By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Ekrem İmamoğlu in front of the courthouse in Istanbul, Türkiye where he received his official mandate to serve a second five-year term as Istanbul mayor after winning the March 31, 2024 municipal election, April 3, 2024. © 2024 Yasin Akgul/AFP via Getty Images The Istanbul mayor and main opposition Republican People’s Party presidential candidate Ekrem İmamoğlu will stand trial on March 9 as the central defendant in a politically motivated mass corruption prosecution of 407 defendants which raises serious fair trial concernsThe case is the culmination of a 17-month…
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By Zulker Naeen
Between May 2018 and December 2025, 2,425 documented fires have struck the world’s largest refugee settlement in Southeast of Bangladesh, affecting over 100,000 Rohingya refugees and destroying more than 20,000 shelters.
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By Catherine Speck, Emerita Professor, Art History and Curatorship, Adelaide University
These are troubled and changing times – a view of the zeitgeist that permeates Yield Strength, the 2026 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art.
The stresses and anxieties navigated on a daily basis include political extremism, challenges to social cohesion, ecological collapse, the enduring effects of colonialism, and social and economic inequality.
Yield strength is also a technical term. Taken from engineering, yield strength refers to the maximum stress a material can withstand before starting to break down.
But as the exhibition’s curator Ellie Buttrose explains…
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By Stella Huangfu, Associate Professor, School of Economics, University of Sydney
Global oil markets have reacted swiftly to escalating tensions in the Middle East as the United States and Israel continue their assault on Iran.
After oil tanker traffic through a key chokepoint, the Strait of Hormuz, stopped, the benchmark oil price, Brent crude, jumped about 6% to over US$77 a barrel. It initially spiked as high as US$82, its highest level since January 2025.
A roughly US$10 jump in a matter of days is a significant move and delivers an immediate inflationary jolt for oil-importing…
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By Donald Rothwell, Professor of International Law, Australian National University
So far, Australia’s response to the US and Israeli strikes on Iran has been ‘say nothing’. But this may not be a successful long-term approach.
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By Nigel Andrew, Professor of Entomology, Southern Cross University
For years, Queensland authorities have been broadscale baiting fire ants. But the infestation is too big – and the baits wipe out rival species
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By Shahram Akbarzadeh, Director, Middle East Studies Forum (MESF), Deakin University
Iran’s authorities have moved fast to show they are still in charge. But selecting a new supreme leader may take some time.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
The Liberal Party’s federal executive decided on Friday to bury its election review. But it was unable to cremate it.
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By Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, Fellow for the Middle East at the Baker Institute, Rice University
Qatar, the UAE and other Gulf nations have spent years cultivating an image of being an oasis of stability in the Mideast. The current war risks undoing all that work.
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By Jeremie M Bracka, Law Lecturer and Transitional Justice Academic, RMIT University
The case in Victoria is among the first to rule on religious vilification at protests. It reckons with some of the nation’s most hotly-debated questions.
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