On Bloomsday, 16 June, readers celebrate Ulysses, one of the greatest – and most demanding – novels in English. How much more challenging is it to translate James Joyce’s masterpiece into Arabic?
Distressing CCTV footage of the fatal shooting of two Palestinian boys during a protest is released by a human rights group, which accuses troops of “unlawful killing”. Israel is investigating.
Israel decides to suspend peace talks with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas after Wednesday’s announcement of a unity deal between Hamas and Fatah.
Bahrain’s royal family faces a lose-lose situation ahead of the grand prix: cancel it and lose face, or let it proceed and become a hook for adverse media coverage, writes activist Dr Ala’a Shehabi.
The political and human rights environment in Bahrain ahead of this weekend’s grand prix is much calmer than in 2012 or 2013, argues Mohammed Al Sayed of the pro-government Citizens for Bahrain group.
Alex Thomson
At a gun battle in Kabul Alex Thomson reports how Kabul reacts, if you can you get off the streets regardless of where the attack is happening – you get off them fast.
Alex Thomson
So Crimea has voted. It was messy, ugly, but it is also undeniably true that the majority will of the people in Crimea has prevailed – so what does the west do now?
Alex Thomson
With the crisis in Ukraine sweeping all headlines before it, it is hard to recall that the reason John Kerry ever stepped on to a plane to Europe in recent days was for Afghanistan.
Three-year-old Abdel Karim suffered a relapse after treatment of his brain tumour was delayed by Israeli authorities, who suspect his Gaza family of involvement in clashes with Israeli forces.
The UN says that both sides will negotiate face to face in Geneva for the first time on Saturday, just hours after the regime threatened to walk out, writes Sakhr Al-Makhadhi from Geneva.
Twelve people are killed in Cairo, security sources say, as Egypt marks the third anniversary of the revolution that led to the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak.
Alex Thomson
“Devoid of human compassion”: the words of the prosecutor in the court martial of three British marines accused of murdering an Afghan prisoner.
In July two men from the Islam Hounslow group, Noaman Ali and Faisel Qarni, became part of a convoy which set out from the UK to take aid to Syria. This is the story of their journey.
David Miliband warns the “humanitarian catastrophe” being inflicted on Syrian people risks being put on the “back burner” because of diplomatic breakthroughs over Bashar al-Assad’s chemical weapons.
Alex Thomson
Chemical weapons inspectors make their first journey into Syria, under the terms agreed by President Assad and the west. But this is dangerous work, in the midst of a raging and complex civil war.