Susan de Groot Heupner, Griffith University US Secretary of State Antony Blinken rushed to the Middle East this week to make yet another push for a negotiated settlement between Israel and the Palestinians following yet another dramatic escalation in violence between the…
Steven P. Millies, Catholic Theological Union Once again, Pope Francis has called on Catholics to welcome and accept LGBTQ people. “Being homosexual isn’t a crime,” the pope said in an interview with The Associated Press on Jan. 24, 2023, adding,…
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Xiujian Peng, Victoria University China’s National Bureau of Statistics has confirmed what…
Felia Allum, University of Bath Matteo Messina Denaro, one of the leaders…
Mathew Schmalz, College of the Holy Cross Benedict XVI leaves behind a complex legacy as a Pope and theologian. To many observers, Benedict, who died on Dec. 31, 2022 at the age…
Chuka Onwumechili, Howard University 2022 was a significant year for African football. It was a benchmark for the women’s game and a year that may mark the first real move into African…
James Chin, University of Tasmania While a lot of attention has been given to the unprecedented protests in China about the “dynamic zero COVID” policy, not much has been written about the…
Simon Chadwick, SKEMA Business School and Paul Widdop, University of Manchester After four weeks, 64 games and more than a decade of controversy, Argentina has won the Fifa men’s World Cup in…
Olivier Costa, Sciences Po On 11 December, Eva Kaili, vice-president of the European Parliament, and three others were charged and imprisoned in connection with an investigation into suspected corruption linked to Qatar.…
Tim Elcombe, Wilfrid Laurier University; Alanna Harman, Wilfrid Laurier University, and Alun Hardman, Cardiff Metropolitan University After a month of football, the 2022 FIFA Men’s World Cup in Qatar has concluded with…
Liam Collins, United States Military Academy West Point With Russian troops digging trenches to prepare for an expected winter standoff, it would be easy to conclude that fighting will slow in Ukraine…
Francois Balloux, UCL China is the only major country which, until now, has continued to enforce a zero-COVID strategy. Other countries, including Australia, New Zealand and Singapore, also sought to eliminate COVID…
Jocelyn Hutton, University of Oxford; Carolyn Hoyle, University of Oxford, and Lucy Harry, University of Oxford Qatari authorities are ignoring international law by failing to inform embassies when their citizens are arrested,…
David S G Goodman, University of Sydney Public protests in China related to the government’s COVID-19 restrictions have hit the news worldwide over the weekend, following a fatal apartment fire in Urumqi,…
