By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image US President Donald Trump holds up a signed document to present to Democratic Republic of Congo's Foreign Minister Therese Kayikwamba Wagner, right, on June 27, 2025, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, as Vice President JD Vance and Secretary Marco Rubio watch. © 2025 AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta The Washington Accords, signed in December 2025 between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda under US mediation, promised an end to the devastating armed conflict in eastern Congo through troop withdrawals, ceasefires, and economic…
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By Manal Mohammed, Senior Lecturer, Medical Microbiology, University of Westminster
Scientists are calling for urgent action on free-living amoebas – a little-known group of microbes that could pose a growing global health threat. Here’s what you need to know.
Free-living amoebas are single-celled organisms that don’t need a host to live. They are found in soil and
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By Stephen Clear, Lecturer in Constitutional and Administrative Law, and Public Procurement, Bangor University
Peter Mandelson has left the Labour party over fresh revelations about his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. But can he be forced out of parliament?
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By Eugene Lang, Interim Director, School of Policy Studies, Queen's University, Ontario
When the United States needed Canada in Afghanistan, Canada answered the call, putting the lie to Donald Trump’s latest NATO falsehoods.
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By Ben White, Professor of End-of-Life Law and Regulation, Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Queensland University of Technology
Casey Haining, Research Fellow, Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Queensland University of Technology
Katrine Del Villar, Lecturer in Law, Queensland University of Technology
Madeleine Archer, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Queensland University of Technology
The NT looks set to introduce voluntary assisted dying mid-year, while other states are reviewing – and may change – current laws. Here’s what you need to know.
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By Keith Rathbone, Senior Lecturer, Modern European History and Sports History, Macquarie University
American athletes and officials may get a frosty reception as US-Europe tensions bubble away ahead of the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.
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By Susan Luckman, Professor of Culture and Creative Industries, Adelaide University
Michelle Phillipov, Associate Professor in Media, Adelaide University
Despite being on lower incomes, younger people were generally willing to pay more to buy local for environmental reasons or to support better conditions for workers.
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By T.J. Thomson, Associate Professor of Visual Communication & Digital Media, RMIT University
Instagram is one of Australia’s most popular social media platforms. Almost two in three Aussies have an account.
Ushering in 2026 and what he calls “synthetic everything” on our feeds, Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri has signalled the platform will likely adjust its algorithms to surface more original content instead of AI…
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By Wanning Sun, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, University of Technology Sydney
China’s economic growth didn’t benefit Hu Anyan – but his exceptional literary talent did. His book about struggling to survive as a gig worker is a worldwide hit.
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By Emily McIntyre, PhD candidate in Ecology, The University of Melbourne
Craig Nitschke, Professor in Forest and Landscape Dynamics, The University of Melbourne
Think truffles and you’ll probably think of France. But Australia is actually a global hotspot for truffle-like fungi, boasting hundreds of different species. Like culinary truffles, these truffle-like fungi produce underground sporing bodies rather than send up mushrooms.
Living underground has its challenges. Fungi which form mushrooms above ground can easily disperse their spores (the fungal equivalent to a plant’s seed) on the wind. But truffle-like fungi can’t do this. Instead, they rely on native mammals to follow…
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