By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Israeli President Isaac Herzog speaks at the World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland, January 22, 2026. © 2026 Gian Ehrenzeller/Keystone via AP Photo In the wake of the Bondi Hannukah attack, the deadliest mass shooting in Australia in three decades, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese invited Israeli President Isaac Herzog to visit, to “engage with members of the Jewish community who are grieving the loss of 15 innocent lives.”President Herzog is Israel’s head of state, with a constitutional and ceremonial role. Although Herzog’s trip is focused on the Bondi…
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By Mina Fakhravar, PhD Candidate, Feminist and Gender Studies, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
Iran faces a double erasure: violence imposed by a ‘necropolitical’ state and the revival of patriarchal alternatives that promise change while sidelining women.
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By Jeremy Horder, Professor of Criminal Law, London School of Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science
Peter Mandelson, former UK ambassador to the United States, is currently under investigation by the Metropolitan Police concerning an allegation of criminal misconduct in public office.
The allegation centres on evidence that Mandelson passed sensitive, confidential information – received in his capacity as a minister – to Jeffrey Epstein and his associates.
If that is true, then it is, of course, not…
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By Amnesty International
Responding to yesterday’s attempted murder of journalist Carlitos Candangue by armed men reportedly wearing police uniforms, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for East and Southern Africa, Tigere Chagutah, said: “The attempted murder of Carlitos Cadangue, who has been actively reporting on the illegal mining of gold in the province of Manica, is gravely concerning and shows […] The post Mozambique: Authorities must promptly investigate attempted murder of journalist Carlitos Cadangue appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Stefan Wolff, Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
Russia, Ukraine and the US have met for a second time for trilateral talks to discuss a possible cessation of hostilities. The meeting got off to the same depressing start as the first one had the week before. On February 3, the night before the three sides gathered in Abu Dhabi, a massive…
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By Daniel Scott, Professor and Strategic Director for Climate Change Education in Environment, University of Waterloo
Madeleine Orr, Assistant Professor, Sport Ecology, University of Toronto
Robert Steiger, Associate Professor, Department of Public Finance, University of Innsbruck
For the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, climate change poses a risk and could impact where the Games can be held in the future.
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By Charles Z. Levkoe, Canada Research Chair in Equitable and Sustainable Food Systems, Lakehead University
There have been renewed questions around the safety of the herbicide glyphosate in light of the recent retraction of an influential peer-reviewed research article. Originally published in 2000 in the academic journal Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology, the article claimed that glyphosate posed no risk to human health.
Glyphosate is widely…
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By Lindsey Blumell, Lecturer in Journalism, City St George's, University of London
As the US Department of Justice published 3.5 million pages of the Epstein files, deputy US attorney Todd Blanche indicated that the deluge of documents wouldn’t lead to additional criminal charges. Victims want “to be made whole”, he said, but that “doesn’t mean we can just create evidence or that we can just kind of come up with a case that isn’t there”.
Given the scale of the revelations, and the fact that millions…
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By Robert Colls, Professor Emeritus of History, De Montfort University
In October 1945, George Orwell responded to a letter from Mr J. Stewart Cook in the leftwing weekly newspaper Tribune calling for more science education.
The call can hardly have come as a surprise. War had brought science and engineering to the fore – from the Spitfire fighter plane and radar to Bletchley Park’s codebreakers – and now that war was over, many thought it was time to build a brave new world. Science had won the war; the view was that it should build the peace.
Only the week before, in the same newspaper, Orwell had warned of the dangers…
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By David Grecic, Professor of Sport and Physical Education, University of Lancashire
Alan Thomson, Senior Lecturer in Sport and Physical Education, University of Lancashire
Andrew Sprake, Lecturer in Physical Education & Sport / Course Leader MA in Physical Education and School Sport, University of Lancashire
Children could be empowered to choose activities that enable them to learn the knowledge and skills to make healthy life choices.
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