Neither candidate crossed the 50 percent mark for an outright win on May 14, triggering an unprecedented run-off vote.
Ten percent of the world’s population does not have enough food, the highest number in more than a decade.
Russia has claimed full control of the war-ravaged city, but Ukraine says its forces are still holding on.
Across the globe, nearly all words for tea can be derived from the root-words cha or te.
The number of recorded executions has risen to its highest level in five years, according to Amnesty International.
Bayt Nabala was among 530 Palestinian villages destroyed at Israel’s birth. Its people still dream of returning home.
More than 64 million people were eligible to vote to elect a president and parliament for a five-year term.
To mark World Press Freedom Day, Al Jazeera looks at where the media is most restricted around the globe.
As historic drought forces the US to mull Colorado River water cuts, Indigenous communities are demanding to be heard.
Sudan’s army and the powerful paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have clashed in the capital and other cities.
In the dead of night, the Israeli army breaks into Palestinian homes across the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
There are more people in India and China than in the next 19 most populated countries in the world combined.
The horrors of war, its long legacy, and its lost lives and heritage haunt Iraq two decades after the US invasion.
Seven out of the 10 most water-stressed nations are in the Middle East and North Africa.
