ListenListen (1 min) Save Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share facebookxwhatsapp-strokecopylink googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Masrour Barzani, prime minister of Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government [File: Safin Hamid/AFP] Published On 17 Aug 202617 Aug 2026 The office of the prime minister of Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has been targeted in a […]
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ListenListen (8 mins) Save Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share facebookxwhatsapp-strokecopylink googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo USS Abraham Lincoln at an undisclosed location, on March 3, 2026 [Handout/US Navy via Reuters] By Marthe van der Wolf Published On 17 Aug 202617 Aug 2026 The nearly nine-month extended deployment of the USS Abraham […]
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ListenListen (6 mins) Save Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share facebookxwhatsapp-strokecopylink googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo By Mohammed Haddad and Amr Alkazaz Published On 17 Aug 202617 Aug 2026 In the past month, three earthquakes of magnitude 7 or above have struck Indonesia, Colombia and Mexico, killing hundreds of people. In June, […]
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Donald Trump has ordered the US military to scale back joint exercises with South Korea.
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Advertisement Hong Kong society Hong KongSociety Hong Kong halves environmental impact review times with AI in efficiency drive Government rolls out first batch of 30 projects across 13 departments to improve services such as food licensing, leisure facility bookings 2-MIN READ2-MIN Listen Matthew Cheng Published: 7:20pm, 17 Aug 2026Updated: 7:59pm, 17 Aug 2026 Hong Kong […]
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Advertisement European Union WorldEurope EU plans most far-reaching sanctions on Russia in coming months EU sanctions must be approved unanimously. Traditional EU packages against Russia have frequently been dogged by lengthy disputes 2-MIN READ2-MIN Listen Reuters Published: 7:48pm, 17 Aug 2026 The European Union intends to significantly expand sanctions against Russia in the coming months […]
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ListenListen (2 mins) Save Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share facebookxwhatsapp-strokecopylink googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Scottie Scheffler celebrates with the 2026 St Jude Championship trophy at TPC Southwind on August 16, 2026, in Memphis, Tennessee [Stacy Revere/Getty Images via AFP] By Reuters Published On 17 Aug 202617 Aug 2026 Scottie Scheffler […]
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In Pictures Save Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share facebookxwhatsapp-strokecopylink googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo A student from a floating village steers a school boat on Tonle Sap lake, Cambodia. [Anton L Delgado/AP Photo] By AP Published On 17 Aug 202617 Aug 2026 Every morning on Cambodia’s Tonle Sap lake, a small […]
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