In Taining, Fujian There are journeys that take us from one destination to another, and there are journeys that quietly return us to ourselves. My experience on the bamboo raft along Shangqing
An alleged gang rape at Cornell University in New York has renewed scrutiny of male student fraternities in the United States, after messages reportedly exchanged in a fraternity group chat suggested that
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President Donald Trump and Iran’s leaders are preparing for the possibility of renewed military confrontation after the November 3 US midterm elections, while continuing to pursue a diplomatic resolution to the conflict,
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Mon dieu! Quel bordel, as say the French. France, the home of reason and logic, is consumed by riots. How can a nation with such advanced education be in such a mess?
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The suppression of Indigenous fire management after British colonisation probably transformed large areas of southeastern Australia into dense forests containing more combustible vegetation, contributing to the larger and more intense bushfires experienced
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Airlines and airports could play a significant role in detecting and containing a potential outbreak of pneumonic plague linked to a lab technician’s death in Russia, drawing on public-health measures developed during
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Maricarmen Abascal, an 87-year-old Spanish woman whose eviction from her Madrid home last month triggered mass housing protests and contributed to the calling of an early election, has died, the Madrid tenants’
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Nearly 900 secondary schools across France were fully or partly closed this week as student protests over staff shortages and poor school conditions escalated into violence, leaving at least 215 pupils, almost
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Irina Scherbakova, the Russian historian and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who spent decades documenting the crimes of Stalinism, says she has become “incredibly disappointed” with international institutions, including the United Nations and
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A CID investigation reveals 408 arrests from illegal call centres, including 284 Chinese nationals, as international scam networks increasingly use Sri Lanka to run sophisticated financial frauds, phishing and “pig-butchering” operations.
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The Path From Survival to Citizenship Access to food, stable housing, healthcare, and socioeconomic security shapes more than daily life. Material insecurity can also limit the time, attention, and stability people need
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For centuries, silence has been treated as an absence: the absence of sound, speech or response. Lola Pons argues that it is far more consequential than that. In her new book, El
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Australia’s conservative opposition coalition has proposed what Opposition Leader Angus Taylor called the country’s “biggest cut to immigration in the history of this country”, seeking to reduce temporary migration, restrict international student
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Wednesday marks three years since the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, an event that the Soufan Center describes as a direct starting point for the current US-Iran war and the strategic
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The Baloch National Movement’s Geneva campaign has taken the demand for an independent Balochistan to an international audience, but its political significance should not be confused with institutional recognition or a mandate
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Several hospitals in Siberia have been placed under quarantine following the death of a 28-year-old laboratory worker who was reportedly exposed to the bacterium that causes plague, prompting international monitoring of an
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