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Brazil’s right has already changed the balance of power

Brazil’s right has already changed the balance of power

In a televised presidential debate in Sao Paulo on October 18, Flavio Bolsonaro brought a number from Brazil’s prisons into an argument over crime....

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Bruno Cava

Keeping the world safe when no one is in charge

Keeping the world safe when no one is in charge

International politics today feels like a collective sleepwalk into the abyss. Three trends are particularly alarming. Artificial intelligence is...

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Andreas Motzfeldt Kravik

COP17 puts Armenia’s environmental record in the spotlight

COP17 puts Armenia’s environmental record in the spotlight

Last weekend, the 17th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP17) opened in Yerevan with a lavish...

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Vladislav Inozemtsev

Europe needs a war economy

Europe needs a war economy

For the past four-and-a-half years, the war on Europe’s doorstep has haunted policymakers. Yet they have treated it as a looming threat rather than...

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Maximilian Hess

Why is Gen Z revolting?

Why is Gen Z revolting?

We are currently experiencing a wave of protests across Europe and beyond. Many have been dubbed “Gen Z protests”, with young people aged roughly...

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Oscar Berglund

Can Russia broker a new US-Iran deal?

Can Russia broker a new US-Iran deal?

This week, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov travelled to Iran, where he met with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and several other...

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Dmitri Trenin

US universities are failing to protect victims of sexual assault

US universities are failing to protect victims of sexual assault

Cornell University’s internal processes for responding to sexual assault reports failed “Jane Doe”. In 2024, the third-year student reported...

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M Neelika Jayawardane

Europe is in trouble, and it is blaming Muslims

Europe is in trouble, and it is blaming Muslims

As protests in France turned violent late last week, the French far right quickly resorted to racist language to blame the Muslim youth for the...

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Farid Hafez

The right to enforce civil rights is under attack in the US

The right to enforce civil rights is under attack in the US

This autumn, the Supreme Court will consider a question with potentially far-reaching consequences for civil rights in the United States: Who gets to...

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Christopher Rhodes

Morocco’s not-so-new government faces new challenges

Morocco’s not-so-new government faces new challenges

On October 16, King Mohammed VI of Morocco appointed a new government headed by Prime Minister Fatima Zohra Al Mansouri. This is the first time in...

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Hassan Aourid

Southeast Asia’s haze crisis will persist until polluters pay

Southeast Asia’s haze crisis will persist until polluters pay

Across Southeast Asia, the haze has returned with a familiar cruelty. Malaysia has closed schools as air quality deteriorated, Singapore...

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Ronny P Sasmita

There is no split in MAGA

There is no split in MAGA

As the midterm elections near, we are hearing a lot about a “split” within the Make America Great Again (MAGA) coalition, which got Donald Trump...

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Jason Jones

No ‘turmoil’ at the White House

No ‘turmoil’ at the White House

In the months leading up to the disastrous 2006 election, President George W Bush fired his press secretary, Scott McClellan, and withdrew the Supreme...

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John Feehery

Losing Cuba, the global trickster

Losing Cuba, the global trickster

Cuba is once again in the United States’s crosshairs. Washington’s operation in Venezuela at the start of the year is largely seen to have paved...

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Mario Reinaldo Machado

AI fears are being weaponised

AI fears are being weaponised

As the growth of artificial intelligence accelerates, it is already posing significant challenges to society. Companies have started laying off...

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Adji Bousso Dieng

Ukraine and Europe have little choice but to work with Trump

Ukraine and Europe have little choice but to work with Trump

“It’s painful when President [Donald] Trump chooses one side, not our side,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Wednesday. The...

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Dimitar Bechev

Why Iran-US negotiations keep failing

Why Iran-US negotiations keep failing

Since the start of the war, there have been several negotiation initiatives between the United States and Iran. Only one – the memorandum of...

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Mahjoob Zweiri

The irony of OpenAI crying foul over spying

The irony of OpenAI crying foul over spying

Americans can rest easy – for the moment, at least. The fine folks at the Federal Bureau of Investigation have thwarted a major national security...

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Belén Fernández

India’s mass voter purge is hollowing out democracy

India’s mass voter purge is hollowing out democracy

Over the weekend, thousands of protesters demanding the resignation of India’s chief election commissioner, Gyanesh Kumar, faced mass detentions and...

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Tanweer Fazal

Malaysia’s welcome for Min Aung Hlaing undermines its stand on justice

Malaysia’s welcome for Min Aung Hlaing undermines its stand on justice

On October 8, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim received Myanmar’s President Min Aung Hlaing in Putrajaya with a guard of honour and an...

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Aizat Shamsuddin

Restoring nature is key to a more resilient future

Restoring nature is key to a more resilient future

Nature is humanity’s life-support system, but it is being depleted at an alarming rate, leaving our world increasingly vulnerable. From deadly...

15.10.2026 100

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Kirsten Schuijt

Sudan cannot afford to dismiss a chance for dialogue

Sudan cannot afford to dismiss a chance for dialogue

More than three years into the war between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Sudan is desperately in need of a...

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Munzoul A M Assal

Two scenarios for the Yemen war

Two scenarios for the Yemen war

The attacks by the Iran-backed Houthis on Saudi Arabia have pushed the war in Yemen to a new level. The targeting of civilian infrastructure,...

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Abdulsamad Elfgeeh

The ICJ’s Rohingya ruling will test the OIC’s promises

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has made Muslim solidarity central to how it presents itself. Nine years ago, Myanmar’s military...

13.10.2026 100

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Kyaw Win

The escalation in Yemen is a turning point

Yemen is witnessing a major military escalation that has once again brought the western coast and the area around the Bab al-Mandeb strait to the...

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Ateq Garallah

Will Ukraine survive the winter?

As winter approaches, Russia has lifted its ban on exports of diesel and is preparing to sell hundreds of thousands of tonnes to the United States and...

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Dmitri Trenin

How the ICC can be saved

The sanctions the United States has imposed on the International Criminal Court threaten to degrade its capacity to function, leaving it to die a slow...

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Sergey Vasiliev

Modi is in trouble

It is said that if you pluck a chicken one feather at a time, nobody notices. That is how some people deceive themselves into believing that small...

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Vidya Krishnan

A year after the ‘ceasefire’, Gaza’s healthcare is still collapsing

When the “ceasefire” was announced on October 10 last year, we knew how much needed repairing. For the first time in a long while, we thought we...

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Sally Saleh

With or without Hamas

As we begin the fourth year of a war that has brought the near-total destruction of Gaza, calls for Hamas to surrender administrative authority and...

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Lorenzo Kamel

Bangladesh’s mango diplomacy with India has reached its limits

For two years, Dhaka has deployed a soft diplomatic arsenal of prized Haribhanga mangoes, hilsa fish, jamdani fabrics, and Tangail sarees to keep its...

09.10.2026 100

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Faisal Mahmud

Why Israel loves skunk water

In the eyes of Israeli authorities, Palestinians in Gaza have it “too good”. Three years into Israel’s genocide, the survivors have been pushed...

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Somdeep Sen

Bosnia’s political future looks increasingly like its past

The latest general elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina, held on October 4, repeated a pattern familiar from most electoral contests over the past...

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Fuad Kovačević

The mass killing does not mean Israel’s winning

Three years have passed since Hamas’s attack shook Israel and triggered the ongoing genocidal war. The image of the Israeli army as an invincible...

07.10.2026 100

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Refaat Ibrahim

The UK Greens are wrong – Zionism is not racism

No notion has been so cynically exploited and distorted by both its supporters and its detractors as Zionism. Just when you think you have seen enough...

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Yossi Mekelberg

Yes, Zionism is racism

On Sunday, at its annual conference in Brighton, the British Green Party voted to recognise Zionism as racism. The motion, which describes Zionism as...

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Yara Hawari

What would it take for the Yemen offensive to succeed?

Two days after the announced counter-offensive by the internationally recognised Yemeni government, the operation named Dawn of Yemen has already made...

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Abdulla Banndar Al-Etaibi

India’s ‘million mutinies’ are puncturing Modi’s aura of invincibility

This October, India is a country where a million mutinies are gathering force. India’s “cockroaches” — supporters of the Cockroach Janta Party...

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Vidya Krishnan

In Gaza, we cannot even begin to recover from trauma

It has been three years of the genocidal horror in Gaza. Three years of death, destruction, despair and doom. More than 74,000 people have been...

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Said Alsaloul

The Republican consensus on Israel is starting to fracture

The Republican Party’s powerful alliance with Israel — repeatedly reaffirmed during President Donald Trump’s second term — is rooted in...

05.10.2026 200

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Said Arikat

WMA members must call for release of detained Palestinian medics

More than 1,700 healthcare workers have been killed during the genocide in Gaza. Israel has detained hundreds more without charges. Doctors, nurses...

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Javid Abdelmoneim

Russia’s nuclear plants are ageing. Who will pay to dismantle them?

The world often discusses the nuclear threat posed by Russia, but far less attention is paid to the nuclear risks within Russia itself, particularly...

04.10.2026 100

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Arshak Makichyan

‘Did he know?’: Why Israel is rejecting an October 7 reckoning

As Israel prepares to mark three years since the October 7 attacks and with less than a month to go to parliamentary elections, one topic is...

04.10.2026 100

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Yoav Litvin

The double standards of a failed execution

Let’s pretend that the Islamic Republic of Iran had undertaken to execute a 50-year-old woman for a crime committed when she was an 18-year-old....

03.10.2026 100

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Belén Fernández

To reclaim its sovereignty, Senegal must approach debt differently

Earlier this month, the International Monetary Fund and Senegal announced a new loan programme worth $2.2bn. This came after a previous deal was...

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Yassine Fall

Washington’s diplomacy in Sudan has backfired

After more than three years, Washington continues to fumble its way through a response to Sudan’s heart-wrenching war. This past week, it may have...

02.10.2026 100

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Cameron Hudson

How can Jordan respond to Israel’s escalation across the West Bank?

It is increasingly difficult to regard what is happening in the West Bank as merely a series of measures that the Israeli government justifies on...

02.10.2026 100

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Samir Habashneh

Will Democrats move beyond rhetoric on Israel’s illegal settlements?

A shift is taking place in Washington. Senate Democrats are moving to sanction individuals and entities involved in Israel’s E1 settlement project,...

01.10.2026 100

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Said Arikat

Botswana at 60 challenges the story of postcolonial African failure

This week, Botswana is marking 60 years of independence from Britain with Diamond Jubilee celebrations across the country. The anniversary underscores...

01.10.2026 100

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Tafi Mhaka

Why Israel is interfering in Palestinian education

The school year started in occupied East Jerusalem with the news that 45,000 Palestinian children are now studying a curriculum put together by the...

30.09.2026 100

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Ehab Jabareen