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What will it take to get ships going through the Strait of Hormuz again? Jennifer Parker, The University of Western Australia; UNSW Sydney

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Why is Israel continuing to attack Lebanon, despite the ceasefire? Expert Q&A -- Scott Lucas, University College Dublin

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Three reasons Donald Trump won't pull the US out of Nato -- Paul Whiteley, University of Essex

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After ceasefire, negotiating a lasting deal with Iran would require overcoming regional rivalries and strategic incoherence -- Ioana Emy Matesan, Wesleyan University

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Middle East conflict: this ceasefire may have made Iran stronger

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The US-Israel ceasefire with Iran presses pause on a costly war, but can peace last?

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In mediating the US-Iran peace talks, Pakistan is flexing its geopolitical muscles

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6 days ago

Lebanon's political elites are using displacement and humanitarian crisis to delay elections again

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Iran's Revolutionary Guard would fiercely resist a US ground invasion. History proves it

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Israel isn't just responding to threats – it's reshaping the Middle East

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Trump welcomes Columbus to the White House – and reignites America's history wars

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Plagiarised research passed automated tests, and I detected it – but only because it copied my work

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New Israeli law could mean death penalty by default for Palestinians convicted of deadly attacks

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Why the manosphere has an antisemitism problem

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Silence: a brief literary history

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Rock art thousands of years old sheds new light on the mysterious Tasmanian tiger

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How medieval chess created a space in which players – regardless of race – could engage as equals

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The Swedish concept of döstädning or death cleaning is about more than just getting rid of things

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A New York Times critic used AI to write his review – but criticism is deeply human

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My unsung hero of science: Buckminster Fuller, the architect who wanted to redesign the world (and inspired a nanosized one)

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The latest world climate report is grim, but it's not the end of the story

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The four types of dementia most people don't know exist

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A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth

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Meta and Google just lost a landmark social media addiction case. A tech law expert explains the fallout

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Oil price surge is hurting African economies: scholars in Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal and South Africa take stock

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

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