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Pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party's (HDP) Turkish MP Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu, who was expelled from the parliament earlier this month, holds a press conference on March 31, 2021 at the party's headquarters in the Turkish capital, Ankara. (Getty)
Politics

Turkey Continues to Pressure Pro-Kurdish Party

Turkey’s Constitutional Court has sent back to the prosecutor, an indictment calling for the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) to be banned…

Jiwan Soz 09 April , 2021
Thea Fisher (C) and other members of the World Health Organization (WHO) team, investigating the origins of the Covid-19 coronavirus, visit the closed Huanan Seafood wholesale market in Wuhan, China's central Hubei province on January 31, 2021. (Getty)
Science & Technology

The World May Never Know How the Pandemic Started

In January, World Health Organization-designated scientists departed for China to investigate the origins of COVID-19. After spending four weeks in…

Yanzhong Huang 09 April , 2021
China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi (R) shakes hands with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif before a bilateral meeting on September 15, 2015 in Beijing, China. (Getty)
Politics

How U.S. Sees New Sino-Iran Accord

Last week, China and Iran formalized a new and enhanced relationship, which had been in the works for some time amid a growing convergence of…

Joseph Braude 09 April , 2021
A picture taken on December 16, 2020 shows newly constructed towers in Riyadh, the Saudi Arabian capital and main financial hub. (Getty)
Business & Economy

MENA Countries Must Diversify Income to Address Deficit

The World Bank has recently warned that economies of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region are suffering a sudden accumulation of public…

Hatem Khedr 09 April , 2021
 Indian soldiers pay their respects during the funeral of their comrade, Tibetan-origin India's special forces soldier Nyima Tenzin in Leh on September 7, 2020. Tenzin was killed in the latest border showdown with Chinese troops on their contested Himalayan border, a Tibetan representative said on September 1. (Getty)
Politics

China’s Unrestricted War on India

On October 12, 2020, the electricity went out in India’s biggest city. Mumbai faced its worst power cut in decades, with businesses crippled, the…

Brahma Chellaney 09 April , 2021
 A man helps a woman burn a poster showing the picture of the then-Lebanese Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil during a demonstration on the highway that links the capital Beirut to the northern city of Tripoli, in the area of Jal el-Dib in the northeastern outskirts of the capital, on October 26, 2019 on the tenth day of protest against tax increases and official corruption.
Politics

The Rise and Fall of Hezbollah’s Ally

Gebran Bassil – a Lebanese deputy, the president of the Free Patriotic Movement, and the son-in-law of the president of the republic, has learnt long…

Hanin Ghaddar 09 April , 2021
U.S. Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) (Getty)
Politics

“White Supremacy” vs. “Woke Superiority”

Since the killing of George Floyd, a Black man, by policeman Derek Chauvin, a White man, last summer in Minneapolis, and now with the start of…

Mohammad Ali Salih 09 April , 2021
Ibrahim Salah, 27, works in his place called “The Location View” in El Haram neighbourhood, Giza governorate. (Menna A. Farouk)
Culture & Social Affairs

Sculptor Turns Scrap Into Ancient Egyptian Statues

An Egyptian sculptor is turning scrap into giant ancient Egyptian statues to promote the Egyptian civilization and highlight its significance and…

Menna A. Farouk 09 April , 2021
The Yemberzal Band – Kashmir’s only all-girl Sufi music group. (Supplied)
Culture & Social Affairs

Kashmiri Girls Put New Melody into Sufiyana Mausiqi

Like the Edelweiss of Switzerland, the ‘Yemberzal’ is a harbinger of springtime in Kashmir. The Kashmiri Narcissus or Daffodil is the first flower…

Meera Ravi 09 April , 2021
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Why a cornered Iran is also a problem for China

02 May 2026

Even when appeals to open the Hormuz Strait come from a close ally like Beijing, they fall on deaf ears in Tehran. But hope is not yet lost.

Xiaotong Yang
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Business & Economy

Global airfares soar amid ongoing US-Iran turmoil

04 May 2026

Airspace closures, rising fuel costs, shifting flight maps and delayed aircraft deliveries have repriced flights around the world, with some travel routes hit worse than others

Abdel-Rahman Ayas
A man holds a flag featuring the late leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the late Supreme Leader of Iran Ali Khamenei and the new leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, at a rally in Tehran on 29 April 2026. Majid Asgaripour / Reuters
Politics

Real Iran splits and the myth of division

04 May 2026

The argument is over the price and presentation, not the basic instinct to preserve the system

Alex Vatanka
A Lebanese guard stands in front of  Magen Abraham, the last Jewish synagogue in Lebanon at Wadi Abou Jmil, Beirut's former Jewish neighbourhood, in the war-devastated city centre. JOSEPH BARRAK / AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

New book recalls Beirut’s once-vibrant Jewish quarter

01 May 2026

Veteran Lebanese journalist Nada Abdelsamad transports readers back to the time when Beirut's Jewish quarter, known at the time as Wadi al-Yahud, was thriving

Abdul Rahman Mazhar Halloush
Turkish fighter jets fly over a warship in Kyrenia, in the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. AFP
Politics

How the Iran war changed Türkiye’s security calculus

05 May 2026

Ankara's national security priority is no longer Kurds or Gülenists, but Israel. Likewise, in Tel Aviv, Türkiye is increasingly seen as a future Israeli adversary. Both are preparing accordingly

Rustum Mahmud

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