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Saudi Minister of Finance Mohammed Bin Abdullah Al-Jadaan speaks on an opening for High Level Seminar, Strengthening Global Collaboration for Tackling Food and Insecurity, during the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia, July 15, 2022. Sonny Tumbelaka/Pool via REUTERS

Saudi Finance Minister: COVID, Geopolitical Tensions Impacted Food and Energy Security

Saudi Arabia's Finance Minister Mohammed al-Jadaan said on Friday he explained in a G20 meeting that concerns regarding COVID-19 and its variants, in addition to geopolitical tensions, have added to…

13 October 2022
A person waits to get a COVID-19 test during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., January 12, 2022. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri

Long COVID At 12 Months Persists At 18 Months, Study Shows

Most patients with COVID-19 who have lingering symptoms at 12 months are likely to still have symptoms at 18 months, new data suggest. The findings are drawn from a large study of 33,281 people in…

13 October 2022
A 3D printed Pfizer logo is placed near medicines from the same manufacturer in this illustration taken September 29, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo

Pfizer To Supply Up To 6 mln COVID Pill Courses For Lower Income Countries

Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) said it would supply up to 6 million courses of its COVID-19 antiviral treatment to NGO Global Fund for low- and middle-income countries that seek to address worldwide disparities…

23 September 2022
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Healthcare Workers Continue to Burn Out – Can Technology Help?

Healthcare workers are in crisis: Some 35% of surveyed nurse leaders—usually a clinical specialist who oversees other leaders and registered nurses—say low morale and burnout is their biggest…

Deb Zimmerman and BJ Schaknowski 06 May 2022
Boris Johnson illustrated by Jeannette Khouri

Boris Johnson: The Conservative PM’s Future is at Stake

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, a lover of ancient Greek and Latin literature and history, is often fascinated by the fall of the Roman Empire but his government is now threatened by a similar…

Majalla 04 February 2022
A large billboard is pictured at the entrance of of Old Jeddah, known as 'Al- Balad', to announce the first edition of the Red Sea Film Festival, in the Saudi coastal city of Jeddah, on December 11, 2021. (Photo by Ammar ABD RABBO / Red Sea Film Festival / AFP)

Why Do Cinemas Flourish in Saudi Arabia Despite Global Decline?

With more than 600 cinemas remaining shut in North America and a global decline in revenues that reached up to 80% in Europe and Asia, the outlook of the screening film industry seems to be gloomy…

Motasem Al Felou 24 December 2021
In this Friday, Oct. 1, 2021 file photo, a woman receives her second Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine jab from a healthcare worker during the inaugural vaccination weekend drive in Katlehong, east of Johannesburg, in South Africa. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, File)

Mission “Vaccinate Africa”

Africa is experiencing the world’s worst vaccine deficit. Only a minority of countries—mostly those where vaccines are manufactured—are approaching adequate levels of vaccination. But Africa is…

Ashish Jha, Andrew Iliff 05 November 2021
Iranian men who have been infected with the coronavirus disease lie on hospital beds in a COVID-19 ward in Firoozabadi hospital in Shahr-e-Rey neighborhood in the south of Tehran on the day of Nowruz on March 20, 2021. (Photo by Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Pandemic Death Toll Approaches 400,000 in Iran

All of Iran’s provinces are currently suffering from the COVID-19 disaster. In fact, everyone knows that Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is the reason behind the coronavirus massacre across the country…

Mahdi Akabaei 27 August 2021
Illustration by Ali Mandalawi

Bill Gates: No Longer the Fourth-Richest Person in the World after Divorce

The news of the divorce of Bill Gates, founder of the American company Microsoft, from his wife, Melinda French, who co-chairs the board of directors of the largest private charitable foundation in…

Majalla 20 August 2021
This photo taken on August 4, 2021 shows a laboratory technician wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) working on samples to be tested for the Covid-19 coronavirus at the Fire Eye laboratory in Wuhan, in China's central Hubei province. (Photo by STR / AFP)

Calls for Independent Coalition-led Probe on Origins of COVID-19

More than a year and a half into a global pandemic that has caused at least four million deaths, the world is still debating two competing hypotheses about the origins of the novel coronavirus that…

Thomas J. Bollyky, Yanzhong Huang 14 August 2021
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Red Sea defence alliance: opportunities and challenges

08 August 2026

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Amgad Fareid Eltayeb
The general manager of the Ras al-Khair water desalination plant inspects drinking water from a tap at the facility in eastern Saudi Arabia on 30 March 2023. FAYEZ NURELDINE / AFP
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The Gulf’s race for water security

10 August 2026

Desalination plants and strategic reservoirs are becoming sovereign assets, but this also makes them vulnerable to attack

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The new military pact among Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Türkiye could potentially create a regional environment favourable to Damascus

Ibrahim Hamidi
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Abdul El-Sayed: the progressive Michigander who beat the pro-Israel lobby

07 August 2026

Come November, the Egyptian-American epidemiologist could become the first Muslim senator in US history, despite $70mn spent to defeat him in the Democratic primary

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Migrants walk towards the Fnideq region in northern Morocco after leaving Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta following an attempted crossing at the Bab Sebta border crossing, on the outskirts of Fnideq, on 1 August 2026. Abdel Majid BZIOUAT / AFP
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