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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 Zambians vote on Thursday in closely watched general elections that will test whether recent economic gains can offset frustration over the high cost of living [File: AFP] By Enos Denhere Published On 12 Aug 202612 Aug […]

First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Saichi Sugimoto. Credit: Wikimedia Commons Spoiler Alert: Key plot points in “Golden Kamuy” discussed in detail below. Modern-day relations between Japan and Russia are complex, with one of the most pivotal turning points in the relationship being the 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese War. While the conflict has been extensively studied in academic […]

Credit: Depositphotos On the 73rd anniversary of the Korean Armistice Agreement late last month, South Korea’s Minister of Unification Chung Dong-young declared, “We must end the Armistice regime and move to a peace regime.” His statement echoed a promise from South Korean President Lee Jae-myung, who earlier in July promised South Korea’s Peace Unification Advisory […]

Credit: Kyrgyz Presidency Kyrgyzstan has been earning its long-time moniker as the “Switzerland” of Central Asia of late, having already hosted a flurry of senior diplomatic visits this summer, ahead of a busy few weeks that will see the Shanghai Cooperation Organization celebrate its 25th anniversary with a summit in Bishkek, and the biannual World […]

ListenListen (3 mins) Save Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share facebookxwhatsapp-strokecopylink googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo A North Korean flag flutters in the wind atop a tower in North Korea’s village of Gijungdong, as seen from the Taesungdong freedom village inside the demilitarized zone in Paju, South Korea [File: Lee Jin-man/AP] By […]

Footage shows an Egyptian-owned cargo vessel in flames in the Bab al-Mandeb strait after a suspected Houthi attack.

US forces disable a Panama-flagged cargo ship attempting to sail towards an Iranian port.

Image source, AFP via Getty ImagesImage caption, A woman wades through floodwaters outside her inundated house at a village in Assam’s Sivasagar By Soutik Biswas India correspondent Published 48 minutes ago Well past midnight on 19 July, as floodwaters surged through a village in India’s northeastern state of Assam, Bornali Baruah and her husband were […]

Colombia scrambles to find survivors after deadly earthquake At least 254 deaths have been reported so far as rescuers continue to sift through collapsed buildings in western Colombia. Volunteers rush to clear the wreckage of the Vanessa Building, an apartment complex in Cali, Colombia [Euan Wallace/Al Jazeera] Volunteers rush to clear the wreckage of the […]

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video can not be played Figure caption, Scammers busted in Southeast Asia’s biggest ghost town ByGavin Butler Reporting fromForest City, Malaysia Published 28 minutes ago From a distance, Malaysia’s Forest City looks 3D-printed: a bristle of identical white blocks clustered on an […]