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Workplace daycare can be better. Why isn't it?

Despite significant progress in women's empowerment in the region, a provision of workplace childcare is yet to be legally mandated

Omar
Al-Ubaydli

Childcare for a working mother is challenging anywhere in the world. Reuters

India's political playing field is more even than it's been for years

Chitrabhanu Kadalayil

What tech titans will do to get your attention online

The UK needs Starmer the charmer to step up

America struggles with 'who we are as a nation' after another attempted assassination

Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, has visited the shrine of Mahatma Gandhi and planted tree saplings at Raj Ghat memorial in New Delhi, India. Photo: Abu Dhabi Media Office

UAE-India ties are growing stronger in more than one key area

Ebtesam Al Ketbi

Silencing the Gaza protests at universities exposes a wider American problem

Harris needs a foreign policy win in the Middle East

Raghida
Dergham

Fuel cartels are adding darkness, pollution and cancer to Lebanon’s misery

The National

Grenfell fire and Covid-19 inquiries make UK inequalities all too clear

Shelina Janmohamed

Turkey seeks Brics membership, but its western allies shouldn't be worried

The ‘right to disconnect’ is a good idea, but making it stick is another matter

It would be a mistake to not count Russia as part of the Asia-Pacific anymore

We need to create a circular water economy that maximises every drop

Farid Al Awlaqi

Harris shines in the debate, but Trump remains a potent candidate

Most Britons can contain their excitement about the next Tory leader

Trump must wish he was still running against Biden

Why a Hezbollah critic is reaching out to the group

Changes proposed to an Iraq law don't serve society

Zaid Al-Ali

Why key European capitals will welcome Macron's appointment of Barnier