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Why is the UK Taking a Different Approach to Coronavirus?
Science & Technology

Why is the UK Taking a Different Approach to Coronavirus?

Since 2016, Boris Johnson has been campaigning in favour of taking Britain out of the European Union. He has made his position on Brexit loud and…

Ali El Shamy 18 March , 2020
Djamila Bouhired: Algerian Resistance Icon
Politics

Djamila Bouhired: Algerian Resistance Icon

Djamila Bouhired is a nationalist and guerrilla fighter who opposed French colonial rule in Algeria. She was born in 1935 to a Tunisian…

Al Majalla - London 13 March , 2020
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ivanovo oblast Governor Stanislav Voskresensky (R) observe an exhibition at Parachute plant on March 6, 2020 in Ivanovo, 230 km east of Moscow, Russia. President Putin is having a one-day visit to Ivanovo. (Getty)
Politics

The Day After Putin

Who will ruleRussiawhenVladimir Putinis gone? The Russian president recently reignited speculation about his succession plans by proposing a series…

Stephen Sestanovich 13 March , 2020
Pandemics Ravaged Iran Long Before the Coronavirus
Science & Technology

Pandemics Ravaged Iran Long Before the Coronavirus

As the novel coronavirus sweepsIran, the government’s response has been opaque and remarkably deficient, favoring political and religious priorities…

Amir A. Afkhami 13 March , 2020
A worker wearing a protective suit sprays disinfectant inside a classroom at a high school in Athens, Greece on Friday March 6, 2020. (Getty)
Science & Technology

Fight Pandemics Like Wildfires

As the new coronavirus spreads around the world, causing markets to plunge and analysts to slash growth projections, the epidemic’s potential to…

Catherine Machalaba and William B. Karesh 13 March , 2020
Women Foreign Ministers' pose for a picture during their meeting in Montreal, Canada, on September 21, 2018. (Getty)
Politics

The Best Foreign Policy Puts Women at the Center

In 2014, Margot Wallström, then serving as the foreign minister ofSweden, proclaimed that the Swedish government would adopt a so-called feminist…

Rachel Vogelstein and Rachel Vogelstein 13 March , 2020
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves 10 Downing Street in central London on February 12, 2020, to take part in Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) at the House of Commons. (Getty)
Politics

Will the UK Get its Canada-Style Brexit Deal?

Talks about the future EU-UK trade relations began in Brussels last week. Although the two sides share the goal of a zero-tariff, zero-quota free…

Yasmine El Geressi 13 March , 2020
Workers set up beds at an exhibition centre that was converted into a hospital in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province on February 4, 2020.

Coronavirus: Confronting a Pandemic

The coronavirus outbreak is now a pandemic, theWorld Health Organizationdeclared, urging governments to step up containment efforts as the number of…

Yasmine El Geressi 13 March , 2020
Bernie Sanders (AP Photos)
Politics

Bernie Sanders Says he's Moving Ahead with his Dem Campaign

Bernie Sanders says he's moving ahead with his Democratic presidential campaign. He told reporters in Burlington, Vermont, on Wednesday that he's…

AP 11 March , 2020
Workers from a Servpro disaster recovery team wearing protective suits and respirators enter the Life Care Center in Kirkland, Wash., to begin cleaning and disinfecting the facility, Wednesday, March 11, 2020, near Seattle. (AP)
Science & Technology

WHO Declares that Coronavirus Crisis is Now a Pandemic

Expressing increasing alarm about mounting infections, the World Health Organization declared Wednesday that the global coronavirus crisis is now a…

AP 11 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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