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Written by Salsabeel Yasir, International News Editor, BA International Relations and History. October marks 81 years since the UN Charter came into force. The UN presents itself as the central institution for maintaining international peace and security. However, its ability to enforce that purpose has depended on five states with
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Written by Melina Tavakoli Moghaddam, Editor-in-Chief, BA Politics and International Relations. On 11 October, Nepal’s Budhi Gandaki River is thought to have been blocked by a landslide, causing a severe flash flood. According to the Guardian, approximately 204 homes were damaged, with roads and bridges being washed
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Written by Pranay Bhalla, BA International Relations and Anthropology. Three years after Hamas launched attacks on 7 October 2023 and Israel’s subsequent military campaign in Gaza, fighting has decreased, but violence persists. A ceasefire has been in place since 10 October 2025, yet Israeli strikes have continued, most of
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Written by Sylvie Topps, Staff Writer, LLB Law. Northern Ireland is living through one of its most fragile periods since the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. This September, after the High Court quashed an earlier ruling, the Parades Commission approved a scaled-back Orange Order march of 35 people, along Portadown&
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Written by Rhena Kotecha, BA Politics and International Relations. President Xi Jinping and First Lady Peng Liyuan were personally welcomed by President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump at Joint Base Andrews on 23 September, 2026. A ceremonial military display was unveiled before the two leaders headed to the
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Written by Samir Chowdhary-Fitton, MSc Politics and International Relations. Yemen’s Houthi rebels have intensified attacks on Saudi Arabia, striking targets in Riyadh as fighting escalates along the Red Sea coast. The renewed conflict follows the breakdown of a fragile truce in July, ending several years of relative calm
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Written by Anon Yu Henriksen, International News Staff Writer, BA International Relations and Korean. Ever since the ‘Greenland crisis’ escalated at the end of last year, major Western state leaders seemingly had quite a ‘Chinese time of their lives,’ flocking to Beijing. Chinese state-run media outlet ChinaDaily has named
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Written by Camilla Taylor, Senior Sub-Editor, BA International Relations. When Stephen Odour (false name) arrived in St. Petersburg, Russia, last August, he believed he was at the start of a bright new future. After months of being unemployed in Nairobi, the plumbing job he had secured in Russia promised
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Written by Rachel Tay, MA Middle Eastern Studies. On the first Friday prayers of Ramadan, Israeli authorities tightened access to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East Jerusalem, limiting entry to 10,000 Palestinian worshippers. This figure represents only a fraction of the over 2.5 million muslims living in
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Written by Dhruva Nagesh, BSc Politics, Philosophy and Economics. On Christmas Day 2025, a US Navy ship situated in the Gulf of Guinea fired 16 Tomahawk cruise missiles towards Sokoto State, in north-west Nigeria. American Vice President J.D. Vance and senior National Security Council officials framed the operation
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Written by Imaan Ashraf, BA Politics and International Relations. "We are urged to consider Sara Zirak's evidentiary question: Where are the bodies of Iranian women? The answer lies in systematic political erasure." The Iranian regime’s metaphor of women as ‘flowers’, reveals a logic of expendability
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Written by Ahmed Can Sever; Iris Brown; Samir Chowdhary-Fitton; Sigitas Botvycius; Wagena de Tommasi. For the past two weeks, heads of state and government have descended on New York for the 81st United Nations General Assembly to address the international community, speaking not only about their own countries, but