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By Tafi Mhaka Al Jazeera columnist. Published On 11 Aug 202611 Aug 2026 ListenListen (11 mins) Save Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share facebookxwhatsapp-strokecopylink googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Amazon Leo is displayed during the Delivering the Future EMEA 2026 event at Amazon’s LCY3 fulfilment centre in Dartford, Britain, June 4, 2026. […]

ListenListen (7 mins) Save Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share facebookxwhatsapp-strokecopylink googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo This picture taken on March 31, 2026 shows a view of the Erbil city, capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq [Safin Hamid/AFP] By Sherko Raouf Published On 11 Aug 202611 Aug 2026 Erbil, […]

ListenListen (6 mins) Save Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share facebookxwhatsapp-strokecopylink googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo play videoplay video Video Duration 03 minutes 20 seconds play-arrow03:20 Former Assad official faces historic trial over the Syrian revolution crackdown. By Sarah Shamim Published On 11 Aug 202611 Aug 2026 Atef Najib, the former Syrian […]

ListenListen (2 mins) Save Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share facebookxwhatsapp-strokecopylink googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo India’s Shubman Gill in action against Bangladesh during the 2023 Cricket World Cup in India [File: Adnan Abidi/Reuters] By AFP Published On 11 Aug 202611 Aug 2026 Bangladesh is scrambling to save a six-match cricket tour […]

U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to 4th battalion, 2nd Aviation Regiment, 2nd Combat Aviation Brigade, 2d Infantry Division/ROK-U.S. Combined Division, participate in a field training exercise at Camp Humphreys, South Korea, June 30, 2026. Credit: U.S. Army photo by Cpl. JungHwan Yoon The United States maintains the world’s largest overseas military basing presence, with as many […]

Israeli settler violence is ‘clear state terrorism’

Credit: Photo Supplied As the people of Myanmar recently commemorated the 8888 uprising that demanded political freedom but was brutally put down in August 1988, Thailand was playing host to Min Aung Hlaing, the former general who seized power through a coup in early 2021. This was Min Aung Hlaing’s second official visit to an […]

U.S. Under Secretary of War Elbridge Colby speaks at the Ananta Centre in New Delhi, India, Mar. 24, 2026. Credit: X/Under Secretary of War Elbridge Colby The United States remains strongly committed to Asia but wants its partners to bear more of the burden for their own defense, a senior Pentagon official said in the […]

Buildings in the center of Jakarta, Indonesia. Credit: ID 96707010 © Rex Wholster | Dreamstime.com Indonesia’s President Prabowo Subianto has nominated Destry Damayanti, a long-time central bank deputy, as the next governor of the institution, an official announced yesterday. State Secretary Prasetyo Hadi confirmed that the nomination was submitted to the House of Representatives through […]

Anti-junta graffiti seen during anti-coup protests in Mandalay, Myanmar, Feb.9, 2021. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Kantabon Across Southeast Asia, artists and cultural rights defenders are increasingly being cast as threats – to public morality, political order and dominant narratives about gender, sexuality, identity, and belonging. This is especially true for queer and trans artists, whose bodies, stories, […]