Gale force winds blew people and objects down streets as a fierce storm hit the Saudi Arabian city of Mecca, where the landmark clock tower was struck by lightning. Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ Download AJE Mobile App: https://aje.io/AJEMobile @AljazeeraEnglish #Aljazeeraenglish #News
In Zimbabwe, where polls have just opened in presidential and parliamentary elections. President Emmerson Mnangagwa is seeking a second five-year term. He is campaigning on promises to create more jobs and upgrade crumbling infrastructure. His main challenger is opposition leader Nelson Chamisa. He hopes frustrations about corruption, high inflation and unemployment will encourage people to choose him. Al Jazeera’s Haru Mutasa is live outside a polling station in the capital, Harare. Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ Download AJE Mobile App: https://aje.io/AJEMobile #Zimbabwe #ZimbabweGeneralElection2023 #ZimbabweEelection2023 #CitizensCoalitionForChange #ZimbabweOppositionParty #NelsonChamisa #AlJazeeraEnglish
More than 200 former Afghan soldiers and officials have been killed extrajudicially since August 2021 despite a general amnesty announced by the Taliban immediately after its takeover. The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) – in its first report since the Taliban takeover two years ago – documented 800 cases of serious human rights violations, including arbitrary arrests and detentions, torture and enforced disappearances. UNAMA recorded almost half of all extrajudicial killings of former government officials and Afghan security forces during the first four months of Taliban rule. But violations continued in 2022, with 70 extrajudicial killings recorded. The Afghan foreign ministry denies allowing any extrajudicial killings. Al Jazeera’s […]
Rescue attempts have been made for six children and two teachers trapped in a cable car that was left dangling hundreds of metres in the air above a ravine in Pakistan when a wire snapped. After several hours, all 8 were still trapped on board. Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ Download AJE Mobile App: https://aje.io/AJEMobile @AljazeeraEnglish #Aljazeeraenglish #News
The leader of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group Yevgeny Prigozhin has released his first video since the group’s aborted mutiny in June. The date and location of the video haven’t been verified but in it Prigozhin suggests it was filmed in Africa. Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ Download AJE Mobile App: https://aje.io/AJEMobile @AljazeeraEnglish #Aljazeeraenglish #News
Thailand’s influential former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has been taken to prison after returning from his 15 years in self-imposed exile. He was arrested and sentenced to 8 years in jail shortly after landing back in the country. Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ Download AJE Mobile App: https://aje.io/AJEMobile @AljazeeraEnglish #Aljazeeraenglish #News
Three hundred trucks bringing supplies to landlocked Niger have arrived in the capital Niamey. The convoy was delayed at the border with Burkina Faso because of attacks by armed groups. Niger has been struggling with shortages since ECOWAS imposed sanctions over last month’s coup. But the supplies may not be enough. Al Jazeera’s Ahmed Idris reports from Abuja in neighbouring Nigeria. Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ Download AJE Mobile App: https://aje.io/AJEMobile #Niger #NigerCoup #NigerSanctions #ECOWAS #AbdourahmaneTchiani #MohamedBazoum
Video shows prominent human rights lawyer Imaan Mazari-Hazir being arrested in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad. She was detained a day after she had called the country’s military ‘terrorists’ and criticised them at a rally attended by hundreds of people. Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ Download AJE Mobile App: https://aje.io/AJEMobile @AljazeeraEnglish #Aljazeeraenglish #News
Nearly 80 people have been killed after flashfloods triggered landslides in India’s Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh. It brings the overall death toll in the state to 338 since the monsoon season began in late June, with more than 35 people still missing. The government of Himachal Pradesh declared entire state ‘natural calamity affected area’ after heavy rainfall triggers floods & landslides. Al Jazeera’s Michael Appel reports. Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ Download AJE Mobile App: https://aje.io/AJEMobile #India #MonsoonFloods #Monsoon #IndiaFloods #IndiaLandslides #HimachalPradesh #HimachalFloods #Shimla #Mandi #RainAlert #FloodAlert #HeavyRainfall #NorthernIndia […]
Authorities in western Canada have implored tens of thousands of people to heed evacuation orders. They have warned of difficult days ahead as “severe and fast-changing” forest fires in the province of British Columbia intensified further. Al Jazeera’s Patty Culhane reports. Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ Download AJE Mobile App: https://aje.io/AJEMobile #Canada #CanadaWildfires #Yellowknife # YellowknifeEvacuation #AlJazeeraEnglish
