcoming talks to restore the 2015 nuclear deal would mean lifting sanctions...

Hezbollah accuses Lebanese Forces of killing its supporters (Kareem Chehayeb, Al Jazeera)

Hezbollah’s leader has accused the Lebanese Forces party of shooting at their supporters and killing seven people last Thursday near a protest against the...

Turkey’s lira sinks to new low with little reprieve in sight (Al Jazeera)

Turkey’s lira sank to a new all-time low against the dollar on Monday and analysts saw little reprieve ahead given what one called expectations...

Thousands protest in El Salvador against Bukele government (Al Jazeera)

Thousands of protesters have marched in El Salvador’s capital San Salvador against the actions of President Nayib Bukele’s government, including the move to make...

400 Mawozo gang kidnapped the missionaries: Haiti police (Al Jazeera)

A notorious Haitian gang known for brazen kidnappings and killings has been accused by police of kidnapping 17 Christian missionaries, including five children, from...

Bitcoin hovers near six-month high on ETF hopes (Al Jazeera)

Bitcoin hovered near a six-month high early on Monday on hopes that US regulators would soon allow cryptocurrency exchange-traded funds (ETFs) to trade, while...

Gunmen kill dozens in Nigeria’s troubled northwest (Al Jazeera)

Gunmen have killed dozens in an attack on a village market in northwest Nigeria, government officials said. The attack took place on Sunday evening in...

Air strikes target capital of Ethiopia’s Tigray; 3 civilians dead (Al Jazeera)

Ethiopian military air strikes hit the capital of the Tigray region and killed at least three people, witnesses said on Monday, returning the war...

Opposition candidate Neves wins Cape Verde election (Al Jazeera)

Opposition candidate and former Prime Minister Jose Maria Neves won Cape Verde’s presidential election on Sunday, as his main rival, the ruling party’s flagbearer Carlos Veiga,...

Iran, Venezuela to sign 20-year cooperation accord (Maziar Motamedi, Al Jazeera)

Iran will sign a 20-year cooperation accord with Venezuela when President Nicolas Maduro visits Tehran “in the next few months”. In a joint press conference...

Iran to host multilateral conference on Afghanistan on October 27 (Maziar Motamedi, Al Jazeera)

Tehran will host a meeting of Afghanistan’s neighbours plus Russia next week, the country’s foreign ministry has confirmed, with the October 27 event witnessing...

Min Aung Hlaing blames opposition for violence after ASEAN snub (Al Jazeera)

Myanmar army chief Min Aung Hlaing, snubbed by ASEAN leaders over this month’s regional summit, has said that while the military wanted to restore...

China tested new space capability with hypersonic missile: Report (Al Jazeera)

China has tested a new space capability with a hypersonic missile, according to the Financial Times (FT). The report on Saturday cited multiple sources familiar with the...