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Josephine Faleye receives the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine from a senior nurse Dilhani Somaweera, on the first day of the largest immunisation programme in the British history, in London, Britain December 8, 2020. Jack Hill/Pool via REUTERS

UK Health Unions Offer to Pause NHS Strikes If Government Joins Pay Talks

British health unions have offered to suspend a wave of planned strikes in health services over Christmas and the New Year if the government agrees to open serious discussions over pay. The Royal…

10 December 2022
People shop at market stalls, with skyscrapers of the CIty of London financial district seen behind, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in London, Britain, January 15, 2021. REUTERS/Toby Melville

Three Quarters of UK Long COVID Sufferers Working Less -Survey

More than three quarters of British people who have suffered persistent ill health following a COVID-19 infection have had to cut back or change the work they do, according to a survey on the impact…

09 November 2022
Gavin Williamson walks outside Number 10 Downing Street in London, Britain, October 25, 2022. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls

UK's Sunak Stands by Minister Accused of Sending Bullying Texts

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is standing by a government minister who has been accused of bullying a colleague, cabinet office minister Oliver Dowden said on Sunday, saying the phone messages…

06 November 2022
A man throws an object out of a car window next to the Border Force centre after a firebomb attack in Dover, Britain, October 30, 2022. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls

British Police Say Immigration Centre Attack Was Terrorist Incident

British police said on Saturday evidence showed an extreme right-wing terrorist ideology had motivated a petrol bomb attack on an immigration centre in the southern English port town of Dover on Oct…

05 November 2022
Britain's new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak waves as he enters Number 10 Downing Street, in London, Britain, October 25, 2022. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls

IMF Chief Expects UK PM Sunak's Government to Stick to Fiscal Discipline

IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva said on Wednesday she expects new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to steer Britain towards fiscal sustainability and said he was right to warn the public of difficult…

26 October 2022
Britain's Conservative MP Rishi Sunak leaves his home address in London, Britain October 24, 2022. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls

Sunak Looks Set to Become Next UK PM after Johnson Quits Race

Rishi Sunak looked set to become Britain's next prime minister after his rival Boris Johnson quit the race, admitting that he could no longer unite their party following one of the most turbulent…

24 October 2022
Shoppers walk next to the clubcard price branding inside a branch of a Tesco Extra Supermarket in London, Britain, February 10, 2022. Picture taken February 10, 2022. REUTERS/Paul Childs

Political Chaos Tips British Firms into Deeper Slide-PMI

British businesses are suffering their worst month since January 2021, when they were under a COVID-19 lockdown, as the country's political upheavals compound concerns about inflation and rising…

24 October 2022
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks at the Commonwealth Business Forum at the International Convention Centre (ICC), in Birmingham, Britain, July 28, 2022. Peter Byrne/Pool via REUTERS

Boris Johnson Battling to Win Support for UK PM Comeback Bid, Sunak Enters Race

Boris Johnson was fighting on Sunday to get enough support to make a shock return as Britain's prime minister after prominent figures on the right wing of the Conservative Party coalesced around the…

23 October 2022
Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak walk out of Downing Street, in London, Britain, December 1, 2021. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls

Race to Be Next UK PM Begins as Momentum Grows Behind Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson has been gaining momentum in his audacious bid to return as British prime minister, with his colleagues deeply divided over the potential comeback and some warning he would plunge the…

22 October 2022
British Prime Minister Liz Truss leaves Number 10 Downing Street for the Houses of Parliament, in London, Britain, October 19, 2022. REUTERS/Toby Melville

UK PM Truss Has No Plans to Resign, Political Spokesman Says

British Prime Minister Liz Truss will be in power when a fiscal plan is delivered on Oct. 31 and has no plans to resign, her political spokesman said on Wednesday, before a vote in parliament on…

19 October 2022
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US President Donald Trump meets Russian President Vladimir Putin to negotiate for an end to the war in Ukraine in Anchorage, Alaska, on August 15, 2025. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
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Putin rides high after Alaska

18 August 2025

Seven instances that showed the Russian leader had the upper hand during his meeting with Trump

Robert Ford
Aliaa Aboukhaddour
Culture & Social Affairs

How Gaza’s hakawati use storytelling to cling to memory and life

17 August 2025

Storytelling in a genocide in which there has been no formal education for two years is no luxury. Rather, it is an attempt to revive the imaginations of a generation robbed of their childhood.

Houssam Marouf
Syrian Defence Minister Murhaf Abu Qasra and Turkish Defence Minister Yaşar Güler hold up an MOU on security cooperation in Ankara on August 13, 2025. Syrian Foreign Ministry
Politics

The implications of expanded Syria-Türkiye military ties

15 August 2025

Israel has made clear its objection to Turkish military bases in Syria. Could a recently signed MOU between Ankara and Damascus to boost security cooperation threaten Türkiye's good ties with the US?

Omer Onhon
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Business & Economy

How Vision 2030 diversified the Saudi economy

16 August 2025

In the second instalment of a two-part series, Al Majalla looks at how Saudi Arabia moved from a horizontal to a vertical development model, powered by an ambitious package of reforms

Hussein al-Sharaa
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer makes an address following an emergency cabinet meeting on Gaza at 10 Downing Street in London on July 29, 2025. Toby Melville / AFP
Politics

Performative politics: Palestine recognition pledges ring hollow

18 August 2025

The moves by France, the UK and other Western states appear to be more about appeasing domestic critics with symbolic gestures rather than a genuine attempt to change Israel's behaviour

Christopher Phillips

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