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Black student unions are under pressure – here’s what they do and how they help Black students find community
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Antar A. Tichavakunda, Associate Professor of Education, University of California, Santa Barbara Members of the Black Student Union at Kutztown University in Kutztown, Pa., march in a protest in April 2015. Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images Black student unions have been a vital…
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Bamako is under pressure, not under siege: the difference and why it matters
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa (2) – By Lamine Doumbia, Research Associate – Dep. African History /Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin Mali has been struggling for over a decade to defeat “jihadists” around Gao, Kidal and Ségou. Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), linked to al-Qaida, is believed to…
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Why it’s so hard to know what Jane Austen thought about slavery
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Anna Walker, Senior Arts + Culture Editor, The Conversation Jane Austen’s Paper Trail is a podcast from The Conversation celebrating 250 years since the author’s birth. In each episode, we’ll be investigating a different aspect of Austen’s personality by interrogating one of her novels with leading…
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Finally, Indigenous peoples have an influential voice at COP30. They’re speaking loud and clear
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Danilo Urzedo, Research fellow, The University of Western Australia Indigenous peoples are on the vanguard of climate action. Longstanding relationships with land means they endure the direct consequences of climate change. And their unique knowledge offers effective solutions to climate problems. But despite this, international…
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By delaying a decision on using Russia’s frozen assets for Ukraine, Europe is quietly hedging its bets
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Alexander Korolev, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, UNSW Sydney As Russia continues its grinding offensive and Ukraine braces for another winter of war, the European Union remains paralysed over a seemingly straightforward decision: whether to use 140 billion euros (A$250 billion) in frozen…
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2025 word of the year captures an ‘unhealthy’ modern phenomenon
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: Radio New Zealand Cambridge Dictionary has named its word of the year for 2025, alighting on “parasocial”, used to describe a connection that people feel with someone they don’t know – or even with an artificial intelligence. The term was coined in 1956 by sociologists Donald Horton and Richard Wohl, who wanted…
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What is workslop?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: Radio New Zealand Workslop masquerades as meaningful, it may appear superficially polished, and yet requires others to interpret, fix, or even redo it. It’s a growing source of frustration in the workplace, Dr Kate Niederhoffer a social psychologist told RNZ’s Afternoons. She is vice president of Texas-based BetterUp Labs and co-authored a…
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UN Security Council passes US resolution on Trump’s Gaza plan
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: Radio New Zealand A new displacement camp set up by the Egyptian Committee in Nuseirat, Gaza Strip on 11 November 2025. Photo: AFP / Eyad Baba Resolution authorises transitional authority and international stabilisation force Russia put forward rival resolution Palestinian Authority has backed resolution, Hamas is opposed The UN Security Council has…
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Kurt Cobain’s most unnerving performance – and why he hated it
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: Radio New Zealand Listening to Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged in New York, recorded 32 years ago today, remains a haunting experience. Taped live in November 1993, and released as a Grammy-winning, chart-topping album a year later, the intimate, informal concert was captured just five months before frontman Kurt Cobain’s death by suicide, aged…
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Florida’s new open carry ruling combines with ‘stand your ground’ to create new freedoms – and new dangers
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Caroline Light, Senior Lecturer on Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University As of September 2025, Florida allows open carry and permitless carry, in addition to its stand your ground law. Joe Raedle/Getty Images News Twenty years ago, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush signed the first…