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Syria's chief negotiator Bashar Al Jaafari attends the plenary session of peace talks brokered by Iran, Russia and Turkey in Astana in November 2018. AFP

How we can end conflict in Syria and beyond

July 3, 2020
Children in Syria's Al Hol detention camp , including foreign citizens whose governments have not yet repatriated them, face increasingly difficult conditions. AFP

In Syria, stranded children wait for the world's attention

July 3, 2020
Boris Johnson, left, served as foreign minister in former British prime minister Theresa May's cabinet. AP Photo

Theresa May's attacks on Boris Johnson are a departure from convention

July 2, 2020
A poster of Robert Hopkins' photograph of Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin together after negotiations at the Yalta Conference in 1945, in Moscow on June 19. AFP

No one's history is spotless

July 2, 2020
The lion statue in front of the New York Public Library. It is bewildering to see how a public health intervention as basic as wearing a mask has become a sign of political allegiance in the US. EPA

Even a pandemic couldn't unite today's America

July 2, 2020
The IMF's offices in Washington. Reuters

The IMF needs to take a break from forecasting

July 1, 2020
Showing little care for the pandemic, Black Lives Matter protesters and counter demonstrators faced off with each other in Bolton, England, last month. Getty Images

Rampant individualism is how the West will be lost

July 1, 2020
Lebanese demonstrators, critical of the political order, near the presidential palace in Baabda, just east of Beirut, on June 25. 2020. AFP

At this rate, Lebanon may not survive to see its 100th birthday

July 1, 2020
Fighters of the Iran-backed Kataib Hezbollah militia take part in a military parade in Baghdad to mark Al Quds Day on May 31, 2019. AFP

Iraq is in a fight to show its people who is really in charge

June 30, 2020
Children run down a street past a mural warning people about the dangers of the new coronavirus, in the Kibera slum of Nairobi in Kenya, June 3. AP 

What is East Africa doing to get travel back on track?

June 30, 2020
People sit along the Georgetown Waterfront on the Potomac River despite off and on rain in Washington, DC, US, 20 June. Samuel Corum / EPA

What Trump stands to lose if Washington DC gains statehood

June 30, 2020
A restaurant named White House near the village of Regan in Kosovo, in the Shar Mountain range in the Balkans on June 22. With boulevards named after US presidents and stars and stripes flying in the capital, Kosovars do not wear their love of America lightly. AFP 

The US and EU are competing to play peacemaker in the Balkans

June 30, 2020
A young Syrian refugee looks through a fence from inside the Pournara refugee camp in Cyprus on June 23, 2020. EPA

Europe must continue pledging its support for the Syrian people

June 29, 2020
 A man speaks in to a microphone to demonstrators at a pro-police rally on June 27 in St Paul, Minnesota, US. Brandon Bell / Getty Images/ AFP

What do you do if you don't like the sound of your own voice?

June 29, 2020
epa08493362 A new born female elephant-calf (Elephantidae) walks with her mother in their enclosure in the Cologne Zoo, in Cologne, Germany, 18 June 2020. The still unnamed calf was born on 17 June 2020. EPA/SASCHA STEINBACH

At this rate, with no forests or wildlife left, by the year 2050 we will need another planet

June 29, 2020
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(FILES) In this file photo taken on December 26, 2019 A general view of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), near Guba in Ethiopia. The United Nations Security Council plans to meet on June 29, 2020 to discuss Egypt and Sudan's objections to Ethiopia's construction of a mega-dam on the Nile River, diplomatic sources said on June 25, 2020. The public video conference was called by the United States on behalf of Egypt, according to the sources. Ethiopia wants to start filling the reservoir for the 475-foot (145-meter) Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in July, with or without approval from the two other countries. / AFP / EDUARDO SOTERAS

Beyond the Headlines: How do you solve the Nile Dam dispute?

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An Airbus SE A380-800 aircraft, operated by Emirates, taxis past the terminal at Dubai International Airport in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Monday, March 23, 2020. Dubai-based Emirates, the largest long-haul airline, and neighbor Etihad of Abu Dhabi will stop flying passengers for two weeks from Wednesday because of local restrictions. Photographer: Christopher Pike/Bloomberg

UAE travel guidelines, 402 new cases, Dubai rental contracts - The Daily Update

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 The drive-in cinema is making a comeback at Mall Of The Emirates, as the property and VOX Cinemas take the movie-going experience outdoors. Photo: Reem Mohammed/The National

Abu Dhabi drive-in cinema, 421 new cases, NMC cash transfers - The Daily Update

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A display showing departing flights is pictured at the airport in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on June 30, 2020. / AFP / Daniel ROLAND

Business Extra: Iata’s Muhammad Albakri says airlines must get flying or we risk losing them

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