Mandela travelled on Trump’s plane in 1990: Who paid for it?
Donald Trump chartered a 727 for Nelson Mandela's 1990 trip to the US. But it wasn’t a gift.
Category Archives: Features
‘Why shouldn’t power be Black’? How Miriam Makeba won and lost the US
The Black South African singer defied the odds to become a household name in the US. Then she was cancelled.
Starving since the day he was born: How famine stalks Gaza’s children
Bereaved parents, doctors, aid workers and former US officials describe the human toll of Israel's restrictions on aid.
As Israel bombs Lebanon, Lebanese police try to coerce Syrians into leaving
Syrian refugees are among those displaced in Lebanon from Israeli attacks. Many have nowhere to go and fear deportation.
Is China’s new stimulus enough to revive its economy?
China is trying to revive its economy from a COVID-era slump, but is it doing too little, too late?
Who is lobbying for India’s Modi government on Capitol Hill?
US-based Hindu American Foundation has laundered Modi gov't's track record on minorities, championed its interests.
The Floating Doctors: Mobile medicine comes to Panama’s jungles
A team of medical volunteers from around the globe travel to people and places where medicine does not reach.
Cieco: A blind dog’s journey from Nabatieh to Beirut, fleeing Israeli bombs
Cieco could neither hear nor see the explosions, he could only feel what he must have known was encroaching danger.
Choosing to be child-free in an ‘apocalyptic’ South Asia
Why are some South Asians choosing not to have children amid a population crisis?
Half-life, half-house: Portrait of a Palestinian family after Israeli raids
Akram Nasser and his children live in a house with no front wall or running water. But they have no intention to leave.
From Uzbek disco to Uighur rock: Forgotten sounds of the Silk Road
A new album of rare grooves from Soviet Central Asia reveals an era when the region was a crucible for musical fusion.
Caught in India-China clashes, Ladakh’s nomadic herders fear for future
Constant military patrols near the Indo-China border have shrunk pastures and are extinguishing tradition.
‘Bombs won’t bring quiet’: The antiwar Israeli whose parents died on October 7
'Those who believe that bombs will bring quiet ... and that war will bring security are naive,' Israeli activist says.
Fact check: Are Haitian immigrants in Springfield in the US illegally?
JD Vance says immigrants with temporary protections in Springfield, Ohio, are 'illegal'. Experts say he is wrong.
No place for foreign workers being displaced in Lebanon
Some of them were born and raised in Lebanon, but in war they have no place in the authorities' support programmes.
‘Ukraine’s very existence is at stake’: Zelenskyy enters the US election
An aide to Zelenskyy says Ukraine will not play favourites after the president's meetings with Trump and Harris.
Real winners of Sri Lanka’s election: A people emboldened to force change
Anura Kumara Dissanayake rode a wave of anger to power. But any Sri Lankan leader's position is precarious today.
Has Russia’s military improved enough to take on NATO?
Al Jazeera's defence editor on why Russia's army is unprepared for a conflict with NATO, a scenario Putin is warning of.
How secondhand clothes took Zimbabwe by storm – and hammered retail
The country’s clothes manufacturers are taking a beating from imported ‘preloved’ clothes and a struggling economy.
What’s behind recent false claims about immigrants and crime in the US?
Studies show rhetoric about immigrants and crime is often exaggerated or false. So why do these false narratives spread?