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Alireza Arafi: the cleric charged with selecting Iran's next Supreme Leader

A clerical member of the Guardian Council, he was selected to serve on the Leadership Council along with President Masoud Pezeshkian and Chief Justice Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei

Alex Vatanka 02 March 2026
A vendor sells merchandise to people paying their respects to the late civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson outside of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition national headquarters on 27 February 2026 in Chicago, Illinois. SCOTT OLSON / AFP

Jesse Jackson made a black president possible

The activist and civil-rights leader died on February 17th, aged 84

The Economist 01 March 2026
Puerto Rican singer Bad Bunny performs during Super Bowl LX Patriots vs Seahawks Apple Music Halftime Show at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California, on 8 February 2026. JOSH EDELSON / AFP

Bad Bunny: the unapologetic Puerto Rican pop star

The six-time Grammy Award-winner ruffled MAGA feathers during his Super Bowl performance by singing entirely in Spanish, which, to some, was seen as an affront to 'American' identity

Stefanie Butendieck Hijerra 21 February 2026
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Dina Powell: politics, capital, and Meta’s AI ambitions

Her appointment as president of Meta signals a strategic turn away from product-centric leadership towards the management of power, capital, and geopolitics

Marco Mossad 09 February 2026
Kevin Warsh lectures at Stanford University School of Business, New York, on 8 July 2017. Reuters

Kevin Warsh: a more Trump-friendly Fed chair?

As US monetary policy enters a new phase and amid White House pressure for the Fed to lower interest rates, a trusted Wall Street insider with government experience has been asked to step up

Toufic Chanbour 02 February 2026
AFP

Stephen Miller: Trump's ideologue-in-chief

The White House deputy chief of staff for policy has backed violent ICE raids, cheered Maduro's seizure, and supported Trump's bid to 'take' Greenland

Con Coughlin 01 February 2026
Karagh Byrne

Jens-Frederik Nielsen: the Greenlandic premier standing up to Trump

Trump made no secret of his desire for the US to 'own' Greenland and has threatened to take over the frigid Arctic island 'the easy way or the hard way', but its people do not want to become American

Con Coughlin 25 January 2026
Ali Shaath during a press interview with a local radio station.
 Reuters

Ali Shaath: Gaza’s technocrat of reconstruction

Responsibility for the enclave's reconstruction has been placed in the hands of an experienced civil engineer native to Gaza

Mohammed Najib 17 January 2026
Venezuela's Vice President Delcy Rodríguez speaks during a press conference in Caracas on 8 September 2025. Federico PARRA / AFP

Delcy Rodríguez and Venezuela’s politics of survival

Venezuela's vice president is known for having a diplomatic style that is confrontational in tone but cautious in substance, and pursuing a strategy that marries public defiance with quiet pragmatism

Stefanie Butendieck Hijerra 05 January 2026
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado gestures at a protest ahead of the Friday inauguration of President Nicolas Maduro for his third term, in Caracas, Venezuela, on 9 January 2025. REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria

Who is Venezuela opposition leader, Maria Corina Machado?

The recent recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize has been a fierce critic of Maduro, with Trump saying he has been 'helping her for years'

Con Coughlin 03 January 2026
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Lebanon-Israel talks: diplomacy under bombs

20 May 2026

Beyond Israel's immediate security aims lies a much larger struggle over Lebanon's future—one that will unfold over years, in multiple stages, and cannot be reduced to a simple question of force.

Michael Horowitz
Lamine Yamal raises the Palestinian flag during Barcelona's celebrations of their Spanish League title in Barcelona, ​​2026. AP
Culture & Social Affairs

How Gaza pushed Israel out of Europe’s moral order

18 May 2026

Football star Lamine Yamal's hoisting of Palestine's flag, and the Eurovision audience's booing of Israel's contestant, show how Israel has lost its PR edge

Shadi Alaa Aldin
Axel Rangel Garcia
Politics

Why the US clings to a failed siege strategy in Cuba

15 May 2026

Crippling US sanctions on Havana were designed to force regime change, but six decades of crippling embargo have only cemented it

Stefanie Butendieck Hijerra
A gas facility off the Suez Desert Road outside Cairo, Egypt, on 1 September 2020.
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Business & Economy

Egypt repays energy firms with an eye on self sufficiency

19 May 2026

Cairo hopes to gain the trust of partners through its regular payments to energy firms, so that they will be more inclined to invest in gas exploration activities

Sharif Mohammad
Mark Smith
Politics

The philosopher king of Palantir: Alex Karp says the quiet part out loud on X

18 May 2026

The tech CEO's manifesto, where he champions US military dominance and the use of AI weapons, has been described by some as the 'ramblings of a supervillain'

Bryn Haworth

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