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“Friday night’s attack in Moscow was nightmarish but sadly the horror is likely to be just beginning.”
That’s the assessment of Greg Barton. He unpacks some of the key issues at stake in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on a concert hall in Moscow that killed more than 137 people. Islamic State has claimed responsibility and it has been widely reported the attack was carried out by Islamic State Khorasan (ISIS-K), the branch of the organisation established in 2015 in Afghanistan.
Barton explains who this group is, why they might target Russia and what this grim development means for Russian President Vladimir Putin and the broader terrorism threat in the West.
There has been a great deal of discussion about the revelation by the Princess of Wales that she has begun preventive chemotherapy after her doctors discovered she had cancer. While it is more common in people older than the princess, who is 42, half of us will develop a cancer in our lifetime. Gavin Metcalf explains the different cancers and their treatments.
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Greg Barton, Deakin University
After five years of operating mostly in western Asia, the Middle East and Africa, Islamist terror groups are again growing in strength in the West.
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Gavin Metcalf, Anglia Ruskin University
Almost every family will be affected by a cancer diagnosis at some point – and the UK’s royal family is no different.
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Douglas Yates, American Graduate School in Paris (AGS)
With the conduct of the 24 March elections, Senegal’s President Macky Sall appears to have saved his legacy.
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Renaud Foucart, Lancaster University
A controversial change ended up being widely accepted.
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Jessica Boxall, University of Southampton; Michael Head, University of Southampton
Poorer countries will be hit hardest, as a new study shows.
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Lawson R. Wulsin, University of Cincinnati
No one can escape stress, but sometimes it takes a physical and emotional toll that translates to disease and other health effects. The good news is that there are new approaches to treating it.
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Vinita Srivastava, The Conversation; Ateqah Khaki, The Conversation; Husein Haveliwala, The Conversation
We speak with Hilal Elver, the former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food and current University of California professor about the looming famine in Gaza after months of Israeli attacks.
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