Tag: Al Jazeera

Turkey – Turkey’s inflation hits two-year high with jump to 17.5 percent (Al Jazeera)

Turkish annual inflation has jumped to a two-year high of 17.53 percent in June, exceeding a forecast of 17 percent and continuing an extended...

Iran – Iran’s only nuclear plant back online after two-week shutdown (Al Jazeera)

Iran’s only nuclear power plant has been brought back online after two weeks off-grid amid conflicting reports over an apparent regular maintenance operation. Bushehr plant’s...

Suez Canal – Settlement reached to release ship that blocked Suez Canal (Al Jazeera)

The Suez Canal Authority says it has reached an agreement to settle a financial dispute with the owners of a hulking container ship that blocked...

Norway – KLP fund divests from firms linked to Israeli settlements (Al Jazeera)

Norway’s largest pension fund announced it has divested assets in 16 companies for their links to Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, including...

Myanmar – Myanmar military kills at least 25 people in raid on central town (Al Jazeera)

Myanmar’s armed forces killed at least 25 people in a confrontation with opponents of the military at a town in the centre of the...

Chile – Mapuche woman to lead body drafting Chile’s new constitution (Al Jazeera)

The architects of Chile’s new constitution have chosen an Indigenous Mapuche woman to lead the process, as the country’s constitutional assembly was inaugurated on Sunday in...

Chile – Chile begins ‘beautiful challenge’ of drafting new constitution (Odette Magnet, Al Jazeera)

A feeling of widespread anticipation hangs over Chile, as the country’s newly elected constitutional assembly will be inaugurated on Sunday. The assembly – made up of a...

Afghanistan – Taliban seizes key districts in Afghanistan as gov’t forces flee (Al Jazeera)

The Taliban’s march through northern Afghanistan gained momentum overnight with the capture of several districts from fleeing Afghan forces, several hundred of whom fled...

South Africa – Jacob Zuma compares South Africa judges with apartheid rulers (Al Jazeera)

Former South African President Jacob Zuma has told hundreds of his supporters he is appealing a 15-month prison sentence and lashed out at the...

Ethiopia – TPLF lays out conditions for truce talks with Ethiopian gov’t (Al Jazeera)

The rebel leadership of Ethiopia’s Tigray region has demanded a full withdrawal of Eritrean troops and the fighters of the neighbouring Ethiopian state of...

Ethiopia’s Renaissance Dam – Has diplomacy failed? (Al Jazeera)

The United Nations Security Council will likely meet this week to discuss the continuing dispute between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia over a giant dam...

USA/Iran/Israel – Standing up to the US on the Iran deal is not an option (Akiva Eldar, Al Jazeera)

United States President Joe Biden’s expected signature on an amended nuclear agreement with Iran puts Israel’s new government before a strategic dilemma. It essentially...

UAE/OPEC – UAE rebuffs plan by OPEC, allies to extend production pact (Al Jazeera)

The United Arab Emirates has pushed back against a plan by the OPEC oil cartel and allied producing countries to extend the global pact...

Israel/Palestine – Israel arrests Palestinian rights lawyer after anti-Abbas protest (Al Jazeera)

A Palestinian human rights lawyer has been arrested by Israeli forces after taking part in a protest in the occupied West Bank against Palestinian...

US/Mexico Border – Indigenous asylum seekers struggle for interpreters in US (Luis Chaparro, Al Jazeera)

For Claudia, the journey from her small Guatemalan village to the US-Mexico border was complicated by the fact she could speak only her native...

Burkina Faso – Burkina Faso protesters demand gov’t response to rising bloodshed (Al Jazeera)

Thousands of people have taken to the streets of Burkina Faso, demanding a stronger response to rising bloodshed after a massacre last month killed...