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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
Liverpool's Egyptian football star Mo Salah joined in 2017 and has helped his side to two Premier League titles. Some now wonder whether he will finish his career in Saudi Arabia. AFP/Reuters/Al Majalla

Mo Salah: Egyptian football superstar considers his future

One of the world's best players in recent years, the striker is now 33 and after a few poor games, he found himself on the substitutes' bench. It was a long journey to here. Where next?

Mohamed Qutob 21 December 2025
Jensen Huang has built NVIDIA into the world's most valuable company. It is also one of the most important. Al Majalla/AFP

Jensen Huang: from washing pots to steering the AI revolution

The founder of NVIDIA has matched vision with hard work for more than three decades. Today, the world's biggest tech firms rely in his company's chips. No wonder he has Donald Trump's ear.

Marco Mossad 14 December 2025
Andriy Yermak, Ukrainian President's chief of staff, looks on during a press conference in Kyiv on 27 August 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Sergei CHUZAVKOV / AFP

Andriy Yermak: Zelensky's chief of staff 'resigns' amid corruption scandal

The abrupt resignation of Ukraine's second-most-powerful man will please Putin, as Yermak had been leading efforts to revise Trump's 28-point peace plan, which critics said was in Russia's favour

Con Coughlin 07 December 2025
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Former military chief Gadi Eisenkot, leader of the Yashar party, waves an Israeli flag following the exit polls at his party headquarters, on the evening of Israel's national election, in Tel Aviv, Israel, on 28 October 2026. REUTERS/Shir Torem
Politics

Is Israel ready for its first non-Ashkenazi prime minister?

07, Nov 2026

Gadi Eisenkot, who may form a government, hails from a Moroccan-Jewish family. Israel's 15 prime ministers have all had European or Russian heritage. Is it time for a change?

Kamal Alam
Sara Padovan
Politics

The muted impact of electoral change on foreign policy

09, Nov 2026

Despite domestic shifts, new leaders often face structural constraints and have limited parameters to operate

Christopher Phillips
Pep Boatella
Science & Technology

Climate change is redrawing national borders

10, Nov 2026

Whether it is rivers, glaciers, or sea-level submergence, the implications of rising temperatures are becoming an increasingly urgent issue for states

Alaa Emara
Mohsen Rezaei attends a farewell ceremony on 3 July 2026 for Iran's late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed on 28 February in a US-Israel strike in Tehran. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
Profiles

Mohsen Rezaei: the unlikely peacemaker

09, Nov 2026

The former IRGC general was recently appointed as secretary of the Supreme National Security Council. For the US, the danger is mistaking his prominence for a willingness to deliver concessions

Alex Vatanka
Culture & Social Affairs

Five Arab novels that paint an AI-dominated future

10, Nov 2026

From machines that develop human emotions to societies governed by artificial intelligence, Arab novelists explore the promises and perils of a radically transformed future

Ibrahim Adel

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