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LDP President Sanae Takaichi receives applause after she was selected as Japan's new prime minister during an extraordinary session of the lower house of parliament in Tokyo on October 21, 2025. Philip FONG / AFP
Profiles

Sanae Takaichi: Japan's first female prime minister

On 21 October, Japan achieved a historic milestone as Sanae Takaichi, President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), was elected as the 104th Prime…

Futoshi Matsumoto 21 October , 2025
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Global debt on track to surpass historic highs

Global public debt is projected to exceed 100% of global GDP by 2029—its highest level since 1948—and could reach 123% under an adverse scenario,…

Al Majalla - London 21 October , 2025
Will Trump's stablecoin push keep the US dollar king? Ari Liloan
Business & Economy

Will Trump's stablecoin push keep the US dollar king?

The global financial crisis of 2008 shattered public confidence in banks and the regulatory authorities meant to oversee them. It was no coincidence…

Toufic Chanbour 21 October , 2025
Protesters push a metal container to use as a barricade during clashes with security forces amid a strike calling for constitutional reforms and the resignation of President Andry Rajoelina in Antananarivo, on October 9, 2025. Luis TATO / AFP
Politics

Gen Z is taking to the barricades

Remember the kids of Generation Z? You know—that notorious cohort of entitled, lazy, and apathetic people that Boomers so love to mock?Over the past…

Christian Caryl 21 October , 2025
New Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhürman and his wife Nilden Bektas Erhürman celebrate his victory in the Turkish Cypriot presidential election, in the capital Nicosia, Cyprus, on October 19, 2025. Reuters
Politics

Northern Cyprus election comes with serious implications

Presidential elections in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus brought a landslide victory for the main opposition candidate on Sunday, in an…

Omer Onhon 21 October , 2025
Opinion

Syria, Russia reassert ties with an eye on mutual benefits

Over two decades, Ahmed al-Sharaa—once known by numerous aliases—moved through more than 50 homes, prisons and caves before emerging as Syria’s…

Ibrahim Hamidi 20 October , 2025
Photos of American writer Edgar Allan Poe and his family at his home museum in Baltimore.
 SAUL LOEB / AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

The Poe Museum: honouring a legacy of literary greatness

The American writer Edgar Allan Poe died at the age of 40, much like one of the characters in his own tales, shrouded in secrets, mystery, and an…

Osama Esber 20 October , 2025
US President Donald Trump stands next to NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer as NATO leaders pose for a group photo at a NATO summit in The Hague, Netherlands, on June 25, 2025. REUTERS/Claudia Greco
Politics

Europe's uphill battle to keep Trump invested in NATO

Of all the challenges US President Donald Trump has presented to the established world order since returning to the White House in January, the…

Con Coughlin 20 October , 2025
Five lessons for Israel after October 7
Politics

Five lessons for Israel after October 7

The ceasefire agreement that US President Donald Trump clinched just days after the two-year mark of the Gaza war has ostensibly put an end to…

Michael Harari 20 October , 2025
Israel's loose understanding of a ceasefire
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Israel's loose understanding of a ceasefire

Fares Garabet 20 October , 2025
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The tiny waterway that put the global economy into a chokehold

18 April 2026

Disruption in the Hormuz can have major implications for global trade, but it also creates opportunities for smaller nations like Iran to become global political players

Steve Hewitt
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Politics

Glimpses of Bush's Iraq debacle appear in Trump's Iran war

15 April 2026

The Iraq war was viewed as disastrous in retrospect, while the Iran war was unpopular from the get-go. Al Majalla highlights the similarities and differences between the two.

Robert Ford
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Business & Economy

The US plan to turn Syria into an oil transit hub

16 April 2026

Pipelines have a chequered history in the Middle East, but the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has led US Tom Barrack to conclude that a new route through Syria could solve some problems.

Al Majalla - London
An Iranian woman flashes the V-sign as she takes part in a rally to pay tribute to women killed during war, in Tehran on 17 April 2026. AFP
Politics

Has Iran's ideology actually hardened?

16 April 2026

The change in tone and presentation of policy isn't a fundamental redirection, but rather the consolidation of a system under pressure

Alex Vatanka
Egyptian director Daoud Abdel Sayed holds two awards during the opening ceremony of the Alexandria Film Festival for Mediterranean Countries in the Egyptian port city of Alexandria, late on 14 September 2010. AMR AHMAD / AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

Daoud Abdel Sayed and the cinema of quiet rebellion

16 April 2026

Throughout his career, the renowned Egyptian film director challenged authority, rejected easy answers, and remained rooted in lived experience

Hazem Massoud

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