Ethiopia’s government and rebels from the country’s Tigray region say they have accepted an invitation by the African Union to participate in peace talks in South Africa. The African Union (AU) invited the rival parties to negotiations aimed at ending a two-year conflict that has […]
Surging violence and insecurity have turned Haiti into a “time bomb for cholera”, the UNICEF representative in the country told Al Jazeera, as aid groups and local authorities ramp up their response to an outbreak in Port-au-Prince. In an interview on Wednesday, Bruno Maes said […]
The United States government has said it will expand the size of a historical site memorialising the massacre of more than 230 Native Americans in Sand Creek, Colorado by US soldiers in the 1860s. In a ceremony on Wednesday, US Secretary of the Interior Deb […]
New research by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) shows that sustained wage-price spirals are historically rare, and recent sharp interest rate hikes by central banks are likely to help prevent high inflation expectations from becoming entrenched. In an analytical chapter released on Wednesday from the […]
US President Joe Biden has extended the major disaster declaration for Florida to 60 days, which allows the United States federal government to fully cover the cost of debris removal and sheltering in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian that battered the state last week, destroying […]
Opposition parties in Bosnia’s Serb entity have formally called for a recount of ballots cast over the weekend during general elections, after accusing longtime Serb leader Milorad Dodik of fraud. The vote held in Republika Srpska (RS) should be annulled due to the discovery of […]
The deaths of dozens of children in The Gambia from kidney injuries may be linked to contaminated cough and cold syrups made by an Indian drug manufacturer, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters that the UN agency […]
Many residents of Florida whose homes were destroyed by Hurricane Ian are now facing the arduous task of rebuilding without insurance – or paying even steeper prices in an insurance market that was already struggling. Wind and storm-surge losses from the hurricane could reach between […]
The family of Halyna Hutchins, the cinematographer shot and killed by Alec Baldwin on the set of the film, Rust, have reached a settlement in a lawsuit against the actor and the movie’s producers. Hutchins was killed and director Joel Souza was injured when Baldwin […]
A Rwandan court has acquitted three journalists who had been detained for four years on charges of spreading false information with the intention of inciting violence and tarnishing the country’s image. “There is no evidence to prove that their publication incited violence,” Speciose Nyirabagande, one […]
