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Trump sanctions the ICC for going after Netanyahu

Fares Garabet 13 February 2025
Diana Estefanía Rubio

Trump tariffs hit Canada and Mexico hard, but China not so much

Last week, President Donald Trump imposed 10% tariffs on China after reaching last-minute agreements with Canada and Mexico to delay tariffs by 30 days. China responded by slapping tariffs of 15% on…

Al Majalla - London 11 February 2025
Tributes are placed beneath the covered seal of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) at their headquarters in Washington, DC, on February 7, 2025. Mandel NGAN / AFP

The chaos at USAID, explained

Experts warn that dissolving the agency would be a gift to US adversaries

John Haltiwanger and Christina Lu 11 February 2025
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Morgan Ortagus: Trump’s blunt new Middle East envoy

Alongside Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, Ortagus is prepared to furrow brows in a region known for its sensitivities. In fact, she has already started.

Aqeel Abbas 11 February 2025

Trump's controversial 'Gaza Riviera' plan

Fares Garabet 10 February 2025
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How Trump’s tariff policy will shape the world

China is fighting back, but other countries will struggle to respond

Cameron Abadi and Adam Tooze 09 February 2025
Pro-Palestinian protesters attend a rally against US President Donald Trump's recent remarks on Gaza and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Sydney on February 7, 2025. Saeed KHAN / AFP

Trump comments on Gaza fuel global drive for a just solution for Palestine

While Trump's comments on the US 'owning' Gaza sparked a firestorm of criticism, it also refocused attention on the urgent need to rebuild the Strip and recognise a Palestinian state once and for all

Con Coughlin 08 February 2025
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer attends a meeting with business leaders in central London on January 28, 2025. BENJAMIN CREMEL / POOL / AFP

Between Trump and the EU, Britain feels increasingly isolated

With its bonds with the EU severely weakened and a long way from repair, Britain will find it much harder to take any kind of stand against Trump for fear of being isolated

Christopher Phillips 06 February 2025
Trump signed two executive orders, one "reimposing maximum pressure on Iran" and a second executive order withdrawing the United States from UNRWA on February 4, 2025. Anna Moneymaker / AFP

Unpacking Trump’s Iran ultimatum

Tehran must choose between reaching a diplomatic resolution that stops its nuclear proliferation or risk a military attack that destroys the programme and possibly ends the regime

Bilal Saab 06 February 2025
Alex Wiliam

China's DeepSeek deals early blow to Trump’s AI dream

When a start-up using 2,000 old Nvidia chips produced a ChatGPT rival for $6mn, investors took around $1tn out of the big US tech firms. Donald Trump called it 'a wake-up call'. Never a truer word.

Abdulfattah Khattab 05 February 2025
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How Trump reshaped the world

03 November 2025

Al Majalla examines key developments in the US and across the globe less than a year into Trump's second presidential term

Al Majalla - London
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Zohran Mamdani becomes first Muslim mayor of New York

04 November 2025

The 34-year-old socialist's win is a seismic development, proving that tax rises for the rich to fund social programmes, and unwavering advocacy for Palestinian rights, are politically viable stances

Tarek Rashed
Details of the remains of Palestinians released by Israel are shown on a screen in order to help family members to identify their relatives, at the Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on 18 October 2025. OMAR AL-QATTAA / AFP
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Closure denied: the agonising search for Gaza's vanished

05 November 2025

Those who are able to bury their dead are among the lucky. For others, not knowing the fate of their missing loved ones or receiving mutilated corpses impossible to identify adds insult to injury.

Salem Al Rayyes
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Khalil al-Neimi: All I can do is expose what I see

02 November 2025

After 54 years in exile, a prominent Syrian novelist returns to a Damascus he no longer recognises 

Khalil Sweileh

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