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In recent weeks, supermarket refrigeration across Europe has been turned against the food it protects. After an earlier wave in France that hit...
There is something exquisitely revealing about Pakistan’s ruling establishment discovering that American presidents are not hereditary monarchs and...
The discrepancy between what the international community glorifies as humanitarian aid and what Gaza is deprived of keep growing. A woman and four...
The Egyptian presidency’s official website highlights a decision by President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi under the headline: “President Issues New...
Trump has admitted that the war with Iran cost Republicans Congress. His vice president is already negotiating a way out of that war. The lesson for...
For years, governments have prepared for cyberattacks on power grids, airports, financial systems, and telecommunications networks. The assumption was...
The Gulf has spent decades selling oil and gas to the world. Now its governments want to sell something else: low-carbon hydrogen. It is an appealing...
A farmer in Pakistan’s Punjab does not need to follow international arbitration to know when his crops are at risk. A family beside the Chenab does...
They were both born in 1948 from the womb of European colonialism. Like conjoined twins, apartheid South Africa and Zionist Israel thrived on Western...
In a telephone interview on Fox News on the morning of 3rd November, President Donald Trump revealed that a deal had been struck with Israeli Prime...
It seems that a third round of war between the United States, Israel, and Iran may be approaching. The United States and Israel may be considering...
“This election was a defeat for denialism and lies.” With these words, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, widely known as Lula,...
Israel almost always promises to investigate allegations of misconduct by its military, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), which it often portrays as...
It has been over a year since France recognised the State of Palestine during the 80th session of the UN General Assembly in 2025, and diplomacy has...
Texas’s November 3, 2026, election results overturned assumptions that had shaped American politics for decades. Democratic victories in major...
On the day Americans vote in the midterms, what Washington does about Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain is no longer an abstract question. Tucker Carlson...
The results of Israel’s parliamentary election and the US midterm elections revealed a decline in public support for the policies of Israeli Prime...
Israel faces a defining political moment as Gadi Eisenkot attempts to assemble a new governing coalition. His four principles offer a framework for...
Donald Trump went to war against Iran to demonstrate the invincibility of American empire. Eight months later, Iran has helped deliver one of the most...
The genocidal Israeli war on Gaza has contributed to a shift in the American political environment and created an opportunity to strengthen political...
The results of Israel’s 27th October elections were welcomed by Palestinian Arab communities in Israel and millions of Palestinians worldwide....
Late on Monday night, residents of Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz reported a series of explosions. US officials later confirmed what they called...
Tenured insanity is set to return after the midterm elections in the United States. In October, US President Donald Trump seemed to ice the ongoing...
With every election in “Israel”, the expectation resurfaces that replacing the prime minister will pave the way for Palestinian freedom. History...
Since Israel commenced with its genocide in Gaza, Israeli leaders openly spoke of ethnic cleansing and forced displacement. Protected by a web of...
All the states were on one side of the scale, and Michigan was on the other. Donald Trump did not see the Michigan Senate race as one seat out of a...
Whenever Israeli politics is shaken by an election or a domestic crisis, the same hope resurfaces in Western capitals: perhaps the problem is Benjamin...
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said last Friday that higher energy prices alone have cost Europe more than €100 billion in eight months. The...
On 31 October, Iran’s Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, instructed the armed forces to answer any future threat with an immediate and effective...
On 26 October, senior officials from three of Washington’s regional security partners flew to Tehran and sat down with its fiercest adversary. Saudi...
A few weeks ago, a government booklet started landing on doormats across Ireland. It explains what to do when the lights go out, and it is being sent...
Qatar is buying American liquefied natural gas while spending billions to expand its own export capacity. That apparent contradiction offers a way to...
Israel has finished counting the votes, but its political leaders now face a more difficult question: will they accept the political power of the...
Israel’s Arab voters have made themselves impossible to ignore. The question now is whether the country’s political leaders will accept their...
Regardless of the Israeli election result, France will still pursue the two-state paradigm. French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot completely...
Could this election usher in a new era of meaningful Palestinian political participation? Tuesday’s election took place amid deep polarisation in...
In the past, many Palestinians and Arabs followed Israeli elections closely. They did so not because they entertained illusions that a Zionist leader...
The most dangerous moment for a dominant power comes when it considers continuing a war necessary to vindicate the decision to begin it. At that...
On 15 November, 1988, in Algiers, Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), stood before the Palestine National Council,...
Indonesian palm oil is still going to Israel. This week, new reports showed that thousands of tonnes are shipped there every year, even during the...
The prospect of seeing the architect of Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people, Benjamin Netanyahu, ousted from political office would be a...
A new report released yesterday by the UN Commission of Inquiry states that Israel is still committing genocide in Gaza after the ceasefire agreement...
For nearly half a century, Iran’s adversaries have tried to isolate it, intimidate it, sanction it into submission and bomb it into irrelevance....
Within eight days in October, US President Donald Trump made two statements about two wartime leaders that, placed side by side, read like a...
The assault on an Egyptian journalist, who was beaten and dragged along the ground outside 6 October Central Hospital, west of Cairo, just days ago,...
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s victory in the second round of Brazil’s presidential election safeguards the country’s path towards determining its...
There appears to be little prospect of lasting peace between Iran and the United States while Donald Trump remains in the White House. This is a view...
In 1956, Britain was forced to abandon the Suez Canal and withdraw from Egypt after a humiliating political and financial defeat. The crisis did not...
The persistent violence from Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the occupied territories of the West Bank has become such common fare it risks...
Marine bunkering services have begun at Gwadar. Meanwhile, according to reporting in June 2026, the proposed $10 billion Saudi refinery announced for...