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Five reasons Trump's plan for Ukrainian elections and a peace referendum will only prolong the war -- Stefan Wolff, University of Birmingham and Tetyana Malyarenko, National University Odesa Law Academy

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How to get away with mass murder: 4 tactics Ethiopia used to hide Tigray atrocities from the world -- Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel, University of Manchester

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How Paris' working-class dining experience is reshaping restaurant economics in France

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The rise of 'Merzoni': How an alliance between Germany's and Italy's leaders is reshaping Europe

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A whiff of espionage around the Epstein files points to how intelligence and influence interact

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Sudan's latest peace plan: what's in it and does it stand a chance?

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Exiled Iranians and Venezuelans may support regime change – but diasporas don't always reflect the politics back home

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How the 9/11 terrorist attacks shaped ICE's immigration strategy - Pawan Dhingra, Amherst College

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Why Aristotle would hate Valentine's Day – and his five steps to love

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For $40, you can name a star for your Valentine. But it won't mean much -- Laura Nicole Driessen, University of Sydney

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Italy hosted the Winter Olympics 70 years ago. What was it like, and what's changed? -- Richard Baka, Victoria University

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Václav Havel's 1978 essay The Power of the Powerless is eerily relevant today -- Darius von Guttner Sporzynski, Australian Catholic University

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How bird poo fuelled the rise of Peru's powerful Chincha Kingdom -- Jo Osborn, Texas A&M University; Emily Milton, Smithsonian Institution, and Jacob L. Bongers, University of Sydney

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Japan's rock star leader now has the political backing to push a bold agenda. Will she deliver?

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China's panda diplomacy is becoming a liability for Beijing

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Taxi Driver at 50: Martin Scorsese's film remains a troubling reflection of our times

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Could Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor be compelled to testify in US Epstein investigation?

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An 'AI afterlife' is now a real option – but what becomes of your legal status?

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Angola's Lobito Corridor is being revived – but who stands to gain?

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Russia's drone pipeline: How Iran helps Moscow produce an ever-evolving unmanned fleet

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China's new literary star had 19 jobs before 'writer' – including bike courier and bakery apprentice

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Not an artefact, but an ancestor: a German university is returning a Māori taonga

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Female genital cutting: why Southeast Asia should follow Africa's lead in challenging religious and cultural justifications

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African migration: focusing on Europe misses the point – most people move within the continent

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What Franco's fascist regime in Spain can teach us about today's America

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It's easy making green: Muppets continue to make a profit 50 years into their run - Jared Bahir Browsh, University of Colorado Boulder

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Preventable deaths in a warming world: how politics shapes who lives and who dies

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Why Trump's new pick for Fed chair hit gold and silver markets – for good reasons

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Bad Bunny's Super Bowl show is part of long play drawn up by NFL to score with Latin America

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Men rule the Grammys as women see hard drop in wins at 2026 awards

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Opera is not dying – but it needs a second act for the streaming era - Christos Makridis, Arizona State University; Institute for Humane Studies

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Deep in the Amazon, I discovered this monkey's ingenious survival tactic -- Adrian Barnett, University of Greenwich

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Marine protected areas aren't in the right places to safeguard dolphins and whales in the South Atlantic -- Guilherme Maricato, UFRJ; Clinton N. Jenkins, Florida International University; Maria Alice S. Alves, UERJ, and Rodrigo Tardin, UFRJ

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How mountain terraces have helped Indigenous peoples live with climate uncertainty

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The way Earth's surface moves has a bigger impact on shifting the climate than we knew -- Ben Mather, The University of Melbourne; Adriana Dutkiewicz, University of Sydney; Dietmar Müller, University of Sydney, and Sabin Zahirovic, University of Sydney

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US exit from the World Health Organization marks a new era in global health policy – here's what the US, and world, will lose

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China's new condom tax will prove no effective barrier to country's declining fertility rate

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Ghana collects half the blood it needs – digital approaches can improve that

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Some companies claim they can 'resurrect' species. Does that make people more comfortable with extinction?

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New fear unlocked: runaway black holes - David Blair, The University of Western Australia

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Great white sharks grow a whole new kind of tooth for slicing bone as they age

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Why the world's central bankers had to speak up against Trump's attacks on the Fed

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Silver and gold hit record highs – then crashed. Before joining the rush, you need to know this - Angel Zhong, RMIT University and Jason Tian, Swinburne University of Technology

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The World Trade Organization is on life support. Will Trump's new rules finish it off?

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How rogue nations are capitalizing on gaps in crypto regulation to finance weapons programs

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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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With international law at a 'breaking point', a tiny country goes after Myanmar's junta on its own -- Emma Palmer, Griffith University

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