ListenListen (6 mins) Save Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share facebookxwhatsapp-strokecopylink googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talks to US President Donald Trump as White House senior adviser Jared Kushner is seen in between them in Jerusalem, May 22, 2017 [Handout/Kobi Gideon/Israeli Government Press Office via Reuters] By […]
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Advertisement India This Week in AsiaEconomics Will Russia’s plan for overland oil route be ‘game changer’ for India’s energy security? Moscow is eyeing a direct rail link to India, reflecting a scramble by major powers to build trade corridors beyond Hormuz, analysts say 4-MIN READ4-MIN Listen Biman Mukherji Published: 8:11pm, 17 Aug 2026 Russia is […]
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Advertisement Taiwan ChinaMilitary Taiwan teams up with US start-up on underwater drones to boost island’s defences The deal with Vatn Systems aims to strengthen Taipei’s asymmetric warfare capabilities amid growing military pressure from Beijing 3-MIN READ3-MIN Listen Lawrence Chungin Taipei Published: 9:04pm, 17 Aug 2026 Taiwan has signed a deal with US defence start-up Vatn […]
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Advertisement United States OpinionWorld Opinion Opinion Bruno S. SergiandKevin K.F. Chen America is arguing over the wrong AI obstacle Sluggish adoption can’t be blamed on overregulation, and restricting access to US frontier models is no defence against open-source Chinese rivals 3-MIN READ3-MIN Listen Bruno S. SergiandKevin K.F. Chen Published: 8:30pm, 17 Aug 2026 Last month, […]
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Advertisement Hong Kong society Hong KongSociety 2 hygiene officers under investigation for smoking in public while in uniform Viral clip circulating on social media platform Threads shows two men in uniform smoking cigarettes in what appears to be a back alley during daytime 1-MIN READ1-MIN Listen Theodora Yu Published: 9:20pm, 17 Aug 2026Updated: 9:23pm, 17 […]
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A stampede at a Hindu temple in eastern India kills seven people and injures nineteen more.
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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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