Politics (Page 500)

Andrey Burmakin / Shutterstock Professional boxing is no stranger to controversy. The British Medical Association, the trade union for doctors in the UK, has called for years for the sport to be banned due to its damaging effects. It has a higher potential for injury than any other contact sport.Continue Reading

In the latest episode of Discovery, an ongoing series via The Conversation Weekly podcast, we hear about recent research that showed how a Muslim celebrity footballer helped reduce Islamophobia. When Mohamed Salah joined Liverpool football club in 2017, he quickly became the Premier League team’s star player. As Liverpool wentContinue Reading

h The death of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, under whose leadership the communist bloc was brought to an end, was met in the west with tributes and personal reminiscences by leaders who had met him and enjoyed his company. This reverence wasn’t matched in RussiaContinue Reading

Freedom House ranks gap year favourite Vietnam lower than Qatar on political rights and civil liberties. Raphael Rivest / Shutterstock As host of the World Cup, Qatar is currently in the spotlight for years of human rights violations, particularly concerning the treatment of migrant workers and laws on homosexuality. ManyContinue Reading

Multicultural Tooting High Street, London. William Barton/Shutterstock The latest release of data from the 2021 census has given us new information about the languages people speak across England and Wales. There is growing linguistic diversity: over 90 different languages were reported as the main language of people living in EnglandContinue Reading

Gardaí have arrested a woman in connection with a serious dog attack in Enniscorthy, Co Wexford. On Sunday, November 27th, a nine-year-old boy sustained serious injuries in the attack involving a pitbull cross. A woman aged in her 30s was arrested on Monday morning and is currently detained at EnniscorthyContinue Reading

A rally in support of refugees and asylum seekers took place in Fermoy, Co Cork on Saturday afternoon. The Irish Examiner reported that up to 300 people attended the rally. It followed a protest on Wednesday night by dozens of people outside an accommodation centre in the town where 66Continue Reading

Jimmy Lai. Yung Chi Wai Derek/Shutterstock Amid the widespread anti-zero-COVID protests in mainland China, political and judicial persecution in Hong Kong continues in the criminal court, where key pro-democracy figures and journalists are facing national security trials that could result in life in jail. Jimmy Lai is one of theContinue Reading

European Council president Charles Michel heads to Beijing on December 1, the latest in a procession of western leaders to seek an audience with Xi Jinping, in a year when the Chinese president has cemented his position as the country’s most powerful leader since Mao Zedong. Xi met more thanContinue Reading