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US President Donald Trump and Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the Nato Summit in Brussels last month. Olivier Hoslet / EPA

Trump's extensive use of sanctions will test whether the dollar really is still king

The big question is whether the 'America First' policy with scant regard for longstanding alliances is a game-changer, writes Alan Philps

August 15, 2018
Rohingya refugee Jalal Ahmed holding his old house number plate in Jamtoli refugee camp in Ukhia, on the Bangladesh border near Myanmar. Munir Uz Zaman / AFP

Muslim communities need to find a new way to join international discourse on human rights

Engagement has been minimal because the colonial and postcolonial period, when contemporary human rights discourse began to develop, was a severely stifling one for most Muslim communities worldwide, writes HA Hellyer

August 15, 2018
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, Vice President and Ruler of Dubai, and Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, pictured in Dubai. Mohamed Al Hammadi / Crown Prince Court - Abu Dhabi

A summer of economic stimulus and speed echoes the legacy of the UAE's formation

The hurdles might be different today but the same prescription transformed a relatively small trading outpost into the modern country we recognise now, writes Nick March

August 15, 2018
Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivering a speech in Ankara. Pool via AP

Backed into a corner: how Ankara is firefighting on the home and foreign front

Turkey's long-planned Syria policy is in danger of fracturing while the lira has been plummeting in value, writes Faisal Al Yafai

August 14, 2018
There’s no reason for children to sit at home being bored during the holidays

Why a long, boring summer might be the best thing for children's creativity

A lot of parents feel it is their responsibility to manage their children's boredom but having nothing to do can often spark their imagination, writes Olivier Oullier

August 14, 2018
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi waves from the Red Fort in New Delhi after his Independece Day speech on August 15, 2017. Prakash Singh / AFP

India at 71: the end of a chapter of Naipaul's post-colonial melancholy

Much of India is prone to trumpet its current incarnation as an economic giant, a superpower-in-waiting and an ancient civilisation with a modernising focus, writes Rashmee Roshan Lall

August 14, 2018
The Lamborghini at the centre of the dispute over speeding fines of Dh170,000. Patrick Ryan / The National

The UAE’s roads are not a playground for the rich

Our readers have their say about the misbehaving Lamborghini driver, speeding in Abu Dhabi, corruption and the death of Somnath Chatterjee

August 13, 2018
In the UK, people are being asked to count butterflies. Gregory Bull / AP

Insect Armageddon: how modern life is killing man’s essential friend

If every last bug were to be killed off, it is difficult to see how humans could long outlast them, writes Gavin Esler

August 13, 2018
Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Aung Shine Oo / AP

The halo which once crowned Myanmar's de facto leader has not just slipped – it has been replaced by a badge of shame

Aung San Suu Kyi's moral failures during the military's murderous rampage against the Rohingya have been her downfall

August 13, 2018
March for our Lives rally in Connecticut. Kena Betancur / AFP

Gun culture has even infiltrated our children's parks in the trigger-happy US

With 9,000 gun-related deaths already this year, the gun madness that saturates the US means going to the movies also means checking the exits, just in case, writes Deborah Williams

August 13, 2018