By Luke Munn, Research Fellow, Digital Cultures & Societies, The University of Queensland
A massive new data centre in Sydney would be the world’s biggest. It’s the latest push in the AI boom – but a backlash is building.
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Thursday, June 11, 2026
The biggest-ever football World Cup begins on Thursday, across three countries and two continents, with over 100 games. The UN is raising awareness of the game’s powerful capacity to serve as a platform for sustainable development and social justice.
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By Amani Braa, Assistant Lecturer, Sociologie, Université de Montréal
When a young person becomes radicalized, people often point the finger at “the family.” But in reality, the burden falls primarily on mothers.
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By Philippe Le Billon, Professor, Geography Department and School of Public Policy & Global Affairs, University of British Columbia
U.S. President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national energy emergency on his first day back in office framed fossil fuel production as a geopolitical weapon. “Energy dominance” — flooding global markets with American oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) — would reassert American power, undercut China’s clean-technology…
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By Colin Murray, Professor of Law and Democracy, Newcastle University
A horrific knife attack in Belfast has exacerbated tensions which have spilled over into widespread disorder.
Much of the violence has targeted migrants and ethnic minorities. Hadi Alodid, 30, a Sudanese refugee who entered the UK in 2023 via Ireland, has been charged with attempted murder.
Politicians…
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By Jenelle Regnier-Davies, Postdoctoral research fellow & Adjunct professor, University of Guelph
Pauline D Cripps, Community Food Lead, Arrell Food Institute, University of Guelph
Sara Edge, Associate Professor; Arrell Chair in Food, Policy & Society, University of Guelph
In March 2026, the Toronto city council approved a municipal grocery store pilot in four communities to address issues of food access and high food costs. The proposal is one of several recent responses to the growing push for “publicly owned and operated” grocery store alternatives.
Other notable examples include New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s plans…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Flag of Bahrain in Sakhir, March 2, 2023. © 2023 Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via AP Photo (Beirut) – The Bahraini government on April 27, 2026, revoked the nationality of 69 citizens, including infants. All were Shia Muslims of Iranian heritage, the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) and Human Rights Watch said today. BIRD’s research found that at least 46 people, more than half of them children, were rendered stateless. “Bahraini authorities have long discriminated against the country’s Shia majority population,” said Niku Jafarnia,…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A nurse looks out of the Jabal Amel Hospital at areas struck during an Israeli airstrike in the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, June 2, 2026. © 2026 Mohammed Zaatari/AP Photo Israeli killings of civilians and displacement of hundreds of thousands of Lebanese civilians have continued unabated, despite the declaration of a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah on April 17.On June 7 and June 9, Israel ordered all residents of the southern Lebanese city of Tyre and its surrounding towns and refugee camps to leave their homes. This came a week after Israeli forces…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Ali, a 22-year-old Afghan asylum seeker with a disability, living in Moria camp, on the beach in Lesbos, Greece. He told Human Rights Watch he can’t access showers in the camp and sometimes tries to wash himself in the sea. © 2017 ZALMAÏ for Human Rights Watch The European Union’s Pact on Migration and Asylum, a sweeping overhaul of the EU’s migration rules that is entering into force on June 12, risks weakening protection for migrants and asylum seekers with disabilities. Disability rights groups warn that the Pact lacks clear safeguards to ensure disability-inclusive…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Afghan women walk across a street in Herat on June 8, 2026. © 2026 Mohsen Karimi/AFP via Getty Images (New York) – Taliban security forces in Afghanistan used excessive force against protesters in the city of Herat on June 9, 2026, Human Rights Watch said today. They beat protesters and shot toward the crowds, killing a child and injuring others, and detained an unknown number of people.The protest followed recent arrests of women in Herat accused of violating the authorities’ strict dress code. According to the United Nations, at least 30 women had been…
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