Who: Aston Villa vs Manchester CityWhat: English Premier LeagueWhere: Villa Park, Birmingham, United KingdomWhen: Saturday at 12:30 pm (12:30 GMT).Follow Al Jazeera’s live text and photo build-up and commentary stream. Manchester City will not try to overcome their current form crisis with new recruits in January, according to manager Pep Guardiola. Four-time defending Premier League…
The UN human rights chief has said more than 700 people have been killed in al-Fashar in Sudan’s North Darfur state since May, and urged the paramilitary Rapid Support Force (RSF) to end its siege of the town. The siege and “relentless fighting are destroying lives on a massive scale every day,” UN High Commissioner…
Rodrigo Rato was found guilty of several crimes, including corruption and money laundering. A Madrid court has sentenced former International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Rodrigo Rato to more than four years in prison for tax crimes, money laundering and corruption. Judges found Rato guilty of “three crimes against the Treasury, one crime of money laundering…
Mark Lamont Hill speaks with Bill Frelick, director of Human Rights Watch’s refugee and migrant rights division. Within hours of al-Assad’s escape from Damascus, several European countries announced the suspension of asylum requests from Syrians, with some even demanding the immediate deportation of refugees. With the establishment of a new transitional government in Syria, uncertainty…
The Education Department says the move brings the total amount of student loan forgiveness during Joe Biden’s tenure as president to $180 billion. The administration of US President Joe Biden is canceling the student loans of another 55,000 people in the United States, amounting to $4.2 billion in loan forgiveness just weeks before his term…
Kyiv, Ukraine – Igor Kirillov, the 54-year-old general who led Russia’s nuclear security forces, was killed just a day after Ukrainian intelligence accused him of ordering the use of banned chemical weapons against Ukrainian troops. On Tuesday, an explosive hidden in a scooter parked outside a Moscow apartment building blew up Kirillov and his assistant….
Winter used to be a favorite season in Gaza. It was believed to bring “Khair” and “Baraka” – goodness and blessings. Children and adults alike were waiting for the arrival of cold weather to get relief from the heat. When the rain finally came, children would happily run into the streets and sing “Shatti ya…
Authorities say at least eight people died when the driver lost control of the boat while trying to escape. At least eight refugees and migrants drowned off the coast of Greece after coast guards chased the boat they were on in the Aegean Sea. A speedboat capsized while attempting to escape from a Greek patrol…
Boeing 777 flight MH370, carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew, disappeared on March 8, 2014 while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Malaysia’s government has agreed in principle to resume the search for the wreckage of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in one of the world’s greatest aviation mysteries, the country’s transport minister announced….
102 refugees, including 25 children, were evacuated to Trincomalee, Sri Lanka’s eastern port. More than 100 Rohingya refugees from war-torn Myanmar have been rescued by the Sri Lankan Navy while adrift on a fishing trawler off the Indian Ocean island nation, and brought to safe port. A navy spokesman said on Friday that 102 people,…
