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Villagers with their belongings cross a flooded area on a boat, in Dadu, a district of southern Sindh province, Pakistan, Sept. 23, 2022. The devastation wreaked by floods in Pakistan this summer has intensified the debate over a question of climate justice: Do rich countries whose emissions are the main cause of climate change owe compensation to poor countries hit by climate change-fueled disasters? (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

Drive For Climate Compensation Grows After Pakistan’s Floods

Every part of Rajul Noor’s life has been wrecked by this summer’s massive monsoon-driven floods. The 12-year-old girl’s family home is destroyed, as is the school that she loved. The friends she used…

AP 10 October 2022
Victims of heavy flooding from monsoon rains attend school at a flood relief camp in Hyderabad, Pakistan, Saturday, Sept. 10, 2022. Months of heavy monsoon rains and flooding have killed over a 1000 people and affected 3.3 million in this South Asian nation while half a million people have become homeless. (AP Photo/Pervez Masih)

3 Million Children May Miss a Semester in Flood-hit Pakistan

Almost 3 million children in Pakistan may miss at least one semester because of flood damage to schools, officials said Thursday, following heavy monsoon rains likely worsened by climate change. …

AP 29 September 2022
A patient suffering from dengue fever sits under a mosquito net inside a dengue and malaria ward at the Sindh Government Services Hospital in Karachi, Pakistan September 21, 2022. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro

Malaria and Diseases Spreading Fast in Flood-Hit Pakistan

The death toll from malaria and other diseases tearing through Pakistan's flood-ravaged regions reached 324, authorities said on Wednesday, and actress Angelina Jolie said she feared many people she…

22 September 2022
The Caldor fire is reflected off of Caples Lake near the Kirkwood ski resort Wednesday, September 1, 2021 in Lake Tahoe, California. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

Our Fire and Flood Summer Predicts a Catastrophic Future

Journalist Ginia Bellafante hit the nail on the headwhen she tweeted that the overused phrase “historic weather event” must be retired. “It gives the ongoing climate catastrophe the hint of…

Virginia Heffernan 04 September 2021
Illustration by Ali Mandalawi

Greta Thunberg: The Climate Campaigner Challenging World Leaders

This summer is witnessing many fires and floods that strike many countries around the globe, and the intense heatwave, which scientists describe as “the most observed heatwave on the planet”, has…

Majalla 06 August 2021
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A displaced woman rests in Tawila, in the country's war-torn western Darfur region, on 28 October 2025, after fleeing el-Fasher following the city’s fall to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). AFP
Politics

From siege to slaughter: the fall of el-Fasher

29 October 2025

After over 500 days of a crippling blockade, the city finally fell to the RSF, cementing their control of the giant Darfur state in western Sudan and giving them full access to key supply routes

Amgad Fareid Eltayeb
Governor of the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia, Yasir Al-Rumayyan, delivers his speech at the opening of the ninth edition of the Future Investment Initiative (FII), in Riyadh, 28 October 2025. Reuters
Business & Economy

Investing in people and AI: Saudi Arabia’s vision for a new Middle East

29 October 2025

Now in its ninth edition, Riyadh's Future Investment Initiative has transformed from an investment forum into a geo-economic platform redefining how nations link peace, progress, and technology

Omar Harkous
Activists hold a demonstration in lower Manhattan against the arrest by ICE of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, a graduate student at Columbia University, on 20 March 2025 in New York City. SPENCER PLATT / AFP
Politics

The Gaza war has damaged the West

01 November 2025

The West's response to Israel's war on Gaza exposed its weakness and damaged its collective reputation, while also eroding civil liberties at home

Christopher Phillips
A visitor walks near a bust of the ancient Egyptian King Akhenaten while touring the Grand Egyptian Museum, in Giza on the southwestern outskirts of the capital Cairo on 7 February 2025. Khaled DESOUKI / AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

The Grand Egyptian Museum: ancient answers to contemporary questions

30 October 2025

As the Grand Egyptian Museum officially opens its doors, it ushers in a new era for archaeology and modern scientific discovery

Ibrahim Tutunji
During their Oval Office meeting in September, President Donald Trump greeted President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan warmly, pulling out a chair for his guest and referring to Türkiye’s delegation as “too smart”. shutterstock_
Politics

Türkiye's intelligence prowess turns Trump's head

28 October 2025

Türkiye has a long history of successful espionage and the development of the 'derin devlet' (deep state). The modern inheritors of this legacy have played a pivotal role in shifting how the US perce

Kamal Alam

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