Kevin Doyle

Mar 24, 2024 | aljazeera.com | Kevin Doyle

Medical experts and Chinese media are reporting on the closure of obstetric departments across this country of 1.4 billion people, which has suffered a population decline for two consecutive years – China’s first experience of a diminishing birthrate in several decades. The closures of delivery wards has been likened to an “obstetric winter” in China, while public concern around the shutdowns has prompted authorities to remove search topics related to the issue from Chinese social media.

Mar 23, 2024 | aljazeera.com | Kevin Doyle

More than 115 people have been killed and nearly 120 others were injured following a brazen attack on concertgoers at Moscow’s Crocus City Hall before a performance by a Soviet-era rock band on Friday. Assailants dressed in camouflage uniforms opened fire and reportedly threw explosive devices inside the concert venue, which was left in flames with its roof collapsing after the deadly attack.

Mar 20, 2024 | aljazeera.com | Kevin Doyle

Having ruled with an iron fist for 45 years, Cambodia’s governing party leaders have a lengthy list of practices that have been banned and political opponents jailed or forced to flee the country. Now the country’s newly-appointed Prime Minister Hun Manet, the son of Cambodia’s longtime “strong man” ruler Hun Sen, has taken aim at a new source of social unrest: musical truck horns.

Mar 1, 2024 | aljazeera.com | Kevin Doyle

blinking-dotLive updatesLive updates, Israel’s war on Gaza live: UN, medics say many Gaza aid attack victims shotAs death toll from food aid ‘massacre’ reaches 115, Gaza hospital says 80 percent of injured sustained gunshot wounds.

Feb 23, 2024 | aljazeera.com | Kevin Doyle

blinking-dotLive updatesLive updates, Israel’s war on Gaza live: UNRWA no longer functional in north GazaUN Palestinian refugee agency says few staff and ‘collapse of social order’ amid food shortages have left it helpless.