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The 2024 United States presidential race was the first “podcast” election – and given the millions of views and votes a podcast appearance can bring, it won’t be the last. Ryan Kohls reports on the allure of – and the problems with – the political podcast interview.

Ecuador's election authority has declared incumbent President Daniel Noboa the winner of Sunday's presidential runoff. His supporters have been celebrating, after what was expected to be a tightly fought race between the centre-right incumbent, and his leftist rival Luisa Gonzalez. She's calling for a recount and says there's been a grotesque electoral fraud.

In Gabon, preliminary results have been announced in the country's first election since a 2023 military coup. The man who led that coup - Brice Oligui Nguema - has won in a landslide - with more than 90 percent of the vote. He's the first leader in more than half a century to not belong to the Bongo family dynasty.

Gabon is among seven west and central African countries where the military has seized power in recent years. When the army overthrew the president there in 2023, it ended 56 years of rule by the Bongo dynasty. On Saturday, some 920-thousand registered voters went to the polls - in Gabon's first election since that coup. The winner, Brice Oligui Nguema, is the army general who led that military tak...

Just before a magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck central Myanmar, General Zaw Min Tun sat down with Talk to Al Jazeera. In a rare interview, the military government’s spokesperson defended military rule amid growing armed resistance, looming war crimes trials, and international condemnation. Hours later, entire villages were gone, and thousands were dead. As Myanmar faces war, disaster, and diplomati...

Israeli forces have targeted Gaza’s al-Ahli Hospital with missiles, destroying the emergency unit and putting the only functioning hospital in northern Gaza out of service. Health officials at the hospital evacuated patients, while some of them, including critically ill patients, were forced to flee after the Israeli military issued a warning before the attack. Mads Gilbert, an emergency medicine...

Israel's total blockade of Gaza is fuelling desperation across the strip. Food, water and medicine are running out, leaving thousands of Palestinians without basic necessities. The United Nations says people face “barely livable” conditions.

Northern Gaza's only functioning hospital is now out of service after an Israeli military strike. An attack on the al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City destroyed the facility's emergency unit, the main entrance and a unit holding medical oxygen, for intensive care patients. Hospital staff scrambled to empty the facility after a forced evacuation order from the Israeli military came just minutes befo...

Israeli forces have attacked the al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City. Two air strikes destroyed the hospital's emergency unit, the main entrance and a facility holding medical oxygen, for intensive care patients. What was the largest, remaining, functioning hospital in northern Gaza, is now out of service. Hospital staff scrambled to evacuate the facility before the strike and move patients and the inju...

Talks between the United States and Iran over Tehran’s nuclear programme will resume next week, following what Iran has described as “constructive” discussions in Oman. The negotiations are indirect, with envoys relaying messages through intermediaries. The Iranian Foreign Ministry confirmed that the heads of the negotiating teams spoke briefly after the latest round.

US efforts to secure Russian agreement to a ceasefire in Ukraine appear no closer to yielding results, after US special envoy Steve Witkoff's third visit to Russia. Trump has told Putin he must bring an end to the war quickly. Witkoff's meeting with Vladimir Putin in St Petersburg on Friday was held as European leaders met to agree a huge military support package for Ukraine. Nearly $24 billion ha...

The renewal of Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza has unleashed yet more death, destruction and displacement, but Palestinians remain determined to make the world witness their plight.

A United States immigration judge has ruled that the deportation case against Mahmoud Khalil can proceed, a month after the Columbia University graduate student was detained over his involvement in pro-Palestine protests. Judge Jamee Comans made the determination on Friday at the end of a nearly two-hour hearing. Khalil can appeal the ruling.

As the US government imposed tariffs on goods from all other countries, President Donald Trump has asked Americans to “hang tough". But economists are warning of negative consequences for American households and businesses. Georgetown University professor Michael Strain, who heads economic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, tells host Steve Clemons that “the risk of recession is...

President Donald Trump wants Iran to know that "all options are on the table" for preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons ahead of talks on Saturday between US and Iranian delegations, his press secretary told reporters on Friday. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Trump's "ultimate objective is to ensure that Iran can never obtain a nuclear weapon" and that Trump believes i...

Israel and Turkiye have been holding closed-door meetings in Azerbaijan, to work out ways to avoid direct conflict in Syria. Both have a military presence there -- and accuse each other of threatening regional security. Israel has carried out hundreds of air strikes on Syria since Bashar al Assad was toppled in December, destroying military infrastructure and hardware. Turkiye says these attacks a...

Many of the images that have been seen from Israel’s war in Gaza have already been seen for the last time. With Gaza under siege from the Israeli military and tech companies censoring and taking down material, the responsibility falls on the people of Gaza to document and archive their own evidence of war crimes and genocide. How will it survive?

The Trump administration has escalated US air attacks in Yemen against the Houthis. According to Yemen’s Health Ministry, these near-daily raids have killed dozens, including civilians in residential areas. While the Biden administration had already carried out a series of attacks, the Trump administration is significantly ramping up its military response. The Houthis had launched multiple attacks...

It’s been almost a month since Israel broke the ceasefire agreement with Hamas, launching daily strikes across Gaza that have killed more than 1,100 Palestinians. Humanitarian aid has also been blocked from entering the area by Israel for more than a month, deepening the crisis. Humanitarian workers have also been directly targeted. Since October 7, 2023, more than 400 aid workers have been killed...

China imposes a 125% tariff on US goods, effective April 12. This follows US President Donald Trump's announcement to raise import tariffs on Chinese products to 145%. On Wednesday, Trump also declared a 90-day pause on reciprocal tariffs, excluding China.

The Philippines is the only country in the world, apart from the Vatican, where divorce is illegal. In this predominantly Catholic nation, there is intense pressure to uphold the sanctity of marriage. This leaves many women trapped in violent and abusive relationships. But a growing number of Filipinas are fighting to change the law.

International lawyer Ralph Wilde joins Centre Stage to talk about the 2024 landmark ruling by the International Court of Justice that deems Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories illegal — and why it must cease immediately. Wilde provides detailed analysis, which he presented to the court, and tells Al Jazeera principal presenter Cyril Vanier what Israel and the international community...

European defence ministers from the so-called 'coalition of the willing' have been meeting in Brussels to discuss boosting military support for Ukraine. It includes the possible deployment of peacekeepers if a ceasefire is agreed. The talks are part of a renewed push by Europe to arm Ukraine against Russia's invasion after the US made military support a condition of Kyiv's participation in peace t...

In a dramatic change of policy, Donald Trump has paused his so-called "reciprocal" levies on most nations for 90 days. This, after his tariff policy sent markets globally into a freefall and left business leaders and even pro-Trump Republicans warning of a recession. While the White House will be looking to cut deals with other nations on the levies, Trump has ramped up his trade dispute with Chin...

Ecuador heads to the polls gripped by spiraling violence and political uncertainty. Once one of South America’s safest nations, it now has the highest homicide rate in the region. The presidential run-off pits Daniel Noboa, the incumbent who’s militarised the streets, against Luisa Gonzalez, a left-winger promising social reform. Both offer starkly different futures. Which will voters choose?