As the US-Israeli war on Iran deepens into a protracted and volatile standoff, its economic fallout continues to grip the global economy, with Europe…
Gregori Saavedra
The 1,300 or so islands scattered across the waters and along the coast of Saudi Arabia are far more than small pieces of land encircled by the sea…
The Israeli-Lebanese negotiations that were launched on 14 April in Washington, DC, were the first of their kind in many years. They took place under…
What made Mohammad Javad Zarif’s recent Foreign Affairs article so explosive was not simply what he proposed, but when and where he proposed it…
The most prominent voices calling for an end to the state of war between Lebanon and Israel, for normalisation between the two countries, and…
Since the US and Israel waged war on Iran on 28 February, China has issued a cascade of diplomatic communiqués condemning the strikes, calling for a…
Easter mass and babies born in displacement camps
Nikolay DOYCHINOV / AFP
This long-exposure photograph shows the light from candles held by Bulgarian Orthodox worshippers during a midnight Easter mass in front of the Saint Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Sofia, on 12 April 2026.
AP/Emilio Morenatti
Haifa Kenjo, who fled Israeli airstrikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut, holds her 15-day-old daughter Shiman inside the tent she uses as a shelter and where she gave birth to her in Beirut, on 12 April 2026.
AP /Jacquelyn Martin
US Vice President JD Vance walks up a flight of stairs to meet with Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, on 11 April 2026, in Islamabad, for talks about Iran.
AP Photo/Martin Meissner
Two flamingos are shown at the zoo in Cologne, Germany, on a warm and sunny on, 9 April 2026.
AP/Emilio Morenatti
Ali, 4, holds a toy horse next to the tent his family uses as a shelter after fleeing Israeli bombardment in southern Lebanon, in Beirut, Lebanon, on 8 April 2026.
ATTA KENARE / AFP
Women walk past a wall mural along the roadside in Tehran on 11 April 2026.
REUTERS/Toby Melville
A green woodpecker looks for food in Richmond Park, in London, Britain, on 13 April 2026.
NASA/Bill Ingalls/ REUTERS
The Artemis II crew capsule descends towards splashdown under parachutes, as it lands in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California, on 10 April 2026.
AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP
Muslim worshippers gather near the Dome of the Rock at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound for the fajr dawn prayer in Jerusalem on 9 April 2026.
AP /Rafiq Maqbool
Friends and relatives carry the body of a legendary Bollywood singer, Asha Bhosle, for the funeral outside her home in Mumbai, India, on 13 April 2026.
The moment that US President Donald Trump announced a two-week ceasefire on 8 April 2026, markets breathed a sigh of relief after a period of acute…
Oil markets got bearishly excited after the announcement late Tuesday of a ceasefire deal between the United States and Iran. Crude oil prices…
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A US-Iran deal is announced. Cue the spoilers.
