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On this week's The Listening Post: As Americans prepare for the 2018 US midterm elections, how has President Donald Trump managed to turn the media into a useful political
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Iran has started mass-producing its locally designed Kowsar fighter plane, state television reported. "Soon the needed number of this plane will be produced and put at the service
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Mexico City - Parents travelling in a US-bound caravan of thousands of Central American migrants and refugees are taking legal action on behalf of their children against US President
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Colombo, Sri Lanka - The United Nations chief has urged Sri Lanka's President Maithripala Sirisena to reconvene parliament and allow legislators decide between the two men claiming to
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The US government has announced that it will grant temporary waivers to eight "jurisdictions", allowing them to buy Iranian oil beyond November 5, when the second round of
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What happened to journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a critic of the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, has been the subject of denials, official leaks, presidential speeches, changing Saudi
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Pakistan's far-right Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) party has called off protests against the acquittal of a Christian woman accused of blasphemy which have rocked the Muslim-majority South Asian democracy in recent
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The US government has announced that it will grant temporary waivers to eight "jurisdictions", allowing them to buy Iranian oil beyond November 5, when the second round of
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Turkey has lifted sanctions on two top Unites States officials, in a move that came minutes after Washington removed two Turkish ministers from its sanctions list. The Turkish
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US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping have expressed optimism about resolving a bitter trade dispute, following a phone conversation between the two leaders. China's
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Spanish prosecutors have called for former Catalan Vice President Oriol Junqueras to be imprisoned for 25 years on charges of rebellion and misuse of public funds, the highest
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Islamabad, Pakistan - Most schools and businesses have remained shut for a third consecutive day across Pakistan, as demonstrations against the acquittal of Christian woman accused of blasphemy
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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says it will be several weeks before any possible sanctions are imposed on Saudi Arabia over the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
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Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman described slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi as a "dangerous Islamist" after his disappearance weeks ago, according to US media reports. The reported phone
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The Balfour Declaration, which resulted in a significant upheaval in the lives of Palestinians, was issued on November 2, 1917. The declaration turned the Zionist aim of establishing a
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Hundreds of millions of children and adults in Asia's rapidly expanding cities are undernourished, and will remain so without "inclusive, sustainable and nutrition-sensitive" urban planning, offiicals from the
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's cabinet approved draft legislation on Friday to allow in more blue-collar workers from overseas and deal with severe labour shortages, in a controversial policy
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Canberra, Australia - The people of New Caledonia will vote on Sunday on whether they want full independence from France, which has ruled the small archipelago in the Pacific
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Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman held a rare meeting with American evangelical Christians as the conservative kingdom seeks to open up more to the world and
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Colombo, Sri Lanka - For a brief moment on Thursday, it appeared as though Sri Lankan politicians might be able to return soon to the country's suspended parliament
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Less than a week before the midterm elections, US President Donald Trump said his administration is finalising a plan that would deny asylum to individuals who cross the
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Washington, DC - A large proportion of non-Muslim Americans think Islam is incompatible with American values, research by the New America foundation and the American Muslim Initiative found.
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Enough is enough. That's the message from the United States to the warring parties in Yemen. Washington wants a halt to more than three years of combat between
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Suspected separatist gunmen have shot dead five people they singled out in northeastern India's Assam state where ethnic tensions are simmering over the government's plans to amend a
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Tennessee plans to execute 63-year-old Edmund Zagorski by electrocution on Thursday night after the condemned man requested not to be put to death by lethal injection. Zagorski, who
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Just five days before the midterm elections, President Donald Trump tweeted an anti-immigrant online campaign video blaming Democrats and suggesting, without evidence, that a US-bound caravan of Central
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Once every month, thousands of Palestinians make the long journey to various prisons in Israel to meet their detained family members. "On those nights, I can hardly fall asleep. I constantly worry that I
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Shortly after the Argens River burst its banks, the French weather service issued a statement on Thursday warning that "extensive flooding is possible" in the Var department of Provence.
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Sri Lanka's new prime minister, Mahinda Rajapaksa, has told Al Jazeera that his appointment is legitimate and that he is now getting on with the job. The two-time
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At least 56,800 refugees and migrants have died or gone missing since 2014, almost double the number recorded by the UN's International Organization for Migration (IOM), an investigation
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Sri Lanka's president has lifted the suspension of parliament and scheduled a meeting of the legislature on November 5 amid mounting pressure to end a political crisis. President
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Almost a decade ago, the teardrop-shaped island in the Indian ocean brought to a brutal end a conflict that claimed thousands of lives. Since then, history seems to
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Florida is a key US state that US President Donald Trump is focusing on pushing for a Republican vote in upcoming midterm elections. In a speech, he claimed
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Seven million premature deaths each year are linked to air pollution, according to World Health Organisation data. The WHO is meeting to discuss a plan to tackle the
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A no-fly zone and a ban on military drills near the heavily fortified border between North and South Korea came into effect on Thursday as the once uneasy
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Colombo, Sri Lanka - Sri Lanka's president and speaker of parliament failed to resolve a crisis over the abrupt sacking of the country's prime minister amid fears opposing
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Tonala, Chiapas, Mexico - Resting in the shade of a row of trees, Orvelina Lizeth Melendez reached into her purse, pulled out a small, clear plastic bag and carefully
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More than 200 defence and intelligence companies from 24 countries have displayed technological solutions to security threats at a Qatar event, aiming to sign contracts with the Gulf
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Switzerland has halted the delivery of spare weapon parts to Saudi Arabia, citing concern over the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the kingdom's consulate in Istanbul. Fabian
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The movement of a jailed Nigerian Shia religious leader said security forces had killed at least 42 of its members during two days of violent crackdowns on protests
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