Proposal to ban the burqa in Sri Lanka viewed by many as attempt to appease Sri Lanka’s Buddhist majority.
![A burqa is an outer garment worn to cover the entire body and the face and is used by some Muslim women [Chamila Kareunarathne/EPA]](https://aljazeeranews-mggx1uo47w.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/h_56138345.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)

Proposal to ban the burqa in Sri Lanka viewed by many as attempt to appease Sri Lanka’s Buddhist majority.
![A burqa is an outer garment worn to cover the entire body and the face and is used by some Muslim women [Chamila Kareunarathne/EPA]](https://aljazeeranews-mggx1uo47w.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/h_56138345.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Refugees at Jedaa Camp say they are being forced to evacuate as nearly 2,400 families stare down an uncertain future.
![Aid groups and international agencies have warned that the shutdown of the camp could leave hundreds without food and shelter in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic and harsh winter [File: Amina Ismail/Reuters]](https://aljazeeranews-mggx1uo47w.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2020-12-11T151145Z_282050061_RC23LK9RF0QU_RTRMADP_3_IRAQ-SECURITY-DISPLACED-e1612190895720.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Portuguese public hospitals in worst affected areas running out of intensive care beds.
![The cases, which come a day after a new lockdown was put in place, bring the total number of cases in a country of just over 10 million people to 539,416 [AFP]](https://aljazeeranews-mggx1uo47w.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/000_8YK2WN.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
A road map for post-war Afghanistan and a nationwide ceasefire are part of the agenda of Tuesday’s talks.
![The first round of talks, which kicked off in September, ended last month after the rivals agreed on procedural rules. [Sorin Furcoi/Al Jazeera]](https://aljazeeranews-mggx1uo47w.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/7R404921.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Anger mounts after at least 15 Muslims, including 20-day-old baby, are cremated against family wishes.
![Municipal workers carry the coffin of an unclaimed body of a COVID-19 victim to a crematorium in Colombo in this December 10 photo [Lakruwan Wanniarachchi/AFP]](https://aljazeeranews-mggx1uo47w.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/000_8WU3GG.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Elyas Dayee, a radio journalist, killed in a blast in Helmand days after another journalist was killed in Kabul.
![Elyas Dayee's journalist friend said it was a "great loss for the country"[Twitter]](https://aljazeeranews-mggx1uo47w.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Emmav7QWEAEMesC.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Moscow says planes carrying peacekeepers are travelling to region after peace deal reached.
![Service members of the Russian peacekeeping troops stand next to a tank near the border with Armenia [Francesco Brembati/Reuters]](https://aljazeeranews-mggx1uo47w.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2020-11-10T121001Z_255669117_RC2C0K9S38QW_RTRMADP_3_ARMENIA-AZERBAIJAN-RUSSIA-PEACEKEEPERS-e1605020490821.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
How will Biden’s election as the US president affect the Afghan peace process, which was pushed by his predecessor.

President-elect Joe Biden declared it was “time to heal” a divided America in his first speech after winning election.

Afghanistan reels from attack on Kabul University that left at least 22 people, including 18 students, dead.
![Gunmen went on a rampage through the campus firing indiscriminately in the worst attack on the elite university [Mohammad Ismail/Reuters]](https://aljazeeranews-mggx1uo47w.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2020-11-03T065348Z_2009866911_RC2IVJ9CXUDR_RTRMADP_3_AFGHANISTAN-ATTACK.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)