After el-Fasher, we must refuse a ‘new normal’ of mass atrocities in Darfur
Massacres at the start of the war in Sudan should have shocked the world into action. They didn't.
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Abu Shabab’s death signals the inevitable failure of Israel’s plan for Gaza
The Israeli efforts to establish Palestinian rule in Gaza loyal to the occupation are doomed.
The centuries-old Christian presence in the West Bank is under threat
The community I grew up in near Bethlehem is being squeezed out by Israeli settlers.
Why Qatar lives rent-free in the far right’s head
Conservative influencers are playing a central role in a new campaign of weaponising Islamophobia.
World Cup 2026: Re-disappearing Mexico’s disappeared
In Guadalajara, the road to the World Cup is paved with erasure of the missing.
Xenophobia runs the world
From Washington to Copenhagen and Pretoria, blaming migrants has become the easiest governing strategy of our time.
Netanyahu will win again, because in Israel, ‘there is none like him’
His supporters defend him, his opponents cannot look past him and the centre keeps trying to bargain with him.
The age of unipolar diplomacy is coming to an end
Gaza has exposed the limits of US power and opened space for new centres of global diplomacy.
Bangladesh’s economy is not collapsing but undergoing a necessary reset
Long-ignored problems are finally being fixed, pointing to recovery rather than decline.
Europe should seize Russia’s frozen assets now
With US aid stalled, only Moscow’s immobilised billions can keep Ukraine fighting.