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Israeli press casts emerging US-Iran deal as a strategic defeat for Netanyahu

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World Cup 2026: For Iran, this is a battle on an unequal field

Maziyar Ghiabi

Can Andy Burnham offer Labour a new destiny?

Tom Blackburn

Israel has become a toxic brand in the US - so its advocates are shifting tactics

Mitchell Plitnick

Israel's genocide in Gaza

Germany's UN defeat is a verdict on its complicity in genocide

Hebh Jamal

Israel's genocide in Gaza

Palestinian elites have been collaborating against the resistance for a century

Joseph Massad

Israel's genocide in Gaza

I survived the genocide in Gaza, but still carry its scars within me

Ahmed Abu Artema

Belfast riots: Why UK mobs see racial violence as 'national defence'

Amina Shareef

Israel's genocide in Gaza

How Israel planned Gaza genocide decades ago

Jonathan Cook

Iran dealt Israel a crushing defeat and vindicated America's anti-war majority

Hamid Dabashi

Manchester Airport trial shows why juries may be Britain's last defence against anti-Muslim hysteria

Faisal Hanif

Why the Israeli real-estate expo in London must be cancelled

Nur Nabulsi

Illegal wars, racism and genocide: USA World Cup 2026 should be boycotted

Peter Oborne

As World Cup host, the US is sportsmaxxing through war and genocide

Abdullah Al-Arian

Tony Blair's latest intervention reveals a man who learned nothing from Iraq

Barry Malone

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David Hearst

Israel's genocide in Gaza

Kushner's island land grab: Albanians are revolting against a system, not a resort

Soumaya Ghannoushi

Israel's military adventures have backfired - and the public is losing patience

Abed Abou Shhadeh

Iran will no longer accept endless talks. It is creating deterrence on its own terms

Seyed Hossein Mousavian

Weaponised white rage could tip the UK into the abyss

Joe Gill

How Hezbollah rebuilt itself for a war of attrition with Israel

Hadi Masoumi Zare

Why Britain must finally compensate the families of Egypt's World War One labourers

Kyle J Anderson

Pope Leo XIV wants to disarm AI. Its developers want to win the race

Marco Carnelos

How the Strait of Hormuz crisis is reshaping the old world order

Idriss Hadj Nacer

Why Policy Exchange invented the bogeyman of 'Islamopopulism'

Iqbal Mohamed

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World Cup 2026

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Israeli spyware firm targeted Whatsapp users despite US court order

US administration investigating Iran war critic Trita Parsi, says report

Priced out of the beautiful game: Why Central America may never host the World Cup

Israel has become a toxic brand in the US - so its advocates are shifting tactics

Mitchell Plitnick

Pentagon raises alarm over Israel’s ‘unhinged’ spying on US officials

Egyptian-born doctor and Gaza volunteer wins New Jersey Democratic primary

Israeli ministers who backed ethnic cleansing of Palestinians join New York parade

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How US law protects Israel’s Qualitative Military Edge

Is Fifa World Cup 2026 the most exclusionary tournament in history?

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Christian Zionism: What it is and how it affects the US and Israel

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