By Wycliffe W. Njororai Simiyu, Professor and Chair of Allied Health Studies, Stephen F. Austin State University
The history of African performances at the men’s football World Cup is a story of resilience, technical skill, joyful expression, and the breaking of systemic barriers. For decades, global football governance structures heavily favoured European and South American teams, leaving Africa to fight not just for wins on the pitch, but for representation itself.
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By Stephen Crossley, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Durham University
There are plenty of British politicians who love talking about sport. It makes them appear normal, grounded and relatable to voters.
But it seems that not many enjoy talking about the political side of it – especially the concept of “sportswashing”, when sport is allegedly used by a country to deflect attention away from concerns over issues such as human rights violations it might be involved in.
My recently…
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By Scott Lucas, Professor of International Politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin
The 60-day ceasefire signed by the US and Iran three weeks ago fell apart on July 8. Iran targeted vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz without its say-so, prompting the US to respond with strikes against a range of military targets in the Islamic Republic.
President Donald Trump declared the ceasefire “over”, saying further talks would be a “waste of time”, and the two sides have subsequently exchanged further rounds of attacks. We asked Scott Lucas, an expert in Middle East and US politics at the Clinton Institute, University College Dublin, to explain why the conflict…
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By Oliver Wilson, Lecturer, School of Natural Sciences, University of Lincoln
When you think of a South American rainforest, you probably don’t imagine biting winds, heavy frosts and freezing temperatures. But in the mountains of southern Brazil, that’s exactly what you can find. On this highland plateau, far from Amazonia in the country’s coldest region, grows one of the world’s most intriguing ecosystems.
For millions of years, this region has been home to a biodiverse patchwork of Araucaria forests and campos grasslands. The Araucaria trees which…
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By Iain Nash, Associate Director and Senior Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence and Technology Law, Edge Hill University
Big tech platforms argue they simply store and display information created by others, so should not be seen as legally responsible for it.
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By Pragya Agarwal, Visiting Professor of Social Inequities and Injustice, Loughborough University
Homer’s Odyssey is a quest, following King Odysseus’s ten-year journey back home to Ithaca after the Trojan war. It is a tale with distinct geographic, spatial and temporal dimensions. It is no wonder that for centuries, people have been intrigued by the places mentioned in the Odyssey, wondering how many of them were real.
A few historians and classical scholars argue that the Odyssey is only poetry. As a work of art…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Palestinians receive humanitarian aid from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in Khan Younis, February 5, 2025. © 2025 Abed Rahim Khatib/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Photo Governments should disregard the statement from the US President Donald Trump-chaired Board of Peace that “UNRWA has no place in the new Gaza,” the latest salvo in the US and Israeli government’s long-running campaign to destroy the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees.Even before October 2023, UNRWA provided lifesaving…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez during the weekly session of questions to the government at the National Senate. Paris, France. © 2019 Sipa via AP Images The French government is expected at any moment to unveil troubling draft legislation to address so-called entryism: the idea that certain groups seek to infiltrate state institutions to influence and promote an ideological agenda. If adopted, the bill would further erode the country’s already shrinking civic space.The entryism bill would aim to strengthen the 2021 Law Reinforcing Respect for the…
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Friday, July 10, 2026
In war-torn Sudan, a deadly new cholera outbreak has already claimed more than 100 lives, heightening serious concerns for vulnerable communities including in besieged El-Obeid, where daily drone attacks have continued to hamper aid access.
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By Andrew Dodd, Professor of Journalism, The University of Melbourne
It was May 1999 and Derryn Hinch had been called into the manager’s office at Adelaide’s 5DN. The ratings for his morning program had been tumbling, and after less than a year on air he was told to pack his things.
At the time, I was writing a profile of him for The Australian newspaper and happened to be in his office as he gathered his belongings. He told me that after the station manager broke the news he responded with two demands: the biggest possible payout, and the right to tell the press the truth about why he’d been sacked.
According to Hinch, 5DN offered him…
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