By Global Voices Brazil
After ending the first round 2.2 million votes behind his opponent, Flávio Bolsonaro, Lula won the election with a difference of 4 million votes, and will serve a fourth term as president
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By Nima Shokri, Adjunct Professor, Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH), United Nations University; Technical University of Hamburg
As Turkey prepares to host Cop31, the massive global conference on environmental issues, it is also being confronted with a dangerous sinkhole problem.
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By Miriam O'Duill, Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of Nottingham
How handy would it be if you could make your tattoos invisible for a job interview in the morning, and reveal them again for a party in the evening? This sounds like science fiction, but it may soon be reality.
Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have developed invisible tattoo ink than can be revealed with a UV torch and stays visible until switched off with white light. They have published their research in the journal Matter & Light.
They created different motifs…
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By Eva Dieteren, PhD researcher in Gender and Popular Music, Kingston University
For years Raye struggled to be allowed to do her music her way. Then she decided to do it independently and the rest is musical history.
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By Robert Edgar, Professor of Writing and Popular Culture, York St John University
Memories endure, histories resurface, places retain physical traces of the past, and forgotten possibilities continue to shape our understanding of the world.
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Friday, October 30, 2026
Israeli forces continue to push Palestinians into ever-smaller areas of the Gaza Strip while destroying civilian infrastructure and attacking displacement sites, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, warned on Friday amid concerns of ethnic cleansing.
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By Amnesty International
Responding to the announcement that Novaya Gazeta, one of Russia’s last independent newspapers, will cease operations on 9 November, Denis Krivosheev, Amnesty International’s Eastern Europe and Central Asia Deputy Director, said: “The closure of Novaya Gazeta is a devastating loss for everyone in Russia who turns to independent, investigative journalism to uncover the truth. This […] The post Russia: Closure of Novaya Gazeta is a devastating loss for embattled media freedom appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dmitry Muratov of Russia during the award ceremony for the Nobel Peace prize on December 10, 2021, in Oslo, Norway. © 2021 Odd Andersen/AFP via Getty Images When I woke up this morning to the news that Novaya Gazeta is closing its doors, it felt like a personal blow. To me, Novaya’s office in a small grey building in central Moscow always felt like home. The newsroom moved to Moscow almost three decades ago. I got to know its every nook and cranny, as I went there, in my capacity of a Moscow-based Human Rights Watch researcher, for…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A member of the M23 looks on during an enrollment of civilians, police officers, and former members of the Congolese armed forces who have been recruited in Goma on February 23, 2025. © 2025 Michel Lunanga/AFP via Getty Images The United States Treasury announced new sanctions this week against Rwanda's Ministry of Defense and Zigama Credit and Savings Society, a Rwandan financial institution that the US Treasury found facilitated payments for the Rwandan army and the abusive M23 armed group. The sanctions freeze all named parties’ assets and interests in the…
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By Tory Young, Associate Professor in Department of English Literature, Anglia Ruskin University
Alison Donnell, Professor of Modern Literatures in English, University of Bristol
Jenni Ramone, Associate Professor of Postcolonial and Global Literatures, Nottingham Trent University
Leigh Wilson, Professor of English Literature, University of Westminster
Stevie Marsden, Lecturer in Publishing, Edinburgh Napier University
Tim Jarvis, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, Anglia Ruskin University
When the Booker prize was first launched in 1969, its aim was to get more people reading and to stimulate discussion about contemporary literature. Now, we all know reading is at an all time low but there really has never been a better time to reignite your love of fiction and to discover (or rediscover) your love of reading. And, this year’s shortlist is really a testament to the breadth of stories available out there.
There’s poetic historic fiction with May we Feed the King about a reluctant…
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