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US immigration sweep on South Korean workers at Hyundai-LG electric vehicle battery plant sparks shock in Seoul. The once rock-solid relationship between Washington and Seoul is being rocked by the detention of South Korean workers in a United States immigration swoop. The controversy is the latest jolt in the alliance. There has been turbulence over…
Farmers and experts warn Iraq’s historic rivers are vanishing, threatening survival, identity and stability. Iraq, once known as Mesopotamia, the “Land of the Two Rivers”, is facing its worst water crisis in living memory. The Tigris and Euphrates — lifelines of agriculture and civilisation for millennia — are running dry. Climate change, upstream dams and…
Deputy quits, cabinet reshuffled as far-right Reform UK gains in polls. United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer is facing a political crisis after being forced to reshuffle his cabinet following the resignation of his deputy over unpaid taxes. He’s under attack too from the right-wing Reform UK party over migration. A year after a landslide…
China’s Xi Jinping, Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un are centre stage at a military parade. The leaders of China, Russia and North Korea have appeared together for the first time at a major military parade in Beijing. The three nuclear powers have shared interests, but competing ones, too. Is a new…
Warner Bros. Discovery is suing Midjourney over claims the AI startup “brazenly dispenses its intellectual property as if it were its own,” as reported earlier by The Hollywood Reporter. In the lawsuit, Warner Bros. Discovery alleges that Midjourney generated “countless” infringing images and videos of its copyrighted characters, including Superman, Bugs Bunny, Scooby-Doo, and more….
Beijing stages its largest military parade ever with dozens of world leaders in attendance. On the 80th anniversary of the end of the second world war, President Xi Jinping told the world, China does not fear violence, and showed them its weapons: Sophisticated military hardware, ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons filled Tiananmen Square, along with…
When NBC’s adaptation of The Office first debuted in 2005, the series was panned for being a pale and uninspired imitation of its English predecessor. It took an entire season for showrunner Greg Daniels to figure out how to infuse his take on The Office with a quirky, satirical energy calibrated to appeal to American…
Syria’s Deir Az Zor is rich in oil. But the eastern province has been devastated by years of civil war. After nearly 14 years of civil war, Syria’s economy is in tatters. Its infrastructure is in ruins.The nation’s new leadership faces the daunting challenge of rebuilding it.The government is betting heavily on foreign investment to…
The International Association of Genocide Scholars says Israel is committing genocide. Israel has engaged in systematic crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide in Gaza, according to a resolution by members of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. The group says there is clear intent to expel Palestinians from the Gaza Strip – by bombardment,…
Sandra Myrna Diaz, one of the world’s most influential ecologists, argues that humanity is missing the bigger picture. While climate change dominates headlines, she warns the deeper crisis is biodiversity collapse, the unravelling of the living web of plants, animals, soil and water that sustains life. In this Talk to Al Jazeera interview, Diaz criticises…
