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Bosnia’s political future looks increasingly like its past

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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The war and elusive hopes of peace in Yemen

The war and elusive hopes of peace in Yemen

Dr. Abdel Aziz Aluwaisheg On Sunday, Yemeni President Rashad Al-Alimi announced the start of major operations to retake the areas of the country...

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Mixed signals won’t help mend Sino-Japanese relations

Mixed signals won’t help mend Sino-Japanese relations

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi wants credit for being open to talks with China while, at the same time, maintaining a tougher security posture...

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Oct 7: Trauma, tragedy and the normalisation of Palestinian suffering

Oct 7: Trauma, tragedy and the normalisation of Palestinian suffering

Three years is long enough for a child to learn to speak, to walk and to begin discovering the world. In Gaza, three years have instead been measured...

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Toxic Israeli elections and abusive religious fanatics

Toxic Israeli elections and abusive religious fanatics

The combination of the Jewish holidays, the anniversary of the Oct. 7 attacks and the critical Israeli elections has proven to be an enabling...

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What would it take for the Yemen offensive to succeed?

What would it take for the Yemen offensive to succeed?

Abdulla Banndar Al-Etaibi Two days after the announced counter-offensive by the internationally recognised Yemeni government, the operation named Dawn...

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

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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Netanyahu cannot afford for the Gaza war to end

Netanyahu cannot afford for the Gaza war to end

There is a fundamental contradiction at the heart of the Gaza war: Israel repeatedly speaks of ceasefires, negotiations and security arrangements...

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Child Abuse in Pakistan: The Justice Gap in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Child abuse remains one of the most critical protection challenges facing Pakistan. Across the country, from Karachi to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP),...

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Burnham’s vision promises the change voters desire

Burnham’s vision promises the change voters desire

The speech British Prime Minister Andy Burnham gave to the Labour Party’s annual conference in Liverpool last week may come to be seen as seminal....

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Chokepoint diplomacy weaponizing maritime geography

Chokepoint diplomacy weaponizing maritime geography

The recent fall of the Yemeni city of Mokha and its strategic port, followed immediately by the Houthi militia’s invasion of Mayun Island in the...

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

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...

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The double standards of a failed execution

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....

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To reclaim its sovereignty, Senegal must approach debt differently

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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Washington’s diplomacy in Sudan has backfired

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 10

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Iraq must not become an Iranian banana republic

Iraq must not become an Iranian banana republic

Abdulrahman Al-Rashed The withdrawal of American and other international forces from Iraq comes at one of the most difficult and dangerous moments...

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Pakistan’s political impasse may finally be breaking

Pakistan may finally be edging toward a political breakthrough. After months of unacknowledged contacts, the government and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf...

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Al-Zaidi gambles on finally breaking the militias’ grip on Iraq

Al-Zaidi gambles on finally breaking the militias’ grip on Iraq

For more than two decades, Iraqi prime ministers have pledged to establish a basic principle of sovereignty: Only the government should possess the...

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Starship Flight 14 launches new era for space industry

Starship Flight 14 launches new era for space industry

SpaceX’s Starship Flight 14 launched last week, marking a new era for the space industry. It reached orbit and successfully deployed 26 Starlink...

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

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,...

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Turning a pause into lasting stability

Turning a pause into lasting stability

A significant outcome of President Xi Jinping’s recent state visit to the United States was that it created strategic breathing space for China-US...

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Flippant response to Ben-Gvir’s vile idea a grave concern

Flippant response to Ben-Gvir’s vile idea a grave concern

It is election time in Israel and, as much as there is a hidden wish that the political debate will not drag the entire country through the mud, there...

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Hormuz and Yemen: Iran offers de-escalation at a price others will pay

Hormuz and Yemen: Iran offers de-escalation at a price others will pay

It was hardly surprising that Tehran chose the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York as the platform for its latest offer. After nearly...

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The return of the German question

The return of the German question

On Sept. 6, the far-right Alternative for Germany won 43.8 percent of the vote in the German federal state of Saxony-Anhalt, falling just short of an...

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The ‘Israeli question’ and American politics

The ‘Israeli question’ and American politics

American political commentator Tucker Carlson was traditionally regarded as part of the far right, at least until 2023. More recently, however, he has...

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For Libya, the Hormuz crisis can be a trap or an opportunity

For Libya, the Hormuz crisis can be a trap or an opportunity

Amid the worsening global energy crisis triggered by the US-Israel war on Iran, European countries, desperate for alternative energy supplies, trade...

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To the victor belong Venezuela’s spoils: Delcy Rodriguez’s UNGA about-face

Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodriguez took to the stage yesterday at the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York City to deliver...

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The world is failing Gaza again

Last October, the world applauded what was then believed to be the end of three years of one of the worst cases of mass murder and destruction in...

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Who is more powerful: Saudi Arabia or Iran?

ABDULRAHMAN AL-RASHED In the midst of the current war, a question is frequently raised as to why Iran — a country with fewer financial resources and...

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Who gains from Pakistan’s 1940 arbitration law?

Muhammad Siddique Ali Pirzada For more than two years, Pakistan has deliberated over a reform that should have been among the least contentious items...

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Europe’s centrists are finally paying the price of their extremism

Friedrich Merz has been German chancellor for less than a year and half, and his approval ratings are at record lows. His centre-right Christian...

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Nigeria’s refining revolution has a monopoly problem

Nigeria marked a major economic milestone on September 14, 2026, with the opening of the initial public offering (IPO) of Dangote Petroleum Refinery,...

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From New York to Bab Al-Mandab

Sessions of the UN General Assembly have lost much of their glow and much of the hope once invested in them. Leaders go to renew their wager on an...

21.09.2026 30

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Gaza’s depopulation debate is more than mere election talk

DR. ABDELLATIF EL-MENAWY For much of the past year, the idea of removing Palestinians from Gaza appeared to have been pushed back from official...

21.09.2026 30

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Trump’s Greenland deal: A triumph of optics?

The new agreement between the United States, Denmark and Greenland on the security of the Danish autonomous territory appears to be good news. It may...

20.09.2026 30

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UN Scene Reflects a World of Evolving Wars

Trust among the major global powers is declining, artificial intelligence is advancing far faster than human beings, and the multilateral system...

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Africa’s Green Revolution threatens traditional foods

Million Belay and Timothy Wise This year, AGRA, the donor-funded agricultural development initiative formerly known as the Alliance for a Green...

19.09.2026 40

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Russia’s elections are more than political theatre

Russia’s parliamentary elections offer an excellent opportunity for a new round in the information war between the West and Russia. Western...

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The inflation risk hiding in the Red Sea

Pakistan’s inflation rate returned to double digits in August, climbing to 11.1 percent from 9.2 percent in July and matching June’s level. The...

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‘They called us’: Has Trump abandoned Bab al-Mandeb to the Houthis?

On September 12, 2026, United States President Donald Trump stood in Dublin alongside Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin and said in a cool tone that...

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China has much to gain from helping end Rohingya crisis

After nearly a decade of failed repatriation efforts, Bangladesh is once again looking to regional diplomacy for a solution to the Rohingya crisis....

17.09.2026 40

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