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Thousands of people in India have been displaced since July after monsoon rains triggered severe flooding.

Nigerian security forces have rescued 308 people abducted in separate attacks in northern Niger and Kwara states.

Image source, Supplied: SkytradersImage caption, The Skytraders plane landed in Antarctica in total darkness and a temperature of -43°C ByHelen Livingstone Sydney Published 22 minutes ago An Australian aviation crew has carried out a daring midwinter mission to rescue a US expedition member from a station in Antarctica in freezing temperatures and total darkness. Skytraders […]

ListenListen (2 mins) Save Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share facebookxwhatsapp-strokecopylink googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Meta says it remains confident of its ‘record of protecting teens online’ [File: Dado Ruvic/Illustration/Reuters] By Reuters and The Associated Press Published On 7 Aug 20267 Aug 2026 A judge in New Mexico in the United […]

File photo of Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, May 2, 2024. Credit: Wikipedia/Press Information Department Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said she will return to her country in December this year, almost two and a half years after fleeing to India following violent student protests that culminated in the ouster of her […]

Credit: Dreamstime The long-standing India-Nepal dispute over Susta, one of the most geographically and politically sensitive sections of the Nepal-India border, erupted in violent clashes on August 2 between Nepali villagers and Indian border security personnel. The latter had allegedly crossed into Nepali territory in Nawalparasi West and dismantled an under-construction embankment built by local […]

ListenListen (3 mins) Save Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share facebookxwhatsapp-strokecopylink googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Israeli forces raid Qalandiya refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, August 5, 2026 [Mohammed Torokman/Reuters] By Al Jazeera Staff Published On 7 Aug 20267 Aug 2026 A “large-scale” Israeli raid in the Qalandiya refugee camp […]

Credit: Shutterstock For most of the post-war era, power, legitimacy, and cooperation reinforced one another. American leadership underwrote security, open markets, and freedom of navigation. Democratic partnerships generated political trust. Universal institutions such as the United Nations, the World Trade Organization, and the nuclear nonproliferation regime provided common rules and legal legitimacy. Though imperfect, these […]

Credit: ID 40282465 © Trentinness | Dreamstime.com Nearly five years after Taliban insurgents toppled the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, calls still ring out for a return to the rule of law. United Nations officials contend that Taliban governance “precipitated the collapse of the rule of law and judicial independence in Afghanistan.” Amnesty International pleads for […]

Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Tarique Rahman meets with youth at Bangladesh Army Stadium in Dhaka, July 27, 2026. Credit: Facebook/ Tarique Rahman After 17 years in exile, Tarique Rahman, then acting chairman of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), returned to Dhaka on December 25, 2025. By then, people’s political aspirations had changed significantly through a mass […]