Tag: Al Jazeera

Infographic: Which countries still have the death penalty? (Mohammed Hussein, Al Jazeera)

October 10 marks the World Day Against the Death Penalty. The theme this year is focused on safeguarding the health and rights of women...

Algeria demands France’s ‘total respect’: President (Al Jazeera)

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune demanded France’s “total respect”, following a diplomatic row over visas and critical comments from Paris about the North African country. Algeria...

UAE, Syria agree on plans to enhance economic cooperation (Al Jazeera)

The United Arab Emirates’ economy ministry has said the Gulf state and Syria agreed on future plans to enhance economic cooperation and explore new...

Palestinian village target of settler attacks and land theft (Al Jazeera)

The small Palestinian village of Kisan, nestled atop the rugged, picturesque hills of the occupied West Bank, has faced intensified Israeli land theft and...

Taliban, US conclude ‘candid, professional’ talks in Doha (Al Jazeera)

Delegates from the Taliban and the United States have held “candid and professional” talks in the Qatari capital, according to a US official, with...

The Taliban’s security nightmare (Al Jazeera)

ISIL (ISIS) in Afghanistan claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack on Friday in the northern city of Kunduz. Dozens of people were killed and...

India: Looming power ‘crisis’ in Delhi amid coal shortages (Al Jazeera)

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has warned of a looming power crisis in the Indian capital, saying that some of the major coal-fired stations...

Gunmen raid Nigeria market, kill at least 20 people (Al Jazeera)

At least 20 people have been killed in Nigeria’s Sokoto state when gunmen attacked a market and torched cars, according to a state official...

African agriculture without African farmers (Alex Park, Siera Vercillo, Al Jazeera)

With the passing of the United Nations’ highly contested Food Systems Summit last month, the task of “feeding the world” has taken on a...

Iraqis head to early vote with little hope for change (Al Jazeera)

An Iraqi voter shows his inked finger after casting his ballot at a polling station in Baghdad Iraqis headed to the polls for an...

Taiwan president says island does not seek military confrontation (Al Jazeera)

Taiwan does not seek military confrontation but will do whatever it takes to defend its freedom and democratic way of life, President Tsai Ing-wen...

Colombia troop deployment at Venezuela border raises questions (Steven Grattan, Al Jazeera)

Colombia has sent 14,000 soldiers to its border with Venezuela, which is reopening this week after a three-year closure, in a move rights groups...

The Shining Path controversies that spurred Peru’s gov’t shake-up (Simeon Tegel, Al Jazeera)

Ignacio Tacas was 13 when he learned how his family was massacred. The details reached him, piece by piece, over an entire month of...

Cuba calls National Defence Day on date of planned protests (Al Jazeera)

Cuba has announced it will conduct annual military exercises on the date of planned human rights protests around the country. A brief armed forces communique...

More than 91,000 migrants crossed perilous Darien Gap this year (Al Jazeera)

More than 91,300 migrants – most of them Haitians – have trekked through Panama’s dangerous Darien Gap jungle so far this year in hopes of reaching...

Biden rejects Trump effort to block January 6 document release (Al Jazeera)

President Joe Biden has declined a request by his predecessor Donald Trump to prevent White House records of the deadly January 6 insurrection at the United...