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Global Citizen, the world’s largest movement to end extreme poverty, and the Waislitz Foundation, working to create a positive impact locally and globally through innovative projects that empower individuals to make a difference, has announced the recipients of the 2026 Global Citizen Waislitz Awards. According to the announcement, Smart Israel, Founder & CEO of Smartel Agri Tech, won the 2026 Global Citizen Waislitz Grand Prize award while Diana Yousef, Founder and CEO of change:WATER Labs received the Global Citizen Waislitz Disruptor Award. The Global Citizen Waislitz People’s Choice Award went to Oghenekevwe William Emadago, Founder and COO of Girlified LTD.From…

Australia has summoned the Israeli ambassador in anger over the country’s decision not to pursue criminal proceedings over the death of an Australian aid worker and six others in a 2024 airstrike on World Central Kitchen staff in Gaza. The case drew international condemnation.Published On 20 Aug 202620 Aug 2026Click here to share on social mediashare-nodesSharegoogleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo

In a questionnaire obtained exclusively by Al Jazeera, the Pentagon presented a list of questions to 31 NATO allies to determine ‘loyalty’ to the US. A NATO policy expert tells Al Jazeera’s ‘This is America’ it makes sense for President Trump, who cares deeply about loyalty.Published On 20 Aug 202620 Aug 2026Click here to share on social mediashare-nodesSharegoogleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo

Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesBitcoin, ether and other cryptocurrencies surged after U.S. President Donald Trump urged Congress to pass a bill expected to boost the sector. Trump also hinted at regulating Hyperliquid, the decentralized exchange that’s been garnering popularity among traders as the home base of “perpetual futures” trading. The Hyperliquid token rose about 20% over the past 24 hours, according to CoinGecko data.A retreat in Treasury yields also helped to boost trading in the iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT) which was more than 4.5 times the 30-day average even before the Hyperliquid headlines. Bitcoin volatility measured by Volmex Labs’…

Two Amazon delivery drones crashed into a stationary construction crane in Tolleson, Arizona in October 2025, while another delivery drone took down an overhead Internet cable in Waco in November 2025. The federal government’s investigations into those incidents are ongoing. “We trained our algorithms; we felt pretty good, but we found in the real world the performance just wasn’t good enough, and let me tell you, that was a humbling experience,” said David Carbon, vice president of Prime Air at Amazon, in a recording of an internal staff meeting in March that was obtained by CNBC. The most recent incident…

This summer could be the hottest, driest and deadliest in English history. Successive heatwaves have so far claimed almost 3,000 lives. Nearly three-quarters of England and all of Wales is in drought, while key reservoirs are parched. Across this brown and stickily unpleasant land, from Grimsby down to St Ives, hosepipe bans are in force, while music festivals are staged not on green fields but in giant dust bowls.Just how bad is it? I asked a leading climate scientist.“This is as good as it’s going to get,” said Hayley Fowler, a professor at Newcastle University. “It will only get hotter.”A…

This is the second part of this report. Read the first part here. Grace* never saw a state budget document, she never read a federal appropriation law or examined a budget implementation report. She probably did not know that Nigeria’s HIV response was financed largely by international donors, or that governments at both the federal and state levels had, for years, pledged to assume greater responsibility for sustaining the programmes that kept people like her alive. What she knew was simple: the community health worker who discreetly delivered her antiretroviral medicines stopped coming, the counselling sessions ended, and the confidential…

Formula 1’s summer break is over and the 2026 season restarts in the Netherlands this weekend as the championship run-in looms over the final months of the campaign.We asked Sky Sports F1 pundit Karun Chandhok to run the rule over some of the key questions left to be answered on and off track this year and predict how things might pan out from here… Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player See what some of the Formula 1 drivers, including Lewis Hamilton, George Russell and Kimi Antonelli, got up to during the summer break! How many drivers…

Kidjo grew up in Benin, but left for Paris in 1983, citing oppression from the country’s then-communist government.”From the moment the communist regime arrived in Benin, I became aware that the freedom we enjoy can be snatched away in a second,” she told the BBC in 2023.The Walk of Fame ceremony was also filled with singing and dancing in celebration of Kidjo’s career, which has included collaborations with big names such as Burna Boy, John Legend, Bono and Alicia Keys.Her latest album, HOPE!!, was released earlier this year with tracks produced by Pharrell Williams, and collaborations with Ayra Starr, Quavo,…

The Lagos, Ogun and Oyo State governments have declared Thursday, August 20, work-free to commemorate this year’s Isese Day, with the three states framing the annual celebration as an important expression of Yoruba culture, traditional religion and indigenous heritage, The PUNCH reports. The declarations mean public servants and other residents in the three South-West states will observe the day as a public or work-free holiday as traditional worshippers gather for prayers, rituals, processions, and other cultural activities. In Lagos, the government said more than three million people were expected to participate in the celebration, which it described as potentially the…