By Jude Pierre Louis
“Haiti remains gripped by armed violence [...] and a profound humanitarian crisis [and] the Supreme Court has given a green light to treat hundreds of thousands of Haitian families as disposable.”
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By Zulker Naeen
Child marriage among Rohingya refugees rose 21 percent last year as education cuts deepened. Teachers report more girls leaving school for marriage, with most never returning because of family restrictions.
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By Shane Rogers, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Edith Cowan University
No parent likes seeing their child upset. But moments like these can also be opportunities to help kids build emotional skills.
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By Steve Georgakis, Senior Lecturer of Pedagogy and Sports Studies, University of Sydney
The Socceroos World Cup campaign is over. But there’s plenty to be optimistic about for the next one in four years’ time.
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Friday, July 3rd 2026
The war in Sudan threatens to spiral further as the strategically-important town of El Obeid continues to face “relentless” drone attacks by advancing paramilitary militias, the UN’s human rights chief, Volker Türk, said on Friday.
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By Mong Palatino
"Though more LGBTQ+ individuals are slowly emerging into the mainstream, prejudice and bigotry in present societal attitudes keep many LGBTQ+ individuals from coming out of the closet."
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By Matthew Powell, Teaching Fellow in Strategic and Air Power Studies, University of Portsmouth
The UK government’s defence investment plan (DIP) will guide the spending decisions of the Ministry of Defence and armed forces not only for the remainder of this parliament, but also for the five years from 2029. So far, the plan has been praised and criticised in equal measure. But one element that has attracted widespread attention is the overall spending figures.
Part of the settlement that has been agreed with the Treasury rests on the Ministry of Defence (MoD) finding around
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By Liam Temple, Assistant Professor in the History of Catholicism, Durham University
The decision by Pope Leo XIV to excommunicate members of the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) is the latest twist in a long-running saga between the Vatican and this contentious traditionalist group. It is yet more evidence of the deep polarisation between conservatives and progressives within the Catholic church.
The Vatican issued a statement on July 2 to the effect…
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By Rory Jones, Associate Professor, School of the Built Environment, University of Reading
For decades, people in the UK tended to view air conditioning as something that belonged elsewhere. It was associated with office buildings, hotels and hotter countries rather than their own homes. But as summers become warmer and heatwaves more frequent, that picture is beginning to change.
Colleagues and I analysed data from the English Housing Survey, a nationally representative sample of about 16,000 households. This shows that air conditioning remains relatively uncommon, with
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By Arun Dawson, PhD Candidate, Department of War Studies, King's College London
Seventy years ago, Britain confronted a dilemma. It wanted to remain a leading military power but no longer had the economic resources to sustain all the conventional capabilities it had inherited from the second world war.
The solution proposed in the 1957 Sandys defence white paper was technological. Guided missiles, Duncan Sandys argued, were transforming warfare so fundamentally that many traditional capabilities, including some crewed combat aircraft, would become obsolete.
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