Bagua, Peru – In this isolated jungle region some 1,200km north of the Peruvian capital, hundreds of people are still homeless after a huge earthquake last November triggered landslides and flooding. Communities along the turbulent Utcubamba and Maranon rivers lost everything: their homes, livelihoods, schools […]
Al Jazeera Digital and Al Jazeera English (AJE) won a record six Drum Online Media Awards and two “highly commended” second places for a record total of eight awards on April 29 in London. The awards marked the first time that AJ Digital and AJE […]
The sudden death of longtime President Idriss Deby in April last year left a power vacuum in Chad that has led to political upheaval. His son, army General Mahamat Idriss Deby, soon took over and promised to hold elections in 18 months after a national […]
Hundreds of people have protested in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) against a proposal to put the overseas British territory under the direct control of the United Kingdom. The rally on Monday came days after the BVI premier was arrested in the US city of […]
Wind-whipped flames raced across pine-covered mountainsides in the US state of New Mexico on Monday, forcing residents to flee their homes and leading to the evacuation of the state’s psychiatric hospital. Hundreds of households in an historic city in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains […]
A rocket attack hit a dwelling and a church in the city of Odesa in southwestern Ukraine, killing a child and injuring another, officials have said. More than 100 civilians have been evacuated from the Mariupol steel plant after weeks of bombardment, Ukrainian President Volodymyr […]
The wage gap typically costs Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander women with full-time jobs $3,000 per year, according to a new report by the National Women’s Law Center. The paper published Monday further extrapolates what that means for women over the course of their careers: “An AANHPI woman starting her […]
Spirit Airlines said Monday that it still supports Frontier Airlines’ $2.9bn takeover bid for the airline, saying it was more likely to win regulatory approval than JetBlue’s competing $3.6bn offer. Spirit said antitrust regulators are unlikely to approve JetBlue’s offer because of JetBlue’s alliance with […]
The recent death of an Egyptian economic researcher requires a “thorough, transparent and credible” investigation, the US Department of State has said, after rights groups raised concern over Ayman Hadhoud’s death in a state mental health facility. “We are deeply disturbed by reports surrounding the […]
Thousands of people have fled a northern Iraqi town amid fierce clashes between the army and a militia linked to a Kurdish separatist group, the military and local Iraqi Kurdish officials said. At least 3,000 people left Sinjar and its surrounding areas on Monday and […]
