Publication: Al Jazeera

First reported 6 hours ago - Updated 55 mins ago - 1 reports

US Boy Scouts vote to end ban on gays

The Boy Scouts of the US has said it will allow openly gay youths to join the organisation while maintaining a ban on adult leaders, after a vote at its annual meeting in Texas.The resolution will go into force on January 1 next year.Sixty-one percent ... [Published Al Jazeera - 6 hours ago]

Entities: Gay, Homosexuality

First reported 10 hours ago - Updated 56 mins ago - 1 reports

UAV Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

US president warns of 'homegrown extremists'

US President Barack Obama has said that the tools given to law enforcement to "fight terror...raised difficult questions."Addressing an audience at the National Defence University on Thursday, he said: "In some cases, I believe we compromised our basic ... [Published Al Jazeera - 10 hours ago]

Entities: UAV Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, Barack Obama, CIA Central Intelligence Agency, Guantánamo Bay, Military/Armed Forces

First reported 12 hours ago - Updated 57 mins ago - 2 reports

David Cameron

Two more arrested over UK soldier's killing

Police in London have arrested a man and a woman in connection with the murder of a British soldier near a military barrack.Detectives said on Thursday they had arrested the unidentified suspects, both aged 29, over the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby, 25, ... [Published Al Jazeera - 2 hours ago]

Entities: United Kingdom, London, David Cameron, Islam, Woolwich (United Kingdom)

First reported 8 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 1 reports

Christine Lagarde

IMF chief faces more questioning over payout

IMF chief Christine Lagarde faces another day of questioning after being grilled for hours by French prosecutors who are deciding if she should be charged over a state payout to a disgraced tycoon during her time as finance minister.Lagarde has downplayed ... [Published Al Jazeera - 8 hours ago]

Entities: Christine Lagarde, International Monetary Fund, Bernard Tapie

First reported 18 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 2 reports

United Malays National Organisation

Malaysia arrests opposition figures

Malaysian police have arrested three opposition politicians and activists and charged another with sedition, launching a crackdown on dissent three weeks after a divisive election that sparked a series of protests.Opposition member of parliament Tian ... [Published Al Jazeera - 10 hours ago]

Entities: Malaysia, Sedition, Arrests, United Malays National Organisation, Infringement

First reported 9 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 1 reports

Hizballah

Deadly violence continues in northern Lebanon

At least five people have been killed in evening clashes in Tripoli between Lebanese fighters backing rival factions in Syria's conflict, security sources told Al Jazeera.The fighting on Thursday brings the death toll in the new wave of sectarian violence ... [Published Al Jazeera - 9 hours ago]

Entities: Lebanon, Tripoli (Libya), Hizballah

First reported 5 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 1 reports

Boy Scouts of America

US boy scouts reconsider gay youth ban

The Boy Scouts of America is considering allowing openly gay teens into its ranks for the first time.The youth organisation is voting on Thursday on whether to lift a ban on homosexuals.It is a debate that has triggered strong reactions from rights groups ... [Published Al Jazeera - 5 hours ago]

Entities: Gay, Robert Reynolds, Boy Scouts of America

First reported 8 hours ago - Updated 6 hours ago - 1 reports

Insider sheds light on Syria's chemical arms

A former scientist for the Syrian chemical weapons programme said the regime of President Bashar al-Assad has enough of the nerve agent sarin to "eradicate the whole of Damascus, Homs, Hama, and Aleppo".Speaking to Al Jazeera on condition of anonymity ... [Published Al Jazeera - 8 hours ago]

Entities: Chemical Weapon, Sarin, Chemical, Syria, Nerve Agent

First reported 7 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 1 reports

US volunteers work through Oklahoma rubble

The powerful tornado that tore through the US city of Oklahoma has not destroyed the will to help.An army of volunteers have descended upon the city, eager to clean up in the aftermath.Al Jazeera's Cath Turner reports from the suburb of Moore, where strangers ... [Published Al Jazeera - 7 hours ago]

Entities: Tornado, Powerful

First reported 9 hours ago - Updated 9 hours ago - 1 reports

Taiwan fishing town reels over sea dispute

It has been two weeks since a Taiwanese fisherman was shot dead by Filipino coast guards.Since then, governments of the two countries have been locked in a diplomatic spat.Some local fishermen are urging Taiwan and the Philippines to agree once and for ... [Published Al Jazeera - 9 hours ago]

Entities: Taiwan, Philippines

First reported 12 hours ago - Updated 12 hours ago - 1 reports

Yemeni diplomats at UN go on strike

Yemeni staff at the United Nations US office have gone on strike.They are not happy with their working conditions and say they have not been paid for months.But one person is still working - the ambassador himself.Al Jazeera's diplomatic editor James ... [Published Al Jazeera - 12 hours ago]

Entities: United Nations

First reported 12 hours ago - Updated 12 hours ago - 2 reports

Dubai's striking workers in their own words

Dubai, United Arab Emirates - A strike by low-wage workers at Arabtec - the construction giant building the Louvre museum in Abu Dhabi, a branch campus of New York University and a series of other megaprojects - has ended after police entered labour camps ... [Published Al Jazeera - 12 hours ago]

Entities: Workers, Arabtec Holding PJSC, Deportation, Dubai

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"The EnglishEnglish Defence League wanted to use this to their advantage. They came out last night chanting 'no surrender to Muslims,' and clashed with riot police" our correspondent said

Two more arrested over UK soldier's killing [Published Al Jazeera - 2 hours ago]

French government spokeswoman Najat Vallaud-Belkacem told BFMTV that "objectively speaking and knowing the IMF... I tend to think that if she is charged, they will without doubt ask her to quit her post"

IMF chief faces more questioning over payout [Published Al Jazeera - 8 hours ago]

..."It was our dogma that we were creating the equivalent of Israels nuclear weapons," the chemist said. "Never were we told that the weapons could be used inside the country."

Insider sheds light on Syria's chemical arms [Published Al Jazeera - 8 hours ago]

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US volunteers work through Oklahoma rubble [Published Al Jazeera - 7 hours ago]
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