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Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt imposed a diplomatic, trade and travel boycott on Qatar on June 5, 2017 [Gabriela Maj/Bloomberg]

Kuwait says progress made in resolving Saudi-led boycott of Qatar

Foreign minister says progress made in Gulf crisis but stops short of announcing breakthrough.

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Turkey and France clash on several key political issues [File: Murad Sezer/Reuters]

Erdogan hopes France ‘gets rid of Macron trouble’

Turkish president hits out at his French counterpart, renewing a war of words between the two leaders.

An April 2020 report said that the Xinjiang government has signed a deal to open a hog farm for local consumption in Kashgar, an area that is 90-percent Muslim Uighur [File: How Hwee Young/EPA]

Uighurs forced to eat pork as China expands Xinjiang pig farms

Trump and his legal team's efforts to change election results have come up empty so far [Julio Cortez/AP Photo]
Simply 2020

US Supreme Court again asked to block Biden’s Pennsylvania win

A woman separates plastic bottles at the Dandora landfill on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya [Al Jazeera: Courtesy of Pauline Mpungu]

Despite pioneering ban, Kenya is drowning in single-use plastic

Only 15 percent of women said they have asked for a raise from their employer during the coronavirus pandemic, compared to 20 percent of men, found a survey by Moody's Analytics and Morning Consult [File: Hollie Adams/Bloomberg]

COVID-19 crisis: Fewer women than men feel they can ask for raise

Farmers across India are protesting against new laws aimed at deregulating India's enormous agricultural sector [File: Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters]
THE WEEK IN NUMBERS

Protesting farmers, asking for a raise and flying canines

Long lines for food banks in major US cities, like this one in New York, illustrate how many Americans are being left behind by the US economic recovery [File: Brendan McDermid]

The US added only 245,000 jobs in November as recovery slows

Israel's Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi, left, and his Jordanian counterpart Ayman Safadi, right [Khalil Mazraawi/AFP]

Jordan, Israel in rare meeting on Palestinian issue

Black Pete, or Zwarte Piet as he is known in the Netherlands, is a holiday tradition dating back to the 19th century [File:Piroschka van de Wouw/Reuters]

Black Pete: Is time up for the Netherlands’ blackface tradition?


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Turkey and France clash on several key political issues [File: Murad Sezer/Reuters]

Erdogan hopes France ‘gets rid of Macron trouble’

An April 2020 report said that the Xinjiang government has signed a deal to open a hog farm for local consumption in Kashgar, an area that is 90-percent Muslim Uighur [File: How Hwee Young/EPA]

Uighurs forced to eat pork as China expands Xinjiang pig farms

Trump and his legal team's efforts to change election results have come up empty so far [Julio Cortez/AP Photo]
Simply 2020

US Supreme Court again asked to block Biden’s Pennsylvania win

A woman separates plastic bottles at the Dandora landfill on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya [Al Jazeera: Courtesy of Pauline Mpungu]

Despite pioneering ban, Kenya is drowning in single-use plastic

Only 15 percent of women said they have asked for a raise from their employer during the coronavirus pandemic, compared to 20 percent of men, found a survey by Moody's Analytics and Morning Consult [File: Hollie Adams/Bloomberg]

COVID-19 crisis: Fewer women than men feel they can ask for raise

Farmers across India are protesting against new laws aimed at deregulating India's enormous agricultural sector [File: Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters]
THE WEEK IN NUMBERS

Protesting farmers, asking for a raise and flying canines

Long lines for food banks in major US cities, like this one in New York, illustrate how many Americans are being left behind by the US economic recovery [File: Brendan McDermid]

The US added only 245,000 jobs in November as recovery slows

Israel's Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi, left, and his Jordanian counterpart Ayman Safadi, right [Khalil Mazraawi/AFP]

Jordan, Israel in rare meeting on Palestinian issue

Black Pete, or Zwarte Piet as he is known in the Netherlands, is a holiday tradition dating back to the 19th century [File:Piroschka van de Wouw/Reuters]

Black Pete: Is time up for the Netherlands’ blackface tradition?

Bangladesh ships Rohingya to remote island despite outcry

Humanitarian workers say some of the refugees had been coerced into going to Bhashan Char, a flood-prone island.

Rohingyas are seen on a ship as they are moved to Bhasan Char island [Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters]

PodcastThe Take

Delhi’s pollution and a rise in COVID-19 infections

The Take is examining the stark differences in how the air pollution crisis is affecting Delhi’s rich and poor.

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Vaccine nationalism: ‘We are racing the virus, not each other’

As UK celebrates vaccine rollout, experts and European officials remind officials of global efforts to end pandemic.

The UK was the first country to approve Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine for widespread use [File: Dado Ruvic/Illustration/Reuters]

Growing calls to protect Fijian soldiers who served in UK army

Eight veterans have lost a court battle to remain in the UK and are now stuck in political and financial limbo.

A British Army Overseas Pre-Selection team hands out results to applicants after their examination in Fiji's capital Suva during a British army selection process [File: David Gray/Reuters]

The Times newspaper apologises to CAGE, pays £30,000 damages

UK newspaper had falsely suggested group and its employee, a former Guantanamo prisoner, supported a murder suspect.

Begg said The Times' story was an example of media coverage that aimed to 'perpetuate a narrative that demonises Muslims' [File: Russell Cheyne/Reuters]
THE GREEN READ

Avocados v elephants: Is the green gold putting wildlife at risk?

Demand for the fruit and a new farm threaten to cut animals off from their habitat in Kenya’s Amboseli National Park.

[Jawahir Al-Naimi/Al Jazeera]

Brexit talks falter: Prospect of deal breakthrough ‘receding’

Critical negotiations over post-Brexit deal hampered by ‘eleventh-hour’ EU demands, UK government figure tells Reuters.

The Brexit transition period, sometimes called the implementation period, will end on December 31 [Geert Vanden Wijngaert/Bloomberg]

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US Supreme Court again asked to block Biden’s Pennsylvania win

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