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Save articles to read later and create your own reading list.William Lai Ching-te from the governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has won Taiwan’s presidential election, despite warnings from China – which claims Taiwan as part of its territory – not to vote for him.The DPP d...
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Al Jazeera and News AgenciesChinese military officials have told their US counterparts that Beijing will “never compromise” on the issue of Taiwan, the self-ruled island that China claims as its own.The United States and China wrapped up two days of military talks in Washington, DC on Tu...
At least five police officers have been killed and nearly two dozen others wounded after an explosive device targeted their vehicle during a polio vaccination drive in northwestern Pakistan.Officials told Al Jazeera the blast took place early morning on Monday in Bajaur, a tribal district in Khyber ...
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At least 100 journalists have been killed since Israel’s war on Gaza began on October 7, according to new figures released by the government media office in Gaza.Palestinian journalist Muhammed Abu Hweidy was the latest to be killed in an Israeli air raid on his home in the east of Gaza City o...
Russia’s upper house of parliament has voted to set the date for the country’s next presidential election for March 17, 2024, potentially moving President Vladimir Putin closer to a fifth term in office.Members of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly voted unanimously on Thursd...
The Israeli army has arrested the director of al-Shifa Hospital, the largest medical complex in the Gaza Strip, according to a doctor and media reports.Muhammad Abu Salmiya was arrested along with several other “senior doctors”, Khalid Abu Samra, a department chief at the hospital, told ...
About 90,000 people have been displaced in Myanmar due to the intensifying conflict between the country’s military rulers and an alliance of ethnic armed groups, the United Nations said.“As of 9 November, almost 50,000 people in northern Shan were forced into displacement,” the Uni...
European scientists say 2023 is on track to be the hottest year on record after temperatures soared across the planet in October.The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), the EU’s climate monitor, said on Wednesday that October was 0.4 degrees Celsius (0.7 degrees Fahrenheit) hotter than th...
More than 10,000 people have been killed in 31 days of relentless Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian health officials, with no signs of a ceasefire in the besieged enclave.In a statement on Monday, Gaza’s Ministry of Health said the death toll has risen to at least 10,...
Thousands of Palestinians from Gaza, previously working in Israel and the occupied West Bank and then detained by Israel, are being pushed into the war-torn enclave, according to media reports.Footage showed some of the workers returning on Friday through the Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) crossing ...
The United States House of Representatives has passed a Republican plan providing $14.5bn in military aid for Israel, setting up a partisan clash over the usually bipartisan issue of backing the staunch US ally.The plan, which is funded by cuts to the Internal Revenue Service, passed on Thursday by ...
Israel’s military has announced that its forces have surrounded Gaza’s main city while rejecting growing international calls for a ceasefire to halt bloodshed in the besieged Palestinian territory.Israeli military spokesperson Daniel Hagari said on Thursday that Gaza City has been encirc...
Niger has announced the reopening of its borders with several of its neighbours a week after a coup that has been condemned by foreign powers and raised fears of a wider conflict in West Africa’s Sahel region.“The land and air borders with Algeria, Burkina Faso, Mali, Libya and Chad are ...
The death toll from a massive suicide bombing that targeted an election rally for a pro-Taliban Muslim leader has risen to 54, as Pakistan held funerals and the government promised to hunt down those behind the attack.While no one immediately claimed responsibility for Sunday’s bombing, which ...
Army chief says in a statement the decision was necessary to avoid fighting within the armed forces.Niger’s army has declared allegiance to the defence and security forces that overthrew President Mohamed Bazoum, according to a statement signed by Abdou Sidikou Issa, the army chief of staff.Th...
Three Palestinians have been shot dead by the Israeli military in the northern occupied West Bank, the latest deaths in a surge of violence in the territory since early last year.“Three Palestinians have been killed by Israeli bullets in Nablus,” the Palestinian Health Ministry said on T...
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For George Matus, a 55-year-old Argentina fan from Buenos Aires, Diego Maradona is a god who now sits in the heavens above, and Lionel Messi is his messiah on the football pitch. It has been 36 years since Argentina last won the football World Cup, but the magic of 1986 lives on in the memories of M...
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Mohammed Kudus turned into a key member of the Black Stars since scoring on his international debut against South Africa in a 2021 AFCON qualifier and seemed set to be influential at the Qatar 2022 World Cup.In Nima, in the dense neighbourhood of Accra that he calls home, Mohammed Kudus commands god...
Iran’s football federation says it has lodged a complaint to FIFA over the removal of the word “Allah” from the Islamic Republic’s flag on social media posts by its counterpart in the United States, ahead of an upcoming World Cup game between the two countries.“In an un...
Football fans in Qatar have appeared to hit back at the German team’s World Cup protest over the ban on “One Love” armbands by holding pictures of Germany’s former team player Mesut Ozil who became a target of recist abuse in Germany. The group of fans at the Spain vs G...
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