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People have been asking “What if…” forever. Over the next few months, Al Jazeera will explore some of the biggest challenges of our time and ask leading experts: “What if…” United States President Donald Trump has given the Palestinian group Hamas a deadline of Sunday to agree to a deal that he says would end…
Returning home About 70 percent of the Nukak population remains displaced from their ancestral lands, according to the FCDS. Most families have been pushed into sedentary lifestyles, settling in makeshift camps on the edge of towns, where addiction and child sexual exploitation became widespread. Others have settled on small plots in rural areas, where tensions…
Sidoarjo, East Java – Dewi Ajeng was at home in Probolinggo – a city in Indonesia’s East Java – when she received a chilling message in the group chat of her son’s school in Sidoarjo, located some two hours away. There had been “an incident”. Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list The Al-Khoziny…
The Gaza ceasefire proposal presented by US President Donald Trump, and which Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he has accepted, may not deliver the results Palestinians have long hoped for, analysts tell Al Jazeera. While people on the ground would be infinitely relieved by a halt in Israel’s vicious bombardment that has killed…
After taking multiple economic hits in his household, Gurvinder Singh, a 47-year-old farmer in Gurdaspur, in India’s Punjab state, took a million-rupee loan ($11,000) from a private lender to marry off his eldest daughter. He saved a portion of that and used it to sow 3 acres (1.2 hectares) of paddy. He placed his bet…
Balata refugee camp, occupied West Bank – Jameela Sanaqra’s three sons are gone. She knows for certain that Israel killed two of them. Her third son, her youngest, Mahmoud, was shot in his bedroom by Israeli commandos on February 27, a week before his 26th birthday. Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list He…
Noorgal, Kunar, Afghanistan – Four months ago, Nawab Din returned to his home village of Wadir, high in the mountains of Afghanistan’s eastern Kunar province, after eight years as a refugee in Pakistan. Today, he lives in a tent on his own farmland. His house was destroyed nearly three weeks ago by the earthquake that…
Ukraine has worsened fuel shortages across Russia in the past week as it has continued to hit Russia’s refineries and energy infrastructure with long-range drones while Poland has called for more oil sanctions in the wake of Russia’s first drone attack on NATO soil. In the meantime, Russia’s creeping advance resulted in the capture of…
Ludhiana, India – On the floor of a Ludhiana spinning mill, 29-year-old Pankaj Kumar stands at his station, his fingers a blur as he knots loose threads and feeds them onto a spinning wheel. The yarn will soon make its way to the city’s textile factories, which produce woollen knitwear, hosiery, and other garments, much of…
In recent months, the small East African coastal region of Somaliland has been making international headlines after several high-profile Republicans in the United States endorsed a bill to recognise it as an independent state. The question of Somaliland’s independence from Somalia has long divided the region. While the territory declared its sovereignty in the 1990s, it…
