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Street food vendor Warunee Deejai cooks lunch for customers in Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022. In the six months since Russia invaded Ukraine, the fallout from the war has had huge effects on the global economy. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
Business & Economy

Russia’s War at 6 Months: A Global Economy in Growing Danger

Martin Kopf needs natural gas to run his family’s company, Zinkpower GmbH, which rustproofs steel components in western Germany. Zinkpower’s…

AP 21 August , 2022
Francis Ford Coppola: The Godfather of cinema.

Masters of Great Epics

Whoever has not seen the movie Avatar on the largest cinema screens – either because he was young in 2009 when it came out for its first showings, or…

Mohammed Rouda 20 August , 2022
This month the Locarno Film Festival's curtains open for the 75th year from the 3rd to the 13th of August.

Locarno Film Festival 2022 – a Cinematic Center of the World

The Locarno Film Festival is the most important film festival in Switzerland and one of the most prestigious film festivals in the whole of Europe…

Luisa Markides 12 August , 2022
Chinese President Xi Jinping and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa attend the 2018 Beijing Summit of The Forum on China-Africa Cooperation - Round Table Conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China September 4, 2018. (REUTERS/File Photo)
Business & Economy

Secrets of China’s Economic Statecraft in Africa

The role of African governments in the economic development of their countries is crucial, which is why they tend to be centered by foreign…

Anzetse Were 04 June , 2022
Oh, what fun we had, back in the eighteenth century! (Blind man's bluff 1803)
Culture & Social Affairs

Fun Loving Criminals?

Bath is a small gem of a city in the west of England, named after hot springs which exist nowhere else in the British Isles – the other spas are all…

Bryn Haworth 13 May , 2022
Protests on Labor Day in Paris, France. (Getty)
Politics

French Elite Are from Mars, Youth Are from Venus

It is seemingly possible to borrow the famous headline of the well-known John Gray book “Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus” to describe the…

Sama Mamdouh El Sheikh 26 March , 2022
People communicate using sign language outside Pakistan's first mobile restaurant, staffed entirely by deaf workers, in Islamabad, Pakistan February 23, 2022. REUTERS/Salahuddin

Pakistan's First Deaf-Staffed Food Truck Empowers Hearing Impaired

The bright yellow truck with a logo of a pair of spectacles perched over a luxurious mustache looks like many other food trucks that attract hungry…

24 February , 2022
Illustrated by Jeannette Khouri
Politics

Olaf Scholz: From 'Scholzomat' to 'Robin Hood'

Olaf Scholz- nicknamed "Scholzomat" for his robotic public appearances- has put his old robot-like, technocratic image behind him and secured an…

Majalla 12 February , 2022
Arisa Go and Akito Watabe, of Japan, lead their team in during the opening ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics, Friday, Feb. 4, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Beijing Olympics Open With Nod to Year of the Tiger

Days after quietly ringing in the Chinese New Year, Beijing is celebrating the Year of the Tiger on the Olympic stage. The tiger — a symbol of…

AP 04 February , 2022
Dawlat Khaleel modelling one of her designs. (Courtesy of Dawlat Khaleel)
Culture & Social Affairs

From Homs with Love

Beyond the simple meaning of a place of residence, “home” is often synonymous with all the nostalgic feelings that carry us to the beginnings whether…

Amany M. Salem 21 January , 2022
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Documents & Memoirs

Exclusive interview with the man who caught Eli Cohen

30, Sep 2026

Ibrahim Hamidi spent years following the story of Mossad's 'spy in Damascus ', but some secrets remained untold. He then learned that the man who could answer them was still alive

Ibrahim Hamidi
A supporters of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva holds a Brazilian flag after a closing campaign rally, one day before the general election, in Sao Paulo, on 3 October, 2026. REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli
Politics

Who will be Brazil’s next president?

04, Oct 2026

Neither Lula nor Bolsonaro won an outright majority, so the two men will face off on 25 October in an election that could serve as a bellwether of Donald Trump's influence in Latin America

The Economist
Opinion

Russia boosts its defence budget with an eye on Europe

02, Oct 2026

Putin seems to have concluded that to secure a decisive victory in Ukraine, he needs to go after the countries in Europe that are supporting Kyiv

Con Coughlin
A digital billboard displays fuel prices at a petrol station in Berlin on 2 October 2026. John MACDOUGALL / AFP
Business & Economy

G7 agrees to release 100 million barrels of reserve diesel

03, Oct 2026

Analysts believe that Trump is hoping to lower domestic fuel prices before the November midterm elections, which could see Democrats win a majority of seats in Congress

Alexandra Sharp
A US Navy sailor directs a Eurocopter AS-332 Super Puma helicopter on the flight deck of Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, which is supporting US military operations in the war with Iran on 16 August 2026. US. Navy/REUTERS
Politics

US troops leave Iraq, but double down in the region

30, Sep 2026

Why 30 September should be understood less as a US exit from the Middle East than as the end of a particular model of American intervention

Caroline Rose

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