Tag: Al Jazeera

British far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos has been detained by US immigration authorities and faces removal for overstaying his visa and failing to appear at an immigration hearing.

US President Donald Trump has claimed the US and Venezuela have reached the ‘biggest oil deal in world history’, which will give the US control over 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan oil. Critics say it’s predatory. Soraya Lennie explains what we know.

Thousands of people marched on Washington DC, invoking Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy on the 63rd anniversary of his ‘I have a dream’ speech, warning that voting rights and other civil liberties are under threat.

Indian Hindu leader Mohan Bhagwat is due to speak in New York as human rights groups protest his visit. His organisation, the RSS, has been criticised for its Hindu nationalist ideology. Religious freedom organisations have called for Bhagwat’s US visa to be revoked.

The head of India’s controversial Hindu nationalist RSS is due to speak in New York, despite calls for his visa to be revoked. Why is the movement trying to expand its influence in the US? Al Jazeera’s Ava Warrinerr explains.

‘Typical Trump. It’s sort of a silly joke.’
Canadians are reacting to US President Donald Trump’s executive order to rename Lake Ontario as ‘Lake America’. It comes amid a spiralling trade war between the two nations.

A video shows Syria’s president using a Visa card, one day after the US removed the country from the State Sponsor of Terrorism list. US sanctions had banned Syrians from accessing the global banking system for more than 15 years.

Palestine Action co-founder Huda Ammori tells Jazeera that US sanctions designating the group a terrorist organisation will not deter its supporters or stop the group’s direct action plans against Israeli weapons companies.

A man who killed eight relatives at a family home in the US state of Montana had been asked to move out of the house weeks earlier, according to a man whose former wife and two children were among the victims. Police say the shooter also died from a self-inflicted gunshot.

A truck hit a natural gas pipeline near Saxon, Wisconsin prompted nearby residents to evacuate. The massive leak forced authorities to impose a flight ban and to cut the power temporarily to prevent a potential explosion.