“Egypt is my homeland, the land of my birth. There I grew up and was raised. She is my teacher and the source of my livelihood, the place where I…
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The sudden death of US Senator Lindsey Graham last week brought the curtain down on one of Washington’s most prominent Republican hawks, a steadfast…
The opening of Egypt’s Strategic Command Headquarters last week shows what Egypt has learned from its recent past and how it intends to deal with the…
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On 3 September 2025, as China marked the 80th anniversary of Japan’s defeat in the Second World War, President Xi Jinping stood at the centre of one…
The memorandum of understanding between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran lasted barely a month, which showed just how much…
The arrest of Syrian media activist Bakkar Hamidi by the Military Police on 12 July has sparked both protests and problems for the authorities, as…
Erdogan's Gun gift and more from the world
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A Moroccan roller blader skates at a skate park in Casablanca, Morocco, July 10, 2026.
Photo by EITVYDAS KINAITIS/ AFP
This handout photo taken and obtained on July 9, 2026 from the office of the Lithuanian President shows a revolver offered by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda
REUTERS/Kylie Cooper
The U.S. Capitol building is framed behind the Ferris wheel on the final day of The Great American State Fair on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 10, 2026.
REUTERS/Stringer
Firefighters work at the site of an apartment building hit by a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine July 13, 2026
Photo by Sanaullah SEIAM / AFP
An Afghan zookeeper interacts with a sloth bear cub inside an enclosure at a zoo and breeding facility in Kandahar on July 9, 2026.
Photo by Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP
Rafale fighter jets fly over the Arc de Triomphe during a rehearsal, ahead of the Bastille Day parade on the Champs-Elysees avenue in Paris on July 9, 2026.
AP Photo/Anmar Khalil
The coffin of the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is carried by mourners to the Imam Ali Shrine in Najaf, Iraq, Wednesday, July 8, 2026.
AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky
The moon rises in the clouds behind the city landmark, a weather vane in the form of an angel fixed atop a spire of the Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral, in St. Petersburg, Russia, early Friday, July 10, 2026.
AP Photo/Ethan Swope
A blaze engulfs trees on the Summit Fire in Llano, CA. Friday, July 10, 2026.
Photo by BASHAR TALEB / AFP
A staffer from the Mayasem Association for Culture and Arts brushes an artefact, as others repair and scientifically-restore a number of artefacts collected during the war in Gaza, Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, on July 11
A Ukrainian drone campaign against Russia’s oil infrastructure has grown from occasional attacks to a sustained effort aimed at weakening Moscow’s…
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