UK, Canada impose sanctions on Belarus’s Lukashenko
Al Jazeera News :The United Kingdom and Canada have imposed travel bans and asset freezes on Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, his son and other senior...
International
Jamal Khashoggi’s rights group launched 2yrs after his murder
Al Jazeera News :A rights organisation established by slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi months before his controversial killing in 2018 at the hands of a...
First Black Muslim festival to launch amid anti-racism uprising
Al Jazeera News :Amid a global anti-racist movement following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Na’ima B Robert hosted an online conversation about what...
Challenges in Iraq mount a year after anti-gov’t protests erupted
Al Jazeera News :In October 2019, unprecedented protests demanded the fall of Iraq’s ruling class. One year on, with a new government in place and...
WHO to probe sex abuse by aid workers in DRC amid Ebola outbreak
Al Jazeera News :The World Health Organization (WHO) has promised to investigate allegations of sexual abuse by people identified as health and aid officials in...
Syrian amputee gets new of life from designing prosthetics
Reuters, Aleppo Province :Abdelmawla Ibrahim was only 16 when he felt his life was over. While driving through a checkpoint with his family in northern...
Zuma: South Africa anti-graft inquiry is biased against me
South Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma has requested the head of a commission investigating corruption during his presidency to step aside over alleged “bias”, his...
Macron meets exiled Belarus opposition leader, promises help
Reuters :French President Emmanuel Macron became on Tuesday the highest-profile Western leader to visit the exiled opposition leader of Belarus, pledging European support for the...
Pakistan, Afghanistan shake hands as they aim to end mistrust
Al Jazeera News :Pakistan and Afghanistan have reaffirmed their commitment to closer ties and the Afghan peace process, as the chairman of Afghanistan’s High Council...
Coronavirus deaths rise above a million in `agonizing` global milestone
Reuters :The global coronavirus death toll rose past a million on Tuesday, according to a Reuters tally, a grim statistic in a pandemic that has...
Iran, Iraq agree to boost ties in high-level meetings
Al Jazeera News :Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein has concluded a two-day diplomatic trip to Tehran, during which he met with top Iranian officials to...
Pompeo visits Greece in bid to ease East Med tensions
Al Jazeera News :US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has begun a two-day visit to Greece for talks aimed at de-escalating tensions in the eastern...