Syrian rebels and government forces have clashed in southern Aleppo, including during the period of a promised Russian lull to allow humanitarian convoys in, according to media reports. Lorries carrying food were unable to enter Aleppo on Thursday because of intense bombardment, the AFP news agency reported from the rebel-held east[…]
Zambians queued round the block in Lusaka on Thursday as voting began for a new president and legislators in what is expected to be a tough battle, as slow growth and weak commodity prices weigh on Africa’s second-biggest copper producer. President Edgar Lungu and his main rival, Hakainde Hichilema, have[…]
At least three people were killed when a gas, believed to be chlorine, was dropped on a neighborhood in the Syrian city of Aleppo on Wednesday, according to a hospital and a local rescue group. The Syrian Civil Defence, a volunteer rescue group operating in rebel-held territory, told Al Jazeera[…]
Two Turkish military attaches, both working at the Turkish embassy in Greece, are missing after being called back to Ankara as part of investigations into a failed military coup attempt, according to Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu. “Two Turkish military attaches based in Greece fled to Italy and Turkish authorities will[…]
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday promised to reinvigorate ties after their first meeting since Ankara shot down a Russian fighter jet in November. Erdogan’s visit to Putin’s hometown of St Petersburg is also his first foreign trip since the failed coup against him[…]
Vietnam has discreetly fortified several of its islands in the disputed South China Sea with new mobile rocket launchers capable of striking China’s runways and military installations across the vital trade route, according to Western officials. Diplomats and military officers told Reuters that intelligence shows Hanoi has shipped the launchers[…]
Senators in Brazil have voted to indict suspended President Dilma Rousseff on charges of breaking budget laws. At least 59 senators voted in favour of proceeding with the impeachment of Brazil’s first woman president early on Wednesday, with 21 senators voting against and zero absentees. Al Jazeera’s Lucia Newman, reporting[…]
Syrian rebels have rejected claims that government forces and allies, including fighters from the Lebanese Hezbollah movement, have taken back parts of Aleppo recently captured by rebels. Hassan al-Eshra, a fighter in the Jaysh al-Islam armed group, said it and other rebel groups were still in control of the flashpoint[…]
At least eleven prematurely born babies have been killed in a fire at a maternity hospital in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, authorities have said. Seven other children and 29 women were rescued from the Yarmouk maternity hospital in the capital early on Wednesday and transferred to another hospital, the Iraqi[…]
Jamana al-Ahmed turns her tap and nothing comes out. She flicks the light switch and remains in darkness. She hides in her makeshift home in central Aleppo from bombs and patrols of shabiha – the feared pro-government paramilitary force – who seek out and abduct those they suspect of collaboration[…]
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