Tag: Al Jazeera

(Afghanistan) ‘Journalism is sacred work’: Afghanistan’s front line reporters (Al Jazeera)

Robyn Huang and Matt Reichel writes for Al Jazeera: It was about 8am on a Monday morning in April 2018 when Bushra Seddique felt the multi-storey...

(South Africa) Pfizer-BioNTech to produce COVID-19 jabs with S African company (Al Jazeera)

Al  Jazeera writes: Pfizer and BioNTech have said they struck a deal with South Africa-based company Biovac for the production of COVID-19 vaccines for the...

(Tanzania) Tanzania’s Chadema party says leader Freeman Mbowe arrested (Al Jazeera)

Al Jazeera writes: Tanzania’s main opposition party Chadema has said its leader and other members were arrested before a planned conference to demand constitutional reforms. Freeman...

(Lebanon) Lebanon’s public ride-share drivers fear livelihood crash (Al Jazeera)

 Kareem Chehayeb writes for Al Jazeera: For the first time in more than 10 years, Khaled Abou Sleiman recently stopped driving his public ride-share van...

(Iran) Violence intensifies in water-crisis protests in Iran’s Khuzestan (Al Jazeera)

Maziar Motamedi writes for Al Jazeera: Iranian authorities have said one police officer was shot dead by “agitators” in Iran’s Khuzestan province, where six...

(UK/Asia Pacific) UK to permanently deploy two warships in Asia Pacific (Al Jazeera)

Al Jazeera writes: Britain has announced that it will permanently deploy two warships in Asian waters after its Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier and escort ships...

(Peru) In divided Peru, Castillo says looking to form pluralistic gov’t (Al Jazeera)

Al Jazeera writes: Peru’s President-elect Pedro Castillo has said he would be looking to form a pluralistic government, in his first remarks to reporters after...

(Colombia) Colombia presents new tax reform to Congress amid more protests (Al Jazeera)

Al Jazeera writes: Colombia’s government formally presented a $3.95bn tax reform bill to Congress on Tuesday, as unions and student groups sought to revive...

(Haiti) Amid political crisis, Haiti appoints new prime minister (Al Jazeera)

Al Jazeera writes: Haiti has appointed a new prime minister, less than two weeks after President Jovenel Moise’s assassination threw the deeply divided Caribbean nation into...

(Mexico) ‘Shameful’: Mexican president decries alleged NSO spying (Al Jazeera)

Al Jazeera writes: Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Tuesday called “shameful” the alleged government-ordered spying several years ago that may have targeted...

(India) India’s PM Modi accused of ‘treason’ over Pegasus spyware scandal (Al Jazeera)

Al Jazeera writes: India’s main opposition Congress party has accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of “treason” and compromising national security following revelations that dozens of...

(Nigeria) 100 kidnapped villagers freed after 42-day captivity (Al Jazeera)

Al Jazeera writes: Police in Nigeria’s northwestern state of Zamfara have said they secured the release of 100 villagers kidnapped in early June following...

(South Africa) The insurrection in South Africa is about more than freeing Zuma (Al Jazeera)

Benjamin Fogel writes for Al Jazeera: Over the last 11 days South Africa has been engulfed by the worst unrest and mass violence since the...

(Mali) Mali interim President Assimi Goita is ‘well’ after knife attack (Al Jazeera)

Al Jazeera writes: Mali’s interim President Assimi Goita has been targeted in an attempted stabbing attack after Eid al-Adha prayers at the Grand Mosque in the...

(USA) US charges Trump ally with undisclosed lobbying for UAE (Al Jazeera)

Al Jazeera writes: Tom Barrack, a billionaire ally of Donald Trump who chaired the former president’s inaugural committee in 2016, has been arrested on foreign lobbying...

(Tunisia/Pandemic) Tunisia health minister sacked as COVID-19 cases surge (Al Jazeera)

Al Jazeera writes: Tunisia’s Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi has sacked Health Minister Faouzi Mehdi amid spiralling coronavirus cases in the North African country. The ministry said...