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Raaid Hussain, MA Middle Eastern Studies Two years into the Israeli regime’s attack on the Gaza Strip which the UN has termed a genocide, Israeli and Hamas officials have come to an agreement for a ceasefire deal as of October 9th 2025. US president Donald Trump announced the breakthrough
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Salma Shabana, BA Economics and Politics In a joint statement released on September 23rd 2025, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger, the three members of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), announced their withdrawal from the International Criminal Court (ICC). The military-run nations called the ICC an ‘instrument of neo-colonial repression’
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Anon Yu Henriksen, International News Staff Writer, BA International Relations and Korean The United States, long regarded as a global leader in higher education, is facing scrutiny over recent policy changes by the Trump administration that some say challenge the country's reputation as an international education hub. Earlier
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Siddhant Pawar, BSc Politics, Philosophy and Economics Gen Z, notoriously known as the generation obsessed with screens, finally decided to showcase dissent in a six-day protest (from September 8th to September 13th) in Nepal, which forced the government’s dissolution. On September 4th 2025, the Government of Nepal announced the
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Salsabeel Yasir, BA International Relations and History It has been over 24 months since Israel began its genocidal war in Gaza. Over 67,000 Palestinians have been killed and 169,679 injured, although estimates suggest that the actual death toll is higher. The impact of this devastation has extended far
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Luc Cadwaladr-Evans, BA International Relations and Languages and Cultures In the past month, the government has received the results of investigations by two separate advisory bodies into the efficiency and efficacy of England’s current Special Education Needs and Disability (SEND) system, both prescribing immediate reforms. The issue is that
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Lilac Carr, BA Politics and International Relations Following the UK Government's Department for Education’s, or DfE’s, initial announcement in November 2024, maximum tuition fees for university students have risen for the 2025-2026 academic year from £9,250 to £9,535. Maintenance loans will also be increasing
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Tayyaba Taimur, LLB Law Just over four in ten businesses (43%) and three in ten charities (30%) reported having experienced a kind of cybersecurity breach or attack in the last 12 months. A cybersecurity breach is an incident that results in unauthorized access to a system bypassing its security controls,
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Hamdan Vohra, BA Politics and International Relations The UK recognised the State of Palestine on September 21st 2025, 108 years after the 1917 Balfour Declaration, which promised Palestine as ‘a national home for Jewish people’. In a video statement on X, the Prime Minister said, ‘In the face of the
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Sylvie Topps, LLB LAW In late July this year, British politics witnessed what could be the most significant shake-up of the left since New Labour. Your Party, as it is currently known, was formed by former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn and Coventry South MP Zarah Sultana, alongside four other
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Manal Husain, BA Politics and International Relations Haya Adam, a Law and International Relations student, joined SOAS University in September 2023. She is the President of the Palestine Society and prominent member of the Liberated Zone (LZ). On the 6th of August, SOAS expelled Haya Adam for supposedly breaking the
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James Albero, BA International Relations Zhang Yadi (Tara), a 22-year-old Master’s student from Changsha, China, was offered a scholarship to study Anthropology at SOAS and was prepared to start at the beginning of this academic year. She had friends in London excited to show her around - but instead,