The U.S. gives Israel $3.8 billion in military aid every year.
Here’s how U.S. tax dollars are funding Israel’s attacks on Palestinians:
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"The royal family is sitting on actual piles of gold."
Journalist explains why younger people are more likely to reject the coronation, the crown and King Charles amid a cost-of-living crisis and calls for reparations.
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What’s happening in Sudan right now is the result of decades of political instability brought by colonization.
Here’s how the United States, Britain and even the Soviet Union each played a role in Sudan's current crisis.
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The conflict between two Sudanese armed groups has killed over 500 people and displaced over 300,000.
The factions agreed to extend their ceasefire on May 2 but witnesses say airstrikes and shooting occurred shortly after.
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How are civilian groups in Sudan empowering communities?
Join #AJESpaces today as Al Jazeera’s @MaryamNemazee speaks to public health specialist, civil servant & activist @aseelgeries who is currently in Wad Madani
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A new movie covers the German colonizers who massacred Herero and Nama people in Namibia, using torture tactics later deployed in the Holocaust.
“Measures of Men” stars Herero actor Girley Jazama. She talked with AJ+ about her goal “to give a voice to my ancestors.”
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This meal is used to punish prisoners for bad behavior – and it's so gross, it's been banned in some jails. investigates:
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Major corporations knew cancer-causing “forever chemicals” were toxic for years before they alerted the public.
Now, they’re found in water supplies, 330 animal species and the blood of most Americans.
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Here’s how women played a central role in overthrowing British colonial rule when Ghana became a republic in 1957.
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This Indigenous land defender stood against a mining giant trying to exploit her people’s land in the Amazon — and won.
Alessandra Korap Munduruku is now being recognized for her work as an environmental protector in Brazil, where protecting the land can be deadly.
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Asylum seekers marching through Mexico sewed their mouths shut to protest recent immigration deaths. They are part of 3,000 people headed to Mexico City.
40 migrants in Mexico died at an immigrant detention center in March.
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Thousands of Aboriginal Australians were killed and displaced from their homeland by the British Empire. Here’s how:
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The Iraq War, launched by the U.S. and its allies in 2003, technically ended in 2011. So why are U.S. troops still there?
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Indentured Indian laborers fought for their freedom, helping unravel the massive British system that created the world’s largest diaspora community.
In part 3 of our series, we'll explore this resistance movement alongside expert and descendant of indenture .
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How will California’s salmon fishing ban affect Indigenous communities who depend on it for their livelihood? AJ+ spoke to vice chairman Frankie Myers.
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The killing of #JordanNeely has sparked outrage and protests over not only the New York Police Department and housing issues in New York, but also the media’s passive coverage of it.
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A former marine choked an unhoused Black man, #JordanNeely, for up to 15 minutes, killing him.
But initial reporting by media outlets said Neely “died,” with one calling him “unhinged” and a “vagrant.”
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Israel’s use of AI-powered tech to enforce its illegal occupation of Palestinians includes a facial recognition system called “Red Wolf” that tracks and blocks Palestinian movements, says a leading human rights group.
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The coverage of Jordan Neely’s killing in the first 24 hours points to a deeper problem with how the media reports on all things crime, poverty and police.
explains why media needs to take a step back and consider the bigger picture.
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A 19-year-old German student says she was harassed, threatened with handcuffs and tear gas, and prevented from entering Israel because of her Palestinian heritage.
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The conflict between two Sudanese armed groups, the Sudanese armed forces and Rapid Support Forces, has killed over 500 people and displaced over 300,000.
The factions agreed to extend their ceasefire on May 2 but witnesses say airstrikes and shooting occurred shortly after.
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Before Los Angeles had Hollywood, it had oil – a lot of it. And the toxic legacy of that oil boom still lingers below the city streets.
heads to the Echo Park neighborhood to investigate.
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