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One year after it formed, the new technocratic government faces mounting challenges as it struggles to disarm Hezbollah and implement economic reforms

While international powers publicly call for de-escalation and humanitarian ceasefires, their regional allies are flooding Sudan’s battlefields with weapons

El Programa Mundial de Alimentos se ha visto obligado a reducir las raciones y habrán agotado los suministros en marzo si no llega nueva financiación para reemplazar el tijeretazo de EE UU a la peor crisis alimentaria del mundo

Yemen’s economic crisis, banking restrictions on money transfers, and growing digital financial literacy have fuelled the adoption of cryptocurrencies.

Hamada Abu Layla spent 22 years earning three degrees from Gaza universities. Now they mock him from a garbage dump.

Whether in Aleppo, Tehran, or Istanbul, bazaars operate as parallel centres of power, able to negotiate with rulers - or bring governments down

More Zimbabweans are preparing for death than survival as funeral policies are more popular than health insurance.

W ithin hours after an early-morning knock woke up Nader Ahmadi, the 38-year-old Afghan and his wife and four children

Manenos Selanyika could only receive a symbolic burial. After more than a week, they gave up and decided to hold a symbolic burial at Lambo village near Mount Kilimanjaro.

School insurance scheme transformed survival rates, yet economic crisis and physician flight put decades of gains at risk

Venezuela’s Lebanese diaspora faces fear, silence and economic ruin after Maduro’s arrest, trapped between political reprisals in Caracas & collapse in Lebanon

We must live, we must hope', say returnees who were displaced for a decade from homes in Malam Fatori, Borno State.

Despite risks and canceled public concerts, organizers, artists and DJs—from Iranian folk to Western techno—keep music alive at secluded events in Tehran

A US logistics company has completed 8 million deliveries across six distribution centres, but mobile connectivity gaps are still a problem

Extreme heat and drought has destroyed 70% of Jordan’s olive crop, endangering livelihoods of 80,000 families and a centuries-old tradition

In tents and damaged wards, Gaza’s doctors study late into the night, earning the highest medical speciality qualifications in the occupied Palestinian territories.

With the civil war over, an organic farming cooperative that supported more than 13,000 Syrian refugees in Greece has returned to help rural communities rebuild.

Hombres y mujeres seropositivos buscan pareja desde el anonimato en redes sociales por temor a ser discriminados. Aunque hay casos de éxito, algunos han sido víctimas de delincuentes

Una amalgama tóxica compuesta por 61 millones de toneladas de escombros, 100.000 de explosivos y químicos filtrados a la tierra ha destrozado las tierras cultivables, el agua y el aire. Su recuperación tardará décadas, advierten los expertos

Despite displacement and loss, Palestinian writers and filmmakers are producing award-winning work that documents their reality and honours those they have lost.

In 2025, Palestinian music, food and fashion transcended borders, transforming culture into a global language of resistance, identity and survival

Pope Leo XIV announced on 2 December that he hopes to visit Algeria in the near future, specifically to visit sites associated with Saint Augustine’s life.

Within minutes, one of the most controversial verdicts in recent Yemeni legal history was announced: eighteen people were sentenced to death by firing squad.

Observers warn that the reported thefts could be a new tactic of asserting control and making life unbearable for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

In Gaza, the ceasefire has brought little relief, leaving chronic patients and displaced families struggling to survive amid cold nights and scarce resources

When Egyptian feminist group Speak Up announced a partnership with Pornhub—the world’s largest website for adult content—to rapidly identify and remove non-consensual content, it received immediate backlash. Are its efforts meeting the reality of sextortion in the country, or normalizing a platform that has often hosted non-consensual and illegal content?

The Syrian Jewish community lived in Syria for over two thousand years, according to historians, working as merchants, scholars, and community leaders

As Christian communities dwindle across the Middle East, Pope Leo XIV’s trip raises questions about symbolic gestures versus structural solutions

Roughly 40 defendants—opposition leaders, activists, lawyers, businesspeople—face sentences ranging from 10 to 45 years.

What often appears as sporadic settler violence is in fact an organized system with an official structure fully operating as intended.

In 2021, the war-torn North African nation accounted for approximately 0.6 per cent of the global Bitcoin hash rate, surpassing several European nations.

With an eye on elections, a pardon might cement Netanyahu’s dominance and deepen the transformation of Israeli politics into a project for his own survival

The killing of Yasser Abu Shabab is a blow to Israel’s strategy of creating proxy militias to challenge Hamas and play a role in post-war governance

Violence in Homs raises questions over whether Syria’s new authorities can enforce the rule of law, or if the country risks reproducing patterns of warlordism

Under a makeshift shelter—a parachute canopy from aid airdrops stretched over a wooden frame—Ahmed Abu Amsha gathers children for music lessons on the beach in Nuseirat camp, central Gaza. The sounds of guitar, oud, and drums mix with the crash of waves. Displaced children, some barefoot, wearing torn clothes, their bodies thin and faces pale, are […]

Bethlehem prepares for a subdued Christmas as its tree lights up on December 6, marking the city’s first celebration in two years as Israel’s violence continues

Violence in Homs raises questions over whether Syria’s new authorities can enforce the rule of law, or if the country risks reproducing patterns of warlordism

Israeli forces are entrenching even further in Syria as Benjamin Netanyahu says he wants a demilitarized “buffer zone” stretching to Damascus.

Israel’s renewed military campaign in Tubas reflects a broader strategy to fragment the northern West Bank and lay the groundwork for annexation

With a government ban on media making verification difficult, misinformation about the trial of South Sudan vice president Riek Machar is heightening tensions in the country.

Una coalición de ONG lleva a los tribunales el pacto por el que Estados Unidos pagó 4,4 millones de euros al país africano a cambio de que recibiera migrantes que fueron expulsados sin acceso a un juicio, algunos de ellos tras haber cumplido sus condenas

After decades of talks, negotiations, and setbacks, Guinea has officially launched the long-awaited exploitation of the Simandou iron ore deposit.

The Moroccan public’s rejection of normalisation "is not a passing feeling, but has been clearly and intensively expressed in massive popular marches..."

By placing Gaza under an international trusteeship, the UN has triggered the most consequential reshaping of Palestinian political authority since 1948

"This is the first time the road has been repaved in more than 50 years," said Abboud, who owns shops along the route.

The Grand Egyptian Museum is the largest museum in the world for a single civilization, and holds a total of around 100,000 artifacts. It finally opened to the public this month.

Despite international pledges, Gaza’s reconstruction is stalling amid political disputes, resource constraints, and Israeli-blocked access to essential supplies

Israel’s restriction of food – even after the ceasefire – has forced Mohamed al-Astal to take on a dual role as someone who both reports and helps.

La muerte de dos personas no vacunadas en el norte del país africano pone en evidencia brechas en el acceso a la inmunización
