At least six people have been killed and more than 100 wounded in violence in Bangladesh. The unrest continued for a second day on Saturday over claims the Muslim holy book, the Quran, was disrespected in a social media image. Al Jazeera’s Tanvir Chowdhury reports from Dhaka. – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish/ – Find…… Read More
More than 30 people have been killed in a mass shooting at a children’s day-care centre in a northeastern province of Thailand, a police spokesperson said. Victims included both children and adults, police said in a statement on Thursday, adding that the gunman was an ex-police officer and a manhunt was underway. The prime minister…… Read More
Russia has launched a murder investigation after the daughter of pro-Kremlin commentator Alexander Dugin was killed in a car bomb explosion near Moscow. Unverified social media footage appears to show Darya Dugina’s father Alexander at the scene. He’s been dubbed ‘Vladimir Putin’s brain’. Both have supported Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Al Jazeera’s Zein Basravi has…… Read More
FBI agents in the U.S. state of Florida have conducted a criminal search of former president Donald Trump’s home. It’s seen as a significant escalation of the federal investigation into whether Trump illegally removed classified documents from the White House, as he was leaving office in January last year. Trump criticised the raid, calling it…… Read More
Unfortunately industrial accidents are too common in Bangladesh. In the latest incident, dozens of people were killed in a fire and explosion at a container port near the city of Chattogram. It’s estimated industrial accidents have killed more than 2,000 people in the country during the past two decades. So are companies and the government…… Read More
The United Nations has said that information it had gathered showed that the shots that killed Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh on May 11 was fired by Israeli forces. “All information we have gathered … is consistent with the finding that the shots that killed Abu Akleh and injured her colleague Ali Sammoudi came…… Read More
Each year in the US, tens of thousands of Black women and girls are involved in disappearance cases, but very few of these stories will ever receive mainstream media attention. In the case of Lauren Smith-Fields, a 23-year-old Black woman found dead in her Connecticut apartment on December 12, national news outlets eventually picked up…… Read More
The UK government has published a redacted version of an eagerly awaited report on claims of lockdown-breaking parties at the office of Prime Minister Boris Johnson. The document was submitted to Downing Street on Monday by senior civil servant Sue Gray, who investigated a series of revelations about boozy get-togethers held while the government told…… Read More