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Gerald Tan
Gerald Tan is a TV news reporter by day and foodie by night. He is celebrating his 10th year with Al Jazeera and is now based at the network headquart... ers in Doha after stints in Washington, DC and Kuala Lumpur. As a senior producer in the English channel, he is responsible for writing, voicing, and packaging reports for the hourly news bulletins. His passion for international affairs is rivalled by only that for food. Gerald runs his own website www.boulangerry.com featuring articles about food and travel, the restaurant scene in Doha, and his kitchen adventures as a baker. AJEats is the meeting of his two worlds, a lens into global culture through the food people eat. Follow Gerald Tan on Twitter @GeraldoTan & on Instagram @boulangerry
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Models in France are now required to undergo a medical exam to be certified fit to strut.
Iraqi forces are slowly retaking neighbourhoods from ISIL control in western Mosul, which has encouraged some residents to return home.
Record temperatures are fuelling a heatwave in several states of India. Some cities are trying to cope by shifting school and working hours. A lack of rain is threatening the livelihoods of many farmers. Al Jazeera’s Gerald Tan reports.
Former Haitian football star Bobby Duval has joined a chorus of concern over the government’s decision to revive the military.
Thousands of people have attended the funeral of a student killed in a protest in Niger’s capital of Niamey.
Rescue ships in the Mediterranean Sea picked up thousands of refugees in mid-April. At least 4,500 people were saved off the coast of Libya on April 14 and 15, and several hundreds more on April 16.
North Korea is blaming the US for stirring up a possible conflict n the region. Words have been flying between the adversaries as the North prepares to mark its biggest celebration of the year – some say with a show of force.
Parts of New Zealand’s North Island are under a state of emergency because of a severe storm system.
A two-day meeting in the Pakistani city of Lahore is under way to help resolve a water dispute between India and Pakistan. The neighbours are bound by a decades-old accord to share resources along the Indus River.