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A handout photo made available by the Presidential press service shows Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky giving a press conference following the Crimean Platform summit in Kiev, Ukraine, 23 August 2021. (EPA/PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SERVICE HANDOUT)
Politics

Ukraine at 30: Fractured but Determined

Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky may not get everything right, but one thing is for sure – since becoming president in May 2019, he has worked…

Maia Otarashvili 27 August , 2021
A file photo of an Iraqi policeman manning machine gun near the Iraqi-Syrian borders at the Abu Kamal-qaim border crossing, the main border post between Iraq and Syria, September 8, 2012. (REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani)
Politics

Smuggling across Syrian-Iraqi Borders: New Challenge to Intl Coalition

Smuggling activities between Syria and Iraq poses a new challenge for the US-led international coalition, whose troops are located on both sides of…

Jiwan Soz 27 August , 2021
Khaled Abul Enein, brother of the Babel Shoe Factory owner, walking out of the factory in downtown Cairo.
Business & Economy

Egypt’s Oldest Shoe Factory Still Surviving

Amin AbulEnein, 70, stands inside his 69-year-old shoe factory in downtown Cairo training people how to make a distinguished shoe. AbulEneinis the…

Menna A. Farouk 27 August , 2021
Iranian men who have been infected with the coronavirus disease lie on hospital beds in a COVID-19 ward in Firoozabadi hospital in Shahr-e-Rey neighborhood in the south of Tehran on the day of Nowruz on March 20, 2021. (Photo by Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Science & Technology

Pandemic Death Toll Approaches 400,000 in Iran

All of Iran’s provinces are currently suffering from the COVID-19 disaster. In fact, everyone knows that Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is the reason…

Mahdi Akabaei 27 August , 2021
(Clockwise from Top C) British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, US President Joe Biden, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Italy's Prime minister Mario Draghi, President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Council Charles Michel, Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel and France's President Emmanuel Macron, sit around the table at the start of the G7 summit in Carbis Bay, Cornwall on June 11, 2021. (Photo by Leon Neal / POOL / AFP)
Politics

The Center Cannot Hold

Before the COVID-19 pandemic began, Washington was coalescing around a new bipartisan consensus: great-power competition, especially with China,…

Thomas Wright 27 August , 2021
According to 'The Wall Street Journal,' sources say Amazon is planning to open department stores about the size of a Kohl's or T.J. Maxx. (Dreamstime/TNS)
Business & Economy

People Liked Malls

Since 2005, Amazon has changed how virtually every American shops. That February, the company launched Prime, the first-of-its-kind, lightning-fast…

Amanda Mull 27 August , 2021
The Dixie Fire pushes through the Genesee Valley on August 21, 2021 in Genesee, California. (Allison Dinner/Getty Images/TNS)
Culture & Social Affairs

The Burning Debate — Manage Forest Fires or Suppress Them?

As western wildfires burn through millions of forested acres, they are igniting debates about our response that are almost as heated as the flames…

Char Miller 25 August , 2021
A Saudi Arabian national flag flies in a city square in Buraidah, Saudi Arabia, on Sunday, Aug. 4. 2019. Saudi Arabia has been draining its reserves to cover social spending amid low oil prices. Photographer: Tasneem Alsultan/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Politics

Saudi Arabia Pledges to Provide Support for Tunisia, Tunisian Presidency Says

Saudi Arabia pledged on Sunday to provide the necessary support for Tunisia, which is suffering a political, economic, and health crisis, the…

22 August , 2021

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In this image courtesy of the US Central Command Public Affairs, Afghans civilians are evacuated by the US military on August 19, 2021, at an undisclosed location. - A Pentagon official confirmed Friday that US evacuation operations from Kabul's airport have been stalling because the receiving base in Qatar is overflowing and could not receive evacuees. "There has been a considerable amount of time today… where there haven't been departures," Brigadier General Dan DeVoe of the US Air Mobility Command told reporters. (Photo by Brandon CRIBELAR / US Central Command Public Affairs / AFP)

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A young child and a man, part of more than 90 Australian citizens and Afghan nationals who were evacuated from Afghanistan, wait to dissembrak from the bus as they arrive at a hotel to begin quarantine in Perth, Australia, August 20, 2021. (Photo by TREVOR COLLENS / AFP)

World in Photos

A man throws a bag of rice into a crowd of earthquake victims gathered for the distribution of food and water at the "4 Chemins" crossroads in Les Cayes, Haiti on August 20, 2021. - Five days after a powerful earthquake killed nearly 2,200 people in Haiti, aid was arriving but officials were eager to not repeat the mistakes that followed a 2010 quake that devastated the Caribbean nation. With almost 53,000 homes completely destroyed and more than 77,000 others damaged in Saturday's tremor, authorities have a massive group of people that will need extensive recovery help. (Photo by Reginald LOUISSAINT JR / AFP)

World in Photos

A boy holding his clothes stands on a road divider along a waterlogged road after a heavy rainfall in Delhi on August 21, 2021. (Photo by SAJJAD HUSSAIN / AFP)

World in Photos

Soccer Football - Premier League - Liverpool v Burnley - Anfield, Liverpool, Britain - August 21, 2021 Liverpool fans inside the stadium before the match REUTERS/Russell Cheyne EDITORIAL USE ONLY. No use with unauthorized audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or 'live' services. Online in-match use limited to 75 images, no video emulation. No use in betting, games or single club /league/player publications.

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Alma Mccune 15, and fellow members of mariachi band Los Changuitos Feos (Ugly Little Monkeys) preform for parishioners after a morning Mass at St. Augustine Cathedral Sunday, Aug. 18, 2021 in downtown Tucson. (AP Photo/Darryl Webb)

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US President Donald Trump meets Russian President Vladimir Putin to negotiate for an end to the war in Ukraine in Anchorage, Alaska, on August 15, 2025. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Politics

Putin rides high after Alaska

18 August 2025

Seven instances that showed the Russian leader had the upper hand during his meeting with Trump

Robert Ford
Eduardo Ramon
Business & Economy

The rare earths powering industries and fuelling conflicts

18 August 2025

From Africa to the Arctic, certain metals and minerals are so highly sought after for today's strategic industries that countries will go to war over them. What are they? Al Majalla digs deeper.

Abdulfattah Khattab
US Ambassador to Türkiye Tom Barrack, also special envoy to Syria, fields questions from journalists after meeting with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun at the presidential palace in Baabda, Lebanon, on August 18, 2025. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir
Politics

 Lebanon at a crossroads over Hezbollah arms

18 August 2025

US envoy to Syria Tom Barrack used his latest visit to Beirut to deliver what was, in effect, an ultimatum to the Lebanese government, though he took care not to present it as such

Michael Harari
Aliaa Aboukhaddour
Culture & Social Affairs

How Gaza’s hakawati use storytelling to cling to memory and life

17 August 2025

Storytelling in a genocide in which there has been no formal education for two years is no luxury. Rather, it is an attempt to revive the imaginations of a generation robbed of their childhood.

Houssam Marouf
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer makes an address following an emergency cabinet meeting on Gaza at 10 Downing Street in London on July 29, 2025. Toby Melville / AFP
Politics

Performative politics: Palestine recognition pledges ring hollow

18 August 2025

The moves by France, the UK and other Western states appear to be more about appeasing domestic critics with symbolic gestures rather than a genuine attempt to change Israel's behaviour

Christopher Phillips

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