Articles by Al Jazeera News

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Haiti Crisis: Is a Gang-led Coup Next?
Al Jazeera News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

5 Mar 2024 – Haiti is in chaos after a massive prison break and gangs calling for the resignation of its prime minister. How did it get here?

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Jupiter-Sized Objects in Orion Nebula Baffle Scientists
Al Jazeera News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

2 Oct 2023 – The new entities, nicknamed ‘JuMBOs’, are neither stars nor planets. And they shouldn’t exist, researchers say.

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Pentagon Documents Leak: Here’s What You Need to Know
Al Jazeera News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Apr 2023

11 Apr 2023 – Documents posted online appeared to reveal details of how US agencies spy on other nations, including allies.

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Australia Reverses Recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s Capital
Al Jazeera News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Oct 2022

18 Oct 2022 – Australia says it will no longer recognise West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, reversing a decision taken by the previous administration in 2018. Foreign Minister Penny Wong says government reiterates commitment to two-state solution.

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Brazil Votes in Tense Election: Bolsonaro vs. Lula
Al Jazeera News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Oct 2022

2 Oct 2022 – Divisive polls head into second round after far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro did better than polls had suggested. The second-round vote will take place on October 30.

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Kishida Elected as Japan’s PM, Calls Election for October 31
Al Jazeera News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Oct 2021

4 Oct 2021 – Fumio Kishida was formally elected as Japan’s prime minister today. A 64-year-old former foreign minister with an image as a consensus builder, he has called a parliamentary election for 31 Oct and promised to bolster the country’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.

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Tokyo Doctors Call for Olympics to Be Cancelled over COVID Surge
Al Jazeera News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 May 2021

18 May 2021 – A top medical organisation in Japan has thrown its weight behind calls to cancel the Tokyo Olympics, saying hospitals are already overwhelmed as the country battles a spike in coronavirus infections less than three months from the start of the Summer Games.

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Pompeo: US Rejects UN Database of Israeli Settlement Companies
Al Jazeera News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Feb 2020

13 Feb 2020 – US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo today said the US government would not furnish any information for a database of companies operating in the occupied West Bank that the United Nations’ human rights office released. “The United States has long opposed the creation or release of this database,” he said in a statement.

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Trump Plan Will ‘Finish Off Palestinian Cause’, PM Warns
Al Jazeera News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Feb 2020

Trump on Monday [27 Jan] held separate meetings with right-wing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his election rival, Benny Gantz, in Washington, DC over his long-delayed proposal that has been kept secret. “We reject it and we demand the international community not be a partner to it because it contradicts the basics of international law and inalienable Palestinian rights,” Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said.

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Iran Nuclear Deal Stays Alive after Talks, Avoids Sanctions Blow
Al Jazeera News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Dec 2019

6 Dec 2019 – Today’s three-hour meeting in Vienna came as tensions continue to rise with Tehran rolling back its commitments under the deal following Washington’s withdrawal last year and imposition of “maximum pressure” sanctions. “They try to keep Iran in the deal but then take no action against America’s bullying and pressure,” a senior Iranian official said, according to Reuters.

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UN Calls for Sanctions, Arms Embargo against Myanmar Army
Joshua Carroll – Al Jazeera News, 12 Aug 2019

6 Aug 2019 – A week after his soldiers began storming villages in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, slaughtering thousands as they burned people alive in their homes and raped women and children, the country’s military chief invited local businesses to a donation ceremony to support the bloody campaign. UN panel calls for international community to sever all ties with country’s military.

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Binyavanga Wainaina, Kenyan Author and Activist, Dies Aged 48
Al Jazeera News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 May 2019

22 May 2019 – Kenyan author and activist Binyavanga Wainaina, winner of the 2002 Caine Prize and once listed as one of Time Magazine’s ‘most influential people’ has died at the age of 48 at a Nairobi hospital following a short illness. Following the passage of a series of anti-gay laws across Africa in 2014, Wainaina publicly announced that he was gay. “I am, for anybody confused or in doubt, a homosexual. Gay, and quite happy,” he tweeted.

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U.S. ‘War on Terror’ Has Killed over Half a Million People: Study
Al Jazeera News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Nov 2018

The report published on 3 Nov 2018 by the Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs put the death toll between 480,000 and 507,000. It states that between 182,272 and 204,575 civilians have been killed in Iraq; 38,480 in Afghanistan; and 23,372 in Pakistan. Nearly 7,000 US troops were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan in the same period.

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Walk or Die: Algeria Abandons 13,000 Refugees in the Sahara
Al Jazeera News– TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jul 2018

Associated Press report details witness accounts of migrants and refugees from Africa left to die in the Sahara Desert.

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Israel Approves More Than 2,000 Settlement Units in West Bank
Al Jazeera News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Jun 2018

31 May 2018 – The Israeli government has approved the construction of 2,070 new settlement units in the occupied West Bank, local media reported. Since US President Donald Trump came to office, Israel has approved construction of more than 14,000 settlement units.

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Doping Ban against 28 Russian Athletes Overturned
Al Jazeera News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2018

1 Feb 2018 – In a decision issued today, the Court for Arbitration for Sport said it “unanimously found” that the evidence presented against 28 athletes were “found to be insufficient to establish” that doping rules were violated. With the decision, the sanctions imposed against the athletes are “annulled” and their individual medal results in the 2014 Sochi Winter Games are “reinstated”.

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Kofi Annan Commission Urges Myanmar/Burma to End Rohingya Restrictions
Al Jazeera News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Sep 2017

24 Aug 2017 – Myanmar must scrap restrictions on movement and citizenship for its persecuted Muslim Rohingya minority if it wants to avoid fuelling extremism and bring peace to Rakhine state, a commission led by former UN chief Kofi Annan said today. It warns against using force and ignoring concerns of world’s ‘single biggest stateless’ community.

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Myanmar Troops Open Fire on Civilians Fleeing Attacks
Al Jazeera News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Aug 2017

26 Aug 2017 – Myanmar soldiers opened fire on fleeing Rohingya civilians – mostly women and children – as they attempted to cross the border into Bangladesh and escape surging violence. Bangladeshi border guards say troops fired mortars and machine guns at Rohingya civilians trying to escape bloodshed.

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Child Soldiers Reloaded: The Privatisation of War
Al Jazeera News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 May 2017

1 May 2017 – From opportunistic guns for hire on the fringe of domestic conflicts to a global force operating within a multibillion-dollar industry – the private military sector seems to be flourishing. How private companies recruit former child soldiers for military operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.

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Circle of Poison
Al Jazeera News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Dec 2016

A look at the powerful pesticide industry, its effect on the developing world and how small farmers are fighting back.

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Palestinian Villages ‘Get Two Hours of Water a Week’
Eloise Bollack – Al Jazeera News, 7 Nov 2016

Israeli control over water supplies in the occupied West Bank has left Palestinians desperate.

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Gaza-Bound Flotilla Sails Off from Spain’s Barcelona
Al Jazeera News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Sep 2016

A new flotilla of international activists has left for the Gaza Strip from the Spanish city of Barcelona, hoping to break a nearly decade-long Israeli blockade. Two sailing boats with 11 women on board each sailed off on Wednesday [14 Sep] under the banner “The Women’s Boat to Gaza”.

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