Nadia Al-Rashid
International Correspondent · World Affairs
Nadia Al-Rashid covers World Affairs for BreakWire News. Nadia Al-Rashid is an award-winning international correspondent based in London. She covered the Middle East and North Africa for Al Jazeera English for eleven years.
Areas of expertise: Middle East, Africa, Conflict Reporting, Diplomacy
Recent Articles
- US beat Australia and fans split in mood
The scoreline was clean. The emotions weren't. American supporters roared after a 2-0 win over Australia, while Socceroos fans were left nursing a familiar kind of hope.
- Canadian report blames Titan flaws and groupthink
The official verdict is blunt: Titan wasn't just experimental, it was badly understood by the company that built it. Canadian investigators say design flaws and a culture of self-b…
- Australia confirms first H5N1 bird flu case
Australia has logged its first confirmed H5N1 infection, closing the last continental gap for the virus outside Antarctica. The case is medically contained, but the map just change…
- Sherwood Forest’s Major Oak dies after centuries standing
For centuries it was treated as if it could outlast everyone who came to stare at it. It didn’t. The death of Sherwood Forest’s Major Oak is also a story about what crowds, heat an…
- Ukrainian drones strike Moscow refinery in broad raid
The drones reached Moscow again, and this time an oil refinery was on the list. The strike lands where Russia feels war least and where the Kremlin most wants calm.
- Attack on Niamey Airport Kills Soldiers and Civilians
Gunmen struck Niger’s main airport in the capital, and the army says the toll was heavy on all sides. In Niamey, the real shock is where this happened.
- US Navy Sends Drones to Hunt Gulf Mines
The fighting may have eased, but the water is another matter. U.S. naval crews are now preparing for the slower, uglier task of finding mines that could keep Gulf shipping on edge.
- Brazil court jails Eduardo Bolsonaro over US lobbying
Brazil’s top court has done something rare even by the country’s fevered standards: it punished a presidential son for trying to enlist Washington in a domestic criminal case. The …
- Abdullah Ibrahim dies in Germany at 91
Abdullah Ibrahim carried Cape Town, exile and memory into every phrase he played. His death at 91 closes one of jazz’s great political and musical journeys.
- Koizumi says Japan rearmament is vital deterrence
Japan's defence minister is making the case, bluntly, for a country long taught to flinch from military power. The argument isn't abstract anymore.
- Trump says he will visit India soon
Donald Trump says he's heading to India, and the timing matters more than the itinerary. After months of frost with Narendra Modi, both men now seem to need the photo.
- Bank of Japan lifts rates to 1%
Tokyo has pushed borrowing costs to a level Japan hasn’t seen in three decades. The reason is blunt: imported energy shock, war risk, and prices moving faster than the Bank of Japa…
- Britain bans under-16s from major social media
Britain is moving to lock children under 16 out of the world’s biggest social platforms. The policy is blunt, politically popular, and far harder to enforce than ministers will adm…
- UK appeals court keeps Palestine Action terror ban
Britain’s Court of Appeal has backed the ban on Palestine Action, leaving the direct-action group legally in the same category as terrorist organizations. The ruling lands hard in …
- US-Iran deal leaves Netanyahu politically exposed
A ceasefire deal between Washington and Tehran has done what years of speeches, warnings and pressure campaigns were meant to stop. For Benjamin Netanyahu, that lands as more than …
- Brazil instructors arrested after woman dies in bridge jump
A bridge jump in Brazil turned fatal in seconds. Police say the woman was helped over the edge without the rope that was meant to bring her back.
- Starbucks Korea closes stores for massacre history training
A coffee promotion collided with one of South Korea's rawest historical wounds. Now Starbucks Korea says it will close every store for a compulsory lesson in what it should have kn…
- Iran and US Reach Tentative Ceasefire Deal
Washington and Tehran say they have a framework to stop the fighting. The harder part starts now: whether Israel follows through, and who enforces any of it.
- Video appears to show Gaza drone shooting
A short video from Gaza captures a still moment turning fatal. The images are brief, but they land hard — and they sharpen old questions about who is safe in a war that has strippe…
- Spain and Cape Verde open amid wider World Cup tensions
Spain's opener against Cape Verde arrives with all the usual football noise and none of the usual calm. Across the tournament, the matches are starting under political and logistic…
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