By Justin Vovk, Adjunct Professor. History of the Royal Family, Redeemer University
Why hasn’t Prince Andrew been formally stripped of his titles? Why is he still a prince? Here’s what his titles mean and how they can — or cannot — be removed.
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Tuesday, October 21, 2025
The UN human rights office (OHCHR) in the Occupied Palestinian Territory has warned of an alarming rise in violence and restrictions by Israeli settlers and security forces against Palestinian farmers, as the crucial olive harvest season gets underway.
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By Human Rights Watch
On October 14, news broke that Russian forces, using drones, had attacked a United Nations interagency convoy delivering humanitarian aid to Bilozerka in the region of Kherson, southern Ukraine. The next day, a Russian-military affiliated Telegram channel posted video evidence of the attack for the world to see. Click to expand Image Russian forces used quadcopter drones to attack a United Nations inter-agency convoy delivering humanitarian aid to Bilozerka in Khersonska region, in southern Ukraine, October 14, 2025. © 2025 Oleksandr Prokudin, head of Kherson…
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By Papa Sow, Senior Researcher, The Nordic Africa Institute
Ease of movement of people between Senegal and Turkiye has enabled goods from Turkiye to hold their own against Chinese imports into Senegal.
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By Maureen Jepkorir Cheserek, Lecturer Researcher, Department of Human Nutrition in the Faculty of Health Sciences, Egerton University
Fish are a nutritious, affordable protein and source of income to those who catch and sell them. As millions of people in Africa suffer from undernutrition, a lack of vital vitamins and minerals and rising rates of overweight and obesity, caused by hunger, food insecurity and eating unhealthy food, fish could help solve these problems.
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By Jonathan Powell, Visiting assistant professor, University of Kentucky
Salah Ben Hammou, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Rice University
What began in late September as Madagascar’s student demonstrations over crippling electricity outages and water shortages quickly evolved into broader demands for political reform. It became a call to dismantle a system widely seen as corrupt and unaccountable, and for President Andry Rajoelina to resign.
As demonstrations swelled across the country, the embattled…
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By Fanny Voélin, PhD candidate in geography, University of Bern
The youth-led protests that eventually brought down Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina were sparked, in part, by his attempt to use large-scale urban infrastructure projects as a means of consolidating power.
Rajoelina’s government placed urban mega-projects at the centre of its strategy to assert power and legitimacy.…
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By Carmen Jordá Sanz, Directora del Departamento de Criminología y Seguridad, Universidad Camilo José Cela
On Sunday October 19, criminals managed to steal eight pieces of extremely valuable jewellery from the Louvre Museum’s Gallery of Apollo, in Paris. The robbery highlights long-standing issues for criminology in the field of cultural heritage, as museum security has to address traditional and emerging threats as well as a range of symbolic visions and criminal dynamics. This means that, when a security breach occurs, the costs are felt on many different levels.
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By Megan Levings, Professor of Surgery and Biomedical Engineering, University of British Columbia
Robert A. Holt, Professor, Simon Fraser University
As Canada faces renewed trade tensions with the United States, investing in domestic biomanufacturing could strengthen both national security and economic independence.
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By Simon Thorne, Senior Lecturer in Computing and Information Systems, Cardiff Metropolitan University
OpenAI says its new erotic mode will be restricted to adults But with millions of teenagers already chatting to AI, how enforceable is that promise really?
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