Syria: Economic return
End of financial isolation Syria is preparing to rejoin the international financial system after 14 years of sanctions and war, with the country’s.
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Britain: Warfooting
Military movements signal escalation The UK is creeping ever closer to a state of quasi-war readiness – a subtle but unmistakable shift in.
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Blind to brutality
The moral fog of protest By all reasonable standards of human decency, there should be no doubt: Israel, for all its faults, remains.
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Macron recognises Palestine
The French-Israeli relationship has always been fraught ever since the Vichy government in the second world war deported 76,000 French Jews to their.
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‘Israel, thank you’
Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s repeated calls for Israel and Iran to “de-escalate” reflect a wider ignorance across Britain, not helped by an openly.
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Spain: Tourism protests
Protests in Spain, Portugal, Italy and France have been taking place as locals become more frustrated by the impact of tourism on the.
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Sovereignty sold for access
A foreign policy betrayal in plain sight In a move cloaked in diplomacy but brimming with compromise, the UK government has surrendered a.
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Israel-Iran: Missile exchanges
Direct confrontation intensifies Tensions between Israel and Iran have escalated into open military confrontation, with both countries launching missile strikes over the past.
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A chilling echo of Colombia’s past
The attempted assassination of Colombian senator and presidential candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay is a violent shock to the political system – and a.
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Morocco’s Sahara plan
The UK’s decision to formally back Morocco’s “autonomy plan” for Western Sahara is a bold geopolitical pivot – and a deeply consequential one. .