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Is Spain being punished?

Is Spain being punished?

Earlier this week, at least 57 migrants died while trying to cross the border from Morocco into Ceuta, one of two Spanish enclaves located on the...

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Belen Fernandez

Sde Teiman walkout lays bare an Israeli military running out of trust

Sde Teiman walkout lays bare an Israeli military running out of trust

The same Israeli military base that right-wing activists once stormed to shield soldiers from military investigators now watched those soldiers stack...

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Ehab Jabareen

The promise I made to Ismail al-Ghoul

The promise I made to Ismail al-Ghoul

Two years ago, on July 31, 2024, I was spending the evening with my two sisters in Gaza City’s Remal neighbourhood, shopping for new clothes. For...

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Ohood Nassar

Apartheid wealth cannot buy silence on Gaza

Apartheid wealth cannot buy silence on Gaza

The University of Cape Town (UCT) has lost 250 million rand ($15.2m) in donor funding after adopting two resolutions on Israel’s war on Gaza....

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Tafi Mhaka

Pakistan’s attacks on Afghanistan are about more than the TTP

Pakistan’s attacks on Afghanistan are about more than the TTP

Since October 2025, Pakistan has carried out multiple air strikes in Afghanistan, causing large-scale civilian casualties and destruction. The...

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Zardasht Shams

How Netanyahu lost America

How Netanyahu lost America

As Benjamin Netanyahu began his latest visit to Washington, DC, to reaffirm Israel’s indispensable alliance with the United States, a public opinion...

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Said Arikat

Latin America is becoming a laboratory for tech-supremacism

Latin America is becoming a laboratory for tech-supremacism

Latin America is becoming the political and ideological laboratory for tech-supremacism. With Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel recently...

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Federico Pita

Why Saudi Arabia holds the key to Palestinian statehood

Why Saudi Arabia holds the key to Palestinian statehood

Nearly eight decades after the establishment of Israel, the creation of a sovereign Palestinian state remains the defining question of the...

29.07.2026 30

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Nawaf Obaid

Tunisia’s body politic is in crisis

Tunisia’s body politic is in crisis

Reports and rumours about a decline in President Kais Saied’s health underscore the classic political concept that the physical state of a leader...

29.07.2026 70

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Larbi Sadiki

India’s youth have broken Modi’s spell

India’s youth have broken Modi’s spell

The recent uprising of the youth in India might seem to have subsided after forcing Dharmendra Pradhan, the education minister of India, to resign....

29.07.2026 60

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Apoorvanand

What are Trump’s military options?

What are Trump’s military options?

Last week, it was reported that US President Donald Trump placed massive attacks on Iran on hold after a meeting with advisers at the White House....

28.07.2026 90

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Harlan Ullman

Refugee Convention at 75: The world must keep the promise that saved me

Refugee Convention at 75: The world must keep the promise that saved me

Ten years ago, I crossed the Aegean Sea in an overcrowded inflatable boat, hoping only to survive. I did not leave Syria because I wanted a different...

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Yusra Mardini

Five years after Saied’s power grab, Tunisians are no better off

Five years after Saied’s power grab, Tunisians are no better off

On July 27, 2021, Tunisian President Kais Saied suspended parliament in what was then considered the Arab world’s only functioning constitutional...

27.07.2026 40

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Joey Hood

How Israel uses settler-soldier terror to colonise the West Bank

How Israel uses settler-soldier terror to colonise the West Bank

The violent scenes playing out in the West Bank over the past few days are painfully familiar. Settlers setting fire to homes and places of worship,...

27.07.2026 50

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Mariam Barghouti

Five decades of Israeli covert strategy to push US, Iran into confrontation

Five decades of Israeli covert strategy to push US, Iran into confrontation

As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepares to meet US President Donald Trump, there is good reason to expect that he will use the meeting...

27.07.2026 60

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Javad Zarif

The Global South is being forced to choose creditors over children

The Global South is being forced to choose creditors over children

The world claims to regard education as a universal right. Its financial system tells a different story. ⁠New figures released by UNESCO show that...

26.07.2026 60

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Ilan Kapoor

Israel and the cost paradox of the Iran war

Israel and the cost paradox of the Iran war

Since the breakout of war on February 28, the US-Israeli conflict with Iran has been framed as an existential for Tel Aviv and Tehran. Yet a calm,...

26.07.2026 70

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Abdulla Banndar Al-Etaibi

Israel’s illegal settlements are Europe’s credibility test

Israel’s illegal settlements are Europe’s credibility test

Israel’s illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory have become the clearest test of European credibility, at both EU and...

24.07.2026 60

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Majed Al-Zeer

The Morocco-Algeria rivalry is remaking Europe’s North Africa policy

The Morocco-Algeria rivalry is remaking Europe’s North Africa policy

This month, three high-level visits within the space of six days showed how the rivalry between Morocco and Algeria is increasingly shaping the...

23.07.2026 40

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Abd-El-Kader Cheref

In India, fear has switched sides

In India, fear has switched sides

Twelve years, one month and 24 days after Narendra Modi was sworn in, the words “Modi must resign” were uttered full-throatedly for the first time...

23.07.2026 90

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Vidya Krishnan

The missing half of mediation

The missing half of mediation

The memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the United States and Iran, signed on June 17, briefly appeared to have achieved what weeks of military...

23.07.2026 70

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Sultan Barakat

Syrian people must not be failed again

Syrian people must not be failed again

Syria has weighed on my mind for a long time: 15 years of trauma for its people and 15 years of failure in international engagement. I was directly...

22.07.2026 100

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Martin Griffiths

America’s decades-old bipartisan consensus on Israel has been shattered

America’s decades-old bipartisan consensus on Israel has been shattered

Last week, more than 100 House Democrats voted to cut off military aid to Israel. Though the amendment failed because some Democrats and almost all...

22.07.2026 100

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Said Arikat

Hamas’s new leader must bridge a movement divided over Iran

Khalil al-Hayya’s election as the new head of Hamas is far more than the filling of a position left vacant by war. Decided by a single vote after...

21.07.2026 80

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Azzam Tamimi

The Houthis may soon discover the limits of Saudi strategic patience

The Houthi declaration that they intend to block Saudi shipping and vessels bound for Saudi ports in the Red Sea is not another act of revolutionary...

21.07.2026 60

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Nawaf Obaid

Don’t believe Andy Burnham’s PR machine

On Monday, former Mayor of Manchester Andy Burnham is officially stepping into office as British prime minister after public pressure forced Keir...

20.07.2026 80

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Yara Hawari

Last night, I was Spanish, and so were millions around the world

Last night, Spain defeated Argentina to win the World Cup. Ordinarily, for those of us with no national connection to either country, the choice of...

20.07.2026 80

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Ziyad Motala

Israel uses law to destroy Palestinian education in East Jerusalem

On Tuesday, the Chairman of the Knesset’s Education Committee, Zvi Sukkot of the far-right Religious Zionist Party, arrived at a Palestinian school...

19.07.2026 80

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Salam Irsheid

India’s cockroach politics is no joke

Two months after the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) went viral in India, its followers have entered dangerous territory. Police forcefully removed...

19.07.2026 100

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Uday Chandra

The number one health issue in Palestine is the Israeli occupation

Across Palestine, the cumulative effect of Israel’s actions on the Palestinian population since October 7, 2023, is clear: They have eroded the...

19.07.2026 80

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Dr Javid Abdelmoneim

Europe should look to Africa for heatwave solutions

As Europe faces repeated, dangerous heatwaves, the question is no longer whether rich countries need climate adaptation. It is whether they are...

18.07.2026 100

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Wole Hammond

The Church of England has taken a long-overdue step on Palestine

The General Synod of the Church of England has committed itself to engaging seriously with major statements and appeals by Palestinian Christians,...

17.07.2026 70

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Rev Dr Munther Isaac

‘Yuba’ – My dear father

“المقياس قطر (The measure is Qatar)” There is no literal translation for this saying, but in essence it means that whatever is done is...

17.07.2026 80

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Sheikha Al Mayassa Bint Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani

John Esposito transformed how the West understood Islam

John L Esposito, a prominent scholar of religion and international affairs at Georgetown University, passed away on July 15, 2026, due to...

17.07.2026 90

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Nader Hashemi

The hardest party to manage in the Iran talks isn’t Iran

Sometime this spring, at the height of Washington’s most delicate Middle East negotiations in a generation, American officials did something for...

17.07.2026 70

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Nayef Al-Nabet

Yemen is edging closer to renewed confrontation

In the space of just a few days, Yemen appeared to be slipping out of its fragile de-escalation and back into the heart of regional tensions. The...

16.07.2026 80

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Ahmed Al-Shalafi

‘Safe passage’: The fatal ambiguity at the heart of the Hormuz MoU

Barely three weeks into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) meant to end a war, the United States is once again blockading Iranian ports, the two...

16.07.2026 70

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Jason Chuah

Iraq’s prime minister carries the title, but not the power

Ali al-Zaidi met US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Tuesday as Iraq’s prime minister. He carried the title. The power was another...

15.07.2026 90

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

July 15, 10 years on: Turkiye’s will, Turkiye’s victory

The night of July 15, 2016, began like any other evening—but ended as a turning point in Turkiye’s modern history. It was a night of betrayal and...

15.07.2026 60

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Dr M. Mustafa Göksu

Will Lindsey Graham’s death affect Israel’s standing in Washington?

The late US Senator Lindsey Graham spent much of his political career surrounded by two close friends: senators John McCain and Joseph Lieberman. The...

15.07.2026 80

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Ori Goldberg

Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and Al Jazeera

May God have mercy on Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the humane emir, the brave leader, and the great father, who loved Qatar and its people....

15.07.2026 90

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Sheikh Hamad Bin Thamer Al Thani

Sheikh Hamad gave Arab media a voice

The morning the death of Father Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani was announced, I was asked to write about Al Jazeera and the man whose vision...

14.07.2026 60

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Ahmed Al Sheikh

Even if the Iran war ends, the next fossil fuel shock is already on its way

As hostilities between the United States and Iran reignite, global attention has shifted again to the immediate risks of the conflict. Across the...

14.07.2026 100

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Mads Flarup Christensen

In Iran, Pezeshkian will be the scapegoat for the failed MoU

Over the past few days, the US-Israeli war on Iran has seen yet another escalation that threatens to derail peace talks. Strikes by the United States...

13.07.2026 90

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Kayhan Valadbaygi

The architect of Qatari autonomy

For most of its modern history, Qatar was a place that things happened to. It was a quiet peninsula prized for its energy resources and consulted...

12.07.2026 90

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Andreas Krieg

FIFA is not an independent sporting organisation; it is a political tool.

This World Cup has increasingly put FIFA and its leadership under scrutiny. Its decision to overturn the suspension of an American football player...

11.07.2026 100

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Xavier Abu Eid

India is becoming a shaping power

Twenty-eight years ago, in May 1998, Australia suspended defence cooperation with India after the nuclear tests at Pokhran. Military exchanges were...

10.07.2026 100

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Amitabh Mattoo

How an Egypt-Argentina World Cup game became a referendum on Palestine

Tuesday’s round-of-16 FIFA World Cup match between Egypt and Argentina in Atlanta was perhaps both the tournament’s most controversial game and...

10.07.2026 90

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Mohamad Elmasry

The US is building a new pressure architecture against Iran

Was Trump’s presence at the NATO summit in Turkiye, amid escalating anti-Iranian rhetoric and orders to attack Iran, simply participation in a...

10.07.2026 90

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Farhad Pashavand

Administration without sovereignty will not free Palestine

For nearly three years, Israel and its Western allies have claimed that Hamas’s rule over Gaza was one of the principal obstacles to peace between...

10.07.2026 90

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Ahmed Najar