Tag: Al Jazeera

Spain/Zapatistas – Zapatistas ‘invade’ Madrid to mark Spanish conquest anniversary (Al Jazeera)

A paper boat is displayed during a cultural event by artists and activists, as well-wishes for the delegation of the National Liberation Zapatista Army...

Haiti – International community must assist but not interfere in Haiti (Al Jazeera)

A demonstrator carries a rock to make a barricade during a protest against the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise in Cap-Haitien, Haiti on...

Afghanistan – Taliban captures Afghan commander Ismail Khan after fall of Herat (Al Jazeera)

Afghan commander and former mujahideen leader Ismail Khan addresses a gathering at his house in Herat The Taliban has captured Ismail Khan – the...

India/Rahul Gandhi/Twitter – Blocked by Twitter for political reasons: India’s Rahul Gandhi (Al Jazeera)

Gandhi's Twitter account has 19.5 million followers Rahul Gandhi, the leader of India’s main opposition party, has slammed Twitter for blocking a tweet over...

Ethiopia/Tigray/USA – US envoy heads to Ethiopia to urge end to fighting (Al Jazeera)

The United Nations says 400,000 people are at risk of famine because of the continuing conflict US President Joe Biden is sending his special...

Egypt/North Sinai – Attack kills eight Egyptian troops in Sinai (Al Jazeera)

Egypt has been battling armed groups in northern Sinai for years A roadside bomb exploded in the restive northern part of the Sinai Peninsula,...

Syria – Explainer: What are the clashes in Syria’s Deraa about? (Al Jazeera)

Nearly half of the population of the rebel-held district has fled heavy shelling and ground battles, but the UN warns remaining civilians are cut...

Iraq/Turkey/PKK – Turkish soldier killed in mortar attack in northern Iraq (Al Jazeera)

The PKK has waged a rebellion in the mainly Kurdish southeast of Turkey since 1984 that has killed more than 40,000 people Kurdish rebels...

Japan – Japan’s defence, economy ministers visit Yasukuni shrine (Al Jazeera)

Japan's Defence Minister Nobuo Kishi at the Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo on Friday Two senior ministers in the cabinet of Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide...

Afghanistan/Pakistan – Pakistani forces clash with Afghan protesters at border crossing (Al Jazeera)

Pakistani soldiers stand guard in front of people waiting to cross at the Friendship Gate crossing point in the Pakistan-Afghanistan border town of Chaman,...

Afghanistan/USA – Kabul evacuations: Echoes of 1975 US exit from Vietnam’s Saigon? (Al Jazeera)

  A South Vietnamese soldier with a bazooka advances along a Saigon Street in this February 2, 1968 photo Thousands of US soldiers being sent...

Global/Oil Demand – IEA sees COVID blow to oil demand in 2021, surplus in 2022 (Al Jazeera)

The International Energy Agency now predicts global oil demand will rise 5.3 million barrels per day on average to 96.2 million bpd in 2021,...

USA/Afghanistan – The US is leaving Afghanistan, but what is it leaving behind? (Al Jazeera)

The United States leaves Afghanistan as the Taliban seem to be retaking control of the entire country, city by city. So what becomes of the...

Afghanistan/Taliban – Who are Taliban’s key leaders in Afghanistan? (Al Jazeera)

Taliban chief negotiator Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai at the intra-Afghan peace talks in Doha The Taliban has been fighting the Western-backed Afghan government in...

Israel/Morocco – Israeli foreign minister inaugurates diplomatic office in Morocco (Al Jazeera)

Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita, centre right, and Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, centre left, sign cooperation agreements in Rabat Israel officially opened its...

Turkey – Central bank resists Erdogan’s calls for rate cut (Al Jazeera, Bloomberg)

Thursday's rate decision could set central bank Governor Sahap Kavcioglu on a possible collision course with Erdogan, who holds the unorthodox view that higher...