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Finding an economic off-ramp to avert a US-Iran war Axel Rangel Garcia
Business & Economy

Finding an economic off-ramp to avert a US-Iran war

Economic considerations appear to be taking over political and security calculations in the US approach to Iran, particularly as negotiations between…

Thuraya Shahin 19 February , 2026
Opinion

Price hikes compound economic misery in Lebanon

A Lebanese government decision to raise fuel prices and VAT has angered citizens across the country. The latest price hike adds $3.50 on every 20…

Houssam Itani 19 February , 2026
Medusa as our ambivalent self: Racha Mounaged’s new poetics
Culture & Social Affairs

Medusa as our ambivalent self: Racha Mounaged’s new poetics

Racha Mounaged’s debut poetry collection, The Metamorphoses of Medusa, reveals an imaginative mind interrogating the philosophical legacy of Greek…

Alfred J. Naddaff 19 February , 2026
The Arab Summit and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation in Riyadh on 11 November 2024.
 SPA
Politics

An Arab vision for regional security

The Middle East is used to conflict, but the current moment is fundamentally different. Wars overlap, alliances are in flux, and long-standing…

Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy 19 February , 2026
Trump pushes EU states to reduce US dependence
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Trump pushes EU states to reduce US dependence

Fares Garabet 18 February , 2026
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio with Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani and SDF Commander Mazloum Abdi @USAMBTurkiye via X
Politics

SDF presence in Munich raises eyebrows in Ankara

At the recently concluded 2026 Munich Security Conference, the issue of Syria’s Kurds dominated discussions about the Middle East. The leader of the…

Omer Onhon 18 February , 2026
Is Israel quietly annexing the West Bank? Lina Jaradat
Politics

Is Israel quietly annexing the West Bank?

The Israeli government has scrapped a longstanding rule preventing Israeli citizens from buying land directly from Palestinians, in a bid to…

Ahmed Maher 18 February , 2026

Epstein files outcry and more from the world

Martin BUREAU / AFP
Martin BUREAU / AFP

This photograph taken in Le-Perreux-sur-Marne, outside Paris on February 9, 2026 shows undated pictures provided by the US Department of Justice on 30 January 2026 as part of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Yasser Al-Zayyat / AFP
Yasser Al-Zayyat / AFP

Buildings are seen through a veil of fog rolling over the Al-Salmeyya district in Kuwait City on 9 February 2026.

REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa
REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa

A Palestinian girl plays with another as she pushes wheelchair at a tent camp sheltering Palestinians who were displaced during the two-year Israeli offensive, in Gaza City, on 9 February 2026.

AP / Vincent Thian
AP / Vincent Thian

Chinese folk performance known as da shuhua, or molten iron fireworks ahead of Lunar New Year celebrations in Beijing, China, on 9 February 2026.

AP /Michael Probst
AP /Michael Probst

The Baltic Sea is frozen along the beach in Sierksdorf, northern Germany, on 8 February 2026.

REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne
REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne

A drone view of a maze with hedges illustrating the shape of a map of Ireland, including each county, in Tullow, Ireland, on 8 February 2026.

JUNG YEON-JE / AFP
JUNG YEON-JE / AFP

South Korean students wearing traditional hanbok dresses bow as they attend a graduation and coming-of-age ceremony at a girls' high school in Seoul on 5 February 2026.

REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji
REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji

Divers wearing traditional Korean costume hanbok perform with a stingray during an event in celebration of the upcoming Lunar New Year at an aquarium in Seoul, South Korea, on 10 February 2026.

Joseph EID / AFP
Joseph EID / AFP

A girl walks past shelters at the Imam Ali Housing Compound, where displaced Lebanese and Syrian refugee Shiite Muslims take refuge by the city of Hermel in Lebanon's northeastern Bekaa valley on 4 February 2026.

MARVIN RECINOS / AFP
MARVIN RECINOS / AFP

A Catholic faithful bathes during the pilgrimage of the Child Jesus and the Child Zarco at the El Chorreron waterfall in Santa Maria Ostuma, El Salvador, on 4 February 2026.

Could Trump actually buy Greenland? Sara Gironi Carnevale
Documents & Memoirs

Could Trump actually buy Greenland?

“There are some places that are never for sale.” American President Donald Trump was told this to his face—not at the recent World Economic Forum in…

Steve Hewitt 31 January , 2026

The aurora borealis, Chinese New Year and more

NACKSTRAND / AFP
NACKSTRAND / AFP

The aurora borealis lights up the sky above the Nuuk cathedral in Nuuk, Greenland, on 23 January 2026.

REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

Light installations decorate the Zigong International Lantern Festival ahead of the Chinese Lunar New Year in Zigong, Sichuan province, China, on 23 January 2026.

REUTERS/Mike Segar
REUTERS/Mike Segar

A male Northern Cardinal bird perches on a branch during heavy snowfall as a major winter storm spread snow across a large swath of the United States, in Nyack, New York, on 25 January 2026.

Sajjad HUSSAIN / AFP
Sajjad HUSSAIN / AFP

Indian soldiers march during the country's 77th Republic Day parade at Kartavya Path in New Delhi on 26 January 2026.

Tauseef MUSTAFA / AFP
Tauseef MUSTAFA / AFP

A boatman steers a shikara during a spell of fresh snowfall at the Dal lake in Srinagar on 27 January 2026.

AP / Rajesh Kumar Singh
AP / Rajesh Kumar Singh

A large gathering of Hindu devotees is seen on Basant Panchami, the day which marks the advent of spring, at the confluence of rivers Ganges and Yamuna during the annual fair of Magh Mela in Prayagraj, India, on 23 January 2026.

INA FASSBENDER / AFP
INA FASSBENDER / AFP

Snow-covered mountains along the coastline with the Labrador Sea, a part of the North Atlantic Ocean near Nuuk, western Greenland, on 25 January 2026.

ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP
ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP

A man stretches at a lookout point next to the U Bein bridge, which spans the Taungthaman Lake, as the sun rises in Mandalay on 26 January 2026.

BASHAR TALEB / AFP
BASHAR TALEB / AFP

A Palestinian boy searches for recyclable material at a landfill against the backdrop of destroyed buildings in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on 25 January 2026.

ATTA KENARE / AFP
ATTA KENARE / AFP

Iranian women walk past an anti-US billboard installed on a building at the Enqelab Square in Tehran on 26 January 2026.

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Pete Reynolds
Politics

Ukraine: the war that shook the world

23 February 2026

The conflict has forced Russia to scale back its global footprint and NATO to boost its defence spending. Meanwhile, China and Middle powers have emerged as key beneficiaries.

Christopher Phillips
Reuters / Al Majalla
Politics

Trump has few good options on Iran

16 February 2026

As the US and Iran head to talks in Geneva, competing forces are pulling Trump in opposite directions. There are only two "good" scenarios in front of him, and neither will be easy to achieve.

Michael Horowitz
Reuters / Al Majalla
Business & Economy

Donald Trump answers a Supreme Court rebuke with new tariff threats

21 February 2026

The immediate economic impact will be more uncertainty

The Economist
Reuters-Al Majalla
Politics

Ex-Prince Andrew's arrest rocks the British monarchy

20 February 2026

His arrest is the first for a British royal in modern history and comes after it was revealed he had passed confidential state documents to US financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein

Con Coughlin
Aliaa Aboukhaddour
Culture & Social Affairs

The Kuwaiti collector preserving Fairuz's legacy

16 February 2026

Faris Al-Muhanna dreams of one day creating a digital archive to safeguard the history and memory of Lebanon's most iconic artist for future generations

Charbel Khoury

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