Tag: Al Jazeera

Muqtada al-Sadr set to win Iraq vote, former PM al-Maliki second (Al Jazeera)

Shia Muslim religious leader Muqtada al-Sadr’s party is set to be the biggest winner in Iraq’s parliamentary election, increasing the number of seats he holds,...

Energy crunch: Qatar says LNG production ‘maxed out’ (Al Jazeera)

Qatar, the world’s largest seller of liquefied natural gas (LNG), told consumers it was powerless to cool energy prices as steelmakers in the United...

‘Looming disaster’: Oil ship leak threatens millions of Yemenis (Abubakr Al-Shamahi, Al Jazeera)

An oil spill involving a deteriorating tanker moored off the coast of Yemen could potentially disrupt food and water supplies for millions of people...

Erdogan seeks Biden meeting to discuss US warplane request (Selcan Hacaoglu, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera)

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wants to use an upcoming global summit to lobby U.S. President Joe Biden to allow Ankara to buy dozens...

‘Unprecedented’ hunger in Lebanon as fuel crisis hikes food costs (Kareem Chehayeb, Al Jazeera)

Mohammad sat in the smaller grocery store where he worked and flipped through the pages of a notebook, filled with a long list of...

Taking the pulse of Tunisia’s democracy (Al Jazeera)

Tunisia has a new prime minister, the first woman in the Arab world to hold the job. She is replacing the prime minister whom...

Car bomb kills several in Syria’s Afrin (Umar Farooq, Al Jazeera)

At least four people have been killed by a car bomb in the northern Syrian city of Afrin, according to local media and the...

Saudi Arabia’s biggest IPO since Aramco surges in debut (Reema Alothman, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera)

ACWA Power International surged on its debut in Riyadh after raising more than $1.2 billion in the biggest Saudi Arabian listing since Aramco. The stock...

Tunisia’s President Saied approves new government (Al Jazeera)

Tunisia’s President Kais Saied has approved a new government selected by newly-appointed Prime Minister Najla Bouden Romdhane. The development came on Monday, 11 weeks after...

Vote count underway in Iraq after record low turnout (Al Jazeera)

Vote counting is under way in Iraq on Monday, a day after a record low turnout in a parliamentary election that reflects what many...

Iraqi forces arrest senior ISIL member Sami Jasim (Al Jazeera)

Iraqi security forces have arrested a senior member of the ISIL (ISIS) armed group, Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi says. Sami Jasim, who was in charge...

N Korea’s Kim calls for improving lives amid ‘grim’ economy (Al Jazeera)

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has urged officials to focus on improving the lives of the country’s citizens amid a “grim” economic situation,...

India, China army talks to defuse border tensions fail (Al Jazeera)

Talks between Indian and Chinese army commanders to disengage troops from key friction areas along their border have ended in a stalemate and failed...

TV journalist killed in targeted attack in southern Pakistan (Asad Hashim, Al Jazeera)

A journalist has been killed in a targeted attack in the southern Pakistani town of Hub, police officials say, with the ethnic separatist Baloch...

UN, Bangladesh sign deal to aid Rohingya relocated to island (Al Jazeera)

The United Nations and Bangladesh’s government have signed an agreement to work together to help Rohingya refugees on an island in the Bay of...

Kenya’s cynical offensive against the ICJ (Patrick Gathara, Al Jazeera)

When he was first elected in 2013, Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta, along with his running mate, William Ruto, was awaiting prosecution at the International Criminal Court....