By Jan Pospisil, Researcher at the Austrian Institute for International Affairs
South Sudan is scheduled to hold general elections on 22 December 2026 – its first since independence. President Salva Kiir and his inner circle have repeatedly insisted that the elections will take place on that date.
The elections are meant to bring South Sudan’s post-conflict transition to an end. Since 2018, a power-sharing government led by the South…
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By Drew Kurlowski, Associate Professor of Political Science, Coastal Carolina University
The spoiler candidate is one of the oldest tricks in the American campaign toolbox, and the law has rarely touched it.
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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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