Tag: Al Jazeera

India – India gets new ministers for health, IT, oil amid COVID crisis (Al Jazeera)

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has appointed new federal ministers for health, IT and oil as part of a reshuffle aimed at refurbishing his...

Kazakhstan/ISIS – Kazakh efforts to repatriate ISIL fighters should be replicated (Talgat Kaliyev, Al Jazeera)

It feels like a long time ago that we fought the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS). The...

Iraq – Basra protests erupt as power cuts hit scorching Iraq (Azhar Al-Rubaie, Al Jazeera)

As summer temperatures reached scorching levels, hundreds of Iraqis poured into the streets to protest widespread power outages in Baghdad and the country’s southern...

Israel – Israel swears in Isaac Herzog as 11th president (Al Jazeera)

Isaac Herzog pledged to heal deep divisions in Israeli society as he took the oath of office to become Israel’s 11th president. With one hand...

OPEC/Saudi Arabia/UAE – Saudi-UAE rivalry takes shape amid OPEC spat and competing hubs (Sean Mathews, Al Jazeera)

The United Arab Emirates’ refusal to agree to a Saudi-backed plan to boost oil output is the latest in an emerging rivalry playing out...

Qatar/Lebanon – Qatar to provide aid for Lebanese troops as crisis deepens (Al Jazeera)

Qatar has said it will provide the Lebanese armed forces with 70 tonnes of food a month as Lebanon seeks assistance in the face...

Gaza – Israeli bombardment severely weakened Gaza economy: Report (Al Jazeera)

The socioeconomic situation in the Gaza Strip has been severely weakened as a result of the Israeli offensive in May, a report (PDF) by...

Saudi Arabia/Egypt/Sudan/Ethiopia – Saudi Arabia supports Egypt, Sudan ‘water rights’ in dam dispute (Al Jazeera)

Saudi Arabia has thrown its weight behind Egypt and Sudan in their bitter dispute with Ethiopia over a massive hydropower dam built by the...

Colombia – Colombia court accuses soldiers of killing 120 civilians (Al Jazeera)

A Colombian court has accused 10 members of the military and a civilian of forcibly disappearing 24 people and murdering at least 120 civilians...

Nicaragua – More opposition leaders detained in Nicaragua crackdown (Al Jazeera)

Nicaraguan authorities have detained at least five more opposition leaders, as a sweeping crackdown by President Daniel Ortega’s government in advance of November elections...

OPEC/Saudi Arabia/UAE – From Saudi-UAE spat to 2020 price war, OPEC drama is nothing new (Al Jazeera)

The ongoing spat between the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia is just the latest dispute in the decades-long history of the Organization of...

Ghana – Ghana opposition supporters march against killings, lawlessness (Al Jazeera)

Hundreds of opposition supporters marched through the streets of Ghana’s capital Accra demonstrating against what they described as rising insecurity and lawlessness since President...

Darfur – ’The revolution was hijacked’: Inside the conflict in Darfur (Jérôme Tubiana, Al Jazeera)

On the streets of El Geneina, the capital of West Darfur – nestled between private houses mostly made of earth – are large, concrete...

OPEC/USA – As OPEC+ talks stall, US shale producers hedge their bets (Sheela Tobben, Kevin Crowley and David Wethe, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera)

As soon as OPEC+ negotiations fell apart on Monday, stoking fears of a supply squeeze and sending oil prices soaring, U.S. shale executives began...

Iran/USA/Europe – US, European powers condemn Iran uranium metal decision (Al Jazeera)

The United States and European powers have condemned Iran’s decision to produce uranium metal enriched to 20 percent purity but the US said the...

OPEC/USA – Biden administration ‘encouraged’ by ongoing OPEC talks (Jordan Fabian and Josh Wingrove, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera)

Biden administration officials are “encouraged” by ongoing OPEC talks and have spoken with officials in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in hopes...