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2030 has already arrived

Paris is preparing to host a Franco-Saudi business forum. A high-level delegation will attend the Esports World Cup at Porte de Versailles in Paris...

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Is Trump making Latin America great again?

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...

yesterday 10

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

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...

thursday 20

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UK academic’s death exposes the ills of trial by media

The unfortunate loss of a life last week has taken the UK by storm. The death of Jason Arday, once Cambridge University’s youngest Black professor,...

thursday 20

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Pakistan Awaits Climate Justice: Are Changing Weather, Devastated Homes and Submerged Fields Waiting for a Saviour?

Pakistan Awaits Climate Justice: Are Changing Weather, Devastated Homes and Submerged Fields Waiting for a Saviour?

From Multan’s sweltering rooms to France’s heatwave and the global climate conferences in Brazil and Türkiye, the message is the same. Rural...

19.08.2026 20

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Makkah Agreement set to trigger a regional grassroots movement

Dr. Dania Koleilat Khatib The signing of the Makkah Joint Defense Agreement by Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkiye this month triggered several...

19.08.2026 30

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Why White House envoys cannot sway Israel’s war leader

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...

19.08.2026 20

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Wealth Is What Rebuilds

Cristian Halaby Fernández The author is a Colombian businessman, president of Nexu Group and BYCSA, and a columnist for El Colombiano. There is an...

19.08.2026 20

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A region in limbo: Maps left hanging amid blood and fog

Officially, the 60-day ceasefire between Iran and the US, established under the memorandum of understanding, has now expired. In reality, it was never...

18.08.2026 30

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Washington should stop creating division

In a move that seeks to engineer confrontation among nations on the technology front, the United States is reportedly ready to demand that dozens of...

17.08.2026 20

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Israel seeks to reverse the global shift over Gaza genocide

Colombia’s decision to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Golan Heights marks a dangerous turning point. By becoming only the second...

17.08.2026 20

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Republican silence and Democratic ambiguity

The US midterm elections in early November promise to be exceptional in every sense of the word. They will amount to a series of major tests taking...

17.08.2026 30

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It’s time to embrace Saudi equities

Regional tensions this year have compounded an already challenging Saudi economic outlook marked by spending re-prioritization, tighter liquidity...

16.08.2026 20

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The post-Hormuz era offers Africa a great opportunity

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...

16.08.2026 40

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A survival guide

For decades, companies, investors, and policymakers operated on the comforting assumption that the global economy was underpinned by a relatively...

15.08.2026 20

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India and Saudi Arabia: A partnership for peace and prosperity

On the 80th Independence Day of India, I extend my warm greetings and best wishes to all Indian citizens in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and to our...

15.08.2026 40

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A Syrian intervention in Lebanon would be too costly for Damascus

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....

15.08.2026 20

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What the Taliban achieved and failed to achieve in five years

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...

15.08.2026 30

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Some lawmakers shooting US in the foot

Some lawmakers shooting US in the foot

There is a spin on the old joke about politics in Washington: If you can’t solve a problem, create a committee. If that doesn’t work, set up a...

13.08.2026 20

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

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...

13.08.2026 20

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Amnesty law a distortion of what Lebanon could have been

The Lebanese are well known for their humor in difficult situations. The first WhatsApp message I received following Wednesday’s vote in Lebanon’s...

13.08.2026 20

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Trump’s Board of Peace facing its first real test

Dr. Abdellatif El-Menawy Benjamin Netanyahu’s rejection of Donald Trump’s latest Gaza plan has done something useful: it has stripped the Board of...

13.08.2026 40

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The new road to diplomatic legitimacy runs through trade

International isolation once followed a relatively predictable path. Governments accused of serious abuses faced diplomatic pressure and economic...

13.08.2026 30

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Growing old with dignity a problem for many

America is debating budgets, taxes, deficits, and spending priorities. Those discussions are necessary. But amid the political arguments, we cannot...

12.08.2026 20

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Pakistan’s balancing act in the Gulf is getting harder

Pakistan has emerged as a critical regional stakeholder since the conflict between the United States and Iran began in late February. Its role in...

11.08.2026 30

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Remembering Anas, Mohammed and Gaza’s other slain journalists

On the first death anniversary of our colleague Anas al-Sharif, we pray for mercy for him and for all our slain colleagues from Al Jazeera Media...

10.08.2026 20

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Social media companies must act on fake news

Most of us think we would never fall for a fake rumor. But far too many of us do. This is not new. In 1938, Orson Welles convinced, via a radio drama,...

10.08.2026 20

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Five key fronts to counter Israel’s Gaza genocide

It is now official: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has flatly rejected the core conditions of the Board of Peace framework, explicitly...

10.08.2026 40

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Hormuz deal ‘close’ but will Trump accept it?

With the Trump administration clearly struggling to negotiate a deal with Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, it has been left to the Gulf state of...

10.08.2026 30

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The Makkah Agreement: A new architecture for regional security

The signing of the Makkah Joint Defense Agreement by Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkiye on Friday was a historic development for our region. When...

10.08.2026 70

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A new paradigm for global health financing

Global health financing has long reflected good intentions but flawed incentives, with donor countries setting priorities and recipient governments...

09.08.2026 20

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Iran’s grip on trade is a potent weapon, but it has an expiry date

Mohammad Reza Farzanegan Iran has turned its ability to restrict commercial passage through the Strait of Hormuz into a potent economic weapon in the...

08.08.2026 30

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The post-American Middle East is beginning to take shape

For years, Saudi Arabia’s strategic patience was mistaken for strategic dependence. Riyadh absorbed provocations, avoided unnecessary wars,...

08.08.2026 60

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Europe’s rivers running dry

Last week, 186 passengers had to be evacuated from the cruise ship Viking Ullur, after it ran aground on a sandbank in the Danube. Others have been...

07.08.2026 30

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Washington’s acute AI paradox

A growing narrative in the political circle of the United States suggests that Beijing is behind the mounting local opposition to AI data centers...

06.08.2026 30

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Response to US tech hegemony justified

What the United States administration frames as protecting “national security” is, in practice, a systematic campaign to suppress Chinese...

05.08.2026 30

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Gianni Infantino must resign with grace

In sport as in so much of life, a sensible leader will quit while they’re winning, and a decade in charge of any major organisation is generally a...

04.08.2026 20

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US Fed Reserve’s inflation challenge

The Federal Open Market Committee of the Federal Reserve at the end of its two-day meeting on July 29 kept the interest rate unchanged at 3.5 per cent...

03.08.2026 30

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Special treatment in US tariff war

Though many hate to admit it, Canadians have long wished for more attention from the US. Well, we’re getting it now. And it turns out that President...

02.08.2026 30

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Russian propaganda

In the first months of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia took pride in the high quality of its propaganda. Even its enemies and various...

01.08.2026 20

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The Gulf’s AI economy won’t wait for Pakistan

Earlier this year Pakistan crossed a milestone it had chased for a decade: its freelancers earned a record $1.76 billion, up 78 percent in a single...

22.07.2026 30

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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 30

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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 30

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A turning point for African industrialization

Africa’s richest person, the Nigerian industrialist Aliko Dangote, has built the world’s largest single-train oil refinery in Lekki, on the...

20.07.2026 30

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Europe should look to Africa for heatwave solutions

Wole Hammond and Ellen Davies As Europe faces repeated, dangerous heatwaves, the question is no longer whether rich countries need climate adaptation....

18.07.2026 30

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Silicon valley didn’t buy democracy, it rented the ballot

Venture capital once exercised much of its political influence through lobbying and conventional campaign donations. Now some of its biggest players...

18.07.2026 30

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Macron gives Syria’s reconstruction a vital boost

French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Damascus last week was the first by an EU head of state since the fall of the Assad government in 2024....

17.07.2026 30

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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 30

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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 30

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‘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 30

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