Omar Shariff, International Editor

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Macron can pursue his agenda at full blast

This is closest far-right has come to winning biggest political prize in France

French President Emmanuel Macron

Gulf News Fun Drive: My day as a volunteer

Fun Drive volunteer and Gulf News staffer gets candid about his experience

Omar Shariff on the 40th edition of the Gulf News Overnighter Fun Drive - Tilal Swaihan Experience

Glimpse into rarified world of yachts at boat show

No less than 50 superyachts are on display this year at annual event

After a gap of two years, the annual Dubai International Boat Show is back this year - and there’s no better place to go superyacht spotting. The array of watercraft on display is genuinely astonishing.

Mi-17V5: Chopper that crashed with Gen Rawat on board

It is routinely used by India to ferry VVIPs, including the Prime Minister

India had placed an order for 80 Mi-17V5s in 2008, for a cost of $1.3 billion. The initial batch was delivered in 2013, and the final batch arrived in 2018. India routinely uses it to ferry VVIPs, including the Prime Minister.

De Klerk: Man who ended White rule in South Africa

Nothing he did can take away from fact de Klerk played seminal role in ending Apartheid

FW de Klerk, the former president of South Africa and the last white person to lead the country, has died at the age of 85

Egypt pegs hopes for post-COVID recovery on tourism

Lamia Kamel: ‘Tourism, hospitality is part of Egyptian DNA. Our stories are on our walls'

Lamia Kamel, Assistant Minister of Tourism and Antiquities for Marketing and Promotion.

Symbol of Egyptian pride – and Cold War politics

Gamal Abdul Nasser used CIA’s ‘gift’ to build monument to Third World freedom

The Cairo Tower is still the tallest all-concrete edifice in the world – it contains no steel frames at all. Its design reflects a lotus; the flower had a special significance in pharaonic Egypt.

Taliban government gets lukewarm world response

But key global powers have not categorically said they will not recognise it

It took the Taliban just over a week to seize control of the country after a lightning sweep that ended in Kabul as Afghan forces, trained for years and equipped by the United States and others at a cost of billions of dollars, melted away.

UAE foreign policy: Safety at home, security in region

In a Middle East prone to turmoil and instability, UAE has provided alternative vision

Increasingly, the UAE's economic progress and the resultant prosperity, alongside its small but robust armed forces, have also made it an important political and military player in the region.

Myanmar returns to military dictatorship

Junta has manufactured crisis to carry out coup that’s being seen as ‘pre-emptive strike’

Aung San Suu Kyi with senior General Min Aung Hlaing in the file 2016 picture. There's no love lost between the two Buddhist, ethno-nationalists from the Bamar ethnic minority.

F-35 allows UAE ‘to maintain strong deterrent’

Stealth jet made by Lockheed Martin is most advanced fighter in the world

In this file photo taken on June 12, 2019 an F-35 fighter plane flies over the White House, in Washington DC. According to its maker, US aerospace and weapons giant Lockheed Martin, it is the most lethal, survivable and connected fighter aircraft in the world.

‘Abraham Accords whole new paradigm for diplomats’

Dore Gold: Iran not just military problem that can be answered with use of military power

Gold, who is currently in Bahrain to attend the ISS Manama Dialogue summit, has been at the forefront of foreign policy-making at both official and unofficial levels in Israel.

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