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US obliteration of Caribbean boat was a clear violation of international ‘right to life’ laws – no matter who was on board

The moment before an alleged drug boat was hit in a targeted U.S. strike. @realDonaldTrump/Truth Social Mary Ellen O'Connell, University of Notre Dame The U.S. government...

Fear built the nuclear bomb – only trust can ensure it is never used again

A visitor looks at a picture of Hiroshima devastated by the world’s first atomic bombing at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in Hiroshima, Japan....

‘Then the city started to burn, the fires were chasing me’ – 80 years on, Hiroshima survivors describe how the atomic blast echoed down generations

Hiroshima shortly after the atomic bomb was dropped on August 6 1945. CPA Media Pte Ltd/Alamy by Elizabeth Chappell, The Open University I’m not sure if...

Deportation tactics from 4 US presidents have done little to reduce the undocumented immigrant population

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents escort a detained immigrant into an elevator on June 17, 2025, in New York. AP Photo/Olga Fedorova by Kevin Johnson,...

Idi Amin made himself out to be the ‘liberator’ of an oppressed majority – a demagogic trick that endures today

Idi Amin addresses the United Nations General Assembly in 1975. Bettmann/Getty Images by Derek R. Peterson, University of Michigan Fifty years ago, Ugandan President Idi Amin...

Was the Air India crash caused by pilot error or technical fault? None of the theories holds up – yet

Parts of Air India plane on top of a building in Ahmedabad, India, on June 13 2025. AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool by Guido Carim Junior, Griffith...

Muhammadu Buhari: Nigeria’s military leader turned democratic president leaves a mixed legacy

Muhammadu Buhari. Getty Images by Kester Onor, Nigerian Institute of International Affairs Nigeria’s former president, Muhammadu Buhari, who died in London on 13 July aged 82,...

Nigerian children don’t imagine women as political leaders: what shapes their view

Students hold Nigerian national flags during a political rally in Maiduguri, 2023. Audu Marte/AFP via Getty Images by Adebusola Okedele, Babcock University; Alice J. Kang,...

Ruth First and activist research: the legacy of a South African freedom fighter

Ruth First (right) with Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. Image reproduced courtesy the Slovo family/Flickr/The Slovo family album Vol 1 by Saleem Badat, University of the Free State...

The South African apartheid movement’s close relationship with the American right – then and now

At loggerheads: Donald Trump shows an incredulous Cyril Ramaphosa what he insisted was evidence of a ‘genocide’ against Afrikaner farmers in post-apartheid South Africa....

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