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April 17

April 17

The Reverend Stuart Elliott blesses the new fire as part of his Service of New Light for Easter Eve on the shore of Llyn Mymbyr in Snowdonia on April 08, 2020 in Capel Curig, Wales. (Getty)

April 17

US President Donald Trump (C - partially hidden) gestures over the lectern as he speaks, flanked by (From L) Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, US Vice President Mike Pence and Response coordinator for White House Coronavirus Task Force Deborah Birx, during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, in the Brady Briefing Room at the White House. (Getty)

April 17

Volunteers from the Violet organisation perform a puppet show for children in a camp for displaced Syrians, to inform them about the novel coronavirus and the methods used in order to limit its spread, in the village of Kafr Yahmul, north of the northwestern Syrian city of Idlib. (Getty)

April 17

Marco Antonio Galeana, parish priest of the Cordova church, hears the confession of a devotee outside the church in Acapulco, Mexico during the new coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. (Getty)

April 17

Personnel of Local Defence Unit (LDU), Paramilitary force composed of civilians, deliver meiz flour and beans during the first day of food distribution for people who have been affected by the lockdown in Kampala. (Getty)

April 17

Police officers wearing protective suits fetch a resident suspected of having COVID-19 from his home in a slum area to be taken to an isolation facility on April 15, 2020 in Manila, Philippines. (Getty)

Hezbollah’s Drug Dealing and Money Laundering
Politics

Hezbollah’s Drug Dealing and Money Laundering

A few days ago, Russian police seized a truck loaded with 200 thousand US dollars worth of drugs at a rural town near Damascus. The truck originated…

Alia Mansour 17 April , 2020
Lebanon Under Lockdown
Politics

Lebanon Under Lockdown

The current coronavirus lockdown measures in Lebanon have resulted in a national economic downturn, which has been getting worse day by day. The…

Elie Fawaz 17 April , 2020
Don’t Count on China to Lift the Global Economy
Business & Economy

Don’t Count on China to Lift the Global Economy

As life grinds to a halt in much of the world because of the novel coronavirus, the country that until recently was the hardest hit by the deadly…

Dexter Roberts 17 April , 2020
Coronavirus and the Future of Surveillance
Science & Technology

Coronavirus and the Future of Surveillance

The novel coronavirus pandemic is causing tens of thousands of deaths, wreaking economic devastation, leading to lockdowns across much of the world,…

Nicholas Wright 17 April , 2020
South Korea Offers a Lesson in Best Practices
Science & Technology

South Korea Offers a Lesson in Best Practices

When it comes to the novel coronavirus,South Koreahas taken tracing to a new level. When passengers deplane atIncheon International AirportnearSeoul,…

Victor Cha 17 April , 2020
Iran’s Virus Diplomacy
Science & Technology

Iran’s Virus Diplomacy

The coronavirus has hit the Middle East at a time when the region is already burdened with a series of long-running conflicts, economic crises, and…

Yasmine El Geressi 17 April , 2020
Politicians are Embracing the Misleading Coronavirus Cure Claims Infecting the Internet
Politics

Politicians are Embracing the Misleading Coronavirus Cure Claims Infecting the Internet

The rise of “fake news”isn’t a creation of the digital age.Long before Facebook, from the 80s through to the 2000s dangerous rumours circulated about…

Yasmine El Geressi 17 April , 2020
The Coronavirus Brings New Hope for Israeli-Palestinian Reconciliation Talks
Science & Technology

The Coronavirus Brings New Hope for Israeli-Palestinian Reconciliation Talks

As the entire world is battling the Coronavirus pandemic, something astounding started happening in the Middle East. Israel and the Palestinian…

Mohamed Abo Don  17 April , 2020
The Coronavirus Brings New Hope for Israeli-Palestinian Reconciliation Talks
Science & Technology

The Coronavirus Brings New Hope for Israeli-Palestinian Reconciliation Talks

As the entire world is battling the Coronavirus pandemic, something astounding started happening in the Middle East. Israel and the Palestinian…

Gaza: Mohamed Abo Don  17 April , 2020
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A portrait of Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hangs during an anti-government protest calling for action to secure the release of Israeli hostages in Tel Aviv on March 29, 2025. Jack GUEZ / AFP
Politics

From covert to overt: Netanyahu's Doha strike is telling

11 September 2025

His emerging strategy shows a willingness to gamble on high-profile assassinations, even at the expense of diplomatic blowback, regional stability, and fragile negotiations

Michael Horowitz
A Hezbollah flag is placed in front of the shrine of Shamoun al-Safa, built within a castle in the village of Shamaa in southern Lebanon's Tyre governorate, on January 31, 2025, that was heavily damaged by Israeli bombing. Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP
Business & Economy

Trump Economic Zone plan raises eyebrows in Lebanon

11 September 2025

Many Lebanese see the project as a demographic one with economic dressings aimed at expelling the country's southern population from their lands

Souraya Chahine
Activists protest near the US Capitol on July 24, 2024, in Washington, DC. Activists staged multiple demonstrations near the Capitol to protest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to Washington and Israel's war on Gaza. Alex Wong/ AFP
Politics

Americans are tiring of Israel. Will US policy follow?

01 September 2025

While the US public has long been supportive of Israel, its genocide in Gaza appears to have had a big effect, with most young Americans now outright hostile towards it

Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy
Opinion

'The Voice of Hind Rajab' shows cries for justice are only getting louder

07 September 2025

A 24-minute standing ovation at the film premiere was more than a symbolic gesture of justice for Israel's murder of little Hind, but a heartfelt cry of real anguish over the ongoing genocide in Gaza

Samer Abou Hawwach
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Culture & Social Affairs

Fathy Embaby on using history to understand the present

05 September 2025

The Egyptian novelist—one of the Arab world's renowned writers of epic fiction—reveals the details of his craft to Al Majalla as the fourth book in his 'River' series captures a key moment

El-Sayed Hussein

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