Sri Lanka’s economic crisis of 2022 has been over a decade in the making. The new government has a difficult recovery ahead.

Turkiye’s voiced strong opposition to Swedish and Finnish bids to join NATO. Its goal was to call more attention to Turkiye’s legitimate security concerns and remind members that it is a long-standing ally.

Singapore’s government plans to repeal a colonial-era ban on sodomy, while strengthening constitutional safeguards to forestall movement toward marriage equality. However important, decriminalisation alone will have limited impact on most LGBTQ Singaporeans’ lives absent wider societal and legal changes.

Venezuela has been dealing with an economic and political crisis for years. The Australian government must engage in a renewed approach to the conflict.  

The digitalisation of India has been widely praised by mainstream Indian media. Yet there are crucial issues with this transformation that are being concealed. 

On 1 August 2022, a large piece of a Chinese rocket body plunged back through the Earth’s atmosphere, strewing debris across Indonesia and Malaysia. While space debris is the most visible to us when it hits the ground, we should be more concerned about the debris that remains on orbit. 

Pakistan, a nuclear state, is at a crucial juncture in its history marked by internal divisions and economic malaise. What happens next will have major implications for the South Asian state with 220 million people. 

Despite having no indigenous population, Antarctica has sometimes been referred to as having a legacy of colonialism. However, there is debate as to whether Australia has facilitated, or been an object of, this colonialism.

The man who piloted the United Kingdom through the last three tumultuous years will leave a bulging red box for his successor. Liz Truss will find it stuffed full of the serious problems he and his lightweight cabinet have failed to fix, put into the “too hard” basket, or simply ignored.

Externalisation and migration control measures infringe upon the rights of refugees and migrants. The deal between the United Kingdom and Rwanda sets a concerning precedent.