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Luz de America, Ecuador – Carlos and Maria spent their childhoods working more than 10 hours a day on a plantation, earning less than minimum wage. They never got days off, while living in overcrowded camps without electricity or clean drinking water, they said.The...

Naveed Shah crisscrossed Iraq during his time in the United States Army, travelling from the capital Baghdad to the southern city of Basrah, on the banks of the Shatt Al Arab river.Like many recruits, he had been inspired to enlist after the terror attacks on...

The US has unleashed a charm offensive in Africa under President Biden as it seeks to rival Russia and China.This weekend, Vice President Kamala Harris begins a three-country tour of Africa as the United States seeks to pitch itself as a better partner than China,...

For Jose Guerra Ferrer, a Havana-based industrial engineer, “the economic situation in Cuba is bad”. “I hope it can be addressed by the new parliament,” he says, with reference to national assembly elections this weekend.In recent years, Cuba’s parliament has...

The brother of Bangladeshi journalist Zulkarnain Saer Khan, who worked on an investigative report about the country’s prime minister, alleges he was beaten with iron rods by four men in the capital Dhaka last week.Mahinur Khan told Al Jazeera that four unknown men...

Interior minister says hundreds of police officers injured during the most violent day of protests since they began in January.French authorities have arrested 457 people during nationwide protests against French President Emmanuel Macron’s pensions reform as unions...