Before October 2023, the Gaza Strip was 41km long and 12km at its widest. Today, with much of it sand and rubble, Gaza’s perimeter has shrunk as Israel continues stealing land to create “buffer zones” ...

US officials have floated the idea of expanding the Board of Peace led by US President Donald Trump to include other global flashpoints, such as Ukraine and Venezuela. Source: Financial Times, citing ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Samir Mansour, a man in his fifties who says he has the soul of a 25-year-old, has ways of getting books to ...

Ahram Online , Tuesday 9 Dec 2025 Former British prime minister Tony Blair has been removed from consideration for a position on Donald Trump’s proposed “board of peace” for Gaza, the Financial Times ...

Blair is instead expected to join the board’s executive committee alongside Kushner, Trump adviser Steve Witkoff, and senior officials from Arab and Western countries, Blair’s ally told the FT. A ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the controversial private aid group set up earlier this year with US and ...

“Wha gwaan Popcaan?” The first words uttered on the 2010 smash hit “Clarks” introduced the world to Vybz Kartel’s top protégé. Those same three words can be read as both a question (“What’s going on?” ...

Large plumes of smoke were rising in Gaza, amid reports from Axios citing Israeli officials said that the Israeli military had launched a ground offensive a day earlier to seize Gaza City, the enclave ...

The train from Waterloo station, just south of the River Thames in central London, to Brentford’s Gtech Community stadium in west London was only 20 minutes, but a group of three Jamaica fans took the ...