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Middle East & North Africa

  • Saturday, 2 August, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    Hamas shows starved Israeli hostages alongside emaciated Palestinian babies

    Propaganda video released after US envoys declare flawed food distribution system as ‘incredible’

    Families of hostages in Tel Aviv’s ‘Hostage Square’
  • Saturday, 2 August, 2025
    Swamp Notes podcast18 min listen
    Gaza crisis puts Trump at a crossroads

    Aid groups warn of a famine in Gaza, and US President Donald Trump responds.

  • Friday, 1 August, 2025
    HA Hellyer
    Recognition of Palestinian statehood is not enough when it comes to Gaza

    The UK and Europe must take action, not stick with mere symbolic gestures

    People walk down a street surrounded by buildings destroyed by Israeli bombardments in the Gaza Strip
  • Friday, 1 August, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    Steve Witkoff visits US-backed aid site in Gaza

    Trip comes after outcry over starvation in the strip and repeated killings of Palestinians seeking food

    Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel, centre, and Steve Witkoff, right, in Rafah
  • Friday, 1 August, 2025
    FT Swamp Notes
    The west’s complicity in Gaza Premium content

    Trump’s acknowledgment of starvation could mark a belated turning point in his relationship with Netanyahu

    Palestinians carry aid supplies which they received from the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, in the central Gaza Strip, on July 31
  • Friday, 1 August, 2025
    Lebanon
    Lebanon passes bank restructuring law in step towards IMF reform

    Legislation aims to help lenders but critics warn of handing increased powers to central bank

    A vandalized closed-down Bank of Beirut bank branch
  • Friday, 1 August, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    Gaza at risk of ‘exponential’ rise in starvation deaths, aid workers say

    Relaxation of some Israeli aid restrictions are not enough to reverse the descent towards famine, relief agencies warn

    Palestinians struggle to get donated food at a community kitchen in Gaza City
  • Thursday, 31 July, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    Trump envoy Witkoff meets Netanyahu in Israel

    Visit comes amid growing pressure to alleviate humanitarian disaster in Gaza and end the war

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, meets US special envoy Steve Witkoff in Jerusalem on July 31
  • Thursday, 31 July, 2025
    News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
    The vexed road to recognition of a Palestinian state

    Gesture has become a punishment for Israel, says former Israeli leader

    (L-R) Humanitarian aid is airdropped into Gaza, PLO chair Yasser Arafat (right) shakes hands with Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin at the White House in September 1993 and Palestinians carry aid from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation
  • Thursday, 31 July, 2025
    Iran
    Western nations warn of growing threat from Iranian intelligence

    UK, US and a dozen other countries highlight plots to kill, kidnap and harass citizens in their countries

    A large banner featuring Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is displayed next to a ballistic missile in Baharestan Square, Tehran.
  • Thursday, 31 July, 2025
    Robert Shrimsley
    The best case for Starmer’s ill-starred Palestine gambit

    The diplomatic objectives of recognising a Palestinian state are even less likely to succeed than the domestic political ones

    Ellie Foreman-Peck illustration of Keir Starmer with binoculars that shows reflections of the Palestinian flag on the lenses.
  • Thursday, 31 July, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    Canada is latest G7 member to pledge recognition of Palestine

    PM Mark Carney says decision needed to protect viability of a two-state future for Israelis and Palestinians

    Anita Anand and Mark Carney at a press conference
  • Thursday, 31 July, 2025
    InterviewMiddle East war
    US must agree compensation before nuclear talks, Iran’s foreign minister says

    Abbas Araghchi tells FT ‘road to negotiation is narrow’ as he lays out conditions for renewed diplomacy after war

    Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi
  • Thursday, 31 July, 2025
    News in-depthSaudi Arabia
    Saudi stock market slide signals doubts over kingdom’s diversification plans

    Failure of IPOs to match stellar performance of 2023 and 2024 shows concern over oil prices and state borrowing, analysts say

    A man checks his mobile phone next to a screen with Saudi Stock Exchange
  • Thursday, 31 July, 2025
    Visual story
    Inside the relentless race for AI capacity

    The quest for superintelligence is spurring a data centre boom — but critics question the cost, environmental impact and whether it is all needed

  • Thursday, 31 July, 2025
    Rachman Review podcast28 min listen
    Can Israel translate power into peace?

    Netanyahu government faces growing pressure to change course

  • Wednesday, 30 July, 2025
    US-Iran tensions
    US imposes sweeping new sanctions on Iran oil trading network

    Washington claims measures will cut off source of revenue illegally sent to the Islamic regime in Tehran

    Oil tankers pass through the Strait of Hormuz
  • Wednesday, 30 July, 2025
    Law
    Palestine Action wins permission to appeal against UK ban

    High Court rules that group can bring judicial review against government decision to proscribe it under terror legislation

    A Palestine Action supporter surrounded by police officers in London on July 19
  • Wednesday, 30 July, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    UK to recognise Palestinian state unless Israel ends Gaza crisis

    Canada, Australia and others say they too will consider the move as Netanyahu accuses Starmer of rewarding Hamas

    UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer
  • Wednesday, 30 July, 2025
    News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
    Has Netanyahu lost Trump?

    President’s backing wavers in face of harrowing images of starvation and unease among parts of his base

    A montage of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu with a red background showing internally displaced Palestinians carrying bags of flour
  • Wednesday, 30 July, 2025
    FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
    Concerns rise over starvation in Gaza

    The potential US-China trade war truce depends on US President Donald Trump’s approv…

  • Tuesday, 29 July, 2025
    UK Government
    Starmer finally sets out his stance on Palestinian statehood

    Some Labour MPs and cabinet ministers think the prime minister has been slow to respond to the Gaza crisis

    Palestinians climb in the back of an aid truck on a coastal path west of Beit Lahia, trying to get parcels on July 29, 2025
  • Tuesday, 29 July, 2025
    Gaza
    ‘Worst-case scenario’ of famine unfolding in Gaza, says global hunger monitor

    Israel still not enabling movement of enough food to stave off ‘catastrophic human suffering’, World Food Programme says

    A Palestinian child cries out as he waits to receive food from a charity kitchen in Gaza City on Monday
  • Tuesday, 29 July, 2025
    Geopolitics
    West risks losing credibility over Gaza, says Norway

    Foreign minister Espen Barth Eide warns of apparent double standards on Russia and Israel

    Palestinians hold out containers at a lentil soup distribution point
  • Tuesday, 29 July, 2025
    Inside Politics
    Starmer weighs timing of UK recognition of Palestinian statehood

    Broader problem for government is ‘two-state solution’ is a distant prospect

    Keir Starmer and David Lammy
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