Two new Australian novels reinvent the elegy for an age of climate catastrophe
Gretchen Shirm’s The Crying Room and Briohny Doyle’s Why We Are Here share a preoccupation…
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Lebanese hold their breath as fears grow Hezbollah will pull them into war – POLITICO
BEIRUT — Once again, the Lebanese are glued to their TV sets and are compulsively…
African Development Bank debars Unik Construction Engineering (Pty) Ltd for corruption
The African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org), on 13 October 2023 announced the conclusion of a…
Why those biofilms you slip on in rivers are vitally important
You might have noticed it after sliding on a rock in a Melbourne creek. Or…
Transatlantic blame game: Trump, Merkel, Biden and the danger of Germany’s dependence on Huawei
Huawei denies that that law — China’s 2017 National Intelligence Law — mandates that it…
NDLEA detains two wanted drug barons, arrests two others for ingesting 175 wraps of heroin
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have taken into custody two wanted…
Shanelle Dawson reclaims her mother’s story in one of two new books on Lyn Dawson
When Shanelle Dawson was just four years old, her parents were at the centre of…
Netanyahu vows to ‘demolish’ Hamas as Israel prepares to move into Gaza – POLITICO
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Sunday to “demolish Hamas” as Israeli forces prepared…
How channeling SDRs is supporting vulnerable economies
The IMF’s largest-ever allocation of special drawing rights injected $650 billion of much-needed reserves and liquidity into…
Why Australia’s net zero transition risks failing unless it is fair
This article is part of a series by The Conversation, Getting to Zero, examining Australia’s…