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Are things falling apart for Ukraine?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Sam Phelps, Commissioning Editor, International Affairs, The Conversation This newsletter was first published in The Conversation UK’s World Affairs Briefing email. Sign up to receive weekly analysis of the latest developments in international relations, direct to your inbox. News broke this week that US and Russian…
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Streamlining what universities offer could backfire for disadvantaged students
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By David Allan, Reader in Professional Education and Learning, Edge Hill University Gigi Delgado/Shutterstock The government’s vision for higher education in England, set out in a recent policy paper, includes some changes that will benefit students from poorer backgrounds. An increase in maintenance loans, for instance, will…
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The Holodomor on screen: how cinema shapes memory of Ukraine’s famine
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jeremy Hicks, Professor of Post-Soviet Cultural History and Film, Queen Mary University of London The famine of 1932-33, known as the Holodomor, claimed the lives of millions of people in Ukraine. It was not due to climactic failure, but caused by the confiscation of grain, punitively…
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‘Robot’ buses could bring more environmental benefits than public transport with drivers
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Miguel Valdez, Lecturer in Technology and Innovation Management, The Open University Autonomous self-driving cars and taxis are already on the roads of San Francisco and Beijing. There are also autonomous tram-style services around Oxfordshire and Dubai. Now researchers in the Italian city of Trento are planning…
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How China cleaned up its air pollution – and what that meant for the climate
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Gemma Ware, Host, The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation Delhi: 442. Lahore: 334. Beijing: 16. These are the levels of PM 2.5, one of the principle measures for air pollution, on November 19. As Pakistanis and Indians struggle with hazardous air quality, in Beijing – a…
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Baseball in Canada is thriving — but not on campus
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By George S. Rigakos, Professor of the Political Economy of Policing, Carleton University Baseball in Canada is thriving, from the grassroots to the professional level. Recent Toronto Blue Jays viewership numbers have been extraordinary, youth participation continues to climb, elite player showcasing and recruiting is expanding —…
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We can’t ban AI, but we can build the guardrails to prevent it from going off the tracks
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Simon Blanchette, Lecturer, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University Artificial intelligence is fascinating, transformative and increasingly woven into how we learn, work and make decisions. But for every example of innovation and efficiency — such as the custom AI assistant recently developed by an accounting professor…
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The US plan for ending the Ukraine war: What do we know?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: Radio New Zealand By Ania Tsoukanova, AFP Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky on 19 November, 2025. Photo: OZAN KOSE / AFP Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky will meet senior US army figures in Kyiv on Thursday (local time), after Washington presented a plan to Ukraine that would end the war on terms favourable to…
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Eight new MPs elected to Tonga parliament
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: Radio New Zealand Longolongo polling station, Tongatapu 1 constituency, Nukualofa, Tonga. 20 November 2025 Photo: RNZ Pacific / Teuila Fuatai Eight new MPs have been elected to Tonga’s parliament in the general election amid a continuing decline in voter turnout. Results released by the electoral commission overnight show six people’s representatives and…
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Ukraine and Europe’s weakness exposed as US and Russia again negotiate behind Kyiv’s back
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Stefan Wolff, Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham Renewed talk of no-longer-secret negotiations between the Kremlin and the White House over a plan to end the war in Ukraine that heavily favours Russia adds to a broader sense of doom in Kyiv and among its…