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Trump's new tariffs could further America's global isolation

US President Donald Trump’s decision to impose a range of reciprocal global trade tariffs is primarily designed to revitalise the American economy…

Con Coughlin 03 April , 2025
US President Donald Trump delivers remarks on reciprocal tariffs as US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick holds a chart during an event in the Rose Garden entitled "Make America Wealthy Again" at the White House in Washington, DC, Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP
Business & Economy

Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ brings even bigger tariffs than expected

US President Donald Trump unveiled his most expansive tariffs yet, and what experts say could represent the biggest tax hike in modern US history, in…

Keith Johnson 03 April , 2025
Marie Le Pen banned from running in French presidential race
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Marie Le Pen banned from running in French presidential race

Fares Garabet 03 April , 2025
A PMF member holds a picture of Iran's late and current supreme leaders Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (R) and Ali Khamenei to mark annual Quds (Jerusalem) Day commemorations in Baghdad on April 5, 2024. MURTAJA LATEEF / AFP
Politics

Iraq moves to give PMF greater role in state security

Reports of pressure on Baghdad from the new White House administration over the Iran-linked Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) operating in Iraqi…

Ayad Al-Anbar 03 April , 2025
Opinion

Syria weighs US demands against the needs of its people

Leaked diplomatic communications revealing what Washington demands of the transitional government in Damascus have shed further light on the evolving…

Alia Mansour 03 April , 2025

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OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT / AFP
OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT / AFP

A member of the royal guard helps another one arrange his costume near the residency of the Emir of Dutse before the Durbar horse procession in Dutse on March 31, 2025.

Fadel SENNA / AFP
Fadel SENNA / AFP

Muslims pray on Laylat al-Qadr believed to be when the Koran was first revealed to the Prophet Muhammad during the holy fasting month of Ramadan, at the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi on March 26, 2025.

Arif ALI / AFP
Arif ALI / AFP

A Muslim devotee with her hands adorned with henna paste offers prayers during Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the Islamic holy fasting month of Ramadan, at Badshahi Mosque in Lahore on March 31, 2025.

Ismael Adnan / Getty
Ismael Adnan / Getty

Iraqi Kurdish Muslims perform Eid al-Fitr prayers at Saido mosque in the city of Dohuk in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

Chanakarn Laosarakham / AFP
Chanakarn Laosarakham / AFP

Rescue workers stand on the top of the rubble at the site of an under-construction building collapse in Bangkok on April 1, 2025.

JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP
JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP

A mosaic called "Treasures saved from Gaza: 5000 years of history" is on display at Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris on March 31, 2025.

REUTERS/Lam Yik
REUTERS/Lam Yik

Visitors walk past an artwork titled "Social Network" by Elmer Borlongan at Art Basel in Hong Kong, China, on March 28, 2025.

REUTERS/Stephane Mahe
REUTERS/Stephane Mahe

A drone view shows Mont Saint-Michel partially covered by early morning fog in the western French region of Normandy, France, on March 31, 2025.

STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP
STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP

A French Republican Guard on horseback waits in formation for the arrival of King Frederik X of Denmark prior to a meeting with France's Prime Minister Francois Bayrou at the Hotel Matignon in Paris on April 1, 2025.

Reuters
Reuters

Salvadoran prison guards escort alleged members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua and the MS-13 gangs recently deported by the US government to be imprisoned in the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) prison on March 31, 2025.

Cover of the book "Umm Kulthum and the Turks"
Culture & Social Affairs

New book captures Turkish adoration of Umm Kulthum

Singer Umm Kulthum (1898-1975) is regarded by many as one of Egypt’s greatest cultural gifts to the Middle East over the past century. She left an…

Abdul Rahman Mazhar Halloush 02 April , 2025
People wave flags and chant slogans as they celebrate on the streets of Port Sudan on March 21, 2025, after the army retook the presidential palace in Khartoum from paramilitaries. Ebrahim HAMID / AFP
Politics

Winning Khartoum: what tipped the scales in the army's favour?

The Sudanese people felt relief last week as the army finally announced it had regained full control of the capital, Khartoum, from the paramilitary…

Amgad Fareid Eltayeb 02 April , 2025
BlackRock: a financial giant that controls the world Diana Estefanía Rubio
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BlackRock: a financial giant that controls the world

Four financial giants, BlackRock, Vanguard, Charles Schwab, and State Street, have emerged as the silent powers behind many of the world's largest…

Al Majalla - London 01 April , 2025
Syria's interim Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani (C) at a Brussels summit aimed at supporting Syria's transition on March 17, 2025. NICOLAS TUCAT / AFP
Business & Economy

An EEZ with Türkiye puts Syria's economic recovery at risk

In mid-March, the EU convened its ninth international Syria donor conference, but it was the first time the Syrian government participated, with…

Neil Quilliam 01 April , 2025
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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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