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Two years ago this week (15 April), war broke out in Sudan that few anticipated would escalate so rapidly or persist for so long. What began as a…
Syria’s interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, drew a crowd in much the same way as a celebrity during his recent visit to Türkiye, his second in an…
The book of genocide remains open; its story is still being told in the Gaza Strip, each chapter more terrifying and devastating than the last. Just…
The trade war that US President Donald Trump has launched between the United States, the European Union, and China is starting to encompass other…
Sand hockey, tulip fields and Expo 2025
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Moroccan nomads dressed in traditional garments take part in a sand hockey match during the Nomads Festival in Mhamid El-Ghizlane in Morocco's southern Sahara Desert on April 12, 2025.
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This aerial photograph shows tulip fields near Oude-Tonge, southwestern Netherlands, on April 11, 2025.
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A woman walks through the Japan Pavilion during the media day held ahead of the Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan on April 9, 2025, in Osaka, Japan.
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Family members visit the Kalamata Fortress, an old stone fort facing the sea, built by the Portuguese in 1540 to protect their spice trade in Ternate, North Maluku, on April 11, 2025.
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Aerial view of bullet trains waiting on storage tracks at Nanjing South Railway Station on April 9, 2025, in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province of China.
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A worker on a small-scale shrimp farm casts a net into a pond used to raise shrimp in Taura, Ecuador, on April 12, 2025.
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A woman takes part in a demonstration calling for gender-based violence and femicide to be declared a national disaster in Pretoria on April 11, 2025.
Manan VATSYAYANA / AFP
A boy getting his head shaved ahead of the rite of passage ceremony for young boys to be initiated as novice Buddhist monks at the Wat Ku Tao Buddhist temple in Chiang Mai in northern Thailand.
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Christian worshippers pose for pictures in front of the Dome of the Rock as they march down a road during the traditional Palm Sunday procession at the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem on April 13, 2025.
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A man casts a shadow on the ground as he plays basketball on a colourful outdoor court in Paris on April 11, 2025.
The current round of US-Iranian negotiations—the first held in Muscat, and the second to take place in Rome—is markedly different from previous…
When Israeli jets struck Beit Lahia, Rafah, Nuseirat, and Al-Mawasi last month, killing some 400 Palestinians in the process, the assault seemed like…
US President Donald Trump recently said that he is exploring possible temporary exemptions to his tariffs on imported vehicles and parts to give auto…
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,…
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