Will the Lebanese election be a turning point?
People across Lebanon cast their votes last Sunday in an election that was meant to be different. So much has happened since the last poll, in 2018, when familiar faces were elected from parties larg...
20 Maj 202221min
Sheikh Khalifa’s legacy
President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed died on May 13, 2022, at the age of 73. He was born in September 1948, before the UAE existed as a single nation and before the discovery of oil in the Emirates. In ...
14 Maj 202212min
Is the Covid-19 pandemic over?
On May 16, the European Union will no longer require people to wear masks on planes. Many countries around the world have already started to relax Covid-19 restrictions. And some, like Greece, New Zea...
13 Maj 202224min
The desperation that drove refugees from Lebanon to their deaths at sea
Late one Saturday night towards the end of April, a boat set off to sea from near Lebanon’s second city, Tripoli. It was an ageing craft, nearly 50 years old, built to comfortably hold maybe a dozen p...
6 Maj 202219min
Is Rwanda really the solution to Britain’s migrant issue?
Rescued from the choppy seas of the English Channel or landing on the windswept beaches of the east of England, over the last three years thousands of people in small inflatable dinghies have made the...
29 Apr 202228min
The Ramadan food crisis
Muslims around the world are marking the first Ramadan in three years to take place largely without Covid-19 restrictions. But now another crisis is casting a pall over the holy month. The war in Uk...
22 Apr 202219min
Is this really the end for Imran Khan?
Pakistan has a new prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif. The 70-year-old this week replaced Imran Khan, who failed to stop a no-confidence motion against him in what was a dramatic last-minute vote on the n...
15 Apr 202225min
How Afghans in Poland are helping Ukrainian refugees
A group of Afghan refugees in Poland have rushed to support the millions of Ukrainians who fled the Russian invasion. The painful memories of their own war are a shadow only too recent. One of the gro...
7 Apr 202220min
