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The shift in British policy on Israel is palpable

The shift in British policy on Israel is palpable

Fifty-nine years after Israel established its first illegal settlement in the occupied Palestinian territory, the United Kingdom has imposed a ban on...

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Chris Doyle

BRICS summit may be the only place another Iran ceasefire can be built

BRICS summit may be the only place another Iran ceasefire can be built

Iranian missiles and drones came down on Kuwait on September 3, two days after American aircraft struck roughly a hundred positions along the Hormuz...

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Imran Khalid

Mladic’s funeral: Were no lessons learned?

Mladic’s funeral: Were no lessons learned?

Today, thousands gathered in the Serbian capital Belgrade to pay their respects to Ratko Mladic, the head of the Bosnian Serb army, who was convicted...

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Sir Geoffrey Nice

Will Trump succeed in restarting Russia-Ukraine peace talks?

Will Trump succeed in restarting Russia-Ukraine peace talks?

The visit by White House envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Moscow and Kyiv has left more questions than answers. Details of what was discussed...

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Leonid Ragozin

AfD is rising, but it can still be stopped

AfD is rising, but it can still be stopped

The victory of far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the elections of the East German state Saxony-Anhalt is a dramatic moment for Germany. The...

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Jan Eichhorn

What the US militarisation of Latin America could look like

What the US militarisation of Latin America could look like

Latin America is seeing growing military activity by the United States. Under the umbrella of the Americas Counter-Cartel Coalition (ACCC), launched...

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Carlos H Brandt S

Reform UK says Britain is broken. Birmingham tells another story

Reform UK says Britain is broken. Birmingham tells another story

This week, Reform UK gathered thousands of supporters at Birmingham’s National Exhibition Centre to present itself as a government-in-waiting. This...

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Salma Yaqoob

Multipolarity gives middle powers more choices, but fewer guarantees

Multipolarity gives middle powers more choices, but fewer guarantees

At the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Bishkek this week, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian received precisely the kind of...

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Luciano Zaccara

Mansour Abbas is betting on a Zionist to make Palestinian votes count

Mansour Abbas is betting on a Zionist to make Palestinian votes count

When Raam leader Mansour Abbas appeared alongside former Yesh Atid lawmaker Yoav Segalovich this week and announced that Segalovich would run second...

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Ehab Jabareen

Israel takes its war on Palestine into the AI age

Israel takes its war on Palestine into the AI age

The battle over Palestine has never been fought only on the ground. For decades, Israel and its powerful political, lobbying and public-relations...

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Said Arikat

The number 10 shirt must not retire with Messi

The number 10 shirt must not retire with Messi

When Lionel Messi announced his retirement from the Argentina national team last Monday, the reaction bordered on national mourning. Children cried in...

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Ezequiel Fernández Moores

Gulf insecurity fuels US energy dominance

Gulf insecurity fuels US energy dominance

The global energy order is changing. US President Donald Trump celebrated on Truth Social what he called the “biggest oil deal in history” – a...

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Sultan Barakat

Kais Saied’s economic experiment has failed Tunisia

Kais Saied’s economic experiment has failed Tunisia

On the eve of the January 14, 2011 revolution, Tunisia was neither an ideal democracy nor the economic “dragon” of the southern Mediterranean that...

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Hichem Mechichi

How Trumpism is changing the world

How Trumpism is changing the world

The post-World War II era was dominated by idealism that gave birth to a dense architecture of multilateral institutions and Western-led governance...

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Firas Dabbagh

Why Greece is betting on Israel’s Achilles Shield

Why Greece is betting on Israel’s Achilles Shield

On Monday, Greece and Israel signed a $3.5bn defence deal to build an integrated, multilayered defence network to protect Greek territory dubbed the...

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Rob Geist Pinfold

Syria’s restrained approach to Israel carries risks

Syria’s restrained approach to Israel carries risks

Last week, Israel attacked Syrian territory yet again. Israeli forces shelled a hilltop near Beit Jinn in the western Damascus countryside, while...

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Ehab Badwi

Why China will not comply with US sanctions on Iran

Why China will not comply with US sanctions on Iran

On August 31, the leaders of China, Russia and India met in Bishkek for the annual summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Iranian President...

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Yang Xiaotong

After the flash flood disaster, here is what Nepal really needs

After the flash flood disaster, here is what Nepal really needs

Five days after the flood that struck the Rasuwa and Nuwakot regions of Nepal, the number of missing people is growing. The whereabouts of more than...

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Dikshya Subedi

The looming failure of Operation Economic Outcast

The looming failure of Operation Economic Outcast

Last week, Pakistan announced that it will not comply with the latest sanctions the United States imposed on Iran and will continue trading with its...

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Jeffrey D Sachs

Educated? Skilled? Ambitious? Traffickers are looking for you

Educated? Skilled? Ambitious? Traffickers are looking for you

Good salary. Visa sponsored. Flight included. Applicants must be educated, fluent in English and confident online. It sounds like a great opportunity...

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Amy Pope

The toxic waste of the Gaza war has reached Israel

The toxic waste of the Gaza war has reached Israel

Earlier this month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and representatives of the Board of Peace agreed to set up a working group on...

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Dianne Woodward

Mladic died a happy man. He won

Mladic died a happy man. He won

The death of war criminal Ratko Mladic made headlines across the world. “The Butcher of Bosnia dies in The Hague”, the international media...

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Nidzara Ahmetasevic

Six months into the Iran war, a new Gulf security architecture is emerging

Six months into the Iran war, a new Gulf security architecture is emerging

Six months into the war with Iran, it is worth taking stock of what has actually changed around the Gulf. After Iran’s June 2025 missile strike on...

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Rashid Al-Mohanadi

India and Pakistan are united in spending citizen lives like pocket change

India and Pakistan are united in spending citizen lives like pocket change

This week, three newborns died in an NICU (neonatal intensive care unit) fire at a government hospital in Amravati, in the western Indian state of...

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Vidya Krishnan

Six months on, Trump’s Iran strategy is starting to pay off

Six months on, Trump’s Iran strategy is starting to pay off

Six months into the conflict between the United States and Iran, the situation is not the humiliating quagmire that critics of the...

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Adolfo Franco

Six months on, Iran is still standing, but survival is becoming more costly

Six months on, Iran is still standing, but survival is becoming more costly

It has been six months since the United States and Israel launched their coordinated military campaign against Iran on February 28. The war is easily...

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Mahjoob Zweiri

Israel is not heading for civil war

On August 24, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood outside the Etzel Museum on Tel Aviv’s seafront after the wreck of the Altalena was...

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Ori Goldberg

Ben Shapiro’s anti-Muslim film is nothing new

Ben Shapiro, prominent pro-Israel blogger and co-founder of the far-right news site The Daily Wire, claims Hollywood has spent the last three decades...

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Enjy El-Kadi

No, the Democratic Party is not shifting on Israel

Recent progressive wins of outspoken Israel critics in Democratic primaries have generated a lot of optimism. Abdul El-Sayed won the Democratic...

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Ahmad Ibsais

The RSF’s defeat will not end Sudan’s war but merely fragment it

Sudan’s army has had a good summer. Last month, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) recaptured several towns along the strategic Export Road, known...

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Elfadil Ibrahim

Trump’s Korean gambit exposes a shifting East Asian order

When President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon to cut the annual United States-South Korea Ulchi Freedom Shield (UFS) military exercise planned for...

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Wenran Jiang

The Iran war is bringing cyberwarfare into critical infrastructure

Media reports about a cyberattack that forced a British power plant offline for four days should be taken seriously far beyond the United Kingdom. It...

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Graeme Stewart

What would justice look like if there were no Rohingya left in Myanmar?

August 25 is an incredibly painful day for the Rohingya. It marks the anniversary of the 2017 genocidal campaign by the Myanmar military. Babies and...

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Tun Khin

The right to health in Gaza is now a privilege

These days, Gaza’s healthcare system is not in the news. There are no violent raids on hospitals, as happened to Al Shifa Hospital, while I was...

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Hadeel Awad

How the deadliest Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak can be stopped

Each time we travel to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), we first go to listen. In Bunia, we have met dozens of community representatives:...

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Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Israel, Turkiye and the new regional reordering

On Tuesday, Israeli fighter jets attacked Abu al-Duhur airbase in northwestern Syria, drawing condemnations from the United States, the United...

22.08.2026 90

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Galip Dalay

Iraq’s solar villages show how to build an energy transition that lasts

For years, the day in Kulak ended when the generator powered down. Like thousands of villages across Iraq, this small farming community in the...

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Ruwayda Mustafah

Is Trump making Latin America great again?

The calamitous war on Iran and continuing failure to rein in Israel have brought United States President Donald Trump collapsing approval ratings and...

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Belén Fernández

One geography, two states: Saudi Arabia’s security approach to Sudan

The Red Sea does not recognise political borders as maps draw them. Instead, it binds every country on its shores to a shared fate with its neighbours...

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Suleiman Al-Aqili

Israel is betting on Islamophobia to save its standing in the West

It had been a lengthy and productive meeting with the chief of staff to a Republican member of Congress. We had discussed United States policy towards...

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Josh Paul

The British state has recast protest as terrorism

Most people, when asked what terrorism is, will say that it is the use of violence and terror to create fear among people. This is broadly the...

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Tony Greenstein

Why White House envoys cannot sway Israel’s war leader

On Monday, US Middle East envoy Jared Kushner visited Israel and met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The focus of the discussion was...

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Ori Goldberg

Humanitarianism is not collapsing. It is being traded and compromised

Today, as we mark World Humanitarian Day, we must reflect on the state of humanitarianism. Humanitarian work has always been framed upon the...

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Amitabh Behar

How Russian dissidents are being punished by both Russia and Europe

Earlier this month, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law new legislation that targets Russians living abroad who oppose his regime. The...

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Arshak Makichyan

Jason Arday’s death is institutional murder

On August 14, Jason Arday, the youngest Black scholar to be appointed professor at Cambridge University, was found unresponsive in his home in London....

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Sneha Krishnan

Israel’s religious right is changing the state from within

In Israel, ultra-Orthodox and religious-nationalist forces are wielding growing political influence over questions that reach far beyond their...

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Ehab Jabareen

The post-Hormuz era offers Africa a great opportunity

As the disruption of traffic in the Strait of Hormuz continues, African economies have taken a heavy hit. This is despite the fact that they possess...

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Rafael Shikhani

What the Taliban achieved and failed to achieve in five years

Five years ago, the Taliban entered Kabul triumphant, almost 20 years after the collapse of its first government, triggered by the invasion of...

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Obaidullah Baheer

A Syrian intervention in Lebanon would be too costly for Damascus

In recent weeks, United States President Donald Trump has repeatedly floated the idea of Syrian intervention to disarm Hezbollah in Lebanon....

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Manhal Baresh

Turkiye’s AK Party turns 25: A journey of change and renewal

The initial step taken on August 14, 2001 cannot be viewed merely as the submission of a political party’s founding petition within the annals of...

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Eyyüp Kadir İnan