How is the US presidential election shaping up? | US Election 2024 News

How is the US presidential election shaping up? | US Election 2024 News

Donald Trump is the favourite to become the Republican candidate and face Joe Biden in the presidential election. Campaigning is under way for the United States presidential election, and a repeat contest is expected between President Joe Biden and his predecessor Donald Trump. Biden is the oldest candidate in US…

Israel’s rising use of drone strikes in the occupied West Bank | Occupied West Bank News

Israel’s rising use of drone strikes in the occupied West Bank | Occupied West Bank News

NewsFeed “It’s illegal, and the world should be holding Israel to account.” Israel’s increase in the use of drone warfare in the occupied West Bank is being condemned by lawyers and rights activists. Al Jazeera spoke to lawyer Diana Buttu about the concerns raised and what can be done to…

Watching the Watchdogs: Law, Propaganda, and the Media walk into a bar | Opinions

Watching the Watchdogs: Law, Propaganda, and the Media walk into a bar | Opinions

This month, the world watched South Africa initiate International Court of Justice (ICJ) hearings on the genocidal acts Israel committed in Gaza. In a two-day session on January 11 and 12, the court heard the extensive evidence the South African legal team had gathered to support their case against Israel,…

Doomsday clock stays at 90 seconds to midnight: What we know | Science and Technology News

Doomsday clock stays at 90 seconds to midnight: What we know | Science and Technology News

Atomic scientists have kept their Doomsday Clock set at 90 seconds to midnight as they did last year, citing worry about Russia’s potential use of nuclear weapons amid its invasion of Ukraine, Israel’s war on Gaza and worsening climate change as factors driving the risk of global catastrophe. Here is…

Oscar nominations 2024: full list of Academy Award nominees | Arts and Culture News

Oscar nominations 2024: full list of Academy Award nominees | Arts and Culture News

Oppenheimer dominates 96th Academy Award nominations with 13 in total including best picture. Filmmaker Christopher Nolan’s, Oppenheimer, dominated nominations for the 96th Academy Awards, followed by Yorgos Lanthimos’s, Poor Things, and Martin Scorsese’s, Killers of the Flower Moon. Nolan’s three-hour-long film about the father of the atomic bomb received 13…

‘Conflict tinder’: Gambian traffickers continue timber trade despite ban | Environment

‘Conflict tinder’: Gambian traffickers continue timber trade despite ban | Environment

Banjul, The Gambia — On a warm May day at a restaurant on the outskirts of Banjul, Lamin (last name withheld) outlined his plan to traffic rosewood timber from Senegal to The Gambia as he cleaned the meat off his chicken drumsticks. “All of this has to be secret,” he…

Photojournalist Motaz Azaiza evacuates from Gaza | Israel War on Gaza News

Photojournalist Motaz Azaiza evacuates from Gaza | Israel War on Gaza News

His coverage was often raw, unfiltered videos about the civilian impact of Israeli air strikes. Photojournalist Motaz Azaiza, who has been documenting the impact of the war in the Gaza Strip, has left the enclave and headed to Qatar. Azaiza announced on Instagram on Tuesday that he was leaving the…