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Chinese President Xi Jinping and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif shake hands at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, on 25 May 2026. Reuters
Politics

How Pakistan became China’s indispensable intermediary

When Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif landed in Hangzhou on 23 May, the choreography looked familiar enough: A Pakistani premier travels to…

Shirley Ze Yu 01 June , 2026
Opinion

Cautious optimism prevails over possible US-Iran deal

With peace talks to end the Iran conflict at a critical juncture, the latest military exchanges between the US and Iran have the potential to wreck…

Con Coughlin 01 June , 2026
From Claude to Colossus: why Anthropic needed Elon Musk Sara Padovan
Science & Technology

From Claude to Colossus: why Anthropic needed Elon Musk

Only months ago, Elon Musk was treating Anthropic as both a moral and commercial adversary. He mocked the company in public, derided its name, and…

Marco Mossad 01 June , 2026
Turkish drilling vessel Cagri Bey, which is set to conduct Turkiye's first deep-sea drilling operation docks in the Indian Ocean near the Mogadishu sea port in Mogadishu, Somalia April 10, 2026. Reuters / Feisal Omar
Business & Economy

Türkiye’s proposed maritime bill risks reigniting old rivalries

Türkiye is drafting legislation that could reignite competition over drilling, mining, and fishing rights in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Aegean…

Amr Emam 01 June , 2026
Moroccan scholar Mustapha Rajwan
Culture & Social Affairs

Mustapha Rajwan: the greatest service to a text is to interpret it

In nearly ten books devoted to rhetoric, narrative and poetics, Moroccan scholar Mustapha Rajwan has explored how texts persuade, imagine, and…

Abeer Younis 01 June , 2026
Opinion

Why Iraq is now the Middle East’s persistent headache

As the shaky between the United States and Iran continues to hold, there are growing concerns about the role Iraq is increasingly playing across a…

Saud Al-Masaud 01 June , 2026
When peace struggles to shape up Fares Garabet
Cartoons

When peace struggles to shape up

Fares Garabet 01 June , 2026
Opinion

Suez and Hormuz: more intersections than we think

After the Suez War, Winston Churchill was asked whether he would have acted as Prime Minister Anthony Eden had done over the 1956 conflict. “I would…

Ibrahim Hamidi 31 May , 2026
Raúl Castro was Cuban president from 2006 to 2018, having served as Minister for the Armed Forces from 1959 to 2008. AFP
Profiles

Raúl Castro: the soldier who made Fidel’s revolution endure

Cuba’s quieter Castro brother, Raúl, built the military and institutional architecture that allowed the revolution to outlast charisma, crisis, and…

Stefanie Butendieck Hijerra 31 May , 2026
A Kurdish Peshmerga fighter affiliated with Iran's separatist Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK), mans a position north of Kirkuk, in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region. Safin Hamid/AFP
Politics

Why Iran’s militant Kurds stayed out of the US-Iran war

In the first weeks after the US-Israel war against Iran, something unusual was happening in Erbil’s car dealerships. Representatives of Iranian…

Alex Vatanka 31 May , 2026
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The World Cup has always been a pitch for global politics

08 June 2026

From Hitler and Mussolini to South American dictators, world leaders have long seen in football's biggest tournament an opportunity to further an agenda

Mohamed Qutob
Olga Aleksandrova
Science & Technology

2026 World Cup: football in the age of AI

09 June 2026

From 3D players to data-transmitting balls, the sport's biggest tournament is awash with technology to help with everything from offside decisions to viewer angles, but does this come at a cost?

Marco Mossad
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Politics

Trump started a war he can’t control

09 June 2026

Netanyahu continues to defy calls from Washington to pump the brakes on Israel's offensive in Lebanon, something Iran has linked to a future peace deal

John Haltiwanger
Axel Rangel Garcia
Politics

Why is Iran targeting Kuwait and Bahrain?

10 June 2026

While it could be tied to military calculations related to the current US-Iran war, it also reflects a deeper struggle between two opposing regional visions

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Culture & Social Affairs

Al Majalla’s Film Watch: football on the big screen

11 June 2026

We highlight some of the most notable movies centred on the world's most coveted sport

Wael Said

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