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(From left) Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif holding copies of the Mecca Pact after they signed the joint defense agreement in Mecca, August 7, 2026. Credit: Facebook / Shehbaz Sharif On August 7, the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Türkiye, and Pakistan signed the Mecca […]

Kalbinur Sidik addressing the 15th Annual Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy on May 17, 2023. Credit: Optimum Publishing International “When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out ‘stop!’ When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible.” German playwright Bertolt Brecht’s observation on the political apathy that engulfed Germany in the 1930s […]

Credit: Prime Minister’s Office of Japan Eighty-one years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and Nagasaki on August 9, Japan is confronting an increasingly difficult contradiction: how to uphold its identity as the only country to have suffered atomic attack in wartime while strengthening deterrence against an increasingly formidable group of […]

Credit: Photo by Uladzislau Petrushkevich on Unsplash Hackers have allegedly posted the personal data of 15 million Kazakhstani citizens for sale on the dark web. If confirmed, this would mark the second major breach of Kazakhstani citizen data in a little over a year. According to RFE/RL, the Mash Telegram channel, which the outlet characterized […]

Record-low water levels on the Danube near Prahovo, Serbia, have exposed the wrecks of dozens of Nazi-era vessels

ListenListen (3 mins) Save Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share facebookxwhatsapp-strokecopylink googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo US President Donald Trump speaks during the signing of an executive order at the White House in Washington, DC, on August 10, 2026 [Bonnie Cash/EPA] By Hoda Sherif Published On 12 Aug 202612 Aug 2026 United […]

Live coverage and text updates from our commentary stream as PSG’s Dembele, Doue and Barcola target more trophies.

ListenListen (2 mins) Save Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share facebookxwhatsapp-strokecopylink googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Trump speaks alongside Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr after signing an executive order on childhood vaccinations at the White House on August 10, 2026 [Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images/AFP] By Al Jazeera Staff, AFP and Reuters Published […]

ListenListen (6 mins) Save Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share facebookxwhatsapp-strokecopylink googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Toggle Play War on Iran: Phase II: Day 32 By Maziar Motamedi Published On 12 Aug 202612 Aug 2026 Tehran, Iran – Shortly after meeting China’s ambassador, Iran’s new security chief left no room for doubt […]

ListenListen (4 mins) Save Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share facebookxwhatsapp-strokecopylink googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Rescue workers search for survivors in collapsed buildings in Cali on August 12, 2026, two days after an earthquake struck western Colombia [Raquel Cunha/Reuters] By Al Jazeera Staff, AFP and The Associated Press Published On 12 […]