Japan grants $1.4m to record-breaking death row inmate Japan to award Iwao Hakamada, held wrongfully for close to 50 years and released last year, largest-ever payout. Iwao Hakamada spent almost half of a century on death row [File: EPA-EFE] Published On 25 Mar 202525 Mar 2025 Japan has awarded a wrongly convicted man who was…
Could US forces in Europe face a refusal of supply and support? US threats to abandon Ukraine and European allies leads to one outburst of anger. Experts say they could lead to more. US soldiers are seen waiting in the US state of Georgia to board a plane bound for Europe on a deployment launched…
EXPLAINER Yemen war plans: What did Trump aides leak to The Atlantic in Signal chat? The Atlantic’s editor said that Pete Hegseth sent operational details of a US attack on the Houthis in a Signal chat. Video Duration 02 minutes 45 seconds play-arrow 02:45 ‘A shocking breach’: Trump officials leak military attacks to The Atlantic…
EXPLAINER Are Ethiopia and Eritrea hurtling towards war? The two countries’ historically fraught relationship was mended in 2018, but hostilities are flaring again. A charred T-72 tank on the road that connects Ethiopia’s Shiraro and Shire towns in Tigray, on October 12, 2024 [Michele Spatari/AFP] By Al Jazeera StaffPublished On 25 Mar 202525 Mar 2025 Tensions…
There’s been violence between protesters and police in Indonesia at a demonstration against a new military law.
Children were among at least 23 Palestinians killed in pre-dawn Israeli attacks on residential buildings.
Tamim Iqbal: Bangladesh cricketer recovering at clinic after heart attack The former national ODI captain is in a stable medical condition after suffering a cardiac arrest in a Dhaka Premier League match on Monday. Bangladesh’s Tamim Iqbal plays a shot during the second T20 Cricket match between Pakistan and Bangladesh, at Gaddafi Cricket Stadium in…
South Sudan on brink of renewed civil war, UN warns Building tension and violence threatens to unravel the peace deal that halted ethnic conflict in 2018. South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir, right, and Vice President Riek Machar, left, agreed to a peace deal in 2018 [File: Ben Curtis/AP] Published On 25 Mar 202525 Mar 2025…
Korean American sues Trump admin to stop deportation over campus activism Yunseo Chung, 21, moved to the US when she was seven and now faces deportation over pro-Palestinian activism at Columbia University. Police guard the entrance to Columbia University as protesters rally in support of detained Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, on March 14, 2025, in…
How India’s $14bn Muslim endowments are being plundered, even by government Experts say the BJP government’s acquisition of ‘waqf’ land for the expansion of a Hindu temple in Ujjain City reflects a larger pattern. Nizamuddin Colony, built illegally on on 5.27 acre of Waqf land in Ujjain, India. Now the government has taken over this…