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This backgrounder examines recent developments related to China’s controls on exports of critical minerals and their implications on arms industry supply chains, with a focus on Australia.

This policy brief presents the main findings of research carried out by SIPRI and its Chadian partner BUCOFORE on the situation of Sudanese refugee women and girls.

by Maria Veronica “Vernie” G. Caparas* November 30 is Bonifacio Day in the Philippines and among many Filipinos in British Columbia, Canada. Andres Bonifacio, after whom the national celebration is held every year, is one of the Philippines’ heroes whose revolutionary ideas and actions spawned changes in and out of 19th 19th-century Philippines. In 2025,…

On November 26, 2025, the Seoul Metropolitan Government awarded honorary citizenship to 17 foreign nationals from 16 countries in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the city. The ceremony, held at Seoul City Hall, was attended by Vice Mayor Kim Tae-kyoon and the invited foreign ambassadors. This year’s recipients were honored for their achievements in…

Police are the foundation of a state’s law and order. Law enforcement agencies are central to public security, social peace, and crime suppression. But when the public begins to lose faith in this force, the overall stability of the state suffers. by GM Forhadul Mozumder (Dhaka Bureau) During the student-public uprising that took place in…

Comedy exposes the truths society hides most fiercely, illuminating our moral blind spots and political realities without fear or apology. Comedy isn’t merely entertainment—it is a civic instrument, a mirror held up to the collective self, reflecting truths that polite society refuses to see. Consider a single joke, tossed into the world, capable of eliciting…

Kabylia is not merely a geographic region of Algeria. For several decades, it has embodied a strong aspiration for cultural, democratic, and social recognition within the framework of Algerian national unity. The Kabyles, educated and politically engaged, uphold values such as freedom, pluralism, solidarity, and dignity. However, despite a common will, every unifying movement in…

The Public’s Warranted Suspicion of Elites Over the course of the last two to three decades, Americans have become more and more distrusting of elites. This distrust has extended beyond the realm of the financial sector into a wariness of higher-ups within governmental, military, entertainment, educational and even some scientific institutions. There’s a reason that…

Angela Lano, a writer, professional journalist, researcher at the University of Salvador de Bahia in Brazil, and director of the news agency InfoPal.it, is the author of this recently published essay from Edizioni Al Hikma in Imperia. The book features an engaging preface by Pino Cabras and a legal appendix by Falastin Dawoud. At 191…

There is a historical parable, sometimes attributed to accounts of slavery on plantations, that reveals a dark core of social psychology. An enslaved man sees another enslaved man from a neighboring estate, happy, riding a horse his master has given him. The first man feels no joy for the other’s fortune. He sends word to…