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ListenListen (15 mins) Save Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share facebookxwhatsapp-strokecopylink googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo A Houthi follower raises a weapon as he attends a rally marking one year of Saudi-led air strikes, in Yemen’s capital Sanaa [File: Mohamed al-Sayaghi/Reuters] By Priyanka Shankar Published On 7 Aug 20267 Aug 2026 Iran-backed […]

ListenListen (5 mins) Save Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share facebookxwhatsapp-strokecopylink googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo People gather on a beach, with a vessel in the Strait of Hormuz in the background, near Bandar Abbas, Iran, on May 31, 2026 [Amirhosein Khorgooi/ISNA/WANA via Reuters] By Stephen Quillen Published On 7 Aug 20267 […]

ListenListen (2 mins) Save Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share facebookxwhatsapp-strokecopylink googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Sandbanks are exposed in the low water of the Danube River during a heatwave near Bad Deutsch-Altenburg an der Donau, Austria, August 6, 2026. [Christian Bruna/Reuters] By Al Jazeera Staff and AP Published On 7 Aug […]

ListenListen (1 min) Save Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share facebookxwhatsapp-strokecopylink googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo England’s Ivan Toney arriving for the third-place playoff against France at World Cup 2026 [Sam Navarro/Reuters] By Al Jazeera Staff and Reuters Published On 7 Aug 20267 Aug 2026 England striker Ivan Toney ⁠has ⁠been charged […]

To Lam, general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam and president of Vietnam, delivers a keynote address at the 23rd IISS Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, May 29, 2026. Credit: International Institute of Security Studies Vietnam’s President To Lam will next week embark on state visits to Australia and New Zealand, the country’s Ministry of […]

Credit: Depositphotos For the last two decades, the contest for influence in Southeast Asia has almost always been conceptualized as a two-horse race: China floods the region with infrastructure loans and the United States counters with democracy programs and health assistance. This binary framing obscures the presence of a third player, one whose role may […]

Credit: Photo 186255027 | Afghanistan Women © Tim Gurney | Dreamstime.com Five years ago, when the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan, the world watched in shock as images emerged of desperate Afghans trying to escape a country whose future had suddenly changed. For Afghan women and girls, however, the fall of Afghanistan was the […]

A stencil graffiti image of Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi by an unknown artist in Bangkok, Thailand. Credit: Photo 49495792 © 1000words | Dreamstime.com The military-backed government in Myanmar this week released four photos of the country’s jailed former leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who met with Arnaud de Baecque, the resident representative for the […]

At least eight people were killed and 15 others injured after a student opened fire inside a school in Thailand.

Image source, ReutersImage caption, One student recounts having to climb over a fence to escape ByJonathan Head, South East Asia correspondent, Thanyarat Doksone, Reporting fromDebsirin School, Nonthaburi and Tiffanie Turnbull Published 6 minutes ago On Friday morning, as the final classes of the week were under way, panicked students began streaming out of a prestigious school just outside Bangkok. Inside, […]