Scores of people have died in four days of intense bombardment in the besieged Damascus suburb. Residents and medical sources in Eastern Ghouta have warned that the Damascus suburb is running short of food, water and medical supplies amid intense Russian and Syrian bombardment of the rebel-held area. The area’s designation as a de-escalation zone by Turkey and allies of […]

Chicago and Warren, Michigan, are among the cities large and small apparently undeterred by Amazon’s announcement that it has no plans to look for another headquarters location after scrapping plans to build a mega-campus in Queens. Two top Illinois Democrats on Thursday touted the Windy City as prime real estate for the retail giant. “You should take another look at […]

Al Jazeera’s Jamal Elshayyal visits a military camp inside Syria – where Turkey has been training Free Syrian Army fighters. Turkish forces and their allies, the Free Syrian Army (FSA), say they have captured the town of Sheikh Horuz on the road to Afrin – a stronghold of the Kurdish-led People’s Protection Units (YPG). The FSA have accused the YPG […]

Travel ban comes as southern African country tries to rein in government expenditure amid cash crunch. Namibia has banned all foreign travel by public officials as the southern African country tries to rein in government expenditure. The ban will be in place until at least February, the country’s presidency said in a statement on Wednesday. “No request for outbound travel […]

Mourners in the Democratic Republic of Congo are calling for the body of a veteran opposition leader to be brought home, a year after he died in Brussels. Mourners in the Democratic Republic of Congo are calling for the body of Etienne Tshisekedi, a veteran opposition leader, to be brought home, a year after he died in Brussels. They accuse President […]

China closes ‘core part’ of Mount Everest including a base camp to tourists to deal with escalating waste problems Ordinary visitors can only go as far as a monastery slightly below the base camp Those with climbing permits can still scale the 5,200m base camp and higher Move is part of clean-up efforts to tackle garbage that has piled up at […]

Tareena Shakil – who earned the nickname the Towie jihadi for her love of reality TV shows – had been jailed for six years in 2016 after returning from Syria where she had fled with her toddler son. Shakil was jailed after a judge found she had intentionally travelled to the war-torn region to "produce the next generation of fighters". She had […]

President Rodrigo Duterte skips ‘People Power’ commemoration as opposition denounces his ‘authoritarian’ administration. Manila, Philippines – Thirty-two years since it ousted its last dictator, the Philippines faces the possibility of having another one. As the country commemorated the “People Power” revolution of 1986, more than 1,000 people gathered on Sunday at the event’s memorial to condemn President Rodrigo Duterte whom […]

Large parts of Europe have been hit by a freak winter storm, bringing rare snow and plummeting temperatures on much of the continent. Large parts of Europe have been hit by a freak winter storm, bringing rare snow and plummeting temperatures on much of the continent. Some parts of the UK are expected to feel colder than the Arctic Circle […]

The King of Pop is known to have made numerous trips to children's hospitals and orphanages at the height of his career. One nurse in a Santa Monica hospital explained that Jacko often visited to stare into the eyes of newborns, adding: "He feels then that he can really see their souls", Vanity Fair reports. Nearly 17 years ago the […]