Tag: Al Jazeera

Mali receives helicopters and weapons from Russia (Al Jazeera)

A cargo plane has delivered four helicopters, weapons and ammunition from Russia to Mali, according to the military-led authorities in the West African country. Interim...

UN warns of ‘unprecedented’ malnutrition in Ethiopia’s Tigray (Al Jazeera)

The United Nations has warned of “unprecedented” malnutrition among pregnant and lactating women in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region, in a report published hours after...

Dubai Expo 2020 attempt to shield UAE rights abuses, says HRW (Al Jazeera)

A prominent human rights group has condemned the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Dubai Expo 2020 as an attempt to gloss over rights abuses committed by the...

Iran army holds drill near Azerbaijan border amid tensions (Maziar Motamedi, Al Jazeera)

Iran’s military has launched a large military drill near the country’s border with Azerbaijan, in a show of force amid tensions with its neighbouring...

Qatar’s first legislative polls: What to expect from Shura vote (Linah Alsaafin, Al Jazeera)

Qatar is gearing up for the first legislative elections in its history, in what analysts have called a step towards enhancing political participation for...

N Korea’s Kim offers to restore inter-Korean hotline, slams US (Al Jazeera)

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has said that he is willing to restore severed inter-Korean hotlines by early October but accused the United...

US will not normalise or upgrade diplomatic ties with Syria (Al Jazeera)

The United States has no plans to “normalise or upgrade” diplomatic relations with the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and also does not...

EU court annuls Morocco trade deals over Western Sahara (Radmilla Suleymanova, Al Jazeera)

A European Union court on Wednesday annulled EU-Morocco agriculture and fishing trade deals, saying that they were agreed to without the consent of the...

Stateless and helpless: The plight of ethnic Bengalis in Pakistan (Hajira Maryam, Al Jazeera)

Kiran Jaffar and Kulsoom Yamir are teenage gymnasts in Pakistan’s southern city of Karachi who are hoping to represent the country at international events. But...

Ethiopia’s Tigray crisis ‘stain on our conscience’: UN (Al Jazeera)

The crisis in Ethiopia that is pushing the war-scarred Tigray region towards starvation is a “stain on our conscience”, the United Nations humanitarian chief...

Beirut blast survivors protest against suspension of probe (Kareem Chehayeb, Al Jazeera)

Families of the Beirut Port blast victims are protesting against the suspension of the investigation into the devastating explosion, saying the probe is the...

Romdhane named Tunisia’s first female PM by President Saied (Al Jazeera)

Tunisian President Kais Saied has named Najla Bouden Romdhane, a little-known university engineer who worked with the World Bank, as the country’s first female...

North Korea says it tested hypersonic missile (Al Jazeera)

The weapon North Korea fired off its east coast on Tuesday morning was a newly-developed hypersonic missile, state media said, in the latest advance...

‘Death knell’: Afghan journalists fear new Taliban media rules (Al Jazeera)

In spite of Taliban promises of a “free and independent” media, journalists and media workers have faced detention, physical abuse and torture since the group took...

Disappointed by the US, Turkey cautiously looks to Russia (Resul Serdar Atas, Al Jazeera)

After US President Joe Biden refused to grant a one-on-one meeting with his Turkish counterpart on the sidelines of United Nations General Assembly (UNGA),...

Afghanistan envoy withdraws from UN General Assembly debate (Al Jazeera)

Afghanistan’s ambassador to the United Nations has pulled out of delivering an address to world leaders at the General Assembly on Monday. Ghulam Isaczai, who...