‘We shouldn’t have been there’: US vets consider legacy of Iraq
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...Kamala Harris to discuss China influence, debt distress in Africa
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,...Cuba’s new parliament will face a familiar economic hangover
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...Bangladesh investigative journalist’s brother ‘beaten with rods’
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...Calls for more pension protests as hundreds arrested in France
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... 