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How Europe helps keep Hezbollah in business Eduardo Ramon
Business & Economy

How Europe helps keep Hezbollah in business

Hezbollah can lose fighters, commanders, territory and access and still survive if its money survives. That is the uncomfortable lesson Europe should…

Lina Khatib 07 May , 2026
A Syrian army soldier stands guard next to an armoured vehicle positioned along the Syrian–Lebanese border in the rural area of Al Qusayr on 1 April 2026. BAKR ALKASEM / AFP
Politics

Iran steps up Syria destabilisation efforts

Iran’s attempts to destabilise Syria have continued since its strategic project collapsed with the fall of the Assad regime on 8 December 2024. Since…

Subhi Franjieh 07 May , 2026
UK local elections: is Labour doomed? Axel Rangel Garcia
Politics

UK local elections: is Labour doomed?

A day of reckoning looms, and every political observer in Britain knows it, a day of what President Obama would call ‘a shellacking’. May's local…

Bryn Haworth 07 May , 2026
Opinion

Choosing the path that spills less Lebanese blood

Anyone who thinks Hezbollah can be disarmed by force is deluded. More deluded still is anyone who believes the party would, under any circumstances,…

Houssam Itani 07 May , 2026
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

Having spent weeks watching Israel attack Iran, after 2.5 years spent attacking Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen, there are signs that Türkiye may now…

Rustum Mahmud 07 May , 2026
A woman tours the calligraphy museum at Sharjah Centre for the Art of Arabic Calligraphy and Ornamentation, in the United Arab Emirates, on 19 December 2021. Giuseppe CACACE / AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

Arabic calligraphy: the Nabataeans' gift to the world

Standing before the archaeological remains of the Nabataean kingdom, with the vast rock-cut façades of AlUla and Mada’in Salih carved into the…

Abdullah Al-Rashid 07 May , 2026
Trump presses pause on Project Freedom
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Trump presses pause on Project Freedom

Fares Garabet 06 May , 2026
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan delivers a speech during talks with the French President in Yerevan on 5 May 2026. AFP
Politics

Armenia’s foreign policy to be tested at the ballot box

The war in Ukraine over the past four years and the effects of this year’s Iran war have propelled global energy security to the top of the global…

Omer Onhon 06 May , 2026
Opinion

Israeli demining on Syria's border isn't what it seems

Amid a news cycle dominated by the war on Iran, Israel’s activities in Syria have largely slipped under the radar. One recent development, however,…

Haid Haid 06 May , 2026
Global airfares soar amid ongoing US-Iran turmoil Sara Padovan
Business & Economy

Global airfares soar amid ongoing US-Iran turmoil

Since late February, airline ticket prices have surged for flights taking specific routes, exposing the uneven effects of geopolitical tensions and…

Abdel-Rahman Ayas 06 May , 2026
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Gregori Saavedra
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Syria takes on Iran’s proxies

12, Nov 2026

Our cover story this week explores the opportunities and risks accompanying Syria's shift from being a corridor of Iranian influence to a state intent on containing it

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Jensen Huang is out. His successor has the toughest job in tech

13, Nov 2026

A company built around one man must now learn to run without him

The Economist
Eduardo Ramon
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Why the midterms complicate Trump's search for an Iran deal

14, Nov 2026

Democratic control of Congress will increase scrutiny of the war and its economic costs, but could also make the concessions needed for a lasting agreement with Tehran more difficult to deliver

Neil Quilliam and Alice Gower
Ibrahim Arafath
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AI in medicine: can a selfie tell how long we might live?

15, Nov 2026

Artificial intelligence can analyse facial features for clues to biological ageing and cancer survival, but further validation is needed before clinical use

Alaa Emara
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The Democrats’ old guard faces a progressive revolt 

15, Nov 2026

Following an historic landslide, a new progressive wave is calling for establishment figures to step aside and make way for new blood who better represent the future direction of the party

Tarek Rashed

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