Tag: Al Jazeera

Kim backs ‘military muscle’ as he watches hypersonic missile test (Al Jazeera)

North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un personally oversaw the successful test of a hypersonic missile and called on scientists to accelerate efforts to build...

In Cambodia, union arrests spotlight pressures on civil society (Andrew Haffner, Al Jazeera)

Before plainclothes police forced Chhim Sithar into an unmarked sedan within sight of the casino complex where she had worked last week, the Cambodian...

Hungary’s general election set for April 3: President (Al Jazeera)

Hungarian President Janos Ader has set a parliamentary election for April 3 with a referendum on LGBTQ issues to be held on the same day, the...

Dozens of Cuban protesters to face trial this week, relatives say (Al Jazeera)

At least 57 protesters arrested in Cuba during last year’s wave of unprecedented demonstrations are scheduled to go on trial this week, their relatives have said. The...

State win for Venezuela’s opposition masks deeper problems (Chris Arsenault, Al Jazeera)

Venezuela’s opposition has won an important symbolic battle in securing the governorship in Barinas State, but analysts say they are still losing the broader political...

Nicaragua’s president is sworn in again, so what’s next? (Al Jazeera)

To some, Daniel Ortega has ruthlessly crushed all dissent in Nicaragua. He won a fourth straight term as president last November after jailing opposition candidates,...

US judge dismisses Facebook’s request to throw out monopoly case (David McLaughlin, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera)

Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook must face the U.S. government’s monopoly lawsuit alleging that the company abused its dominance and should be broken up, a...

US Supreme Court denies appeal of woman who joined ISIL (Al Jazeera)

The United States Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal by a woman who left the US to join ISIL (ISIS), but then...

US to give additional $308m in humanitarian aid to Afghanistan (Al Jazeera)

The United States will donate an extra $308m in humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, the White House has announced, bringing the total of US aid...

Brace yourself for an even more unequal post-pandemic world: WEF (Al Jazeera)

The world is growing more unequal and the divergence, made worse by the pandemic, is sure to cause additional tensions, resentments and further complicate...

Zimbabwe to put New York Times freelance journalist on trial (Al Jazeera)

A freelance journalist working for the New York Times will appear in Zimbabwe court on Wednesday, his lawyer and the newspaper said, in a...

UN raps Tunisia over arrest of ex-justice minister (Al Jazeera)

The United Nations has expressed concern about human rights abuses in Tunisia and demanded that a former justice minister held in a clampdown on...

Lebanon’s central bank chief Salameh slapped with travel ban (Kareem Chehayeb, Al Jazeera)

A Lebanese judge slapped a travel ban on Banque du Liban Governor Riad Salameh on Tuesday, as the once-vaunted steward of the country’s economy...

World Bank warns of slowing global growth, widening inequality (Al Jazeera)

The global economy is entering a phase of “pronounced slowdown”, the World Bank warned on Tuesday, as the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, and...

Taliban releases prominent Afghan professor from custody: Family (Al Jazeera)

The Taliban have released a prominent university professor and outspoken critic of successive Afghan governments who was arrested during the weekend, a family member said. Hasina...

Do Kazakhstan’s protests signal an end to the Nazarbayev era? (Agnieszka Pikulicka-Wilczewska, Al Jazeera)

The protests and subsequent violence in Kazakhstan last week came as a surprise. Days after hundreds of protesters rallied against rising fuel prices in a western town,...