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 […]

With anti-migrant violence hitting a fever pitch, victims ask why Greek authorities have carried out so few arrests. Goritsa, Greece – Scrawled in spray paint on a deserted building at the entrance to Goritsa, a Greek farming village on the outskirts of Aspropyrgos, is a large black X crossing out “Anti-Fascist Zone”. Inside the village, the walls of abandoned factories […]

(Reuters) – Flights at the Dubai International Airport in United Arab Emirates were being grounded following reports of unauthorized drone activity, Sky News reported on Friday. Dubai airport, which handled 89.1 million passengers in 2018, is the world’s busiest airport for international travelers. People took to Twitter to complain about the flight delays. “Stuck for ages at Dubai airport runway […]