Category: Al Jazeera

The whole of Italy – a country of some 60 million people – has been placed under quarantine, as the government there steps up efforts [more…]

Saudi Arabia kicked off an oil price war with Russia at a time when the world is dealing with the coronavirus outbreak decimating supply chains, [more…]

The Trump administration and Israel say their offer to the Palestinians is the best one yet. In fact they say it could be the last [more…]

Kenji Yamase spends his days in his bedroom. The 54-year-old has been a “hikikomori” all of his adult life. The term describes Japanese who rarely [more…]

The coronavirus pandemic is taking an increasingly heavy toll on the world’s worst-affected country, Italy. There were almost 800 more deaths, and more than 6,500 [more…]

Cuba is sending its medics to Lombardy to help Italian doctors fight the coronavirus outbreak. Cuban doctors were on the frontlines in the fight against [more…]

Italy has reported 919 new deaths from coronavirus, the highest number of fatalities any country has reported in the space of 24 hours since the [more…]

Every year, thousands of young Nepalese men endure gruelling physical training, punishing runs and relentless scrutiny for what they see as a chance of a [more…]

Over the past month, two of the world’s biggest oil producers have been in dispute about how to respond to the coronavirus pandemic. Demand collapsed [more…]

Iran has announced it successfully launched the country’s first military reconnaissance satellite after months of failures, a programme the United States alleges is a cover [more…]