Month: December 2025

Government should have appointed an envoy to carry out checks on activist in citizenship row, says Emily ThornberryThe government could have avoided “embarrassing failures” in the case of Alaa Abd el-Fattah by having a special envoy deal with complex cases involving Britons detained abroad, Emily Thornberry has said.The chair of the Commons foreign affairs committee criticised “serious shortcomings” in information sharing, which she said could have been resolved by having […]

Demonstrations against deteriorating living conditions have widened to include criticism of how Iran is governedAlborz, a textile merchant in the central Iranian city of Isfahan, decided he could no longer sit on the sidelines. He closed his shop and took to the streets, joining merchants across Iran who shuttered their stores and students who took over their campuses to protest against declining economic conditions.The sudden loss of purchasing power pushed […]

Burkina Faso ‌book second place in Group E at ‍the Africa ‍Cup of Nations with a 2-0 win over Sudan.Source: www.aljazeera.comRead full article

Bulgaria is saying goodbye to the lev and officially adopting the euro, but some citizens worry about higher prices.Source: www.aljazeera.comRead full article

Humanitarian organisations Oxfam and Doctors Without Borders are slamming Israel’s decision to ban them from Gaza.Source: www.aljazeera.comRead full article