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2025 global health achievements and 2026 priorities

Global health recorded remarkable achievements in 2025 while also experiencing profound challenges. Multilateralism, science, and solidarity were…

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus 09 January , 2026
A collage of protests in Iran on 8 and 9 January 2026. AFP /AP
Politics

With protests at home and threats abroad, Iran looks rattled

For decades, each big bout of unrest in Iran has followed a similar pattern. It starts with a trigger, be it a murder, a stolen election or a…

The Economist 09 January , 2026
Forces that seized control of the Second Military Region Command on the outskirts of Al Mukalla, the capital of Hadramout, on 3 January 2026. AFP
Politics

Saudi Arabia's red line in Yemen explained

The complexity facing Yemen and the surrounding region in 2026 cannot be understood without recognising Saudi Arabia’s role in pursuing stability in…

Abdullah F. Alrebh 09 January , 2026
People ride in an old electric tram in Alexandria, Egypt, on 3 August 2017. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
Culture & Social Affairs

Alexandria bids farewell to its historic tram

For its people, Alexandria is not merely a city; it is a state of being in which history intersects with the present, creating something akin to an…

Yasmin Abdallah 09 January , 2026
Opinion

Can a "coalition of the willing" win Europe favour with Trump?

At a time when tensions between Europe and the US are at an all-time high, the offer by leading European powers such as the UK and France to provide…

Con Coughlin 08 January , 2026
US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner deliver remarks upon the signing of the declaration on deploying post-ceasefire force in Ukraine during the Coalition of the Willing summit in Paris on 6 January 2026. LUDOVIC MARIN /AFP
Politics

Israel-Syria security talks make headway in Paris

Contacts regarding a potential security agreement between Israel and Syria were renewed this week following several prior rounds of talks…

Michael Harari 08 January , 2026
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Two mistakes that precipitated Zubaidi's downfall

The leader of the secessionist Southern Transitional Council (STC) has fled to the United Arab Emirates via Somaliland after skipping planned peace…

Al Majalla - London 08 January , 2026
Russia could feel the economic screws tighten in 2026 Al Majalla
Business & Economy

Russia could feel the economic screws tighten in 2026

At the very end of his press conference in Florida, shortly after the successful US exfiltration of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on 3 January,…

Nazareth Seferian 08 January , 2026
Opinion

“Shopping Lists”: from Greenland to Yemen

Officials in President Donald Trump’s administration step before television cameras and speak as though reading from a shopping list: Cuba is bad…

Houssam Itani 07 January , 2026
Operation Absolute Abduction
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Operation Absolute Abduction

Fares Garabet 07 January , 2026
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Politics

China is not scared of Trump’s squeeze on Iran

04 September 2026

Beijing has plenty of leverage to deter Washington

Henry Tugendhat
Underwater image of a diver among fish at the North Seymour Island dive site in the Galapagos archipelago, Ecuador, taken on 8 March 2024. ERNESTO BENAVIDES / AFP
Business & Economy

The global race for rare earths reaches the ocean floor

07 September 2026

A critical mineral found on Japan's seabed has caught US attention, and the two are teaming up to see whether it can yield future benefits and reduce their dependence on China

Abdulfattah Khattab
Raven Jiang
Politics

From the war on terror to networked security

07 September 2026

The main change since 9/11 is that military security has become one component of a much wider security ecosystem

Lina Khatib
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Culture & Social Affairs

Takeshi Miike's new Kabuki documentary surprises critics

06 September 2026

For a filmmaker who has spent decades challenging norms, a film about traditional Japanese theatre seems like an odd choice. At the Venice Film Festival, he explains to Al Majalla why it is not.

Leila Amar
Sara Padovan
Politics

Donald Trump and the new Latin American right

04 September 2026

Across Central and South America, a raft of right-wingers borrow from each other's playbooks and ride on the US president's coattails to win elections and power. Is it ideology or practicality?

Stefanie Butendieck Hijerra

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