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A Pakistani woman with tuberculosis holds different antibiotics. Around 1.5 million people in Pakistan suffer from the illness, which is increasingly becoming drug-resistant. TBIJ/BSAC/Khaula Jamil
Science & Technology

World leaders commit to action to ensure the future of modern medicine

At the United Nations General Assembly in New York, all countries approved a major new political declaration to radically scale up efforts to combat…

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus 26 September , 2024
Opinion

Muscular diplomacy needed to stop Israel-Hezbollah war

The entire credibility of the United Nations Security Council is at stake as it considers how best to respond to the escalating violence between…

Con Coughlin 26 September , 2024
US Vice President Richard Nixon (L) and Senator John Kennedy participate in the first nationally televised debate between presidential candidates in a Chicago television studio on September 26, 1960. AFP
Documents & Memoirs

This day in history: Nixon and Kennedy face off in first-ever US presidential debate

In 1956, a University of Maryland student came up with a brilliant idea. Fred Kahn, 23, wrote to his university administration proposing a live…

Sami Moubayed 26 September , 2024
Israeli troops deploy in an area in the Upper Galilee region in northern Israel on September 27, 2024. Jalaa MAREY / AFP
Politics

Eyes on Iran as Israel sets its sights on Tehran’s golden child

Hezbollah advises its supporters to follow the Israeli press. Read articles in Haaretz, Yedioth Ahronoth, and Maariv they are told. Watch Israeli…

Houssam Itani 26 September , 2024
Alshaikh Idris, “Abstract 5” on view at Sotheby’s London as part of the Hafla exhibition Sotheby’s
Culture & Social Affairs

Sotheby’s exhibition celebrates 50 years of Saudi art

When Sotheby’s, the great auction house, hosted its first major retrospective of Saudi art last month in London, the Saudi ambassador was present and…

Bryn Haworth 26 September , 2024
Israel shifts war focus to its north
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Israel shifts war focus to its north

Fares Garabet 26 September , 2024
A couple watch the sunset at the Red Sea resort of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, December 20, 2023. AFP
Business & Economy

Generous Gulf pension benefits may soon be a thing of the past

Gulf states have long been known for their young populations, but with longer life expectancies, the dynamics of their demographics are changing…

Amer Ziab Al-Tamimi 25 September , 2024
This file photo shows US Navy F/A-18E Super Hornets, attached to Carrier Air Wing 1 (CVW-1) and Belgian Air Force F-16s flying over the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) in the Mediterranean Sea. Christina Sears / AFP
Politics

Will Israel finally succeed at pulling the US into a regional war?

With the Biden administration announcing that it is sending more troops to the Middle East, there are mounting concerns that the deepening conflict…

Con Coughlin 25 September , 2024
From unicorns to dystopians: The disappearance of Israel's centre-centre Nash Weerasekera/Majalla
Politics

From unicorns to dystopians: The disappearance of Israel's centre-centre

Nearly one year into the Gaza war, public opinion in Israel has been so influenced by the incumbent government’s extremist and iron-fisted policies…

Ahmed Maher 25 September , 2024

Lebanon under fire, war commemorations and state parades

AFP
AFP

Plumes of smoke rise from the site of the Israeli raid that targeted the Jabal al-Rayhan area in the Jezzine region of southern Lebanon on September 21, 2024.

Reuters/David Dee Delgado
Reuters/David Dee Delgado

A person attends a demonstration to protest the escalation of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in New York City, US, September 24, 2024.

Ibrahim Amro/AFP
Ibrahim Amro/AFP

Vehicles wait in traffic in the town of Damour, south of the capital Beirut, on September 24, 2024, as people flee southern Lebanon.

REUTERS/David Dee Delgado
REUTERS/David Dee Delgado

People gather to protest the escalation of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in New York City, US, September 24, 2024.

AFP
AFP

A woman holds a poster of Ibrahim Aqil, the head of Hezbollah's elite Radwan Force, during his funeral procession in Beirut's southern suburbs on September 22, 2024.

Atta Kenare / AFP
Atta Kenare / AFP

Soldiers from a unit of the Iranian army march during the annual military parade marking the anniversary of the outbreak of the 1980-1988 war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq in Tehran on September 21, 2024.

Rodrigo Oropeza / AFP
Rodrigo Oropeza / AFP

A member of the Mexican armed forces gets ready to participate in the military parade for the 214th anniversary of Independence Day at the Zocalo Square in Mexico City on September 16, 2024.

AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka
AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka

Ukrainian serviceman Gennadiy Yudin stands inside an orthodox church heavily damaged by a Russian bombing in Novoekonomichne, Ukraine, Tuesday, September 17, 2024.

AP /Michael Probst
AP /Michael Probst

Birds fly as fog covers the outskirts of Frankfurt, Germany, early Friday, September 20, 2024.

Tristan Fewings/Getty
Tristan Fewings/Getty

Maqbool Fida Husain’s ‘Untitled (Reincarnation)’ (est. £300,000 – 500,000) goes on view at Sotheby's on September 20, 2024 in London, England.

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People shout slogans as they gather after a two-week ceasefire in the Iran war was announced, in Tehran, Iran, 8 April 2026. Majid Asgaripour / Reuters
Politics

US-Iran ceasefire unlikely to hold

07 April 2026

If the ceasefire collapses, China has an interest in getting the two sides back to the table, but it would be a difficult task given Tehran's deep mistrust of the US and Israel.

Xiaotong Yang
Al Majalla
Politics

5 unanswered questions on the US-Iran ceasefire

09 April 2026

The fragile truce faces significant obstacles.

John Haltiwanger
Al Majalla
Politics

The US-Iran war tanked Trump's popularity at home

07 April 2026

Instead of the "no endless wars" they were promised, Americans were thrown into a disastrous war and were feeling the economic pinch at the gas pump

Brian Katulis
Awami Rickshaw Union workers holding posters of Pakistan's Chief of Army Staff, Field Marshal Asim Munir, shout slogans after the US and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire in Lahore on 8 April 2026. Arif ALI / AFP
Politics

Behind the truce: Pakistan mediation proves pivotal

08 April 2026

Islamabad is humming with behind-the-scenes diplomacy to turn this tentative pause into lasting peace.

Kaswar Klasra
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir shake hands during a session at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on 29 March 2026. Reuters
Politics

Palestinian executions are now official Israel policy

08 April 2026

Israel's parliament approved a draconian death penalty law last week that only applies to Palestinian prisoners, in a move that the UN says "would constitute a war crime"

Khaled Essam Eleslamboly

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