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Amid war on Ukraine, 'over half of Russians expressing pessimism for the first time in 20

Nadia Massih is pleased to welcome Benedict Vigers, Senior Global News Writer at Gallup. For much of the war in Ukraine, conventional wisdom suggested that Russians had largely rallied behind the state despite mounting international sanctions and military costs. Gallup's latest r

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Climate change 'hitting the world with a vengeance: Higher temperatures for longer periods

Delano D'Souza is pleased to welcome Emma Howard Boyd, Chair of the National Heat Risk Commission at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at LSE. Europe's recurring heatwaves are no longer exceptional weather events but evidence of a structural cl

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‘There will have to be a reckoning’: Venezuela’s natural disaster meets a collapsing infra

Delano D'Souza is pleased to welcome Christopher Sabatini, Senior Research Fellow for Latin America, the US and the Americas program at Chatham House. Sabatini argues that Venezuela's earthquake is not simply a natural catastrophe but a political and institutional one. He contend

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Vatican excommunicates ultraconservative breakaway bishops in first crisis for Pope

The Vatican excommunicated six bishops from the ultraconservative Society of St Pius X , while warning that any lay believers who "formally adhere" to the breakaway Catholic group would suffer the same fate. The Vatican decree comes a day after the traditionalist group consecrate

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'If Ukraine falls, this will be the end of the European Union and the end of Europe's futu

Nadia Massih is pleased to welcome Dr. Volodymyr Yermolenko, Ukrainian philosopher, journalist, author and President of PEN Ukraine. According to Dr Yermolenko, the war is not simply a military confrontation, Europe's future hangs in the balance. Speaking hours after a devastatin

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'No Israeli security without Palestinian freedom; no Palestinian freedom without Israeli s

François Picard is pleased to welcome Dr. Gershon Baskin, Middle East Director of the International Communities Organisation and former hostage negotiator. One thousand days after the outbreak of the Gaza war, Gershon Baskin shares a stark assessment of Israel's political and str

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'Iranians succeeded in making Strait of Hormuz primary issue rather than their nuclear pro

Delano D'Souza is pleased to welcome Scott Lucas, Professor of International Politics at the University College Dublin. Lucas argues that the centre of gravity has fundamentally shifted. And he highlights the growing divergence between American diplomatic objectives, Israeli terr

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'Not a proxy war': Sudan civil war 'would not go on like this' without role of internation

Gavin Lee is pleased to welcome Jan Pospisil, Sudan Affairs Analyst at the Peace and Conflict Resolution Evidence Platform. He says the siege has been going on for almost a year, and the RSF seems committed to seizing el-Obeid. While Pospisil explains that Sudan's civil war is no

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USA at 250: 'Zohran Mamdani 'represents the new emerging wing of the Democratic Party'

As the United States of America is set to mark 250 years as a nation, François Picard is pleased to welcome Fanny Lauby, Associate Professor of Political Science at Montclair State University. Professor Lauby observes some striking trends as the US reaches its Semiquincentennial:

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International Red Cross:'Civilian suffering in Sudan is not inevitable'

William Hilderbrandt is pleased to welcome Mateo Jaramillo Ortega, ICRC Regional Spokesperson for Eastern Africa. He asserts that '"civilian suffering in Sudan is not inevitable: much of the harm over the past three years, since the beginning of combat in Khartoum, and nowadays i

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At Nato summit, Trump berates European allies while pleasing Turkish host

The NATO summit has opened on July 7, with many topics to be discussed. Trump has opened the possibility of the US selling F35 fighter jets after Turkey was booted out of the programme in 2019 over Ankara's purchase of a Russian system. Trump has also expressed annoyance at Europ

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‘Please don’t lose another pound!’: Ozempic is upending the wedding dress industry

The ubiquity of GLP-1s is wreaking new havoc on bridal designers who must scramble to accommodate rapid weight lossIn bridal stores across the world, solicitous sales assistants are being trained to ask a new, blunt question: “Are you planning on losing a drastic amount of weight

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