Sara Padovan
Al Majalla has learned that the Islamic State (IS) plans to dramatically step up attacks in Iraq in the coming months, to spread shock and fear…
The title of Finnish-Lebanese artist Yasmina Nysten’s exhibition, Memory Keepers, held at the Saleh Barakat Gallery in Beirut in September, suggests…
Student protests in France, Albania and more
REUTERS/Abdul Saboor
French riot police walk past burning objects in a street amid clashes with protesters in Paris as part of nationwide protests against the cost of living and rising fuel prices on 17 October 2026.
REUTERS/Florion Goga
Demonstrators, seen through broken glass, gather during clashes with police amid an anti-government protest by students, in Tirana, Albania, on 15 October 2026.
ARMEND NIMANI / AFP
Riot police officers take cover as protesters throw a Molotov cocktail during an anti-government demonstration in central Tirana, Albania, on 18 October 2026.
AP /Hassan Ammar
A boy jumps into the Mediterranean Sea in Beirut, Lebanon, on 17 October 2026.
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A girl hops across a water puddle at a camp for people displaced by war in the Jabalia camp for Palestinian refugees in the northern Gaza Strip on 19 October 2026.
AP/Jorge Saenz
A tourist stands on a walkway overlooking Iguazu Falls in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, on 16 October 2026.
REUTERS/David Swanson
A firefighting helicopter drops water as the Bryson Fire, a wind-driven wildfire, burns in the hills east of Malibu, California, US, on 15 October 2026.
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A car-shaped river taxi cruises along the Nile River in central Cairo on 15 October 2026.
AP /Abdel Kareem Hana
Palestinians receive food donated by the World Food Programme at a displacement camp in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, on18 October 2026.
SANKA VIDANAGAMA / AFP
A New Zealand fur seal pup swims in coastal waters at the Kaikoura seal colony in Kaikoura on 18 October 2026.
Record remittances, stronger investment inflows and higher foreign reserves are giving Egypt’s economy greater room to absorb shocks, but sustaining…
Just over a week ago, Lebanese security forces intercepted a shipment containing an estimated half a tonne of TNT and C4 explosives in the Dahr al…
Israel’s upcoming elections are widely regarded as particularly consequential—not only for Israel itself, but for the region as a whole. The past…
President Donald Trump’s controversial decision to suspend sanctions on Russian diesel exports won’t do much, if anything, to lower fuel prices,…
Egypt has offered defensive military support to Saudi Arabia in its fight against the Houthi militia in Yemen, with analysts now speculating about…
When an enormous mass of rock and ice broke away from Mount Langtang Lirung on the border between Nepal and Tibet on 26 August, it unleashed a…
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