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White House US Senior Advisor Jared Kushner attends the conference on Peace and Security in the Middle East in Warsaw, on February 14, 2019. (Getty)
Politics

Trump Should Demonstrate Concern for Palestinians to Improve Prospect of ‘Ultimate Deal’

After developing their peace plan for more than two and a half years, there are now reports that the Trump administration intends to present it in…

Dennis Ross 16 August , 2019
Jeff Bezos: From CEO of E-Commerce to the King of Space
Profiles

Jeff Bezos: From CEO of E-Commerce to the King of Space

by Ali Almandalawi American Entrepreneur and e-commerce…

Al Majalla - London 09 August , 2019
The Future Ain’t What it Used to Be - Final Part
Culture & Social Affairs

The Future Ain’t What it Used to Be - Final Part

HG Wells, chatting up a pretty girl in a future…

Bryn Haworth 09 August , 2019
Not Your Father’s Bots
Science & Technology

Not Your Father’s Bots

North Korean industry is critical to Pyongyang’s economy as international sanctions have already put a chill on its interaction with foreign…

Sarah Kreps 09 August , 2019
A man carries a cooler as he passes giant bottles of Coca Cola on a beach in Cancun, Mexico on October 13, 2015. (Reuters)
Business & Economy

Let Them Eat Junk

Inthe United StatesandEurope, junk food sales have precipitously declined since the late 1990s. Analysts have put the change up to greater health…

Eduardo J. Gómez 09 August , 2019
Members of the territory's medical sector attend a protest in Edinburgh Place in Hong Kong on August 2, 2019.  (Getty)
Culture & Social Affairs

Will China Crush the Protests in Hong Kong?

For five months,Hong Konghas seen waves of massive protests and violence in the streets. And for five months, the local authorities, with the…

Michael C. Davis and Victoria Tin-bor Hui 09 August , 2019
A speedboat of the Iran's Revolutionary Guard moves around a British-flagged oil tanker Stena Impero which was seized in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday by the Guard, in the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas. (AP)
Politics

Iranian Oil Smuggling and Naval Piracy Fail to Blunt Sanctions

As Washington’s net of sanctions continues to tighten, Iran has mounted a campaign of naval and diplomatic brinkmanship toward America’s Arab…

Joseph Braude 09 August , 2019
Neo-Nazis, alt-Right, and white supremacists march the night before the "Unite the Right" rally, on Friday, Aug. 11, 2017 through the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va. (TNS)
Politics

White Supremacists and ISIS Recruits Have More in Common Than You Might Think

On the surface, white supremacists and ISIS recruits would not seem to have much in common. One group embraces a racist, anti-immigrant ideology…

Melissa Etehad 09 August , 2019
Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt. (AFP)
Politics

Hezbollah is Firming up its Grip on Lebanon

Hezbollah does not seem to be satisfied with the current grip it has on Lebanon. Despite winning the 2008 parliamentary elections and…

Hanin Ghaddar 09 August , 2019

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Activists burn an effigy of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte depicted as a sea monster, during a protest near congress to coincide with Duterte's state of the nation address in Manila on July 22, 2019. (Getty)

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A boy crosses a roadblock in the Kilijiwe district of northern Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, on July 24, 2019. (Getty)

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Pnar, or Jaintia, tribesmen carry traditional Raths or chariots during events to mark the Behdienkhlam festival in Tuber village in the northeastern state of Meghalaya on July 22, 2019. (Getty)

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- A wheelchair is seen amid the rubble of destroyed buildings following a reported regime air strike on the town of Ariha, in the south of Syria's Idlib province, on July 24, 2019.(Getty)

August 5

Stranded whales lie on the beach at Löngufjörur in the Snaefellsnes peninsula. About 50 pilot whales were stranded on the beach, a frequent but rarely fatal phenomenon among these cetaceans and which remains unexplained. (Getty)

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Orthodox nuns look on as they take part in a religious procession during the celebration of the 1031st anniversary of the Christianisation of Kievan Rus in Kiev on July 27, 2019. - Tens of thousand of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow patriarchy) believers took part in the open air service and in the religious procession in Ukrainian capital on July 27, 2019. (Getty)

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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
Al Majalla
Politics

5 unanswered questions on the US-Iran ceasefire

09 April 2026

The fragile truce faces significant obstacles.

John Haltiwanger
Al Majalla
Politics

The US-Iran war tanked Trump's popularity at home

07 April 2026

Instead of the "no endless wars" they were promised, Americans were thrown into a disastrous war and were feeling the economic pinch at the gas pump

Brian Katulis
Awami Rickshaw Union workers holding posters of Pakistan's Chief of Army Staff, Field Marshal Asim Munir, shout slogans after the US and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire in Lahore on 8 April 2026. Arif ALI / AFP
Politics

Behind the truce: Pakistan mediation proves pivotal

08 April 2026

Islamabad is humming with behind-the-scenes diplomacy to turn this tentative pause into lasting peace.

Kaswar Klasra
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir shake hands during a session at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on 29 March 2026. Reuters
Politics

Palestinian executions are now official Israel policy

08 April 2026

Israel's parliament approved a draconian death penalty law last week that only applies to Palestinian prisoners, in a move that the UN says "would constitute a war crime"

Khaled Essam Eleslamboly

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