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In today’s featured cartoon, Peter Brookes highlights the ongoing tussle for leadership in Britain’s Conservative Party. Whoever seizes control of the party will succeed Boris Johnson as Prime Minister.
Harry Burton makes a comment on the Irish government’s decision to increase defence funding at a time when the people of Ireland are battling the cost of living crisis.
Kevin Siers comments on US President Joe Biden’s meeting with Mohammed bin Salman during his visit to Saudi Arabia last week. While Biden claimed that he raised the issue of the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi with the Crown Prince, many see the meeting as a shift in Washington’s policy over Riyadh’s track record on human rights.
Dave Brown’s cartoon, too, alludes to the race within the Conservative Party to succeed Boris Johnson as Prime Minister of the UK.
Osama Hajjaj remarks on how the deepest infrared images of the cosmos taken by NASA’s James Webb Telescope have taken the world by storm.