The podcast episode covers the Russian attacks on civilian infrastructure, reignited tensions over Las Malvinas, and the UK's announcement to ban trade with the Israeli settlers in the West Bank. The fun topic covers Papua New Guinea's love of Rugby.

As Baloch separatists mark Independence Day, can Balochistan truly claim statehood? This article examines its case through the four traditional criteria of statehood.

Since the Arab Spring in 2011, Yemen has been embroiled in disorder and tragedy. The rise of the Houthi group, who challenged the central government and seized power in Sanaa in 2014, continues to wreak havoc. The amount of destruction that multiple civil wars in the last several decades has generated unfathomable destruction and health crises but the entire story is much more complex as it ripples across several countries in the Middle East. Powerful state and non-state act