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In a ‘declaration of vengeance’ for a deadly attack on US soldiers last week, the US military launched more than 70 strikes on alleged ISIL targets in Syria.
Published On 20 Dec 2025
In a ‘declaration of vengeance’ for a deadly attack on US soldiers last week, the US military launched more than 70 strikes on alleged ISIL targets in Syria.
Published On 20 Dec 202520 Dec 2025
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Taiwan’s president Lai Ching-te has ordered sweeping security reforms after a knife and smoke grenade attack killed three people and injured 11 in Taipei. The suspect, Chang Wen, 27, set fires and struck multiple sites before dying from a fall.
Published On 20 Dec 202520 Dec 2025
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Red ribbons and Palestinian flags were seen in London at a vigil calling for the release of thousands of Palestinians being held without charge in Israeli prisons. The vigil focused on Dr. Hussam Abu Safia, director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital, who’s been held for nearly one year. Al Jazeera’s Milena Veselinovic was there.
Published On 20 Dec 202520 Dec 2025
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Tarana Burke tells Marc Lamont Hill on Epstein, Trump and how widespread sexual violence is in the United States.
In 2017, a reckoning over sexual violence called “#MeToo” swept the globe. Eight years later, has the movement done enough for survivors? And what will it take for some of the world’s most powerful men accused of sexual misconduct to face consequences?
This week on UpFront Marc Lamont Hill speaks to founder of the Me Too movement, Tarana Burke.
The Department of Justice has released files related to the late convicted sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein after mounting pressure led President Donald Trump to sign the Epstein Files Transparency Act last month. Trump, who himself has been accused dozens of times of sexual assault and misconduct, has already appeared in photos, emails and other documents in connection with Epstein, causing a rift in his base. Other business elites, academics, politicians and world leaders have also been named in connection to Epstein. While some have faced minor consequences, only Ghislaine Maxwell has been criminally convicted as part of Epstein’s sex trafficking of minors. Will newly released documents lead to new convictions and genuine accountability for survivors?
Published On 20 Dec 202520 Dec 2025
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Sealing of deal postponed despite decades of preparation.
European farmers are protesting against the EU-Mercosur deal.
That is as signing has been postponed until January, due to disagreements in Europe.
The European-South American deal, planned for more than 25 years, would create the world’s largest free-trade zone.
So, why is there division?
Presenter: Folly Bah Thibault
Guests:
Pieter Cleppe – Editor-in-chief at BrusselsReport.eu
Ciaran Mullooly – Member of the European Parliament for the Independent Ireland group
Gustavo Ribeiro – Founder and editor-in-chief of the Brazilian Report online newspaper
Footage shows a massive crowd filling streets to honour Sharif Osman Hadi, a leader of the 2024 student-led uprising, who was shot dead by a masked gunman while leaving a Dhaka mosque. Bangladesh’s interim leader Mohammad Yunus joined mourners days after Hadi died in a Singapore hospital.
Published On 20 Dec 202520 Dec 2025
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Mario Lubetkin on Washington’s revived sphere-of-influence doctrine, Venezuela, and China’s growing footprint.
The United States is reviving a policy first set out in the 1800s that treats Latin America as its strategic sphere of influence. As Washington expands maritime operations in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, critics warn of legal violations and rising regional instability.
Uruguay’s Foreign Minister Mario Lubetkin joins Talk to Al Jazeera to discuss US strikes, Venezuela, migration pressures, and China’s growing role in the region — and whether diplomacy can still prevent escalation in a hemisphere shaped once again by power politics.
Published On 20 Dec 202520 Dec 2025
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How do we talk about antisemitism after the Bondi shooting?
Na’amod co-founder Em Hilton, raised in Bondi, says Jews must resist retreat, find moral courage, and build bonds with Muslims, Palestinians, and other threatened communities.
Published On 20 Dec 202520 Dec 2025
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The war on Ukraine was a big topic at Vladimir Putin’s annual televised question and answer session, but the Russian president wouldn’t say if the war is coming to an end.
Published On 19 Dec 202519 Dec 2025
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Responding to reports that Hamas may be willing to partially disarm, handing over heavy weaponry but keeping its small arms, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said peace will never happen if the group has the capability to “threaten or attack Israel.”
Published On 19 Dec 202519 Dec 2025
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“This is what gives us purpose.” Coders and engineers in Gaza’s tech sector are fighting to finish projects and keep clients, dealing with little electricity, limited internet, and aging equipment.
Published On 19 Dec 202519 Dec 2025
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New plaques have been installed in US President Donald Trump’s ‘Presidential Walk of Fame’ at the White House that attack many of his predecessors and make questionable claims about his own achievements.
Published On 18 Dec 202518 Dec 2025
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Kitsch Liao, associate director at the Atlantic Council Global China Hub, says Beijing’s reaction to the largest US arms sale to Taiwan is an information warfare tactic.
Published On 18 Dec 202518 Dec 2025
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In a healthcare system devastated by Israel’s genocidal war where medical supplies are few, doctors are turning to 3D printers powered by solar energy to treat some injuries in Gaza. Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary took a closer look.
Published On 18 Dec 202518 Dec 2025
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US President Donald Trump has said the US owns rights to Venezuelan oil and land. The claims follow the US seizure of Venezuelan oil and the declaration of a naval blockade. But is any of this true? Soraya Lennie explains.
Published On 18 Dec 202518 Dec 2025
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In the quiet village of Kozubivka in Ukraine’s Poltava region, Nelia and her husband Oleksandr open their home to people displaced from Kharkiv, where bombing and shelling have forced thousands to flee.
But rebuilding a life in rural Ukraine is not easy. City people must learn to navigate unfamiliar routines on the farm, endure physical labour and bear the emotional weight of displacement. In the process tempers flare despite moments of tenderness.
Through these intimate encounters, Guests from Kharkiv reveals what it means to create community in the middle of a war and the courage it takes to adapt to a new way of life.
A documentary short by Halyna Lavrinets, produced by Eleron Pictures.
Published On 18 Dec 202518 Dec 2025
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2025 was the year of tariffs and a global shift in economic power.
Two words that largely define the economy right now: Global reordering.
President Donald Trump’s Tariffs have landed as a shock to global trade. This is 2025.
Major economies are rewriting their playbooks, and alliances are being redrawn.
From Africa’s minerals boom to the global AI race, countries are scrambling for influence – even as debt piles up.
They are spending more, borrowing more and making tough choices from defence to climate policy and labour shortages.
And through it all, people are bearing high costs.
Published On 18 Dec 202518 Dec 2025
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced ‘the largest gas deal in Israel’s history’, worth around $35 billion, with Egypt. Cairo has been a vocal critic of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, but experts say the country is facing an energy crisis.
Published On 18 Dec 202518 Dec 2025
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In a national address, US President Donald Trump claimed the Gaza truce he helped broker brought peace to the Middle East “for the first time in 3,000 years.” Trump’s statement comes despite ongoing Israeli ceasefire violations and near-daily attacks on Gaza.
Published On 18 Dec 202518 Dec 2025
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Young resident doctors have gone on strike in the UK, demanding better pay and more training positions that will allow them to continue in their field. Al Jazeera’s Sonia Gallego explains this is the 14th such strike in recent years.
Published On 17 Dec 202517 Dec 2025
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Fifteen years after the Arab Spring, the women who lit the spark still struggle for influence, equality and protection
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The Arab Spring began in Tunisia 15 years ago, after Mohamed Bouazizi set fire to himself triggering unrest which toppled the dictator and sparked hopes for freedom. Relatives of political prisoners say President Kais Saied has pushed the country back into authoritarianism.
Published On 17 Dec 202517 Dec 2025
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