UAE News

A shadowy wartime economy has emerged in Gaza

Clans, gangs and dodgy businessmen prosper while Israel clobbers Gaza

Hopes for a truce in Gaza give way to fears of a long s...

The fighting has continued into Ramadan, but neither Israel nor Hamas can achiev...

Deposing Israel’s king

America wants Binyamin Netanyahu out. But his exit is fraught with dangers

A new leader offers little hope for Palestinians

They fear Mohammad Mustafa will serve the president, not the people

Jacob Zuma’s new party could swing South Africa’s election

If it stays on the ballot it will make a coalition government much more likely

Damage to undersea cables is disrupting internet access...

The continent is wedged between two cable-hazard hotspots

Nigeria’s high-cost oil industry is in decline

That will leave a gaping hole in exports and public finances

Somali pirates are staging a comeback

But attacks are still far from their peak

Three decades after Rwanda’s genocide, the past is ever...

Paul Kagame sees himself as indispensable to a still fragile country

Senegal proves the doomsayers wrong

Bassirou Diomaye Faye’s win is a triumph for the country’s democracy

Gaza is on the brink of a man-made famine

Israel and Hamas reject a ceasefire even as people starve

After pushing its economy to the brink, Egypt gets a ba...

But a record-setting investment from the UAE will not fix its chronic problems

With its latest assassination, Israel is testing Iran

It is a dangerous game in a region already at war

What Israel’s killing of aid workers means for Gaza

It will make it even harder to feed desperate people

Israel is ratcheting up its shadow war with Iran

That is partly because it is deadlocked in its conflicts in Gaza and on its nort...

Protests have erupted against another Syrian dictator

The jihadists’ last redoubt in the Syrian province of Idlib is in trouble

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