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EUROPE
Milan’s Expat Boom: Are They Bringing Their ‘Best’?
Milan’s expat boom: 300,000 foreign-born residents now power its fintech and finance hub, reshaping the city into Europe’s next powerhouse.
WORLD
Under-the-Sea: America First Leaves AUKUS Partners Adrift
Trump’s Pentagon review unsettles AUKUS allies—UK & Australia risk losing U.S. submarine support as America First drives defence shift.
BUSINESS
No Expectations: UK Surprise Leader in Q1 Across G7
UK posts fastest Q1 2025 growth in G7, driven by services, exports, and low inflation—signaling a surprise post-Brexit economic boost.
EXCLUSIVE
Bahrain’s Economic Reforms: On Pause For Now
Bahrain’s economic reforms face delays amid public backlash, risking prolonged deficits while balancing fiscal sustainability.
BUSINESS
UAE Sustains Revenue Growth in Non-Oil Sector in 2025
Diversification efforts in the UAE continue to grow as the non-oil sector expands amidst high growth and export revenues in January 2025.
Popular
Anti-Bardella Performative Resistance Falls Short
Culinary protests splatter and legal verdicts land; Jordan Bardella rides economic fatigue to dismantle the cordon sanitaire shielding the French presidency.
Meloni in Manama: The Sakhir Declaration and Gulf Security
Missiles over Doha have turned the Sakhir Declaration from standard diplomacy into a survival blueprint, pushing the Gulf toward self-reliance and Europe ties.
The Rome-Moscow Connection: How Italy and Kyrgyzstan are Keeping Russian Trade Alive
While Europe builds a wall of sanctions against Russia, Italy has found a backdoor, shipping goods through the mountains to Kyrgyzstan.
EU-US Trade Talks: Price of Sovereignty on the Factory Floor
Brussels rejects trading digital sovereignty for tariff relief, leaving European steel workers to bear the heavy cost of a deepening transatlantic deadlock.
The Pope’s Turkey Visit: Eastern Mediterranean as Christianity’s Foundation
Pope Leo XIV's first papal journey to Turkey from 27-30 November 2025 placed the eastern Mediterranean once again at the centre of Catholic imagination, inviting Europe to reconsider how geography shaped its tradition.
