By Christian Emery, Associate Professor in International Politics, UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UCL
As the US and Israel’s assault on Iran grinds on, the Trump administration has issued increasingly bellicose claims that American and Israeli forces are delivering ferocious blows to the Iranian regime.
The US secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, warned of the “most intense” day of strikes yet on March 10. And Donald Trump followed with a claim that the war will end soon because…
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By Amnesty International
My ordeal started at about 2am one morning in February 2018, when I was arrested by the Greek police. People were fleeing conflicts at home and coming to Europe seeking safety in unseaworthy boats and I was helping the Emergency Response Center International to conduct search and rescue activities. I was detained without understanding what […] The post Seán: A Greek court refused to criminalise rescue workers, but will the EU do the same? appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Residents inspect damaged belongings inside a tent burned by suspected Israeli settlers in the village of Susya in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, February 25, 2026. © 2026 Mosab Shawer/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images While many Israelis are taking shelter from missile and drone attacks, armed settlers in the West Bank are taking advantage of the fog of war to seize land and advance Israel’s ongoing dispossession and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.On a daily basis, settlers are invading Palestinian communities,…
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By Alison Taft, Course Director of Creative Writing, Leeds Beckett University
Ailish Kate Brassil, PhD Candidate, University College Cork
Angela Dunstan, Reader in English Literature and Visual Culture | International Lead for the School of the Arts, Queen Mary University of London
Christina Hennemann, PhD Student Creative Writing / Abortion Poetics, University of Limerick
Clodagh Philippa Guerin, PhD Candidate in Refugee World Literature, University of Limerick
Edel Semple, Lecturer in Shakespeare Studies, University College Cork
Faye Lynch, PhD candidate in the Department of English Literature, University of Liverpool
Sarah Olive, Senior Lecturer in Literature, Aston University
Stephanie Palmer, Senior Lecturer, School of Arts & Humanities, Nottingham Trent University
Wen-chin Ouyang, Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature, SOAS, University of London
For Mother’s Day, we asked nine of our academic experts to tell us who they think is the worst mother in literature. From serious villains to children’s book baddies, these mothers subvert every maternal instinct.
1. Mummy, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman (2017)
Isolated, broken and wedded to routine, 30-year-old Eleanor avoids mirrors, not due to the physical scars she bears, but because she sees “too much of Mummy’s face there”.
Readers meet “Mummy” only…
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By Ngodi Etanislas, enseignant-chercheur, Université Marien Ngouabi
Congolese will go to the polls on 15 March 2026 to elect their president, with a fractured opposition unable to present a single candidate. The Congolese Labor Party (PCT), in power since the end of the 1997 civil war, along with its allies, exerts extensive control over the state apparatus…
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By Hosffman Ospino, Professor of Hispanic Ministry and Religious Education, Boston College
Timothy Matovina, Professor of Theology, University of Notre Dame
Young Latinos’ activism for immigrant rights ove the past few months has put a spotlight on their importance for the future of the Catholic Church.
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By Itay Ravid, Associate Professor of Law, Villanova University
Nearly one-third of U.S. children reported missing are Black, even though Black people constitute roughly 14% of the U.S. population.
To address one dimension of this problem, Pennsylvania and a few other states, including Alabama and Massachusetts, have in recent years…
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By Coalter G Lathrop, Senior Lecturing Fellow in International Law, Duke University
There’s a growing interest in mining the ocean seabed for minerals essential to technology. But whose minerals are they? A Law of the Sea scholar explains.
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By Ahmed Ibrahim Yunus, Ph.D. Candidate in Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Joe Frank Bozeman III, Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology
Rather than generating climate-warming emissions and wasting nutrients and energy, food waste can become a resource if processed in sewage treatment plants.
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By Darrell Evans, Professor of Environmental Science and Sustainability, Purdue University
Surveys have found that researchers studying UAPs can face pushback from mentors and colleagues, even from people who think it’s an important line of research.
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