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President Donald Trump insists that “productive” negotiations with Iran are underway. Senior Iranian officials, meanwhile, repeatedly deny that any such talks are taking place. One side may be misrepresenting reality, both may be shaping narratives, or the truth may lie somewhere more ambiguous than either account suggests. The …

For decades, the language used to describe the Middle East has been dominated by the vocabulary of conflict. We speak of proxy wars, failed states, sectarian fractures, and great powers orbiting a volatile geography. This framing is not entirely wrong—but it is incomplete. More importantly, it obscures as …

By Eng. Saleem Al-Batayneh There is a deeper anguish embedded in this title than in the reality it seeks to describe. It carries meanings and lessons that echo the tragic fate of the black ox in the old parable: “I was eaten the day the white ox was …

Mansoor Ahmad The world witnessed major conflicts in 2025, with one of the most alarming escalations between the two nuclear-armed neighbors, India and Pakistan. If it had not been stopped in time, there was a potential threat of a nuclear war. Donald Trump is taking credit for stopping …

US President Donald Trump on Monday said negotiations with Iran to end joint US-Israeli strikes were progressing, but warned that the country’s crucial energy infrastructure would be destroyed if talks do not soon bear fruit. “If for any reason a deal is not shortly reached, which it probably …

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said Friday that discussions are ongoing to find a diplomatic solution to the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, emphasizing that a military resolution is not on the table. Speaking to French broadcaster BFMTV on the sidelines of a G7 foreign affairs …

The Economic Sentiment Indicator declined by 1.5 points to 96.7 in the EU and dropped by 1.6 points to 96.6 in the euro area during March, official figures showed on Monday. The European Commission reported that the Employment Expectations Indicator also fell by 1.3 points to 97.3 in …

Raphael Dosson The Iranian conflict is falling, predictably, into the escalation trap—from what began as a vertically limited, regime-targeting air campaign to a horizontally expanding regional war, with the potential to become one of the most consequential geostrategic crises of the century, carrying far-reaching implications for the global …

Remote work is no longer the emergency patch it looked like in 2020. The latest Global Survey of Working Arrangements, which covered more than 16,000 college and university graduates across 40 countries in late 2024 and early 2025, found that average work-from-home time has settled at 1.27 days …