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Publication date: 10 January 2024

PISA measures, internationally, 15-year-olds’ ability to use their reading, mathematics and science knowledge and skills to meet real-life challenges. For the Visegrad Four (V4 -…

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Publication date: 26 April 2024

The Gulf countries experienced the heaviest rainfall in 75 years over the period April 14-18. Dubai was hit by precipitation levels of around 250 millimetres within 24 hours…

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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB286682

ISSN: 2633-304X

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Expert briefing
Publication date: 22 March 2024

The move by non-tenure-track faculty and post-doctoral researchers came two months after Claudine Gay resigned under pressure as the university’s president. The two developments…

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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB286015

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Publication date: 24 April 2024

The researchers found that the heatwave would likely not have occurred if global temperatures remained at pre-industrial levels. Several factors worsened the heatwave’s impact and…

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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB286622

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Expert briefing
Publication date: 24 January 2024

The PQ currently leads Quebec’s fragmented political parties and would be on course to form its next government if present trends continue, despite having won just four seats in…

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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB284750

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Expert briefing
Publication date: 22 February 2024

Curbing migration across the US southern border has become a major source of bipartisan tension, but often lost in the political arguments is the extent to which migrants are…

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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB285402

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Expert briefing
Publication date: 12 February 2024

Services including healthcare, entertainment and travel flourished while the share of housing in overall consumption fell, reflecting property-market troubles. Markedly lower…

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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB285173

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Expert briefing
Publication date: 17 January 2024

Macron hopes Attal can rescue his centrist alliance from a defeat by Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally (RN) in the EU elections in June. In the longer term, he has anointed…

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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB284615

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Publication date: 19 March 2024

Proposition 1, backed by Governor Gavin Newsom, was partly prompted by the rise in homelessness in Los Angeles linked to the inability of mental health services to keep up with…

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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB285925

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Publication date: 17 April 2024

Catholics are a sizeable minority religious group in the country, numbering roughly 7 million out of a population of nearly 100 million. Vietnam and the Vatican have not had…

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