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UN Security Council to vote on US resolution on Trump’s Gaza plan
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: Radio New Zealand By Simon Lewis, Reuters 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…
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BBC ‘determined to fight’ looming Donald Trump lawsuit over speech edit
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: Radio New Zealand The US president says he could sue the British national broadcaster for as much as $US5 billion after it spliced together two parts of his speech from January 6, 2021. In an email to staff, the BBC’s chair Samir Shah says there is “no basis” for the defamation suit.…
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Will AI automation really kill jobs? A new survey finds Canadian workers are split on the answer
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Scott Schieman, Professor of Sociology and Canada Research Chair, University of Toronto Since 2023, there has been a steady increase in media stories about the potential for automation by artificial intelligence (AI) to displace workers. As sociologists who study what people think and feel about work,…
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Federal budget 2025: Is Canada Strong actually weak on AI?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Nicolas Chartier-Edwards, PhD student, Politics, Science and Technology, Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal government has tabled its first official budget, entitled Canada Strong. It frames itself as a road map of investments being made to strengthen national sovereignty via…
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Polish railway track blast an ‘unprecedented act of sabotage’, PM says
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: Radio New Zealand Investigators examine the railways damaged in an explosion on the rail line in Mika, next to Garwolin, central Poland on 17 November, 2025, after the line presumably was targeted in a sabotage act. Photo: AFP Railway explosion ‘unprecedented act of sabotage’, says PM Tusk Warsaw-Lublin line connects capital to…
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I discovered rave music as a sheltered Ghanaian teenager – it changed my life
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Louise Owusu-Kwarteng, Senior Lecturer, Programme Leader, Sociology, University of Greenwich Zachary Smith/Unsplash In 1991, just before my 16th birthday, I took an unexpected foray into rave culture. This went against my upbringing in a Ghanaian household and community, where there was emphasis on “good behaviour”, educational…
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Reduced air pollution is making clouds reflect less sunlight
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Knut von Salzen, Senior Research Scientist, Marine Cloud Brightening Research Program, University of Washington Winter is setting in across the Northern Hemisphere, and with it, cold and cloudy winter days. Clouds play a vital role in the environment, providing rain but also reflecting sunlight before it…
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AI-induced psychosis: the danger of humans and machines hallucinating together
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Lucy Osler, Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Exeter ‘Are you thinking what I’m thinking?’ DAVEsw On Christmas Day 2021, Jaswant Singh Chail scaled the walls of Windsor Castle with a loaded crossbow. When confronted by police, he stated: “I’m here to kill the queen.” In the…
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Bangladesh signals that no leader is above the law by sentencing Sheikh Hasina to death
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Shahzad Uddin, Director, Centre for Accountability and Global Development, University of Essex Sheikh Hasina has denied all the charges against her, calling the trial a ‘farce’. Sk Hasan Ali / Shutterstock A domestic war crimes court in Bangladesh has sentenced the country’s former prime minister, Sheikh…
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How would a ‘drone wall’ help stop incursions into European airspace?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Peter Lee, Professor of Applied Ethics and Director, Security and Risk Research, University of Portsmouth Violations of national airspace by drones are on the rise in Europe. When European leaders discussed these events at a meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark, in October 2025, they responded by announcing…