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Why the once loyal bazaar merchants are now protesting in Iran

In his first public remarks since mass protests broke out in Iran, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei sought to draw a sharp line between what he deemed...

yesterday 40

Kayhan Valadbaygi

Trump is right. Europe is in crisis

After years of public criticism directed at Europe, US President Donald Trump put together a National Security Strategy (NSS) that reflected his...

yesterday 30

Zeljko Jovanovic

Spain’s socialist exception is running out of time

The far right’s success in last month’s regional elections in Extremadura, Spain, was inevitable. After a series of corruption and sexual...

yesterday 30

Claudio Gallo

In search of Sweden’s lost empathy

We should have come out of the holiday season in Sweden jolly, rested and ready for a happy new year. But we didn’t. We should have finished the...

yesterday 40

Adnan Mahmutović

It’s not the oil. It’s Florida

On Saturday, United States military forces carried out a dramatic strike in Venezuela that resulted in the capture and forcible removal of...

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Esam Boraey

Can Syria be unified?

In recent days, leaked recordings and documents have provided the rough outline of a conspiracy to launch an insurgency in the Alawite-dominated...

previous day 50

Marwan Kabalan

Global health’s defining test

As we look back on 2025, the world experienced a year of both remarkable achievement and profound challenge in global health. Multilateralism,...

previous day 40

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

US arms sales to Taiwan threaten peace in the Taiwan Strait

The United States blatantly announced its plan to sell massive advanced weapons to China’s Taiwan region in December 2025. It grossly violated the...

thursday 40

Cao Xiaolin

Can a dynastic heir lead a post-dynasty Bangladesh?

On Christmas Day last year, Tarique Rahman – the heir apparent of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and the man many believe could be the...

thursday 40

Abu Jakir

Peace as policy: Mediation is the core sense of modern diplomacy

2025 was the year the world relearned a fundamental truth: conflicts are not confined within discrete borders. A war in one region now pushes...

thursday 30

H.e. Dr. Mohammed Bin Abdulaziz Al-Khulaifi

Iran’s New Year demonstrations and the question of regime survival

The New Year demonstrations in Iran came at the end of a year marked by war, economic strain, and political uncertainty. In 2025, Israel launched a...

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Mahjoob Zweiri

Trump has made US militarism worse

For many years before becoming president, Donald Trump publicly criticised the George W Bush administration over its decision to launch the war on...

05.01.2026 10

Christopher Rhodes

The Yemeni crisis: More complexity and many repercussions

Events in Yemen are escalating quickly and dramatically, reaching the point of armed clashes erupting between the Arab coalition supporting the...

05.01.2026 9

Abdulhakim Helal

Why Trump’s regime-change playbook won’t work in Iran

President Donald Trump’s declaration that the United States was “locked and loaded” if Iran’s security forces killed peaceful protesters carried a...

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