By Nathalie Belhoste, Associate professor, EM Lyon Business School
Anna Dimitrova, Professor, ESSCA School of Management
The world experienced over 60 armed conflicts in 2024, a “historically high” number according to scholars in the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University. Consequently, the risks faced by multinational companies (MNCs) operating in conflict-torn regions, especially the Middle East and North Africa, have significantly intensified. Israel’s recent airstrikes targeting Iran’s nuclear facilities are another reminder of the escalating violence and instability that…
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By Jack Janetzki, Lecturer in Pharmacy and Pharmacology, University of South Australia
Lisa Kalisch Ellett, Research Fellow, Quality Use of Medicines and Pharmacy Research Centre, University of South Australia
Some people have to call around pharmacies to get their script filled, others change to different medications. And the shortage is expected to continue.
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By Shannon Bosch, Associate Professor (Law), Edith Cowan University
Israel’s plan to eventually move all Palestinians in Gaza into a camp in the south of the Strip is being widely denounced as tantamount to ethnic cleansing.
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By Samuel Cornell, PhD Candidate in Public Health & Community Medicine, School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney
Michael Tipton, Professor of Human and Applied Physiology, University of Portsmouth
Behind the marketing and influencer testimonials on podcasts and TikTok lies a less appealing truth. Ice baths can be dangerous.
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By Nicola Redhouse, Lecturer, Publishing and Editing, The University of Melbourne
Allegations of untruth over The Salt Path raise questions of what we expect from truth in memoir, in this age of ‘fake news’. What is the contract with the reader?
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A poster created by the opposition coalition, National Front for the Defense of the Constitution (Front National pour la Défense de la Constitution, FNDC) showing Mamadou Billo Bah (L) and Oumar Sylla, known as Foniké Mengué (R). © 2024 National Front for the Defense of the Constitution (Nairobi) – Guinea’s military authorities should credibly investigate the disappearances of two political activists, make their whereabouts known, and either charge them with a recognizable crime or release them immediately, Human Rights Watch said today.One year ago, security forces…
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By Arzu Geybullayeva
The scale of destruction is immense, with some estimates suggesting an area equivalent to 14,400 football fields have been consumed by flames in Izmir province alone.
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By Francis Ryan, Associate Professor of Labor Studies and Employment Relations, Rutgers University
An expert on Philadelphia’s municipal workers union talks about how social media helped the workers on strike to get their message out.
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By Susan Hopkins, Senior Lecturer in Education (Curriculum and Pedagogy), University of the Sunshine Coast
For decades, cinema has given us sexy women in bikinis stalked by sharks. Now Netflix and Ocean Ramsey want us to think women in bikinis can save sharks.
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By Marc Trabsky, Associate Professor of Law, Monash University
Coroners are in charge of finding out the who, what, when, where, why and how in the case of an unnatural death. Here’s how this part of the legal system works.
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