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Kaja Kallas of Estonia has been appointed Europe's foreign policy chief Axel Rangel Garcia

Kaja Kallas: Estonian firebrand becomes Europe’s top diplomat

The bloc's foreign policy is now led by a Russia hawk who takes a sledgehammer to suggestions of appeasing Moscow. No fan of Putin's EU cronies, what will she make of Donald Trump?

Con Coughlin 05 January 2025
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has just been re-elected for a second five-year term. Eduardo Ramon

Profile: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen

A minister in Angela Merkel's German cabinet for 16 years, Europe's most powerful politician has just won a second five-year term. A tour of swing voters helped....

Bryn Haworth 18 July 2024
Italy's Prime Minister and leader of the far-right party Brothers of Italy (Fratelli D'Italia - FDI) Giorgia Meloni getures during a press conference following the results of the European Elections in Rome on June 10, 2024. Filippo MONTEFORTE / AFP

EU parliament election results confirm rightward shift in Europe

If right-wing parties collaborate, this shift could impact policies on climate, migration, enlargement, budget, and the rule of law 

Pawel Zerka 10 June 2024
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Trump has lost the Iran war, but how badly?

20 April 2026

While all the effects of this conflict may take time to fully realise, short and medium-term signs expose the limits of US power and see America's rivals benefiting

Christopher Phillips
Jason Lyon
Business & Economy

The Iran war is reshaping the China-Gulf economic model

21 April 2026

Closing the Strait of Hormuz has shown how the Gulf should shift from an oil-export model to a digital and distribution hub. Will this trigger the long-delayed free trade agreement with China?

Charbel Barakat
Pete Reynolds
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Lebanon and Israel: negotiations and the end of Hezbollah

23 April 2026

Building on the ten-day ceasefire announced by US President Donald Trump, time will tell if these talks are a one-off or the beginning of a different path for Lebanon.

Al Majalla - London
Grace Russell
Science & Technology

Saving the soldiers: robots as Ukraine’s new weapon

22 April 2026

The war in Ukraine is becoming an open laboratory for testing advanced military technologies that may yet redefine the very meaning of combat

Marco Mossad
Nesma Moharam
Culture & Social Affairs

New book tackles the fading art of Koranic recitation

20 April 2026

Egyptian heritage researcher Haytham Abu Zayd sheds light on how the art form grew, excelled, and then declined over the years and ends by offering a path to revival

Fadi El-Abdallah

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