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LDP President Sanae Takaichi receives applause after she was selected as Japan's new prime minister during an extraordinary session of the lower house of parliament in Tokyo on October 21, 2025. Philip FONG / AFP
Profiles

Sanae Takaichi: Japan's first female prime minister

On 21 October, Japan achieved a historic milestone as Sanae Takaichi, President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), was elected as the 104th Prime…

Futoshi Matsumoto 21 October , 2025
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Global debt on track to surpass historic highs

Global public debt is projected to exceed 100% of global GDP by 2029—its highest level since 1948—and could reach 123% under an adverse scenario,…

Al Majalla - London 21 October , 2025
Will Trump's stablecoin push keep the US dollar king? Ari Liloan
Business & Economy

Will Trump's stablecoin push keep the US dollar king?

The global financial crisis of 2008 shattered public confidence in banks and the regulatory authorities meant to oversee them. It was no coincidence…

Toufic Chanbour 21 October , 2025
Protesters push a metal container to use as a barricade during clashes with security forces amid a strike calling for constitutional reforms and the resignation of President Andry Rajoelina in Antananarivo, on October 9, 2025. Luis TATO / AFP
Politics

Gen Z is taking to the barricades

Remember the kids of Generation Z? You know—that notorious cohort of entitled, lazy, and apathetic people that Boomers so love to mock?Over the past…

Christian Caryl 21 October , 2025
New Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhürman and his wife Nilden Bektas Erhürman celebrate his victory in the Turkish Cypriot presidential election, in the capital Nicosia, Cyprus, on October 19, 2025. Reuters
Politics

Northern Cyprus election comes with serious implications

Presidential elections in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus brought a landslide victory for the main opposition candidate on Sunday, in an…

Omer Onhon 21 October , 2025
Opinion

Syria, Russia reassert ties with an eye on mutual benefits

Over two decades, Ahmed al-Sharaa—once known by numerous aliases—moved through more than 50 homes, prisons and caves before emerging as Syria’s…

Ibrahim Hamidi 20 October , 2025
Photos of American writer Edgar Allan Poe and his family at his home museum in Baltimore.
 SAUL LOEB / AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

The Poe Museum: honouring a legacy of literary greatness

The American writer Edgar Allan Poe died at the age of 40, much like one of the characters in his own tales, shrouded in secrets, mystery, and an…

Osama Esber 20 October , 2025
US President Donald Trump stands next to NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer as NATO leaders pose for a group photo at a NATO summit in The Hague, Netherlands, on June 25, 2025. REUTERS/Claudia Greco
Politics

Europe's uphill battle to keep Trump invested in NATO

Of all the challenges US President Donald Trump has presented to the established world order since returning to the White House in January, the…

Con Coughlin 20 October , 2025
Five lessons for Israel after October 7
Politics

Five lessons for Israel after October 7

The ceasefire agreement that US President Donald Trump clinched just days after the two-year mark of the Gaza war has ostensibly put an end to…

Michael Harari 20 October , 2025
Israel's loose understanding of a ceasefire
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Israel's loose understanding of a ceasefire

Fares Garabet 20 October , 2025
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Al-Jawf: the key to defeating the Houthis

05, Nov 2026

The battle for this strategically important and resource-rich province tests the Yemeni army's ability to tilt the military balance in its favour

Al Majalla - London
Saudi Arabia's Defence Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman Al-Saud, Pakistan's army chief General Syed Asim Munir, and Turkey's intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin in Tehran on 26 October 2026. IRANIAN PRESIDENCY / AFP
Politics

Pakistan’s balancing act in a fragmenting world

07, Nov 2026

Staying friends with the Turks, Chinese, Russians, Americans, Europeans, Iranians and Saudis simultaneously is a big ask for Islamabad's diplomats, but somehow they are managing it

Kaswar Klasra
Politics

Can the Democrats prevent a new round of war with Iran?

05, Nov 2026

Despite the war's unpopularity, Trump seems determined to press on until he can claim a decisive victory, whether by diplomacy, force, or a combination of the two

Aqeel Abbas
Eduardo Ramon
Profiles

Abdul El-Sayed: the progressive Michigander who beat the pro-Israel lobby

07, Aug 2026

The Egyptian-American epidemiologist became the first Muslim senator in US history, despite $70mn spent to defeat him in the Democratic primary

Tarek Rashed
French author Philippe Djianada looks out from a window at the Drouant restaurant in Paris, following his win of the French Goncourt literary prize for his novel "The Unknown Woman of Quai de Javel," on 3 November 2026. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann
Culture & Social Affairs

A novel about a murder in Paris wins the 2026 Goncourt

06, Nov 2026

French novelist Philippe Jaenada's novel 'The Unknown Woman of Quai de Javel' wins big, while the Prix Renaudot goes to François-Henri Désérable for his novel about an unlikely wine expert

Najeeb Mubarak

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