By Darren Paul Fisher, Head of Film, Screen and Creative Media, Bond University
Spider-Man is famous for many things. Being friendly. Doing what he can. Being responsible with his great power.
Now he’s notable for his latest film, Spider-Man: Brand New Day, which had the biggest opening weekend of any motion picture ever, making close to US $1 billion.
So, the question is:…
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By Bronwyn Lea, Professor in Australian Literature and Writing, The University of Queensland
Five Bells is an elegy for Kenneth Slessor’s friend Joe Lynch, an artist who drowned in Sydney Harbour in 1927 after falling from a ferry.
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By Vera Weisbecker, Professor in Evolutionary Biology, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University
Andrew Iwaniuk, Professor of Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge
Sara Citron, PhD Candidate in Neuroscience
Dodo skull scans show the famously extinct birds were no less brainy than their surviving relatives – and may have roamed at dusk and dawn.
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By Kelsey Norman, Fellow for the Middle East, Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University
Nicholas R. Micinski, Assistant Professor of Human Rights and Cultural Relations, American University School of International Service
Anti-immigration critics seized on Ceuta migrant situation as evidence of the failure of soft policies, but in reality the bloc has become far more restrictionist in the past decade.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Palestinians wait to cross at the Israeli Awarta military checkpoint on March 23, 2025, south of Nablus in the West Bank. © 2025 Nasser Ishtayeh/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (Beirut) – Israeli road closures in the West Bank on July 27, 2026, badly delayed an ambulance transporting a pregnant Palestinian woman in critical condition, with dire consequences, Human Rights Watch said today. The woman’s fetus did not survive an emergency delivery, and her life was further endangered when soldiers forced the ambulance crew to turn off their medical equipment…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A worker moves aluminum auto parts in central China's Anhui province, March 26, 2022. © 2022 WAN SC The recent addition of 43 Chinese companies, including aluminum producers, to a US government forced labor list underscores the need for car companies to disengage from suppliers linked to Uyghur forced labor.Under the 2021 Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, the US government maintains a list of Xinjiang-based companies linked to forced labor, referred to as the “Entity List.” The law establishes a presumption that goods produced by a company on the list are linked…
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By genner
“Even after the fall of empires and political decolonization, we, Indigenous peoples, continue to struggle for recognition and to protect and advance our fundamental rights in the world.”
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Wednesday, August 5, 2026
The UN rights chief expressed alarm on Wednesday over the sharp increase in executions and death sentences in Iran since the US-Israeli bombing campaign began in late February, warning that capital punishment is being used to intimidate the population and suppress dissent.
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By Amnesty International
On 12 June, a group of 17 people – among them Turks, Afghans and Iranians – were forcibly removed from the United States and flown to Bangui, in the Central African Republic (CAR), a country where they have no ties and whose language they do not speak. According to Third Country Deportation Watch, all but […] The post African states must refuse to be complicit with the USA’s policy of ‘third country removals’ appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Amnesty International
In response to the court’s decision to grant alternatives to pretrial detention to prisoners of conscience and former ancestral authorities of Totonicapán’s 48 Cantons, Luis Pacheco and Héctor Chaclán, Ana Piquer, Americas Director at Amnesty International, said: “We welcome the fact that Luis Pacheco and Héctor Chaclán will be able to return to their families […] The post Guatemala: Luis Pacheco and Héctor Chaclán will be able to return home to their families appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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