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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain 2024 marks the 22nd anniversary of the opening of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, a facility shrouded in controversy and synonymous with indefinite detention and alleged human rights abuses. Established in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, Guantanamo has held hundreds of individuals suspected of terrorism, many without…

Kung Fu Panda director Mike Mitchell hopes there’s more movies in the series’ future. Get a new look at a brooding Lestat in Interview With the Vampire season two. Plus, get a look at Hulu’s fantasy anime/live-action hybrid Dragons of Wonderhatch. Spoilers, away!Are Fans Tired of Marvel and DC? Superhero Fatigue at NYCC 2023IckAccording to Jeff Sneider’s The Insneider, Brandon Routh, Mena Suvari and Malina Weissman have wrapped filming on Ick, a horror film heavily inspired by Chuck Russell’s 1988 remake of The Blob from…

BEIJING—Hiroshi Nishiyama, a veteran Japanese executive at Astellas Pharma Inc. and a prominent member of his country’s business circle in China, spent late March wrapping up his assignment there and preparing to head home. He never made it. Mr. Nishiyama disappeared on what was supposed to be his last day in China. A few days later, China’s Foreign Ministry said he had been accused of espionage and detained. BEIJING—Hiroshi Nishiyama, a veteran Japanese executive at Astellas Pharma…

Credit: Larry Farr on Unsplash From 2017–18 to 2021–22, the number of young people under youth justice supervision due to their involvement, or alleged involvement in crime, has fallen, according to a new report from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW). The report, "Youth justice in Australia 2021–22," presents…

Detective stories for 9+ have boomed in the past decade, thanks to Robin Stevens’ bestselling Murder Most Unladylike series. They’ve also evolved from Enid Blyton-style cosiness to noir lite: these are morally complex stories, in which deadly violence has a lingering emotional impact. Young readers who devour Fleur Hitchcock’s Murder at Snowfall or Sharna Jackson’s High-Rise Mystery display an appetite both for satisfying puzzles and carefully gauged realism.Lis Jardine’s first novel is a compelling addition to the new…

Researchers have mapped the locations of hotels that are known to be used for immigration detention. Credit: Shutterstock Australia first introduced Alternative Places of Detention (APODs) 20 years ago. Since then, hotels—including both major chains and independent operators—have been used as places of detention, including for people who have sought asylum. Yet, there is no publicly available list of APODs in current or previous…

School bell getting set to ring Tomorrow sees the launch of WayForward’s double-fisted schoolyard sequel River City Girls 2… At least that’s true for players in Japan, who will be taking Kyoko, Misako, and their newfound friends on another rambunctious rumble through the mean streets of the trouble-filled ‘berg. And yet, western fans are still to receive an official release date for this side of the globe — This is a curious development, given that WayForward is a U.S.-based developer and the game is seemingly ready to…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain To reduce racial inequality in the U.S. criminal justice system, local, state, and federal government should explore ways to reduce police stops and searches, jail detention, prison admission, and long sentences, says a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The report…

French authorities on Thursday expressed “deep concern” over the arrest in Nicaragua of two women with French and Nicaraguan citizenship, accused of conspiracy and spreading false news. Jeannine Horvilleur and Ana Álvarez Horvilleur are the wife and daughter, respectively, of Nicaraguan opposition leader Javier Álvarez, who fled the country and now lives in Costa Rica. Both were arrested and charged with conspiracy in September. A spokesman for the French Foreign Ministry said that Paris has requested…

London police have arrested a 17-year-old suspected of perpetrating the recent hack on Rockstar Games, which resulted in the unprecedented leaking of in-development Grand Theft Auto 6 footage. As reported by Eurogamer, the suspect entered a not-guilty plea related to computer misuse, but did plead guilty to violating bail conditions.The arrest, made on September 22, was announced by the City of London Police Twitter account the following day. In its initial post, the police department did not specify if…