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Analysis
How Humane Wars are Inhumane
Samuel Moyn’s Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War argues that efforts to make war more ethical have failed. David Rieff The National Interest Samuel Moyn, Humane: How the…
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Aggression
British Conservative MP David Amess stabbed to death at meeting…
Conservative British MP David Amess has been killed after being stabbed during an event in his local constituency in southeast England, in the second death of a UK politician while…
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Afghanistan Issue
Despite promises, Taliban begin evicting Afghanistan’s ethnic Hazaras from their…
WARNING: This story contains one picture containing graphic content. “Everyone was horrified — men, women and children … we were in a state of great shock and confusion,” the 42-year-old, whose…
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Defence
Navy replacing and upgrading underwater training range sites, advancing training…
In increment I, the USWTR team managed the installation of the ocean sensor and shore electronics subsystems located off the coast of Florida. NAVAIR Under Increments II and III, the…
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Analysis
Friday essay: invisible no more – putting the first women…
In our Pacific Matildas research project, we are recovering the hidden traces of the first female archaeologists in the Pacific. Authors The Conversation Historians of western science have well documented the…
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Africa
Relaunching Negotiations over Western Sahara
Yet outside powers would be wrong to assume that it will not escalate. ICG With U.S. support, the new UN envoy should pursue confidence-building measures that could facilitate negotiations. Principal…
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Australasia
Speaker who restored respect to the House will leave a…
Smith didn’t think so at the time. He had every right to be bitterly disappointed. Niki Savva The Age Smith had long been seen as a future cabinet minister. With…
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Australasia
Royal commission told of ‘heartbreaking’ abuse faced by women with…
The disability royal commission was told 90 per cent of women with intellectual disability have experienced sexual abuse. By disability affairs reporter Nas Campanella and the Specialist Reporting Team’s Celina Edmonds ABC And…
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Analysis
Order Before Peace
Americans may try to console themselves that at last they can turn their backs on this troubled region since the United States is now energy self-sufficient and thus much less…
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Asia
Suicides among Japanese children at record high during pandemic, Japan…
As the Covid-19 pandemic prompted school closings and disrupted classrooms last year, 415 children from elementary to high school age were recorded as having taken their own lives, according to…
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Asylum Seekers
Why a proposed law to use secret evidence to deport…
There are widespread fears a proposed law allowing visas to be cancelled based on secret evidence could deny migrants their right to justice. Tom Stayner SBS The federal government says…
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Analysis
Lebanon’s crisis has gone from bad to worse.
In the midst of a pandemic that has wrenched the world off its axis, Lebanon’s precipitous decline has not received the attention it deserves given the country’s strategic importance. Tony Walker The…