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US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Ukrainian Economy Minister Yulia Svyrydenko sign a deal that gives the United States preferential access to Ukraine's mineral resources. US Department of the Treasury/Reuters
Politics

Will a minerals deal keep the US invested in Ukraine's security?

It has taken several painful months of negotiations to finally reach a deal, but the “economic partnership agreement” signed between Ukraine and the…

Con Coughlin 01 May , 2025
How Trump upended global trade in only 100 days Nash Weerasekera
Business & Economy

How Trump upended global trade in only 100 days

The first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s second term in office may be among the most tumultuous in the history of the global economy. From…

Khaled Kassar 01 May , 2025
Opinion

Syria’s new government must speak as clearly to its own people as it has to the world

Syria’s Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani arrived in New York in late April, becoming the first senior official from the country to appear at the…

Alia Mansour 01 May , 2025
100 days of Trump
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100 days of Trump

Fares Garabet 01 May , 2025
SDF leader Mazloum Abdi (C) and Hamid Darbandi (C-R behind), envoy of Iraqi Kurdish politician Masoud Barzani, attend the pan-Kurdish "Unity and Consensus" conference in Qamishli in northeastern Syria on April 26, 2025. Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP
Politics

In U-turn, Syrian Kurds are now demanding federalism

On 26 April, the first Kurdish National Conference convened in Qamishli, the main city of northeastern Syria, which Kurds and many other countries…

Omer Onhon 30 April , 2025
Opinion

Trump’s first 100 days: a president in search of an achievement

This is not the 100-day presidential landmark that Donald Trump would have imagined or hoped for. When it comes to foreign policy, the century by…

Ibrahim Hamidi 30 April , 2025

Pope Francis laid to rest and more from around the world

REUTERS/Dylan Martinez
REUTERS/Dylan Martinez

Members of the clergy attend the funeral Mass of Pope Francis at the Vatican on April 26, 2025.

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ALESSANDRO DI MEO/ REUTERS

A clergy member and nuns attend the arrival of Pope Francis's coffin at Saint Peter's Basilica in Vatican City on April 23, 2025.

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@ermaka2022 / AFP

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (R) meets with US President Donald Trump (L) on the sidelines of Pope Francis's funeral at St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on April 26, 2025.

REUTERS/Stephanie Lecocq
REUTERS/Stephanie Lecocq

Chief of the Huni Kui Indigenous people of the Amazon and the elected president of the Huni Kui Federation of the State of Acre, poses before participating in the ChangeNOW 2025 Summit in Paris, France on April 23, 2025.

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REUTERS

Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki volcano spews volcanic materials during an eruption, as seen from Pululera village in East Flores Regency, East Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia, on April 27, 2025.

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Iranian Red Crescent / AFP

A rescue team arrives by helicopter at the scene of an explosion that took place a day earlier at the Shahid Rajaee port dock southwest of Bandar Abbas in the Iranian province of Hormozgan on April 27, 2025.

Narinder NANU / AFP
Narinder NANU / AFP

An Indian citizen returns from Pakistan through the border post on April 28, 2025, after both countries revoked visas of Indian and Pakistani nationals, respectively.

REUTERS/Nacho Doce
REUTERS/Nacho Doce

Drones light up the sky, creating an image of folded hands over the Montserrat Abbey to mark the 1000th anniversary of its foundation, in Montserrat, near Barcelona, Spain, on April 27, 2025.

REUTERS/Toby Melville
REUTERS/Toby Melville

A mandarin duck swims through reflections of spring growth and blossom on a pond in Richmond Park in London, Britain on April 28, 2025.

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NICOLAS REMENE / AFP

The Jola people of the Casamance region in Senegal and Gambia perform as they wait for the arrival of puppeteers with life-size animal puppets on Malibu beach in the Guediawaye district of Dakar, on April 27, 2025.

Al Majalla's Book Watch
Culture & Social Affairs

Al Majalla's Book Watch

The Arab world has a vibrant and rich literary scene. Al Majalla picks out some choice titles in our fortnightly round-up of the latest Arabic books,…

Khodr Al Agha 29 April , 2025
US President Donald Trump at the White House AFP
Politics

A whirlwind start: Trump's first 100 days in office

Donald Trump’s first 100 days of his second term in office have arguably presented the biggest challenge to the transatlantic relationship between…

Con Coughlin 29 April , 2025
Hussein Al-Sheikh: navigating the maze of peace and power Al Majalla
Profiles

Hussein Al-Sheikh: navigating the maze of peace and power

Veteran Fatah official Hussein Al-Sheikh, 64, was recently appointed as Vice President of the Palestinian Authority (PA), making him the next in line…

Ahmed Maher 29 April , 2025
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Eduardo Ramon
Politics

Trump has lost the Iran war, but how badly?

20 April 2026

While all the effects of this conflict may take time to fully realise, short and medium-term signs expose the limits of US power and see America's rivals benefiting

Christopher Phillips
Jason Lyon
Business & Economy

The Iran war is reshaping the China-Gulf economic model

21 April 2026

Closing the Strait of Hormuz has shown how the Gulf should shift from an oil-export model to a digital and distribution hub. Will this trigger the long-delayed free trade agreement with China?

Charbel Barakat
Pete Reynolds
Politics

Lebanon and Israel: negotiations and the end of Hezbollah

23 April 2026

Building on the ten-day ceasefire announced by US President Donald Trump, time will tell if these talks are a one-off or the beginning of a different path for Lebanon.

Al Majalla - London
Grace Russell
Science & Technology

Saving the soldiers: robots as Ukraine’s new weapon

22 April 2026

The war in Ukraine is becoming an open laboratory for testing advanced military technologies that may yet redefine the very meaning of combat

Marco Mossad
Nesma Moharam
Culture & Social Affairs

New book tackles the fading art of Koranic recitation

20 April 2026

Egyptian heritage researcher Haytham Abu Zayd sheds light on how the art form grew, excelled, and then declined over the years and ends by offering a path to revival

Fadi El-Abdallah

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