For three years, Sudan’s civil war has defied every attempt at resolution. Mediators, concerned actors, and all others seeking to end the conflict…
Pep Boatella
A flurry of defections from a powerful Sudanese militia, combined with a recent military victory by the Sudanese Armed Forces in the south, has led…
As soon as the results of Hungary’s general election were announced last month, and Prime Minister Viktor Orbán fell from power, headlines began…
The French philosopher and political activist Simone Weil writes in a way that allows thought to unfold on the page. She writes to understand, and…
On 15 May, as Israeli strikes and Hezbollah drone attacks continued in Lebanon, Washington announced that Israel and Lebanon had agreed to extend…
“Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the…
Japan watched closely as US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping met in Beijing last week. For Tokyo, several discussion points…
In less than two years, Egypt has slashed its arrears to international energy companies by over 88%, hoping to encourage exploration amid the Iran…
Afghan sunsets and Trump in China
Atif ARYAN / AFP
Afghan men carry bundles of barley across a field for threshing during sunset in the Chimtal district of Afghanistan's Balkh province on 13 May 2026.
Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP
US President Donald Trump (R) and China's President Xi Jinping inspect a guard of honour during a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on 14 May 2026.
OMAR AL-QATTAA / AFP
Akram al-Fayoumi, 13-year-old Palestinian amputee, performs a stunt while rollerblading past destroyed buildings with his prosthetic leg attachment along a street in Gaza City on 13 May 2026.
REUTERS
A firefighter works at a site of a Russian drone strike in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on 15 May 2026.
Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP
A Boeing 777-3B5 (ER) aircraft by Korean Air airline flies at sunset in front of clouds shortly after take-off from Frankfurt International Airport in western Germany, on 15 May 2026.
AFP
A bride and group couple rides in a military jeep arriving for a public mass wedding ceremony at Imam Hossein Square in Tehran on 18 May 2026.
REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan
A drone view shows fishing boats docked at Juwana port, as rising diesel prices leave many vessels idle in Pati, Central Java province, Indonesia, on 8 May 2026.
REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas
A Palestinian boy, carrying a little girl, walks, on 11 May 2026, through the rubble of residential buildings in Gaza City destroyed by Israel.
ERNESTO BENAVIDES / AFP
Peru's presidential candidate Roberto Sanchez, of the Juntos por el Peru party, gestures to supporters as fireworks explode in the background during a campaign rally in Lima on 17 May 2026.
JUAN MABROMATA / AFP
This aerial view shows Ushuaia city, Tierra del Fuego, Antártica e Islas del Atlántico Sur, Argentina, on 17 May 2026.
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