Conflict

Some of the first nuclear bombs were tested off the coast of the Bikini Atoll in July 1946.Image: Keystone (Getty Images)Everyday it appears that we’re spiraling closer to the apocalypse. Today, that future seems a little closer than we thought as United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres warned today that humanity is “one misunderstanding, one miscalculation” away from being wiped off the face of the planet by a nuclear holocaust. *nervous laughter*Members of the United Nations have kicked off the beginning of…

Pervasive and escalating sociopolitical problems widen divides between communities and sometimes push one to stand against the mighty State. In such contexts, the focus of the public and even academia is limited to two questions: could any solutions be found for the sociopolitical problems, and what means did the community adopt to go against the State. More often than not, a community is labelled terrorist and anti national when it goes against the mainstream and the State. What happens to the community’s sense of…

Cheer up Daemon, I’m sure it’ll go well for your family in... uhh... *flips through history books* oh no.Screenshot: HBOHouse of the Dragon wowed us earlier in the week with its new trailer setting the stage for a Game of Thrones prequel so full of dragons, civil war, and political intrigue that, well, you’d be convinced it’s a Game of Thrones prequel. But while we had to wait compared to folks who were at Comic-Con yesterday, we’ve finally got an even bigger look.House of the Dragon brought cast and crew and a new…

The ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict has also impacted the schedule of the nuclear power projects that are under construction in Kudankulam in Tamil Nadu, Parliament was recently told. Replying to a question in the Rajya Sabha on the status of various nuclear power projects under construction, Union Minister of State for Atomic Energy Dr. Jitendra Singh said: "In respect of projects being implemented in cooperation with the Russian Federation, the schedule is also impacted by the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict."India's…

Glenn Cohen and Alicia Ely Yamin. Credit: Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer; Harvard Law School Even the staunchest abortion opponents once hedged when it came to saying the law should force a woman to continue a life-threatening pregnancy. But since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last month, eliminating "life of the mother" exceptions in abortion bans is no longer seen as politically unthinkable.…

Russia's communications regulator has blocked the news aggregator service of Alphabet's Google, accusing it of allowing access to what it calls fake material about the country's military operation in Ukraine, Interfax news agency said on Wednesday."We've confirmed that some people are having difficulty accessing the Google News app and website in Russia and that this is not due to any technical issues on our end," Google said in statement."We've worked hard to keep information services like News accessible to people in…

When Yarema Dukh set up Ukraine's official Twitter account in 2016, he knew that social media was the best way for his country to get its message out."We never had the means like the Russians to found multinational media like RT or Sputnik," the former government communications adviser told AFP over the phone from Kyiv.Since Russia's full invasion last month, the Kyiv government has used social media to highlight atrocities, issue messages of defiance and even share a joke or two.Young Ukrainians have used TikTok to…

Cassidy Hutchinson, former aide to Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, listens as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol holds a hearing at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, June 28, 2022.Photo: J. Scott Applewhite (AP)Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to President Donald Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows, dropped a series of bombshells Tuesday during an impromptu hearing of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection. She said the former…

New York Police Department officers arrest an abortion rights activist in New York, on June 24, 2022.Photo: Alex Kent / AFP (Getty Images)Americans took to the streets over the weekend to demonstrate against the Supreme Court’s decision on Friday to repeal Roe v. Wade, the historic 1973 decision that protected a woman’s right to have an abortion. But the protesters were met with violent resistance by cops in cities like Los Angeles, New York, Phoenix, and Greenville, South Carolina—perhaps because there wasn’t an…

Climate change affects the likelihood of armed conflict. Credit: UPV Climate change influences the likelihood and duration of armed conflicts in Africa. This is the finding of a study carried out by a team from the INGENIO Institute, a joint center of the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) and the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), together with the University of Rome III and the University of…