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…
Pep Boatella
The most prominent voices calling for an end to the state of war between Lebanon and Israel, for normalisation between the two countries, and…
Easter mass and babies born in displacement camps
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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…
Two years ago, the Swedish novelist Ia Genberg’s The Details was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize. Earlier this year, her latest work,…
NATO allies said on Monday they would not get involved in US President Donald Trump's plan to blockade Iranian ports, proposing to intervene only…
It came as no surprise when the Syrian authorities announced that they had dismantled an explosive device intended for use against a religious figure…
After a taxing 21 hours, US Vice President JD Vance thanked Pakistan for hosting US-Iran talks but ultimately concluded that “Iran was not prepared…
When the US and Israel waged war on Iran on 28 February 2026, killing its Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, two global powers watched intently from afar:…
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