Five American prisoners and five Iranian prisoners have been released as part of a high-profile prisoner exchange, with all of the Americans and two of the Iranians arriving in the Qatari capital Doha. The American […]
Colombo, Sri Lanka – A group of young Sri Lankan men in bright shirts danced with abandon on a hot and humid afternoon as a band belted out papare, a lively genre of Sri Lankan […]
Jericho, occupied West Bank – Tell es-Sultan has been deemed a World Heritage Site in Palestine, with the United Nations declaring it the “oldest fortified city in the world”. Iyad Hamdan, director general of the […]
Washington, DC – The prisoner swap between the United States and Iran is a step towards de-escalating tensions between the two countries, experts say, but it does not point to an imminent thaw in frosty […]
Former football coach Barry Bennell has died in prison, aged 69, in the United Kingdom while serving a 34-year sentence for sexual offences, the Ministry of Justice said. A spokesperson for the prison said on […]
At least six people have been killed in a suspected drone attack on an airport near the city of Sulaymaniyah in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq, official sources have told Al Jazeera. Al […]
The day after my father died in August in Washington, DC, I was taking out the trash in my parents’ apartment building when I was intercepted by a garrulous 60-year-old janitor from El Salvador – […]
President Emmanuel Macron has said that France’s envoy to Niger is living like a hostage in the French embassy and accused military rulers of blocking food deliveries to the mission. The ambassador is living off […]
Poland, Slovakia and Hungary will impose their own restrictions on Ukrainian grain imports, the governments said after the European Commission decided not to extend a ban affecting Ukraine’s five EU neighbours. Restrictions imposed by the […]
Colombo, Sri Lanka – Until a few months ago, SMS Senaratne struggled to put three meals on the table for his family. “When the economic crisis struck the country two years ago it took away […]
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