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In this Sunday, March 22, 2020, photo supplied by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service, military trucks load onto an Il-76 cargo plane in Chkalovsky military airport outside Moscow, Russia. (AP)
Politics

Russian Aid to Italy Leaves EU Exposed

*Asked for help, Russia sends top military to Italy * NATO efforts less visible; EU divisions exposed Russia's military planeloads of aid to…

Robin Emmott and Andrew Osborn 26 March , 2020
FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Trump leads daily coronavirus briefing at the White House in Washington. (Reuters)
Business & Economy

Trump's Push to Open Economy Could Come at Cost of Lives

It is no secret that the partisan nature of the US political system has always slowed down legislative processes. Nevertheless, this factor is…

Al Majalla - London 26 March , 2020
Coronavirus Lock-Down: Deserted Cities Around the World
Science & Technology

Coronavirus Lock-Down: Deserted Cities Around the World

Busy cities around the world have been deserted, as many countries go on lockdown to slow the spread of coronavirus. …

Al Majalla - London 25 March , 2020
In this Saturday, March 21, 2020 file photo, health workers react as people applaud from their houses in support of the medical staff that are working on the COVID-19 virus outbreak at the Jimenez Diaz Foundation University hospital in Madrid, Spain. (AP)
Science & Technology

'We are Collapsing': Virus Pummels Medics in Spain and Italy

As Spain and Italy struggle in their battle against the coronavirus, Spanish and Italian doctors have been falling ill while treating infected…

Al Majalla - London 25 March , 2020
NHS Doctors Confront Difficult Choices to Make Room for Coronavirus Patients
Science & Technology

NHS Doctors Confront Difficult Choices to Make Room for Coronavirus Patients

All over the UK, patients are finding their nonemergency surgical appointments cancelled as hospitals prepare for a spike in coronavirus cases to…

Yasmine El Geressi 25 March , 2020

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Shoppers are confronted with empty shelves at a supermarket that was raided by hoarders scared by the corona virus on March 14, 2020 in Wassenaar, The Netherlands. (Getty)

March 20

The Avenue of Sphinxes is pictured during a sandstorm at the Karnak complex in Egypt’s southern city of Luxor on March 12. (Getty)

March 20

Family and friends of victims mourn at Holy Trinity Cathedral in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on March 8, two days before the one-year anniversary of the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crash, which killed all 157 people on board in 2019. (Getty)

March 20

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte (R) gives Dutch Minister for Medical Care Bruno Bruins an elbow greeting in order to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus during the weekly Question Time in the Lower House in The Hague, The Netherlands on March 10, 2020. (Getty)

March 20

A supporter of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido reacts in fron of Venezuelan security forces preventing them to continue their way to the National Assembly in Caracas on March 10, 2020. (Getty)

March 20

An employee from the Istanbul Municipality disinfects Fatih Mosque ahead of evening prayers to prevent the spread of the COVID-19, coronavirus on March 14, 2020 in Istanbul, Turkey. (Getty)

People walk in front of closed shops, after Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly ordered all restaurants, cafes, cafeterias, night clubs, shopping malls and shops to shut their doors from 07:00 p.m., in Cairo, Egypt March 19, 2020. REUTERS
Science & Technology

Egypt Announces 2-Week, Night-time Curfew to Slow Virus

Egypt will impose a two-week, nightly curfew in the Arab world's most-populous country in an effort to stop the spread of the new coronavirus, its…

Al Majalla - London 24 March , 2020
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization speaks during a news conference on updates regarding on the novel coronavirus COVID-19, at the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, March 9, 2020. (AP)
Science & Technology

Over 1.5 Billion Globally told to Stay Home to Avoid Virus

With masks, ventilators and political goodwill in desperately short supply, more than one-fifth of the world’s population was ordered or urged to…

AP 23 March , 2020
(FILES) In this file photo United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres speaks during a press briefing at United Nations Headquarters on February 4, 2020 in New York City. (AP)
Science & Technology

UN Chief Urges Immediate Global Cease-Fire to Fight COVID-19

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called Monday for an immediate cease-fire in conflicts around the world to tackle the coronavirus pandemic. …

AP 23 March , 2020
Sir Magdi Yacoub: The Egyptian Surgeon at the Heart of Organ Transplantation
Science & Technology

Sir Magdi Yacoub: The Egyptian Surgeon at the Heart of Organ Transplantation

Magdi Yacoub was born into a Coptic Christian family on 16 November 1935 in Bilbeis, Al Sharqia, Egypt. He studied at Cairo…

Al Majalla - London 20 March , 2020
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People shout slogans as they gather after a two-week ceasefire in the Iran war was announced, in Tehran, Iran, 8 April 2026. Majid Asgaripour / Reuters
Politics

US-Iran ceasefire unlikely to hold

07 April 2026

If the ceasefire collapses, China has an interest in getting the two sides back to the table, but it would be a difficult task given Tehran's deep mistrust of the US and Israel.

Xiaotong Yang
Grace Russell
Politics

Gulf states should steer clear of attritional war traps

01 April 2026

The US-Israeli war against Iran aims to draw in Gulf states, but history has shown that entering wars is far easier than exiting them. Prudence is needed now more than ever.

Khairuldeen Al Makhzoomi
Palestinian Foreign Minister Varsen Aghabekian Shahin speaks at a press conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on 25 August, 2025. Luka Dakskobler / Getty
Politics

'Israel is exploiting Iran war to kill a Palestinian state'

01 April 2026

PA Foreign Minister Varsen Aghabekian Shahin tells Al Majalla that Israel is taking advantage of the fact that the world is distracted by the US-Iran war to create irreversible facts on the ground

Ahmed Maher
People gather during a celebration called by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) at the Umayyad Square, after the ousting of Syria's Bashar al-Assad, in Damascus, Syria, 20 December, 2024. Reuters / Ammar
Business & Economy

US-Iran war gives Syria's global economic pitch more urgency

01 April 2026

Given the effective closure of the Hormuz Strait and Houthi threats to close off the Red Sea, Syria may emerge as a corridor and conduit to bypass these embattled maritime chokepoints

Charles Lister
Farid al-Madhan Reuters/ Al Majalla
Politics

Farid al-Madhan: Assad's fingerprints were on every picture

31 March 2026

A former army forensics employee who later became known as Caesar tells Al Majalla how he risked his life to expose the torture and killing of countless Syrians in regime prisons

Ibrahim Hamidi

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