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
In this episode of Head to Head, Mehdi Hasan challenges Gowher Rizvi, the International Affairs advisor to the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, on the state of the country’s democracy and whether it is heading towards authoritarianism. Once one of the poorest countries in the region, Bangladesh’s economy has been booming over the last decade, with…… Read More
India is at a dangerous moment. The voices of Hindutva – Hindu supremacy – are ascending, spreading division and hate speech. It has worked its way through the body politic like a slow-acting poison. And the effect on the secular fabric of the Indian republic and the lives of minorities – especially Muslims – has…… Read More
In this major investigation, Al Jazeera reveals new evidence suggesting Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was poisoned. This documentary centres on scientific analysis of Arafat’s personal effects, which he wore and kept close to him in his final days. Scientists from the University of Lausanne in Switzerland discover elevated levels of polonium on Arafat’s effects. Polonium…… Read More
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Bangladesh’s Disappearing Activists: Missing in Action Political turmoil escalates in Bangladesh amid growing calls for an independent investigation into the mysterious disappearance of scores of opposition activists. The BNP, Bangladesh’s main opposition party, organised protests across the country after one of its regional leaders, Elias Ali, went missing on April 17. On 29 April, 2012,…… 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
Anger over a viral video of a woman being stripped, beaten and sexually assaulted by nine men in Bangladesh, as she begged for mercy, has brought thousands of people to the streets. Demonstrators are now demanding justice for women who have been raped and sexually assaulted, and an end to what they say is a…… 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
Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit has uncovered a criminal network colluding with the security forces of Bangladesh which is profiting from powerful links with the country’s prime minister. Our investigation found evidence that General Aziz Ahmed, head of the Bangladesh Army, helped criminals to evade justice and make money from state corruption. Al Jazeera’s Will Thorne…… Read More
July 11th marks two months since Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot and killed by Israeli forces. Abu Akleh was on assignment covering Israeli army raids in the city of Jenin when she was gunned down. Last week the US State Department announced that a ballistics investigation was inconclusive in determining the origin…… 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