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Can China's Military Win the Tech War?
Science & Technology

Can China's Military Win the Tech War?

As the Chinese government has set out to harness the growing strength of the Chinese technology sector to bolster its military, policymakers inthe…

Anja Manuel and Kathleen Hicks 07 August , 2020
What Fast Track for Asylum Seekers From Hong Kong?
Politics

What Fast Track for Asylum Seekers From Hong Kong?

At the end of June, theChinese Communist Partypassed a new national security law bringingHong Kongmore fully underChina'scontrol than at any time…

Betsy Joles 07 August , 2020
To Counter China, Look to Canada and Mexico
Science & Technology

To Counter China, Look to Canada and Mexico

If there is broad bipartisan agreement on anything inWashingtontoday, it is thatthe United Stateshas become dangerously dependent on Chinese…

Roberta Jacobson and Tom Wyler 07 August , 2020
Karen Bass Emerges as Serious Contender for Joe Biden’s VP, Draws Scrutiny
Politics

Karen Bass Emerges as Serious Contender for Joe Biden’s VP, Draws Scrutiny

Joe Biden’s search for a Vice Presidential nominee to complete the Democratic ticket has continued longer than expected. Amid dissatisfaction with…

Joseph Braude 07 August , 2020
The Devastating Aftermath of the Beirut Explosion
Politics

The Devastating Aftermath of the Beirut Explosion

The deadly blast that sent a red mushroom cloud thousands of feet into the air rocked Beirut on Tuesday evening killing over 160 people, wounding…

Majalla 07 August , 2020
Hezbollah Draws International Criticism After Beirut Explosion
Politics

Hezbollah Draws International Criticism After Beirut Explosion

The political landscape of post-civil war Lebanon has been precarious. The events of 1990 resulted in 15 years of Syrian occupation, which would only…

Ali El Shamy 07 August , 2020

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Men transport cows with a van after buying from a cattle market ahead of the Muslim festival Eid al-Adha or the 'Festival of Sacrifice', in the Pakistan's port city of Karachi on July 29, 2020. (Getty)

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A picture taken on July 29, 2020 shows pilgrims holding coloured umbrellas along matching coloured rings separating them as a COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic measure while circumambulating around the Kaaba, Islam's holiest shrine, at the centre of the Grand Mosque in the holy city of Mecca, at the start of the annual Muslim Hajj pilgrimage. (Getty)

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Camel vendors handle a camel at a camel market set up for the upcoming Muslim Eid al-Adha festival or the 'Festival of Sacrifice' in Karachi. (Getty)

July 31

A Palestinian boy pours water over his head in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, on July 22, 2020. (Getty)

July 31

A girl who escaped from the attacks of the Assad regime and took refuge in the Diya border camp poses for a photograph after a volunteer hairdresser cut her hair for Eid al-Adha in Idlib.. (Getty)

July 31

The casket of late US Congressman John Lewis, a pioneer of the civil rights movement and long-time member of the House of Representatives, is carried via horse-drawn carriage across the Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma.. (Reuters)

There Is No Scramble for the Arctic
Business & Economy

There Is No Scramble for the Arctic

The Arcticis so remote, so cut off from the rest of the world, that at times it appears to defy the normal rules of politics. Relations betweenthe…

Thomas Graham and Amy Myers Jaffe 31 July , 2020
The Age of Strategic Instability
Politics

The Age of Strategic Instability

For decades, American policymakers and military planners have focused on preserving what is known in the nuclear lexicon as “strategic stability…

Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall 31 July , 2020
Politics

The Age of Strategic Instability

For decades, American policymakers and military planners have focused on preserving what is known in the nuclear lexicon as “strategic stability.”…

Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall 31 July , 2020
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Barbara Gibson
Politics

China’s Victory Day Parade: symbolic or seismic?

05 September 2025

Beijing would like the week to mark a historic turning point in which a unipolar world finally gave way to multipolarity. To others, it was just tub-thumping bravura. In reality, it was a bit of both.

Shirley Ze Yu
Business & Economy

Syria’s post-Assad energy quandary

01 September 2025

The country now sits at an energy crossroads: will its recovery be anchored in oil and gas, or will it seize the chance to lean into renewables and build something more resilient?

Jesse Marks
Pep Boatella
Politics

Disarming Hezbollah: will Lebanon seize or squander its opportunity?

02 September 2025

After Israel dealt Iran and its regional axis a string of crippling blows last year, Lebanon now finds itself better-positioned to reclaim its eroded state sovereignty. Will it grab the chance?

Frederic C. Hof
Al-Ma'arri in his residence as depicted in a 1965 book Wikipedia Commons
Culture & Social Affairs

Al-Ma’arri’s satirical poetry reimagined for today's readers

02 September 2025

Recent books from Yemen, Egypt, and Syria take a new look at the 10th-century philosopher's famed letter 'The Epistle of Forgiveness', which is said to have inspired Dante's 'Divine Comedy'

Ali Almuqri
Local residents walk past a house destroyed by an earthquake that killed nearly 1,000 people and devastated villages in eastern Afghanistan, on September 1, 2025. AFP
Politics

For Afghan quake victims, sympathy came faster than help

04 September 2025

An earthquake in Afghanistan earlier this week levelled entire villages and left people trapped under rubble for days, but in the shadow of the Hindu Kush, saviours were thin on the ground

Kaswar Klasra

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