Turkey-backed Azerbaijan and Russia’s ally Armenia are fighting a proxy war over the control of the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, also known as Artsakh. Fierce clashes broke out on September...
Climate change isn’t a race thing. Nevertheless, we often tend to stereotype white women as the “face” of sustainability, in ways good or bad. Vegan “Karens” who shame people who eat meat....
Kyrgyzstan – a Central Asian country that is seen as Russia’s most loyal nation in the Commonwealth of Independent States, as well as in the Eurasian Economic Union – will hold very uncertain...
So what happened to that elderly man in the picture that went viral back in March, at the onset of pandemic? Surrounded by empty supermarket shelves, he was bent over a shopping list, trying to make...
Reports of police abuse have been notorious around the world this year, leading to widespread protests. The United States has begun to demand much-needed police reform, but it is not the only country...
Vox’s Alex Ward, when reporting on the Beirut explosion early last month, noted in passing that Lebanon’s post-civil war economic policy “was to attract investors and tourists, and bolster its...
If you meditate with the Headspace app, you hear the calming British voice of its co-founder, Andy Puddicombe. In one dialogue focused on mindful living, Puddicombe shares about his experience as a...
The obsession to find the mythical "El Dorado" has haunted Venezuela since before it was called Venezuela. In a section of history forgotten by many people, "little Venice", as the territory was...
Rebecca Ashfield, University of Oxford and Pedro Folegatti, University of Oxford Of the hundreds of potential COVID-19 vaccines in development, six are in the final stages of testing, known as phase...
Supriya Garikipati, University of Liverpool and Uma S Kambhampati, University of Reading Over the last few months, there has been much discussion of leadership during the pandemic. What constitutes...
