President Vladimir Putin said that Russia might supply weapons to North Korea in what he suggested would be a mirror response to the Western arming of Ukraine. Putin was speaking to reporters in Vietnam on Thursday, a day after visiting nuclear-armed North Korea and signing a mutual defence agreement with…
Centre-right party says newly elected MP Renaldo Gouws used ‘execrable language’ in an old video that resurfaced recently. South Africa’s centre-right Democratic Alliance (DA) party has suspended one of its lawmakers after an old video of the legislator using explicitly racist language resurfaced online. The suspension of the recently sworn-in…
Initiative announced in Paris will incentivise and offset start-up costs for vaccine manufacturing in the continent. French President Emmanuel Macron has joined several African leaders to kick off a planned $1.1bn project to accelerate vaccine production in Africa, after the COVID-19 pandemic exposed inequalities in access to inoculation. The launch…
With climate change fuelling more extreme weather events around the world — from record wildfires to powerful hurricanes, floods, heatwaves and drought — United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres offered a dire warning. “We are playing Russian roulette with our planet,” he told reporters on June 5. “We need an exit ramp…
NATO member’s donation comes after Ukraine’s repeated calls on allies to boost its air defences. NATO member Romania has announced it will send a Patriot missile system to Ukraine, which has repeatedly called on its allies to increase their air defence support as Russia attacks its energy infrastructure. President Volodymyr…
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday held talks with Vietnam’s leaders, hours after flying into Hanoi for a visit to an old ally that has positioned itself as an increasingly influential geopolitical player, wooed by most major nations. Putin flew to Vietnam from North Korea, where he met that country’s…
Deadly heat that recently blanketed the United States, Mexico and Central America was made 35 times more likely due to global warming, an international network of climate scientists has said. The World Weather Attribution (WWA) group also said the extreme highs experienced across the region in May and June were…
More than 100 were admitted to hospital after consuming alcohol spiked with poisonous methanol. At least 34 people have died, with dozens more being treated in hospital, after drinking illegally brewed alcohol in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, the authorities said. A state government spokesperson on Thursday confirmed…
Who: Australia vs BangladeshWhat: ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 Super EightWhen: Thursday, June 20, 8:30pm local time (00:30 GMT June 21)Where: Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, North Sound, Antigua and BarbudaHow to follow: Al Jazeera’s live coverage begins at 21:30 GMT Bangladesh coach Chandika Hathurusinghe wants his team to make…
One out of every 69 people on Earth is now displaced. That is about 120 million people, or 1.5 percent of the world’s population, who have been uprooted from their homes. Behind these numbers are countless human stories of families separated, livelihoods lost and communities shattered. Sixty-eight million of those…
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