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The losers of the new Middle East

The tables have been turned on once-powerful countries

Africans are building Putin’s suicide drones

Russia is luring young African women to make weapons to attack Ukraine

What a massacre reveals about Abiy Ahmed’s Ethiopia

The killing of civilians is part of a disturbing pattern

Kurdish armed groups are laying down their weapons

In a changing Middle East, for some talking seems more promising than fighting

Israel “won’t commit suicide”, says the government’s id...

In an interview Bezalel Smotrich is uncompromising about the war in Gaza

Africa’s cynical master of power politics

Can Paul Kagame, Rwanda’s dictator, secure his legacy at home and abroad?

A surprising power shift inside Hamas

Its remaining hard men inside Gaza are losing their grip 

Luxury property’s final frontier

There is a boom in ultra-prime apartments in Africa’s megacities

Shining light on America’s missing man in Syria

A top official in the Assad regime says it seized the American

The gangster Israel is arming to fight Hamas

His group is notorious for stealing aid and is widely disliked by Palestinians

Globalisation is nuts

A brave and high-tech attempt to export nuts

Israel launches waves of devastating strikes on Iran

Donald Trump warns the next attacks could be “even more brutal”

Conspiracy, cock-up or solution? The Gaza aid foundation

If it survives it will be an instrument of power in the strip

Was Iran really racing for nukes?

Israel says so, but there are grounds for doubt

Iran’s regime has a huge problem: how to retaliate

Israel and America offer a stark choice: surrender or collapse

Trump is urged to go “all in” on crushing Iran

As the war escalates America is being dragged in deeper