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'Rogue state behaviour': Israel carrying out covert influence operations in Canada, report says

Chinese-linked ships cross Strait of Hormuz on eve of Trump-Xi meeting

Israel's Netanyahu says he visited UAE, as Gulf state issues rare denial

Israel's genocide in Gaza

Families and lawyers of pro-Palestine defendants demand judge recusal over German ‘sham’ trial

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Watermelons and Handala: Germany outlines symbols of 'secular pro-Palestinian extremism'

Telegraph owner calls for ‘preferential’ Jewish migration to Europe to counter Christian and Muslim influences

Opinion

Through Nakba, exile and genocide, my aunt Fatima never lost faith

Ahmed Abu Artema

Starmer is toast. To stop Farage now, Britain's left-wing forces must unite

David Hearst

Trade disputes, Taiwan and Iran war: Can US and China reach a consensus?

Nelson Wong

Why Israel bombs Iranian universities and silences American ones

Hamid Dabashi

If Starmer gets his way, Reform - not the Greens - will be his legacy

Jonathan Cook

After electoral collapse, UK Labour risks political oblivion

Tom Blackburn

The letter Starmer should write to Netanyahu, ending Britain's blind support for Israel

Gwyn Daniel

Why has the war on Iran not sparked a mass protest movement?

Nura Hossainzadeh

Germany's 'constructive dialogue' is a sham, a cloak used to shield its support of a genocidal regime

Jurgen Mackert

By downplaying Islamophobic attacks over antisemitism, the BBC is reinforcing racism

Faisal Hanif

UK local elections: How the media used antisemitism against the Greens’ Jewish leader

Joe Gill

Israel's genocide in Gaza

Can Israel's war economy survive its growing global isolation?

Antony Loewenstein

The myth of Gulf exceptionalism and US protection is over

Hind Al Ansari

Israel's war on Lebanon

Can Hezbollah dominate the lower air battlefield against Israel?

Omar Ashour

The Muslim victim who wasn't there: Golders Green and the 'ghost logic' of Islamophobia

Ismail Patel

Israel's war on Lebanon

How Lebanon's leaders are enabling Israel's war on their own country

Amal Saad

Golders Green attacks: A Muslim was also stabbed - not that you'd know

Barry Malone

Saudi Arabia and its allies must curb the growing Israeli-Emirati axis

David Hearst

War on Iran has triggered a fundamental crisis of trust in the nuclear non-proliferation treaty

Seyed Hossein Mousavian

Israel's genocide in Gaza

Gaza cannot be rebuilt until Palestinians control their own political future

Alaa Tartir

Israel's genocide in Gaza

Months into the US-Israel 'ceasefire', Gaza remains a scene of chaos and terror

Ghada Ageel

Israel's genocide in Gaza

Israel is making Palestinians disappear in more ways than one

Belen Fernandez

UAE's Opec exit seeks to hit Saudi Arabia where it hurts

Mohamad Elmasry

Israel's genocide in Gaza

The West’s bubble of illusion about Israel - and about itself – is finally being burst

Jonathan Cook

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International law

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Saudi-UAE Tensions

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Turkey says Muslim countries concerned by Israel-Greece-Cyprus alliance

'Pipe dream': Turkey's plan to redraw Middle East energy routes after Iran

US and Israeli war on Iran

Gulf turns to Turkey for air defence systems amid Iran threats

Two Tehrans: The parallel lives of a city

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Chinese-linked ships cross Strait of Hormuz on eve of Trump-Xi meeting

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‘Our only crime is being Shia’: Pakistani workers say UAE surveillance led to deportations

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Gulf investments and economic interests motivate Beijing to help Trump end war

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Israel's genocide in Gaza

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US Politics

Hondurasgate: Leaked recordings allege US-Israeli destabilisation plot in Latin America

War gains, long-term pain: Wall Street's core business at risk due to Iran war

US reinstates deportation proceedings against Palestinian green-card holder student

US must be transparent about Israel's nuclear programme, Democrat lawmakers say

Hundreds of Iranian nationals detained by ICE amid June 2025 attack on Iran

Trump official insists overhauled visa system won't scare away foreign investment

UK Politics

Israel's genocide in Gaza

Filmmakers slam BBC after Gaza documentary wins award despite being dropped

Exclusive: Karim Khan says he would cooperate with an inquiry into Cameron's alleged ICC threat

'Integrity costs something': Eurovision winners want Israel out of the contest

Mandelson: How decades of influence secured role as Starmer's man in Washington

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Starmer faces endgame as Wes Streeting launches 'coup' to beat rivals to the top job

If Starmer gets his way, Reform - not the Greens - will be his legacy

Jonathan Cook

After electoral collapse, UK Labour risks political oblivion

Tom Blackburn

How Andy Burnham stood up to Starmer over Israel and could now reshape UK foreign policy

How the smear campaign targeting the Green Party and Muslim voters failed

Explainers

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US-Israel relations

Christian Zionism: What it is and how it affects the US and Israel

Israel's war on Lebanon

What exactly is white phosphorus and why is it controversial?

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A history of Israel’s invasions of Lebanon

Israel's war on Lebanon

Israel’s war on Lebanon: What exactly is the ‘Dahieh Doctrine’?

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Discover

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Every Moment Is a Life: A Gaza anthology curated by Susan Abulhawa is a tour de force

After 7 October: Five Israeli films that try to address the Palestinian elephant in the room

Israel's genocide in Gaza

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Counterrevolution in Egypt: How Sisi broke the dream of a new republic

The Foundations of Zionism: An epic work of Palestinian scholarship now available in English

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From the Balkans to Bengal: How Persian culture has left an imprint around the globe

Berlinale 2026: Arab and Turkish filmmakers deliver strong line-up despite Gaza controversy

Echoes of Iraq: Mainstream media ‘deja vu’ over framing of the war on Iran

The Most American King: Jordan’s Abdullah II and the craft of survival

Call of Duty co-founder says Activision wanted game about Iran attacking Israel

Berlinale 2026: Films play second fiddle to Gaza controversies for the third year running

Why a group of digital linguists are trying to revitalise the long-extinct Phoenician language

El Sett: Why did the Saudi-backed biopic about Umm Kulthum flop?

Hebrew Orientalism: How Jewish scholarship on the Arab world helped colonise Palestine

Revolutionary Warfare: How France lost Algeria but developed a new kind of social war

Daoud Abdel Sayed: Why the late Egyptian filmmaker was so important

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The Big Story

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How Mandelson reviewer failed to probe counter-terror police failings on Southport killings

Aasiya Andrabi: How India's terror laws turned dissent into life sentences

The Israeli unmaking of the Ibrahimi Mosque

Israel's genocide in Gaza

Why one of Europe's most famous football clubs chose to stand with Palestine

Douglas Murray on Israel and Gaza: Spinning a bestseller from his own ‘bullshit’

Academic Freedom

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As genocide continues in Gaza, the West Bank is pushed into a new Nakba

Mohamed Salah changed Liverpool. English football changed him

Palestinian prisoners speak out about how they were raped in Israeli jails

Syria after Assad

How Turkey helped engineer Ahmed al-Sharaa's rise to power

Exposed: The dirty campaign to paint Muslim MPs as anti-British

Real Talk

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Why this lifelong Conservative turned on the British establishment | Peter Oborne

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Unapologetic

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