The top United States military officer travelled to Poland and talked with his Ukrainian counterpart face to face for the first time as Russia’s war on Ukraine nears the one-year mark. US Army General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, met for […]
The youngest of Shah Ibrahim Shahin’s children sit huddled next to each other on the thin “toushaks” – traditional Afghan floor mattresses – trying to stay warm amid freezing weather. The adults, wrapped in thread-bare woollen clothes, surround them in a small chilly room, which […]
China’s population has declined for the first time in more than six decades. The birth rate slowed to 6.77 babies per 1,000 people in 2022. Compounding the issue is that deaths outnumbered births. Economists warn that the low birth rate and rapidly ageing population will […]
United States President Joe Biden and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte have concluded a meeting at the White House, with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, protections of supply chains, and an upcoming Summit for Democracy – hosted by the two countries along with Costa Rica, […]
Several aid organisations have restored some operations in Afghanistan after they received assurances from Taliban-run authorities that women could work in areas such as health, in spite of restrictions last month barring female NGO workers. The International Rescue Committee (IRC), Save the Children and CARE […]
Pakistani foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has accused the previous government of Prime Minister Imran Khan of following a “wrong approach” towards the armed group Pakistan Taliban (Tahreek-e-Taliban, or TTP). “Its policy of appeasement towards the Taliban has created problems for the people of Pakistan,” […]
Russia became the third-largest oil supplier to India in 2022, making up about 15 percent of total purchases, dragging down OPEC’s share to the lowest in more than a decade, the Reuters news agency has reported, citing data from industry sources. Refiners in India, the […]
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has been hauled away and detained during a protest near a German village being razed to make way for a coal mine expansion. Thunberg has been in Germany for several days to support demonstrations against the demolition of Luetzerath, which […]
The United States has imposed a raft of visa restrictions on Belarusian officials over the government’s “continued repression” of opposition figures, including democracy icon Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya and Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski. The restrictions announced on Tuesday target 25 individuals, bringing the total number […]
Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, has accused Russia of carrying out “atrocious war crimes” in Ukraine and called for a special tribunal to be formed to investigate and prosecute them. Speaking to Al Jazeera on Tuesday at the World Economic Forum […]
