Category: Aljazeera

Darwish, who sought medical treatment in Egypt and Jordan since his injury, was told on Sunday he had lost vision in his left eye [Screenshot/Twitter] For the second time in less than three months, a Palestinian photojournalist has lost his eye after being targeted by Israeli forces during

Riot police fired tear gas and arrested several protesters near a park after demonstrators attacked plain-clothes officers [Ng Han Guan/AP] Clashes between protesters and police have broken out in Hong Kong, cutting short a rally after thousands gathered at a park to call for greater democratic freedoms in the Chinese-ruled city.

Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians is a deliberate act of humiliation, according to a former top United Nations human rights official, who stepped down from his post at the end of last year. He has described the situation for Palestinians as “appalling” and “indescribable”. Al Jazeera’s James Bays reports.

Following Washington’s decision to withdraw from the deal in May 2018, Iran began dropping its commitments [File: Christian Hartmann/Reuters] British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and French President Emmanuel Macron reiterated their commitment on Sunday to the Iran nuclear deal and agreed a long-term framework was needed. The leaders’

Iraqis angry at the government’s slow pace of reforms have ramped up their protests, sealing the streets of capital Baghdad with burning tyres and threatening further escalation unless their demands are met. Protesters on Sunday blocked roads in Iraq’s capital and in the holy city of Najaf a day before their deadline

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Brigadier General Esmail Qaani, centre, attending memorial for Qassem Soleimani, former commander of IRGC’s Quds Force [File: Anadolu] Within hours of the United States assassination of Qassem Soleimani, a top general in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the country’s Supreme Leader named a successor to head the elite

Mourning relatives, airport staff and government officials gathered at Kyiv’s Boryspil International Airport [Gleb Garanich/Reuters] The bodies of the 11 Ukrainian citizens who died when a passenger plane was accidentally shot down by Iran this month have returned to Ukraine. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy looked on on Sunday as

A months-long offensive by forces loyal to renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar to seize Libya’s capital from the UN-recognised government has killed hundreds of people and drawn increasing foreign involvement. As world powers push efforts for a ceasefire, with a UN-backed peace conference held in Berlin on Sunday, here is

Iranian General Qassem Soleimani was assassinated on January 3, 2020 in Baghdad, Iraq [File: AP/Maya Alleruzzo] A plethora of articles has been published in recent days on the US air strike that killed Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and Iraqi militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. Many authors claim that it “is

Since 2017, libraries in Australia have stopped charging fines when their customers return books late. Initially conceived of because management realised it cost more in administrative costs to manage the fines than the money made, the new policy has increased the number of items returned and people using libraries. Al

President Azali Assouman (L) urged the opposition parties to drop the boycott threat in the run-up to the vote [Ibrahim Youssouf/AFP] Voters in Comoros are casting their ballots in the first round of a parliamentary election boycotted by opposition parties. Most voting stations in the Indian Ocean archipelago’s capital,