esfera/Shutterstock
China’s national security law has already disrupted these co-hosted games.
Shutterstock/Olga_Lots
Fewer people are being ‘socialised’ into Conservative voting since the dominance of New Labour in the 1990s.
Ukrainian military will have to adapt their camouflage as part of preparations for the upcoming winter war.
Sopa/Alamy
Harsh winter conditions will affect equipment and morale in Ukraine.
Abaca Press/Alamy Live News
Many Israelis think their prime minister is incapable of leading their country at a time of such severe crisis.
A French police officer sits outside a Paris synagogue in 2012. Data suggests that attacks against Jews around the world goes up when there is conflict in the Middle East.
AP/Alamy
Historically, data shows antisemitism rises around the world at times of conflict in the Middle East.
EPA/Andy Rain
Giving evidence to the COVID inquiry, Boris Johnson’s former adviser exposed the dysfunction of an administration lacking in the expertise needed to manage a crisis.
‘Gaza Metro’: a Hamas fighter demonstrates one of the group’s networks of tunnels at Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip.
Yousef Masoud/SOPA Images via ZUMA Press Wire
Hamas’s 300 mile network of tunnels under Gaza is going to prove difficult and perhaps deadly for Israeli troops attempting a ground war in the territory.
Protests in London have had a heavy police presence.
horst friedrichs / Alamy Stock Photo
A legal expert explains the complicated process of prosecuting speech hate crimes.
Neil Hall/EPA-EFE
Contempt of court is a serious matter. It shouldn’t be a politicised issue.
How The Guardian covered the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.
The Guardian
British foreign correspondents predicted a ‘long-term security problem’ for Israel.
The Vista Building, in Woolwich, south London, was converted from office space into flats in the early 2000s.
Nathaniel Noir|Alamy
Removing local authorities’ ability to oversee how the built environment changes will not solve the housing crisis. In fact, it might make inequality worse.
Pixel-Shot/Shutterstock
We found each of the books tended to give parents one approach for dealing with their child’s sleep, rather than a range of options.
EPA-EFE/Abedin Taherkenareh
As Israel prepares for a land invasion of Gaza, tensions are rising in the region between Iran and the US.
Friendly relations: Vladimir Putin with the leader of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas in 2021.
Yevgeny Biyatov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File
Russia has strong ties with Israel as well as many Arab states, so it is well placed as a mediator. But does war in the Middle East suit Moscow’s priorities?
EPA-EFE/Hannibal Hanschke
History is full of examples that show why a ground war in Gaza is a bad idea – but is the Netanyahu government listening?
Many of the people who lived in the area of the October 7 terrorist attack or attended the music festival were involved in the peace and anti-occupation movements.
AP/Alamy
Peace activists were among the victims of the Hamas terrorist attack on October 7.
Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock
Accents are constantly changing.
Taliban leaders were invited to a symbolic meeting in Beijing. Here they gather to mark the 10th anniversary of the death of the Taliban leader Mohammad Omar.
AP/Alamy
Beijing is happy to partner up with religious-led nations if it is in its strategic interests.
Devastation: Rafah refugee camp on the border of Gaza and Egypt was targeted by Israeli airstrikes on October 25.
Imago/Alamy Stock Photo
An architect from Homs in Syria on what happens to people whose homes are deliberately destroyed during war.
Ukraine sceptic: new US speaker, Mike Johnson.
EPA-EFE/Jim Lo Scalzo
A selection of the best of our coverage of the conflict from the past fortnight.
President Biden is seeking to push through more funding for the Ukraine war, but is being stymied by the House speaker election not being resolved.
American Photo Archive/Alamy
The newly appointed speaker in the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, has opposed funding the Ukraine war.
An aerial view of the city of Homs in Syria.
Fly_and_Dive via Shutterstock
An interview with a Syrian architect about domicide: the deliberate destruction of homes during war. Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.
AP Photo/Hatem Ali
Joe Biden knows only too well from 21st-century US history how hard it is for a country to untangle itself from a ground invasion.
Gaza and its people have suffered 75 years of poverty, isolation and violence.
EPA-EFE/Mohammed Saber
Dates that changed the course of history in what has been called ‘the world’s largest open-air prison’.
Khosro/Shutterstock
Many people answer questions about the economy and benefits incorrectly.