Source: Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera More than 500 firefighters battle blaze that has forced 1,500 residents from their homes. Spain’s first major wildfire of the year has destroyed more than 30sq km (11.5sq miles) of forest and forced 1,500 residents to abandon their homes, authorities said. The […]
Source: Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera Rome, Italy – Thousands across Italy have been protesting against the harsh conditions of Alfredo Cospito’s imprisonment, as fears for the 55-year-old anarchist’s health grow with his hunger strike extending 150 days. Cospito was jailed for 10 years in 2012 for shooting […]
Source: Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera The Muslim holy month of Ramadan will begin later this week. The pre-sunrise to sunset fast lasts anywhere from 12 to 18 hours, depending on where you are in the world. Muslims believe that Ramadan is the month when the first verses […]
Source: Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera Twenty years ago, as the United States prepared to wage war on Iraq, then-Democratic Senator Joe Biden voted in favour of President George Bush’s reckless adventure. On the other side of the world, in Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin opposed it, denouncing […]
Source: Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera Listen to this story: Tbilisi, Georgia – When Oksana Slipchenko first exchanged glances with the man she would eventually marry, she was immediately drawn to his eyes. “They were like … a small kitten’s eyes,” she recounts with a giggle. She pauses […]
Thousands of people have rallied in central Athens to protest over Greece’s deadliest rail disaster, which killed dozens of people last month. The demonstrators expressed anger over safety deficiencies in Greece’s railway network and demanded punishment for those responsible for the head-on collision between a passenger train and a freight train that killed 57 people […]
Source: Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera Tens of thousands of people have rallied in Athens and cities across Greece to demand accountability following the deaths of 57 people last week in the country’s worst train disaster. Labour unions and student associations organised the demonstrations on Wednesday, while strikes […]
Clashes have erupted between police and a group of demonstrators outside the Greek parliament in Athens on the fringes of a protest by thousands of students and railway workers over Greece’s deadliest train crash in living memory. A small group of protesters hurled petrol bombs at police and set fire to rubbish bins on Sunday. […]
Source: Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera The station master involved in Greece’s worst-ever train disaster will appear in court on Saturday, as mass protests broke out over the crash that killed at least 57 people. Thousands of protesters have demonstrated across the country since Tuesday’s collision between a […]
At least 40 people were killed and dozens injured in a head-on collision between two trains in Greece, local authorities said. The crash took place outside the central city of Larissa late on Tuesday, when a passenger train heading from the capital, Athens, to Thessaloniki collided with a cargo train travelling from the northern city. […]