Category: 3. Middle East

New York City – “Focus, focus, focus on affordability”.

It is a simple message, but one that Robert Wood, a 47-year-old writer and a lead volunteer for mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, believes is the key to turning out voters in the final…

In a shocking admission, former Mossad director Yossi Cohen has openly boasted that Israel has deployed a global sabotage and espionage network which uses “booby-trapped and spy-manipulated equipment”. The method,…

Aid organisations fear that far fewer people than hoped have been able to leave the besieged Darfur city.

Those who have fled the western city of el-Fasher in wartorn Sudan are recounting scenes of horrific violence at the hands of the…

In this Start Here On-The-Road, Sandra Gathmann travels to Syria to find out how the country is confronting its past and how…

Every era of American government has had its scandal. Trump’s innovation is to make scandal itself a governing philosophy. Although it is tempting to see the Trump regime’s corruption – its open profiteering, its use of the state as an…

From the barracks of Rawalpindi to the halls of Washington, a sordid alliance stalks the republic of Pakistan: a military caste addicted to power, a civilian class cowed into servitude, and a foreign patron ever ready…

The presidents of the US and China met in South Korea and agreed to dial down trade tensions. Donald Trump and Xi Jinping committed to new terms on the supply of rare earth minerals, key agricultural products and restrictions on the flow…

A state police operation targeting a major drug gang in Brazil has resulted in the deaths of 132 people in low-income neighbourhoods in Rio de Janeiro – the deadliest raid in the country’s history.

Authorities initially said fewer than half…

Who: Australia vs India
What: Second T20 international of five-game series
Where: Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) in Melbourne, Australia
When: Friday, October 31, at 7:15pm (08:15 GMT)
How to follow: We’ll have all the build-up on Al Jazeera Sport…

Thick smog blanketed New Delhi on Thursday, a day after authorities failed in trying to clear the air and reduce pollution levels by cloud seeding. The trial is the latest in a series of attempts by officials to improve air quality for…