Baghdad's historical Rashid Street, its role in Iraq's protests

Rashid Street dates back to the 16th century and has borne witness to historic revolts in the past, something it is seeing again today.

Rashid Street in the Iraqi capital Baghdad is normally a commercial hub but has now become the front line between protesters and security forces.

The avenue is no stranger to uprisings, for a century, Iraqis have used it to stage anti-government protests.

The revolts, current and past, have left their marks on its historic buildings.

Al Jazeera’s Simona Foltyn has more from Baghdad, Iraq.

Russian bombings intensify in Syria's Idlib

Over the past two months, attacks on the remaining rebel stronghold have intensified.

Russian and Syrian government air strikes have killed at least six people in Syria’s Idlib province.

Over the past two months, attacks on the remaining rebel stronghold have intensified.

Al Jazeera’s Victoria Gatenby reports.

Saudi Aramco share prices to be announced

Saudi Arabia says it will use the income from this public listing to diversify its economy.

It is one of the most eagerly awaited stock flotations in history, and Saudi Arabia is publishing the initial share price of its national oil company Aramco this week.

The announcement coincides with the meeting of oil producers’ bloc OPEC, of which Saudi Arabia is one of the key members.

But experts say the listing will fall short of the desired valuation.

Al Jazeera’s Osama Bin Javaid has more from OPEC headquarters in Vienna.

UK Labour supporters unhappy with prospect of new Brexit vote

The decision by Britain’s main opposition party to hold another Brexit vote if it wins the upcoming election has upset some supporters.

The decision by Britain’s main opposition Labour party to hold another Brexit vote if it wins the upcoming election has upset some supporters.

In Hartlepool, in northeast England, most people voted to leave the EU in the 2016 referendum.

Now they are threatening to switch to pro-Brexit parties.

Al Jazeera’s Emma Hayward reports from Hartlepool.

Former steel-making city becomes Sweden's greenest community

Eskilstuna is reinventing itself as a leader in recycling household waste in the country.

Few countries take recycling as seriously as Sweden, where 99 percent of household waste is turned into something new.

Al Jazeera’s Paul Rhys reports from Eskilstuna, a former steel-making city that is now reinventing itself as Sweden’s greenest community.

Illegal settlements: Israel starts constructing road in Hebron

There are also proposals to build a Jewish neighbourhood in the city’s market.

Israeli bulldozers have started levelling some 40 hectares (approximately 99 acres) of Palestinian-owned land north of Hebron.

They are building a bypass road connecting the illegal settlements of Hebron to Jerusalem.

The completed road will make it impossible for Palestinian farmers to reach their land on the other side.

Al Jazeera’s Imran Khan reports from the divided city of Hebron.

'A Rapist in Your Path': Chile's women protest abuse

Women over 40 are joining the protest started by younger Chileans to protest violence against women by men.

In a dancing intervention that has gone viral and encouraged women all over Latin America to speak up about their abuse, women in Chile have started a worldwide phenomenon.

Recently, thousands of women over 40 gathered to rehearse their performance of the song, A Rapist in Your Path.

Women in their 80s and older have come out in solidarity with younger women who go through trauma that lives with them forever.

Al Jazeera’s Lucia Newman reports from Santiago.

Musk’s Boring Co. Vegas Tunnel ‘Hopefully’ Operational in 2020

Billionaire Elon Musk said the transportation tunnel his startup Boring Co. is building in Las Vegas will hopefully be operational next year.

The Tesla Inc. chief executive officer made the comments about the $48.7 million subterranean transit project in the U.S. resort city in Twitter posts late Friday night.

The Las Vegas tunnel is the company’s only major project so far other than a mile-long test tunnel in Hawthorne, California. Pit construction and other preliminary work on the Las Vegas project began in September.

Musk said in a separate post that the company will look to work on other projects following the completion of the tunnel’s construction.

The planned transit system would allow users to ride in Tesla electric vehicles below ground from one side of the sprawling convention center to the other in just one minute.

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Trump Retweets Meme That Jesus Likes Him Better Than Obama. Critics Raise Holy Hell.

Twitter followers were agog after President Donald Trump retweeted a meme during another wild night of Twitter rants from Mar-a-Lago claiming Jesus Christ likes him more than Barack Obama.

The two-year-old message from a Trump fan called the president “heaven sent.” Trump responded with a retweet and a “Thank you!” The tweet included a meme of none other than “Jesus Christ” carrying luggage and apparently returning to America (did he have to cross a border to get there?). “Obama kicked me out,” says “Jesus.” “Trump invited me back.”

Trump is focused just now on boosted his bona fides with evangelicals following a scathing editorial earlier this month in Christianity Today. The publication, founded by Billy Graham, called for Trump’s removal from office for his “profoundly immoral” abuse of his office for personal and political gain. The editorial also lashed Trump’s “blackened moral record,” including “lies and slanders” and “immoral actions in business and his relationship with women, about which he remains proud.”

You can imagine the responses on Twitter when Trump used Jesus as a character reference. (One tweet suggested Trump followers would call Jesus a “libtard” for wanting to feed the poor.)