Baghdad: The head of Iraq’s Development Fund waxed lyrical about the long-lost but once ubiquitous scent of apricot trees in a much-cleaner capital…

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US President-elect Donald Trump has set his sights on the Nobel Peace Prize. The last Oval Office incumbent to scoop one was Trump’s antithesis:…

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For decades, US policy towards Israel has been consistently and unswervingly supportive, regardless of who the US president and Israeli prime…

The prospect of former US President Donald Trump returning to the White House in January has had a profoundly galvanising effect on the Western…

A recent ruling by Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court allowing landlords to raise rent prices has been largely hailed in the country. The ruling…