Wole Soyinka became the first Black African to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986, and is now one of the continent’s most revered authors. But two decades earlier, he was sent to prison without trial for speaking out about the civil war in his native Nigeria. While in…
Israel’s military has raided and ordered the closure of Al Jazeera’s office in Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank,…
An Israeli airstrike reduces a nine-story apartment building in Beirut’s southern suburb to a large mound of rubble. A…
The last 48 hours has seen the most intense exchanges of fire between Israel and Hezbollah in almost a…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is considering a plan to force all Palestinian civilians out of northern Gaza, including…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky toured a Pennsylvania ammunition plant on Sunday as he began a key visit to the United States in which…
Sri Lankans elected Marxist-leaning Anura Kumara Dissanayake as their new president on Sunday, putting faith in his pledge to fight corruption and…
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD) looked set to fend off the far right in a state election in Brandenburg on Sunday…
At least 22 people, mostly women and children, have been killed in an Israeli strike on a school compound…