By Jing Wu, Postdoctoral Researcher, Integrative Epidemiology, Karolinska Institutet
A new study from Sweden links long-term air pollution exposure to higher risk of motor neurone disease and faster progression.
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By Addisu Lashitew, Associate professor, Business, McMaster University
Canada’s move to reduce tariffs on electric vehicles imported from China aims to make EVs more affordable and diversity trade away from the U.S.
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By Nicholas Ross Smith, Senior Research Fellow, National Centre for Research on Europe, University of Canterbury
NZ is already successfully managing strong relationships with China and the US. By building on its Pacific influence, it can chart a carefully non-aligned course.
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By Kaveh Madani, Director of the Institute for Water, Environment and Health, United Nations University
The world is now using so much fresh water amid the consequences of climate change that it has entered an era of water bankruptcy, with many regions no longer able to bounce back from frequent water shortages.
About 4 billion people – nearly half the global population – live with severe water scarcity for at least one month a year, without…
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Tuesday, January 20, 2026
The reported demolition underway early Tuesday of the headquarters of UN agency UNRWA by Israeli forces in occupied East Jerusalem - apparently “under the watch of lawmakers and a member of the Government” - has prompted swift condemnation from the global body.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image President Yowerei Museveni speaks during a news conference in Entebbe, Uganda, July 26, 2022. © 2022 Hajarah Nalwadda/AP Photo Uganda’s electoral commission has declared President Yoweri Museveni as the winner of the January 15 elections, securing his seventh term in office with 71 percent of the vote. The weeks leading up to the elections were marred by rights abuses. Security officers reportedly beat and arrested hundreds of people during opposition rallies, indiscriminately fired teargas, and kicked and slapped journalists trying to cover the events. On…
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
The National’s have broken with their Coalition partners voting against the Government’s hate speech legislation despite, the Liberals agreeing to it.
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By Ludovic Slimak, Archéologue, penseur et chercheur au CNRS, Université de Toulouse
In 1951, the French Explorer Jean Malaurie witnessed the building of a US military base in Greenland in near total secrecy, which marked an irreversible turning point for Inuit societies.
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By Guillermo Candiz, Assistant Professor, Human Plurality, Université de l'Ontario français
Tanya Basok, Professor, Sociology, University of Windsor
New research on Venezuelan migrants being forced back south from the U.S.-Mexico border raises key questions about safety and security for these migrants.
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By Tassiana Moura de Oliveira, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, University at Albany, State University of New York
On Jan. 15, 2026, Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered that incarcerated ex-President Jair Bolsonaro be given a significant upgrade in his prison accomodations.
Perhaps not a headline-grabbing development abroad, the news was nonetheless the latest high-profile interaction between Moraes and Bolsonaro – two titans of modern Brazilian politics whose sparring has, in many ways, served as a proxy for the broader…
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