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‘Unable to tell morning from afternoon, I felt my sense of time opening up’: a (mostly dark) winter break in magical Swedish Lapland

With just a few short hours of daylight, the usual boundaries marking time fall away in Abisko, one of the most reliable places to see the northern lights Looking over the edge of the snow-smoothed canyon down to dark rushing water, we thought we saw a moose or a reindeer, but it could have been a rock. The light was fading fast so it was hard to tell. It was time to turn back; we didn’t want to get lost in the wood, or fall into the river. By the time we’d retraced our steps to Abisko, the blue world had turned to black and dust-like snowflakes whirled around the little village. Back in our h

Politics

Israel braces for national elections seen as a referendum on Netanyahu

Israelis are preparing to head to the polls on Tuesday (October 27) in the first elections since the October 7th attacks in 2023. Unable to vote abroad, expatriate citizens have been flying in from around the world to participate in a vote widely seen as being a referendum on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's leadership.

World

'UN unable to bring peace to conflicts: We haven’t seen this level of violence in decades’

Rochelle Ferguson Bouyahi is pleased to welcome Fanny Badache, Researcher at Sciences Po and Lecturer at the University of Geneva. The UN mandate is international peace and security, yet its ability to fulfill that mandate ultimately depends on the cooperation of sovereign states, namely the five powerful permanent members of the Security Council. As the UN is confronted with an increasingly fragmented, volatile and unpredictable international order, Badache argues that when those powers are divided, the mechanisms designed to enable collective security can instead produce paralysis.