Women’s rights have come under attack since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in August last year. Girls have been excluded from schools and women’s employment rights have been limited. The Taliban say they have acted in the national interest. But with the country already […]
The governor of the US state of Arizona, which shares a border with Mexico, has agreed to remove shipping containers erected as a makeshift barrier on the border in defiance of the federal government. According to court documents filed on Wednesday, Arizona’s Republican Governor Doug […]
Moscow has said that Ukraine acquiring Patriot missiles from the United States, announced during President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s visit to Washington, will not help settle the conflict or prevent Russia from achieving its goals. Though the Patriot air defence system is widely regarded as advanced, President […]
The protests that exposed cracks in China’s middle-class dream Article source: https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/longform/2022/12/22/the-protests-that-exposed-cracks-in-chinas-middle-class-dream
Wearing a white lab coat, a screwdriver in hand, Antonio Martinez Rivas examines a remote-controlled car at his workshop in Madrid, a “toy hospital” that is about to close its doors after 50 years of repairs. His bespectacled eyes focused on the task in hand, […]
Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappe gave us a World Cup final for the ages at Lusail Stadium on Sunday night. It felt fitting that two of football’s biggest protagonists took centre stage on the biggest night of the tournament. But away from the spotlight the […]
Spain’s lower house of parliament has passed a law allowing people over the age of 16 to change their legally registered gender without any medical supervision, putting the country on track to become one of the first few to allow transgender people to change their […]
A coalition of armed groups in northern Mali has pulled out of long-running peace talks based on a 2015 Algiers accord because of what they call a lack of political will on the part of the country’s military government. The coalition, called the Permanent Strategic […]
Turkey appreciates Sweden’s steps so far as it seeks approval to join NATO but it is not even halfway through fulfilling the commitments it made to secure Ankara’s support for its membership, the Turkish foreign minister says. Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Thursday that a Swedish […]
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has warned the Taliban that the United States will impose “costs” on the group if it does not reverse its recent ban on women attending university in Afghanistan. Blinken said on Thursday that the Taliban-led government in Kabul will […]
