Category: Global News
‘We fled oppression, not our home’: Albania to Australia and back again
As Albanians continue to flock to the West, causing a ‘brain drain’, one family recounts a hair-raising tale of escape.
Bangladesh counts votes in low-turnout election boycotted by opposition
Initial signs suggest a low turnout in controversial poll guaranteed to give a fourth straight term to PM Sheikh Hasina.
Orthodox Christians attend midnight Christmas mass in Bethlehem
Palestinian Christians held a solemn midnight mass to mark Orthodox Christmas in Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity.
What happened to Alaska Airlines’s Boeing 737 Max 9 whose door blew off?
An order by US officials to ground 737 Max 9s for inspection will affect 171 aircraft worldwide.
North Korea threatens Seoul as tension builds over military drills
Pyongyang conducts live-fire drills close to its coast for the third time in a row as it threatens Seoul.
Israel signals bombardment of northern Gaza set to end
The Israeli military has 'dismantled' Hamas in the north, but suggests the onslaught will continue in the rest of Gaza.
Al Jazeera journalist Wael Dahdouh’s son killed in Gaza by Israeli attack
Al Jazeera journalist Wael Dahdouh is mourning his son, Hamza Dahdouh, who has been killed in an Israeli air strike.
Why is Germany so viciously anti-Palestinian?
German support for Israel is used as a cover to ramp up anti-immigration policies and downplay homegrown anti-Semitism.
Blaze at Bangladesh refugee camp leaves thousands of Rohingya homeless
Hundreds of shelters at the refugee camp in southeastern Bangladesh were gutted with arson suspected.
Bhutan holds general election as economic crisis hits ‘national happiness’
Both parties in fray committed to constitutionally enshrined philosophy of government measuring success by 'happiness'.