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In Modi’s India, scandal still embarrasses but rape has become ordinary

In Modi’s India, scandal still embarrasses but rape has become ordinary

As court documents tied to the late financier Jeffrey Epstein continue to surface, the scandal has become an international embarrassment, exposing how...

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Vidya Krishnan

Four years into the Ukraine war, Moscow sees vindication, not failure

Four years into the Ukraine war, Moscow sees vindication, not failure

As the all-out war in Ukraine enters its fifth year, Russian political elites remain convinced that their leader, Vladimir Putin, did not make a grave...

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Leonid Ragozin

Three myths about the Russia economic war

Three myths about the Russia economic war

Four years after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the devastation wrought by the Kremlin’s drones, infantry, missiles and armour continues...

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Maximilian Hess

Iran cannot defeat US military might, but it can still win

Iran cannot defeat US military might, but it can still win

Last week, American diplomats and their Iranian counterparts sat down in Geneva for yet another round of talks mediated by Oman. The outcome seemed...

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Yang Xiaotong

What is really behind the West’s colonial nostalgia

What is really behind the West’s colonial nostalgia

For many years, the global “rules-based order” was presented as a benign system of global governance established by the West. True, its origins...

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Patrick Gathara

El Mencho’s killing won’t solve Mexico’s cartel problem – or anything else

El Mencho’s killing won’t solve Mexico’s cartel problem – or anything else

On Sunday, Mexican security forces killed 59-year-old Nemesio Ruben Oseguera Cervantes, alias “El Mencho”, the leader of the notorious Jalisco New...

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Belen Fernandez

The Carlson-Huckabee interview may be the wake-up call Americans needed

The Carlson-Huckabee interview may be the wake-up call Americans needed

Prominent American conservative journalist Tucker Carlson’s interview with US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has caused quite a stir. Since it...

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Mohamad Elmasry

UEFA and FIFA may get a red card at the ICC for ignoring Israeli violations

UEFA and FIFA may get a red card at the ICC for ignoring Israeli violations

On February 16, a group of Palestinian footballers, clubs and advocacy groups referred the heads of FIFA and UEFA to the International Criminal Court...

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb

Israel wants to execute Palestinians and the world will allow it

Israel wants to execute Palestinians and the world will allow it

The Israeli Knesset is pushing through a bill that, if passed, would allow the occupation authorities to legally execute Palestinians. This...

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Mohamad Alqeeq

Is southern Yemen’s next phase being decided on the ground?

Is southern Yemen’s next phase being decided on the ground?

It is no longer possible to interpret the Yemeni landscape solely through the lens of politics. The developments witnessed in the southern Yemeni...

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Ahmed Al-Shalafi

Migrants are not responsible for the UK’s healthcare crisis

Migrants are not responsible for the UK’s healthcare crisis

Last week, Reform UK’s newest MP, Suella Braverman, and the party’s chairman, Zia Yusuf, argued that high levels of migration are placing...

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Ammad Butt

The quiet conquest of the West Bank and the death of the Oslo Accords

The quiet conquest of the West Bank and the death of the Oslo Accords

Israel always had a plan to annex more land in the occupied West Bank, and its actions prove it. This week, the Israeli cabinet approved a plan to...

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Mariam Barghouti

Calculated hypocrisy: Why Western powers court Beijing but rely on US

Calculated hypocrisy: Why Western powers court Beijing but rely on US

A parade of Western leaders to Beijing, including French President Emmanuel Macron in December,  and more recently, Canadian Prime Minister Mark...

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Wenran Jiang

The injustice in Chagos continues

The injustice in Chagos continues

President Donald Trump’s description earlier this month of the UK–Mauritius agreement on the sovereignty of the Chagos Islands as “an act of...

17.02.2026 30

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Clive Baldwin

Europe’s Israel policy faces a democratic test

Europe’s Israel policy faces a democratic test

More than 457,000 European citizens have signed a petition calling for the full suspension of the European Union’s partnership agreement with Israel...

16.02.2026 60

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Majed Al-Zeer

Indonesia’s Gaza gamble

Indonesia’s Gaza gamble

President Prabowo Subianto’s government said on February 10 that Indonesia is preparing to deploy up to 8,000 troops to a proposed multinational...

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Ronny P Sasmita

Why the BNP won Bangladesh’s post-uprising election

Why the BNP won Bangladesh’s post-uprising election

In the end, the 13th parliamentary election in Bangladesh was not a revolution. It was a reckoning. When the ballots were counted, the Bangladesh...

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Abu Jakir

This Valentine’s Day, chocolate comes with new risks

This Valentine’s Day, chocolate comes with new risks

This Valentine’s Day, chocolate prices are no longer at last year’s peak, but cheap chocolate has not made a comeback, and it probably never will....

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Kaveh Zahedi

The Palestinian cause cannot speak only to the left

The Palestinian cause cannot speak only to the left

For decades, the Palestinian cause has found its most receptive audiences on the political left. Progressive movements, human rights organisations and...

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Ahmed Najar

Africa must boycott the 2026 World Cup

12.02.2026 30

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Tafi Mhaka

The USS Honduras sets sail again

It’s smooth sailing these days for the United States and Honduras, the diminutive Central American nation and original “banana republic” that...

12.02.2026 50

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Belen Fernandez

On Ukraine, ‘liberal’ war hawks make the far right look like peacemakers

11.02.2026 40

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Leonid Ragozin

The UK’s shrinking centre is Keir Starmer’s real crisis

Just over two years in power, and the United Kingdom’s Labour government is facing an existential crisis. Disclosures linked to the Epstein files...

11.02.2026 50

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Ahmed Najar

Why did Saif al-Islam Gaddafi have to die?

10.02.2026 70

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Anas El Gomati

Pakistan can sell weapons in the Middle East, but can it sell security?

09.02.2026 80

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Riaz Khokhar

I am one of 22,000 Gaza patients waiting in desperation for evacuation

09.02.2026 40

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Saeda Hamdona

Iran-US talks in Muscat bought time, not a deal

08.02.2026 50

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Muhanad Seloom

Somalia is the missing pillar of Red Sea and Gulf of Aden stability

08.02.2026 50

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Ali Omar

India now sets the terms of global cricket

07.02.2026 70

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Andrew Fidel Fernando

Trump’s building a new world order, and there’s a method to his ‘madness’

06.02.2026 100

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Nick Dearden

If Jamaat comes to power, Bangladeshi Hindus will be safe. I am the proof

06.02.2026 80

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Krishna Nandi

Trump’s America First doctrine is remaking global diplomacy

06.02.2026 60

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Adolfo Franco

Israel’s war on Gaza’s healthcare continues in full force under ‘ceasefire’

06.02.2026 80

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Mads Gilbert

It’s time for the world to boycott the US

05.02.2026 60

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Donald Earl Collins

Here’s why Israel is allowing record murder rates in its Palestinian towns

05.02.2026 80

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Neve Gordon

What would be the impact of a US attack on Iran?

03.02.2026 60

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Ali A Ghareh Daghi

US abandoning the SDF has impacted Kurds across the region

03.02.2026 50

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Kamaran Palani

Starmer’s visit to China was not a reset, but a new way forward

02.02.2026 70

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Kerry Brown

The next stage of the Gaza genocide has begun

02.02.2026 60

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Gha­da Ageel

Gaza is on its way to becoming a semi-protectorate, just like Bosnia

01.02.2026 70

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Nidzara Ahmetasevic

Appropriating the death count: Manufacturing consent for an attack on Iran

31.01.2026 90

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Kaveh Rostamkhani

Why attacking UNRWA is attacking Gaza’s survival

31.01.2026 90

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Sam Rose

Why the UK’s toughest immigration voices are often politicians of colour

30.01.2026 60

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Parveen Akhtar

If Cuba falls, the Global South is to blame, too

29.01.2026 60

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Belen Fernandez

Why is ‘Deuce Bigalow’ rooting for Viktor Orban in Hungary?

29.01.2026 50

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Somdeep Sen

Even in death, Palestinians are still denied dignity

29.01.2026 100

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Amal Abu Seif

What ICE is doing to America is familiar to me as a Palestinian

27.01.2026 50

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Ahmad Ibsais

A ‘Board of Peace’ run by war criminals

27.01.2026 30

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Louis Charbonneau

Why neoliberalism can’t build peace

27.01.2026 70

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Samer Jaber