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Dominance to dependence: How the US–China AI race is shaping the future

In the race to master artificial intelligence, the United States and China are not just building faster algorithms; they are constructing rival blueprints for the digital world’s future.

Mehmet Emre Kahraman

Dominance to dependence: How the US–China AI race is shaping the future

Dominance to dependence: How the US–China AI race is shaping the future

Erdogan at SCO summit signals Türkiye's new role in Eurasian balancing act

Erdogan at SCO summit signals Türkiye's new role in Eurasian balancing act

Erdogan at SCO summit signals Türkiye's new role in Eurasian balancing act

Ankara’s pragmatic diplomacy makes it uniquely placed to act as the bridge between the West and East. Erdogan’s China trip precisely underlined this fact.

By Djoomart Otorbaev

The world’s media falls silent in solidarity, Gaza’s journalists are silenced forever

The world’s media falls silent in solidarity, Gaza’s journalists are silenced forever

The world’s media falls silent in solidarity, Gaza’s journalists are silenced forever

Nearly 200 outlets across 50 countries are protesting Israel’s war on journalism. For those of us still reporting under fire in Gaza, solidarity is welcome, but accountability remains absent.

By Husam Maarouf

Has the West shut the door on Iran nuclear talks in haste?

Has the West shut the door on Iran nuclear talks in haste?

Has the West shut the door on Iran nuclear talks in haste?

By invoking the snapback sanctions, the E3 appears to have pushed Tehran into a corner. Can they still find common ground before the 31-day deadline expires?

By Sabena Siddiqui

UK Muslims targeted in plot that barely made headlines

UK Muslims targeted in plot that barely made headlines

UK Muslims targeted in plot that barely made headlines

Why does the UK treat far-right plots against Muslims as minor crime, not terrorism? The silence around Islamophobic violence underlines a chilling double standard in Britain’s media and political response, and risks normalising deadly prejudice.

By Sunniya Ahmad Pirzada

Myanmar to Gaza: Impotence of courts in preventing genocides and punishing perpetrators

Myanmar to Gaza: Impotence of courts in preventing genocides and punishing perpetrators

Myanmar to Gaza: Impotence of courts in preventing genocides and punishing perpetrators

Eight years after Myanmar’s army launched a violent campaign to erase the Rohingya, the global community has done little to bring the perpetrators to book.

By Natalie Brinham, Maung Zarni

Why the outrage now? Annihilating Gaza was Netanyahu’s endgame from day one

Why the outrage now? Annihilating Gaza was Netanyahu’s endgame from day one

Why the outrage now? Annihilating Gaza was Netanyahu’s endgame from day one

Muhammad Shehada

Story of the Sudan: From a British colony to an independent state

Story of the Sudan: From a British colony to an independent state

Story of the Sudan: From a British colony to an independent state

Ali BİLGENOĞLU

The limits of global AI control and what it means for the world order

The limits of global AI control and what it means for the world order

The limits of global AI control and what it means for the world order

Ozan Ahmet Cetin

Africa’s youth: The powerhouse generation ready to shape the future

Africa’s youth: The powerhouse generation ready to shape the future

Africa’s youth: The powerhouse generation ready to shape the future

Born roughly between the mid-1990’s and early 2010’s, Generation Z is unlike any that came before. They are the first generation to grow up fully immersed in digital technology.

By Shuaib Mahomed

Putin’s patience, Trump’s Alaska gambit, and the Ukraine stalemate

Putin’s patience, Trump’s Alaska gambit, and the Ukraine stalemate

Putin’s patience, Trump’s Alaska gambit, and the Ukraine stalemate

Russia recently invoked a war that dragged on for more than two decades. With Trump set to meet Putin in Alaska, the question is whether either side is ready to abandon the kind of demands that make such long conflicts possible.

As the world watches, Israel turns Gaza into a land of the ‘walking dead’

As the world watches, Israel turns Gaza into a land of the ‘walking dead’

As the world watches, Israel turns Gaza into a land of the ‘walking dead’

Beyond war, Gaza is a living nightmare where humanity is erased, children starve, and the global conscience remains painfully silent.

80 years after Hiroshima, the nuclear threat still looms

80 years after Hiroshima, the nuclear threat still looms

80 years after Hiroshima, the nuclear threat still looms

As the world marks the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, survivors' stories and escalating nuclear tensions make one thing clear: only total abolition can end the threat.

What African countries can learn from the recent Israel-Iran conflict

What African countries can learn from the recent Israel-Iran conflict

What African countries can learn from the recent Israel-Iran conflict

If there is anything Burkina Faso and all African nations can learn from the recent conflict surrounding Iran’s nuclear programme, it is that the West and its allies will do anything to prevent a Third World nation from pursuing a nuclear programme.

Ghana needs to shift from manifesto-based to plan-based development approach

Ghana needs to shift from manifesto-based to plan-based development approach

Ghana needs to shift from manifesto-based to plan-based development approach

Plan-based development is rooted in systematic planning and execution of development interventions based on extensive appraisal of the existing and available resources, including materials, human and time.

By Peter Asare-Nuamah

Does recognition mean anything while Palestine is being erased?

Does recognition mean anything while Palestine is being erased?

Does recognition mean anything while Palestine is being erased?

More nations are preparing to officially acknowledge the Palestinian state. But will it end the hunger of the people in Gaza or end Israel’s genocidal war on the Palestinians?

Spotlight Authors

Crime and punishment: Are Israel’s days of impunity over?

Yousra Samir Imran

Germany has an Islamophobia problem – and it’s costing Muslim women their lives

Ideology over insight: How strategic blindness left Iran exposed

Mustafa Baskara

Why Türkiye’s seas matter: Reclaiming sustainability and shaping the blue future

Trump’s ‘voluntary migration’ plan is just Nakba rebranded

Trump’s ‘voluntary migration’ plan is just Nakba rebranded

Trump’s ‘voluntary migration’ plan is just Nakba rebranded

Behind the diplomatic language of “voluntary migration” lies a deliberate policy of forced displacement and cultural erasure, echoing the darkest chapters of Palestinian history.

By Husam Maarouf