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The former US first lady said she had never seen former President Joe Biden act the way he did on the 2024 debate stage.

Trump administration has sought to pressure international officials who scrutinise reported abuses by Israeli forces.

Uganda has closed its border with neighbouring DR Congo for four weeks in an effort to contain an Ebola outbreak.

ListenListen (9 mins) Save Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share facebookxwhatsapp-strokecopylink googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Malaria cases jumped to 65,399 between January and April 2026, up from 17,000 recorded during the same period in 2024, according to Zimbabwe’s Health Ministry [Farai Shawn Matiashe/Al Jazeera] By Farai Shawn Matiashe Published On 28 […]

ListenListen (3 mins) Save Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share facebookxwhatsapp-strokecopylink googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo An advertisement promoting betting on the Polymarket platform shows candidates Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo before the New York City mayoral election in New York, the US, on November 4, 2025 [Olga Fedorova/AP Photo] By Adam […]

Credit: Rodion Kutsaiev on Unsplash Starting September 1, 2026, Tajikistan will tax transactions routed through electronic wallets, mobile apps, and QR-code payments. The Agency for Innovation and Digital Technologies, which announced the measure, cast it as a pilot project to pull unregistered entrepreneurs into the tax net. The relevant order was signed on April 1 […]

The Pharping Power Plant, commissioned in 1911, was one of Asia’s earliest hydropower plants. Credit: Sujitabh Chaudhary on Unsplash Nepal aspires to become the “hydropower battery of South Asia,” targeting an installed capacity of 28.5 gigawatts (GW) by 2035, with 13.5 GW planned for domestic use and 15 GW for export to India and Bangladesh. […]

U.S. President Donald Trump participates in a welcome ceremony with President Xi Jinping of the People’s Republic of China at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, May 14, 2026. Credit: Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok From May 13 to May 15 the world closely watched while the most consequential diplomatic […]

U.S. Army soldiers and Republic of Korea Army soldiers don protective masks during Counter-Weapons of Mass Destruction training in South Korea, Aug. 27, 2025. Credit: U.S. Army photo by 1st Lt. Jonathan Sauls This four-part series examines the debate over wartime operational control (OPCON) transfer from four angles: the structural origins of the impasse (Part […]

Credit: Russian Presidential Press and Information Service Since not long after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the democratic world has largely watched passively as China has been the main enabler of Moscow’s war effort. Despite knowing about Russia’s reliance on China, the world’s inaction boils down to the collective dependence on China’s control […]