A private plane has crashed in Moscow’s Tver region, killing all 10 people on board. Russia news agency TASS reports that Wagner mercenary group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was among those on board. “A private Embraer Legacy aircraft travelling from Moscow to Saint Petersburg crashed near the village of Kuzhenkino in the Tver Region. There were 10 people on board, including 3 crew members. According to preliminary information, all those on board died,” the ministry for emergency situation said on Telegram. Daniel Hawkins, a journalist in Moscow, told Al Jazeera that “reports in the Russian media, unconfirmed so far, are saying this aircraft could have been taken down by air defence […]
Pakistan has a new hero after the dramatic rescue of 8 people from a broken cable car left dangling for hours high above a deep ravine. 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
As Zimbabweans vote for the country’s next president, correspondent Haru Mutasa takes us through what’s at stake. 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 #ZimbabweVotes2023 #ZimbabweDecide2023 #ZimbabweElection2023 #ZimbabweGeneralElection2023 #BetweenUs
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
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
