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Urooba Jamal

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Urooba writes news, analysis, features and live blogs on international politics and human rights around the world and has reported from multiple countries, notably Canada; Ecuador; the UK; Qatar, where she covered the Arab-Islamic summit following Israel’s attack on Doha; Pakistan, where she reported on the experiences of children living with a deadly blood disorder; and Bosnia, where she interviewed survivors of the Srebrenica genocide during its 30th anniversary in 2025. Urooba previously worked for Business Insider and the Associated Press in London, as well as Latin America’s largest media network, teleSUR, in Ecuador. Her work has previously been published by international outlets including CNN, the Washington Post and Vice. Urooba was a member of the Global News Insight Live Page team which received Edward R Murrow Breaking News awards in 2024 and 2025 for its coverage of the Israeli war on Gaza. In 2019, she was named Journalist of the Month by the International Journalists' Network.

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Across 100 kilometres, they walk where Srebrenica’s dead once ran

Over 7000 Peace March participants arrived to the tiny village in Bosnia to commemorate victims

The Pakistani families caught in an endless cycle of blood transfusions

Mudassir Ali, diagnosed with thalassaemia major

A love story born in Gaza’s bombed Ahli Hospital

Hammam's grandparents (L) and his grandfather, Elias, at the hospital (R)

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Era of ‘wasting time and dictating demands is over’; US must fulfill MoU, top Iranian negotiator says.

Analysts dismissed Trump’s proposal as lacking any strategic logic – but said it revealed how he views Beijing.

epa13263077 US President Donald Trump (C-R) shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping (C-L) as US First Lady Melania Trump (R) and First Lady of China Peng Liyuan (L) look on outside the National Archives in Washington, DC, USA, 25 September 2026. President Xi's three-day state visit is his first to DC in 11 years. EPA/JIM LO SCALZO / POOL

The country’s early parliamentary elections won’t end its crisis or defuse Vucic’s troubles, analysts say.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic waves to citizens outside the Presidency of Serbia moments before formally submitting his resignation, ending his second and final five-year term in office, in Belgrade, Serbia, September 27, 2026. REUTERS/Djordje Kojadinovic TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Smotrich’s words should not be dismissed as mere election rhetoric, human rights experts and analysts warn.

FILE PHOTO: Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich speaks at a press conference regarding settlements expansion for the long-frozen E1 settlement, that would split East Jerusalem from the occupied West Bank, near the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, August 14, 2025. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun/File Photo

Some analysts say extending the truce is pure optics – others say it’s a useful step towards a more durable deal.

epaselect epa13258794 US President Donald Trump (C) greets Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) upon his arrival at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, USA, 23 September 2026. US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are scheduled to hold bilateral talks during Xi's state visit to the United States. EPA/JIM LO SCALZO

Analysts say a deal this week is unlikely – core disagreements between Washington and Tehran remain unresolved.

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi arrives for the 81st United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, on September 22, 2026. (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP)

Victory in Berlin signals that Germany continues to be liberal, that, despite the far right’s rise, experts say.

Die Linke (the Left) party's top candidate for Berlin, Elif Eralp, attends a press conference at the German Federal Press Conference building (Bundespressekonferenz), after the state elections, in Berlin, Germany, September 21, 2026. REUTERS/Axel Schmidt

Iran’s latest stipulations come as growing regional escalation causes oil prices to cross $100 per barrel.

Mohsen Rezaei laid out Iran's conditions to return to talks with the US [Screengrab/Global News Insight]

High energy costs at the pump and strategic setback for US in the Iran war will likely cost Trump in the midterms.

FAIRFORD, ENGLAND - JULY 25: A B1 Bomber at RAF Fairford on July 25, 2026 in Fairford, England. Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has declared RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire a "legitimate target" after U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer bombers used the British base to launch defensive bombing missions against Iranian military targets. (Photo by Matthew Horwood/Getty Images)

These were the updates on the US-Israel war on Iran from Sunday, September 13, 2026.

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