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Maldives publicizes mumble of emergency as crisis deepens

The Maldives government has declared a 15-day state of emergency as political tensions on the island nation continue to intensify.  Legal Affairs Minister Azima Shakoor made the announcement on Monday evening on state television, and a statement attributed to President Abdulla Yameen was posted on the ministry of foreign affairs website. « The government of Maldives wishes…

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Football and the GCC disaster

Earlier this month, Spanish football club Barcelona completed the 160m euro ($198m) transfer of Brazilian midfielder Philippe Coutinho from England’s Liverpool football club. The move was a record purchase by a Spanish club and the highest sale of a player in the history of the English Premier League. The transfer follows last summer’s high-profile exodus of…

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Tillerson: US ‘negatively impacted’ by Gulf crisis

The United States secretaries of state and defence have urged for a resolution to the Gulf crisis, as the dispute nears the eight-month mark.  At the inaugural round of the US-Qatar strategic dialogue meeting in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said the US remains as concerned today as it was at…

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Cape Metropolis confronts looming ‘Day Zero’ water crisis

Like many others in Cape Town, Sandra Dickson has no other option but to get creative. « We catch water from our showers in buckets, and throw it into our toilets, » Dickson, who has been living in the South African city for the last 24 years, told Al Jazeera. « We’re doing all sorts of things, » she…

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How Italy’s a ways excellent exploits the migration crisis

Rome, Italy – On a pale January afternoon, 17-year-old Ali* sits around a fading fire at a makeshift refugee transit centre. Established in 2015, Baobab Experience is now located in a car park surrounded by deserted buildings in the Italian capital. More than 20 evictions have forced the centre to move several times. When Ali decided…

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Yemen might maybe be ‘worst’ humanitarian crisis in 50 years

People in war-torn Yemen are facing a situation that « looks like the Apocalypse », the UN’s humanitarian chief has told Al Jazeera, warning that the country  could become the worst humanitarian disaster in half a century. The Arab world’s poorest country has endured nearly three years of war between Houthi rebels and Saudi-backed forces loyal to exiled President Abd-Rabbu Mansour…

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Will the GCC crisis be resolved in 2018?

This year, efforts to resolve the most serious crisis to date within the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have failed, and it will be carried into 2018. What will happen next year is difficult to predict because, as we witnessed in 2017, a lot of the key developments did not follow the standard rules of international…

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Heroin’s children: My lifestyles contained within the US opioid crisis

Life expectancy in the United States dropped for the second consecutive year in 2016 and is fuelled by a surge in fatal drug overdoses, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).   As the US is facing the worst drug crisis in its history, a generation of children is being neglected, abandoned…

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Russia urges US-North Korea talks over nuclear disaster

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has urged the United States and North Korea to start negotiations amid growing tensions over Pyongyang’s nuclear programme.  Lavrov told the state-run RIA news agency in a written interview on Monday that there is a need to develop relations with North Korea to resolve the nuclear dispute on the Korean…

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Catalonia elections: Poll goals to stop separatist crisis

Catalonia is heading to the polls in a snap election to decide the future of the separatist project on Thursday. The dismissed Catalan government, headed by former regional President Carles Puigdemont, declared independence from Spain on October 27. The central government responded by enacting the previously-unused Article 155 of the Spanish Constitution, which allows Madrid…