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Why has the US indicted former Cuban President Raúl Castro?

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Playing host to Putin and Trump, China sends a message – it's now in the driver's seat

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Rice feeds billions of people – but its role in fueling climate change is growing - Hanqin Tian, Boston College; Jingting Zhang, Boston College; Pep Canadell, CSIRO, and Shufen (Susan) Pan, Boston College

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Game changers: how soccer's mega-money era was sparked by a little-known Belgian athlete

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Taunting and degrading civilians in armed conflict is a clear violation of international law -- Shannon Bosch, Edith Cowan University

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The war in Iran – again – points to the strategic shortcomings of assassination as policy of foreign affairs -- Brian O'Neill, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Was Auckland the cradle of the Kiwi 'fush and chups' accent? An old theory gets a new hearing

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Why Javier Milei's inflation 'miracle' in Argentina is more of a mirage - Gemma Ware, The Conversation

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San Diego mosque attack: racist interpretations of European history are inspiring extremists

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Visual feature -- Making millions: the suspicious oil bets just before Trump posts

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Why European households throw away so much food – and how to curb the waste mountain -- Ian Williams, University of Southampton

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SpaceX is poised to go public and test the latest version of its massive Starship rocket amidst criticism about its environmental impact

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Indie sleaze: a brief fashion history, from messy rebellion to mainstream revival

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When AI giants go public, will ordinary investors know if they are along for the ride?

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NATO would survive a US withdrawal. But what kind of alliance would it become?

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Nearly everything we use online is owned by big tech. There's a better way forward

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Elon Musk sued OpenAI and lost. But the core question of the case remains unanswered

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One year after their brief war, how close are India and Pakistan to another conflict?

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From beef ribs to a 'heavenly' walk: Xi-Trump summit symbolism underscored American power and Chinese tradition

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Soaring ticket prices could help FIFA pull in $15B this World Cup cycle — where does the money come from, where does it go? Richard Sheehan, University of Notre Dame

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A football World Cup is a global cultural exchange. How will that work in Trump's America? Chuka Onwumechili, Howard University

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Indigenous Australians were the world's first astronomers. But their knowledge is now at risk

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129,000 years of crocodiles: what we know about Australasia's ancient apex predators

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De-extinction company says it's made an artificial egg – if true, it could help save living species

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As corporations race for the stars, we need international collaboration on space governance -- Peter Brown, Western University

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Baloch insurgency: Suicide bombs and uptick in violence threaten Pakistan, regional security

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How Venezuela has – and hasn't – changed since Maduro's capture -- Julia Buxton, Liverpool John Moores University

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100 million African children are not in school. What's driving the trend and how to reverse it -- Moses Ngware, African Population and Health Research Center

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Iran is threatening undersea cables. The world's 'digital chokepoints' have never been more vulnerable

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From 'French leave' to 'Irish goodbyes': why you may be right to exit a party without saying goodbye

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Illegal gold mining causes surges in malaria in the Amazon, and the association is far worse than we suspected

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We proved these 'forever chemicals' can last longer than three decades

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Museums have always been entangled with European imperialism. Will the world's first 'AI art' museum be any different?

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Australian teens impacted by the social media ban are getting less news: new research

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Why was an Egyptian mummy stuffed with a fragment of Homer's Iliad? Stephan Blum, University of Tübingen and Stefan Baumann, KU Leuven

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What a list of Black Death survivors reveals about the way people recovered from plague

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The yips: when 'choking' in sport can go next level -- Christopher Mesagno, Victoria University

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If AI can translate instantly, why learn another language?

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Why is the US so obsessed with controlling Cuba? -- Deborah Shnookal, The University of Melbourne

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'Poverty porn': the moral dilemma behind MrBeast's billion-dollar empire -- Paul Formosa, Macquarie University

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Fenian: the anti-Irish history behind Kneecap's defiant new album title -- Ciara Smart, University of Tasmania

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Motown's Black women songwriters and producers were the invisible architects behind the pop music juggernaut -- Margena A. Christian, University of Illinois Chicago

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Consent is a core principle in the Kamasutra – what we can learn from it today -- Sharha, Cardiff Metropolitan University

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Squeak up! I can't hear you: pilot whales are shouting to hear themselves over ship noise - Vanessa Pirotta, Macquarie University

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Conspiracy theories: do 300,000 Kiwis really believe Canada is building an army of mutant super-raccoons?

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Urban trees cool the world's cities more than we thought – but we can't rely on them alone

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Massive marine heatwave caused Caribbean coral reefs to collapse much faster than predicted – new research

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What is 'cycle syncing', and how might it affect menstruation? -- Emmalee Ford, University of Sydney

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Hantavirus is very different to COVID. Here's why the 'Andes virus' won't cause the next pandemic -- Rhys Parry, The University of Queensland

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Hantavirus, COVID, norovirus, legionnaires': why are cruise ships so prone to disease outbreaks? -- Vikram Niranjan, University of Limerick

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How scientists changed their view of insomnia -- Iuliana Hartescu, Loughborough University

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Meta's new tools allow parents to better supervise their kids' social media accounts. Will they work?

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Falling space debris poses an escalating risk as spacecraft get stronger and more heat resistant

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What it would have been like to experience the dinosaur-killing asteroid armageddon: a blow-by-blow account -- Michael J. Benton, University of Bristol and Monica Grady, The Open University

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Is your AI chatbot manipulating you? Subtly reshaping your opinions? -- Richard Lachman, Toronto Metropolitan University

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China's ability to weather Trump's trade war was two decades in the making -- Gemma Ware, The Conversation

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Apple chief executive Tim Cook resigns after 15 years. What's next for the tech giant? -- Rajat Roy, Bond University

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Musk's SpaceX is shaping up as the biggest IPO on record. It's also bending the rules to do so

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Why do men sexually harass women at work? Science offers two explanations – but only one of them holds up

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What a US military base lost under Greenland's ice sheet reveals about the island's real strategic importance

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The American fixation on white Afrikaners in South Africa stretches back nearly a century

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How trafficked American guns fuel Mexico's cartel violence – podcast

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Three scientists speak about what it's like to have research funding cut by the Trump administration

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What is the 'Thucydides trap' Xi warned Trump about? Lessons from an ancient war between Athens and Sparta -- David M. Pritchard, The University of Queensland

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Eurovision 2026: a win for Bulgaria, fourth for Australia, and continued controversy for broadcasters -- Jess Carniel, University of Southern Queensland

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After an opaque summit, China and the US want to work together again. That might not be good news for the world -- Wesley Widmaier, Australian National University

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