President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has renewed a demand that Kyiv be included in any talks on how to end Russia’s war on Ukraine after the United States and Russia agreed to create a team to negotiate a halt to the fighting. Ukraine was not represented at the talks between the US and Russian officials in Saudi…
Native American activist Leonard Peltier has left a Florida prison after nearly five decades behind bars, following a commutation from former United States President Joe Biden. On Tuesday morning, Peltier walked out of a federal detention centre in Coleman, Florida, and was taken away by an SUV. He did not speak as he exited the…
On his very first day back in office as president of the United States of America, Donald Trump signed an executive order naming the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua as a “foreign terrorist organisation”. Also named in the order were Mexican drug cartels and the predominantly Salvadoran Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13). As per Trump’s decree, the…
By Sarah Shamim Published On 18 Feb 202518 Feb 2025
NewsFeed Why are white South Africans mocking Donald Trump? Thousands of white South Africans have been mocking their own privilege after US President Donald Trump offered them asylum in the US. Trump says they are victims of anti-white discrimination. Soraya Lennie takes a look. Published On 18 Feb 202518 Feb 2025
Dear Mr Trump, I am writing to you as a Palestinian and a survivor of genocide, who was born and raised in Gaza – a city of love and resilience. I have read your statements about Gaza and frankly, I am confused. You claim to be a “peacemaker”, but encourage Israel to continue its genocide,…
United States and Russian officials have met in Saudi Arabia for the first high-level talks between the two countries since the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine three years ago. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, along with other senior officials, met on Tuesday morning in Riyadh’s Diriyah Palace. The…
By Al Jazeera Staff Published On 18 Feb 202518 Feb 2025 | Updated: 9 hours ago
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has said her government is awaiting a second response from Google over Mexico’s demand that the tech giant fully restore the Gulf of Mexico name on Google Maps before it files a lawsuit. The Gulf currently appears in Google Maps as the “Gulf of America” when accessed from within the United…
Between Us Returning to our homes in Gaza Read more After 15 months of war, hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians have returned to northern Gaza under the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas. Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, a resident of northern Gaza, says their return is a defiant rejection of displacement, including Trump’s Gaza…
