(Al Jazeera Media Network) Hundreds of thousands of Indian health workers and their supporters have launched a nationwide strike to protest against the rape and murder of a trainee doctor last week at a government hospital in the eastern city of Kolkata.
Many of the protests on Saturday were led by doctors and other healthcare workers, who were joined by tens of thousands of Indians demanding action.
Hospitals and clinics across India turned away patients, except for emergency...
(BBC News) When breaker Rachael Gunn – aka Raygun – bombed out of the Paris Olympics, the shockwaves hit a tiny hip-hop scene on the other side of the world.
In a Sydney warehouse-turned-community centre, breakers warm up with ab exercises that would make a Pilates teacher cry, before taking to the floor with acrobatic moves so intricate you can barely make them out.
It is one of the most important events of the year – a...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Ukraine’s continuing incursion has played to its strengths: movement, tactical innovation, and the ability to exploit small successes to bigger achievements.
Ukraine has also managed to leverage the limited resources it has and a picture is now emerging of new arms used in novel ways that have caught Russian forces off-guard and kept them off balance.
Both Russia and Ukraine extensively use drones of all types for reconnaissance and attack. But Ukraine’s innovation is...
(BBC News) Calls to denounce “die-hard" Taiwanese secessionists, a tipline to report them, and punishments that could include the death penalty for “ringleaders” – Beijing’s familiar rhetoric against Taiwan is turning dangerously real.
The democratically governed island has grown used to China’s claims. Even the planes and ships that test its defences have become a routine provocation. But the recent moves to criminalize support for it are unnerving Taiwanese who live and work in China, and...
(AL Jazeera Media Network) Marawi, Philippines – Maisara Dandamun-Latiph’s office sits on a hill overlooking the ruins of Marawi, the southern Philippine city that was destroyed during a five-month battle with hardline fighters linked to the ISIL (ISIS) group in 2017.
Dandamun-Latiph was named chairperson of the Marawi Compensation Board in 2023, after years of promises to rebuild the city came to nothing.
Now, Marawi residents are finally beginning to receive payouts, in a compensation process that also must...
(BBC News) A senior Hamas official told the BBC that it will not participate in the indirect talks on a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal due to resume in Doha on Thursday.
The Palestinian armed group wanted a roadmap for implementing the agreement and would “not engage in negotiations for the sake of negotiations in order to provide cover for Israel to continue its war,” the official said.
He reiterated that the roadmap should be...
(BBC News) Iran has dismissed calls from the UK and other western countries to refrain from retaliation against Israel for the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran last month.
Amid a flurry of international diplomacy to de-escalate tensions, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer urged Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian to "stand down its ongoing threats of a military attack” in a rare telephone conversation on Monday.
But Pezeshkian said retaliation was a “way to stop...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Russian President Vladimir Putin says Ukraine is trying to undermine Russian stability with its incursion into the south of the country and warns that Ukraine will receive “a worthy response”.
Last week, Ukrainian forces rammed through the Russian border and swept across western parts of the Kursk region. The incursion is Ukraine’s biggest across the border since the start of Russia’s war in the country in 2022.
Moscow has hit back militarily by deploying...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has nominated a moderate diplomat as foreign minister and a female official as urban development minister as he presented his new cabinet.
Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf announced on Sunday the names of the 19-member cabinet presented by the president during an assembly session broadcast live on state television.
The nominations appear in line with the hopes that the election of Pezeshkian last month, to replace the hardline Ebrahim Raisi, who...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Iran is set to carry out an order by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to “harshly punish” Israel over the assassination of a Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps deputy commander has said.
“The supreme leader’s orders regarding the harsh punishment of Israel and revenge for the blood of martyr Ismail Haniyeh are clear and explicit … and they will be implemented in the best possible way,” Ali Fadavi...
