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Trump's tariff storm brings the world closer to economic Armageddon Brian Stauffer
Business & Economy

Trump's tariff storm brings the world closer to economic Armageddon

In 1983, German-born American economist Theodore Levitt published an article titled The Globalisation of Markets. He had coined a term that meant the…

Toufic Chanbour 14 March , 2025
Opinion

Ukraine ceasefire hinges on Moscow's conditions and Kyiv's concessions

Vladimir Putin has set out several conditions before accepting a ceasefire deal on Ukraine, saying that "questions" still remain over it but that he…

Con Coughlin 13 March , 2025
A new regional security order in the Middle East? Eduardo Ramon
Politics

A new regional security order in the Middle East?

As long as states in the Middle East exhibit political fragility, Iran will find a way to spread its nefarious influence through a mix of coercion…

Bilal Saab 13 March , 2025
Ahmed al-Sharaa and Mazloum Abdi during the signing of the agreement to integrate the SDF into state institutions, Damascus, March 10, 2025. AFP
Politics

Sharaa's political pragmatism and the myth of sectarianism

Syria’s new President Ahmed al-Sharaa is acutely aware that national unity is crucial for his country's survival after the downfall of long-time…

Ahmed Maher 13 March , 2025
Trump's leverage over Ukraine
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Trump's leverage over Ukraine

Fares Garabet 13 March , 2025
Martta Kaukonen‬ Otto Virtanen‬
Culture & Social Affairs

Finnish writer Martta Kaukonen on film, fame, and fjords

Martta Kaukonen is a Finnish author and film critic whose acclaimed first novel featured a serial killer in therapy. Born in 1976, she interviewed…

Nesrein El-Bakhshawangy 13 March , 2025
Opinion

Ukraine’s mineral wealth, not peace, is the prize Trump seeks

The Trump administration’s primary aim in Ukraine is not a desire for peace or the protection of Kyiv but the country’s valuable mineral wealth,…

Tarek Rashed 12 March , 2025

Colourful wall art, festive water sports and Big Ben activism

REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes
REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes

"Inflammatory Essays" by Jenny Holzer is displayed at the Museum of Modern Art, which closed its doors for five years of renovation work, at the Centre Georges Pompidou modern art museum in Paris on March 10, 2025.

William WEST / AFP
William WEST / AFP

Participants pilot water jet packs on the Yarra River during the annual Moomba Festival in Melbourne on March 10, 2025.

Jeff Moore/ AP
Jeff Moore/ AP

A man holds a Palestinian flag after he climbed up Elizabeth Tower, which houses Big Ben at the Palace of Westminster in London, Saturday, March 8, 2025.

AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP
AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP

Palestinians pray or read the Koran inside the Dome of the Rock Mosque in the al-Aqsa mosque complex in Jerusalem ahead of the iftar fast-breaking meal during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on March 8, 2025.

Ismail Kaplan/Getty
Ismail Kaplan/Getty

A dance team display performance on the completely frozen Lake Cildir in Kars, Türkiye on March 9, 2025.

Yuichi YAMAZAKI / AFP
Yuichi YAMAZAKI / AFP

A Buddhist monk takes part in the "Hi-watari", or fire walking festival at the Takaosan Yakuoin temple in Hachioji city, in the western suburbs of Tokyo, on March 9, 2025.

Abdullah DOMA / AFP
Abdullah DOMA / AFP

A youth jumps while practicing parkour off a beach in the Sabri district of Libya's eastern city of Benghazi on March 9, 2025.

David GRAY / AFP
David GRAY / AFP

Young men play in sea foam created by record-breaking waves as the outer fringe of Tropical Cyclone Alfred started whipping eastern Australia, in Coolangatta on March 6, 2025.

Juni KRISWANTO / AFP
Juni KRISWANTO / AFP

A Muslim woman offers prayers before breaking her fast during the Islamic holy fasting month of Ramadan at the Muhammad Cheng Hoo Mosque in Surabaya on March 6, 2025.

Armend NIMANI / AFP
Armend NIMANI / AFP

Kosovo police officers stand amid red smoke from flares in front of a police station at a rally for gender equality and against violence towards women to mark the International Women's Day in Pristina, on March 8, 2025.

How might Trump's presidency shape regional dynamics? Sara Padovan
Politics

How might Trump's presidency shape regional dynamics?

The punishing Israeli response to the Hamas and Hezbollah attacks of October 7 and 8 has devastated Gaza and Lebanon, decimated Hamas and Hezbollah,…

Paul Salem 11 March , 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin greets Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev during an official welcoming ceremony for delegations' heads at the BRICS summit in Kazan on October 23, 2024. MAXIM SHIPENKOV / AFP
Business & Economy

Can Moldova and Armenia escape Russia’s orbit?

“Moldova is one of the poorest countries in Europe,” Russian President Vladimir Putin reminded his questioner in December 2023, during his annual sit…

Nazareth Seferian 12 March , 2025
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IRGC soldiers march during the annual military parade marking the anniversary of the outbreak of the devastating 1980-1988 war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq, in the capital Tehran on 22 September, 2018. AFP
Politics

The US-Iran war could empower the IRGC

09 March 2026

When states are attacked, authority gravitates towards institutions capable of mobilising resources, enforcing discipline, and coordinating a military response

Alex Vatanka
A picture of Iran's new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, displayed on a screen in Tehran, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Tehran, Iran, on 9 March 2026. Majid Asgaripour / Reuters
Politics

Iran’s defiant regime picks a new supreme leader

09 March 2026

The appointment suggests the Revolutionary Guards have the upper hand

The Economist
Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian is greeted by Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi during the D-8 summit in Cairo, Egypt, on 19 December 2024. AFP
Politics

Egypt fears an unrestrained Israel if Iran collapses

06 March 2026

Cairo and Tehran have been at loggerheads since 1979, but the Iranian threat has always acted as a check on Israeli ambitions. If Iran is completely defeated, Israel will reign supreme.

Amr Emam
A boy plays with his sheep next to an unexploded missile that landed in an open field on the outskirts of Qamishli, eastern Syria, on 5 March 2026. DELIL SOULEIMAN / AFP
Business & Economy

Syria may escape war but not its economic fallout

08 March 2026

Even if it stays on the sidelines of the US-Iran war, the country is fragile. Unlike larger economies that can absorb shocks in global markets, it has little room to cushion the impact.

Haid Haid
The displaced Palestinian Abu Mustafa family sits together as they break the dawn-to-dusk Ramadan fast during Iftar in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on 26 February 2026. Photo by EYAD BABA / AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

Ramadan in Gaza: food scarcity compounds suffering

03 March 2026

The iftar table, if it still exists, no longer represents joy, but anxiety and scarcity

Hala Al-Naji

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