Russia has recognised Georgia's breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent states.The action is likely to inflame tensions with the West, but Dmitry Medvedev, Russia's president, told Al Jazeera that he has no intention of beginning a new Cold War. [ More Detail ]
Pervez Musharraf told Al Jazeera in 2007 he wanted to be remembered as a "reformer and developer, and someone who saved [Pakistanis] from catastrophe and introduced sustainable democracy".Yet, the Pakistani president has officially resigned following protests and impending impeachment charges.Al Jazeera catalogues his career. [ More Detail ]
Tiananmen square is one of Beijing's biggest attractions, and for China, a source of both pride and pain because of the 1989 massacre.But as Tony Birtley reports, many Chinese are unaware of its dark past. [ More Detail ]
One of the richest countries in Asia is seeing a dramatic rise in the number of people turning up for free meals.For the third straight month inflation in Singapore is at a 26 year high at 7 and a half percent. That along with soaring food costs and wages staying the same is forcing many Singaporeans to tighten their belts.Al Jazeera's Laura Kyle reports. [ More Detail ]
Mahmoud Qureshi, Pakistan's foreign minister, talks about his country's increasingly strained relations with neighbouring Afghanistan, ties with the US and the potential UN investigation into the killing of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto.Al Jazeera's Ghida Fakhry talks to Qureshi in an exclusive interview. [ More Detail ]
Zindzi Mandela, A true child of the South African struggle, the daughter of Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela. She was 18 months old when her father was imprisoned and was 15 when she first saw her father for the first time in the prison. Al Jazeera's Mike Hanna talks to Zindzi Mandela in an exclusive interview. [ More Detail ]
Al Jazeera's Ghida Fakhry talks to investigative journalist Seymour Hersh about his latest article in New Yorker magazine, claiming that US congressional leaders have agreed to a presidential request for up to $400 million in funding for covert operations against Iran. [ More Detail ]
Al Jazeera English battles for airtime in the US as one small town debates what should be on their cable network. Plus- the art of obituary writing. [ More Detail ]
mkedar@mail.biu.ac.il Dr. Mordechai Kedar of Bar-Ilan University defends the Jewishness of Jerusalem, the Jewish capital for over 3000 years. He also defends the right of Israelis to settle in Judea and Samaria, the West Bank.Gil Ronen"We were here when your forefathers were drinking wine, burying their daughters alive and worshipping idols" -- this was just one of Bar Ilan University political scientist Dr. Mordechai Kedar's ripostes to questions by an Al Jazeera interviewer two weeks ago, in an interview that has received rave reviews from Israel-lovers the world over for its forcefulness. "They did not expect me to take the discussion to history and especially not to religion," Kedar told Israel National News. But discuss religion he did in the above video, reminding his interviewer that Jerusalem was not mentioned even once in the Koran and saying directly in fluent Arabic that "Jerusalem is not on the negotiating table," and that "Jerusalem belongs to the Jews, period.""This was very aggravating" for the Al-Jazeera interviewer, Kedar explained, "because in the Islamic view, Islam came into the world to replace Judaism and Christianity, not to live side by side with them. And here, all of a sudden, the Jews are coming from exile and building their state again and G-d forbid they also regained Jerusalem." Judaism is thus regaining its meaning, and Islam is challenged by this, the Bar-Ilan professor explained. "The mere existence of the State of Israel and the fact that we are in Jerusalem is some kind of challenge to the legitimacy of Islam in their eyes," Kedar explained."This is not pro-Israel public relations," Dr. Kedar told Israel National News. "This is a battle for the Arab heart, which Israel is apparently losing because Israel gave up on the main tool which should have served it, which is an independent Israeli Zionist satellite channel in Arabic." Many Arabs, he said, would consider changing their views if such a channel were available. [ More Detail ]
Al Jazeera's Sami Zeidan meets the South African president who discusses the ongoing electoral deadlock in Zimbabwe and closing the wealth gap in South Africa. [ More Detail ]
Sami al-Hajj, the Al Jazeera cameraman who was held by the US in its controversial Guantanamo prison, has been freed.Al-Hajj, who had been on hunger strike for months in protest over his treatment in Guantanamo, was flown to Khartoum and taken immediately to hospital.Later he was reunited with his family. [ More Detail ]
It's supposed to be the chance for a fresh start. After a decade of fighting between Maoist rebels and government forces - Nepalese themselves will get to choose who should run their country and how.But already, clashes between different parties and police have left several dead and dozens injured. A curfew has been called on the west of the country and voting there put on hold. [ More Detail ]
In the lead-up to Zimbabwe's presidential elections, Robert Mugabe, the president, speaks to Supa Mandiwanzira at a election rally.He expresses his confidence of an electoral victory, and his insistence that the ruling Zanu-PF party is doing all it can to revive the country's failing economy. [ More Detail ]
The mothers of two suicide bombers who carried out an attack in southern Israel on Monday have been speaking to Al Jazeera.Despite the initial confusion over who was actually behind the explosions, both say they knew at an early stage that their sons had been involved.One woman was killed when the bombers targeted a shopping centre in Dimona.Nour Odeh reports. [ More Detail ]
Gaza is often described as the world's largest prison. If so, then the world is witnessing one of the biggest ever breakouts. Tens of thousands of Palestinians have poured across the border into Egypt, after a series of explosions breached the steel wall which divides the two territories.Al Jazeera's Jacky Rowland is on one the Gaza side of the Rafah crossing. [ More Detail ]
Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga has called for three days of nationwide rallies against Mwai Kibaki, the president. In an exlcusive interview with Al Jazeera, Odinga says there is no option but to protest and accuses the government of playing for time. Andrew Simmons reports. [ More Detail ]
As George Bush, the US president, tours Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories Al Jazeera discusses the significance of his attempted joke regarding checkpoints in the West Bank.Rob Reynolds looks at Bush's news conference with Mahmoud Abbas, his Palestinian counterpart, while Ayman Moyheldin examines the daily struggles that Palestinians face negotiating the checkpoints. [ More Detail ]
Members of Malaysia's Indian community have protested on the streets of Kuala Lumpur, the capital.They are demanding equal rights in a country they believe discriminates against them. They are also said to place blame on the colonial policies of Britain, and were intending to deliver a petition to the British High Commission in Malaysia.Al Jazeera's Hamish MacDonald was there. [ More Detail ]