20 h. ago Killer adds more time to jail term after scissors blade found in HMP Shotts cell

Scott Pearson claimed he armed himself after death threats were made against him at top-security HMP Shotts.

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26 h. ago Death threats and falsehoods among online abuse reported by land and climate defenders

Survey across six continents uncovers accounts of abuse causing defenders to fear for their safetyDeath threats, doxing and cyber-attacks are just some of the online threats recounted by land and climate defenders in a new report, amid concerns that harassment is having a chilling effect on environmental activism.Interviews and questionaires sent out to more than 200 environmental defenders across six continents by Global Witness found that nine in 10 activists reported receiving abuse over their work. Three in four defenders who said they had experienced offline harm believed that digital harassment contributed to it. Continue reading...

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34 h. ago Texas death toll reaches 134 as new flash flood watch issued

Authorities admit ‘we don’t know how many we lost’ as local officials receive death threatsAt least 134 people have now been confirmed to have died during the Texas Hill Country flooding on 4 July, according to an ABC News report.Crews are continuing to search for the 101 people still missing. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago 'My family threatened to stone me to death if I didn't marry man I've never met'

Last summer, 17-year-old Saliha Sadath thought she was going on a family holiday to Turkey - but instead of heading to a villa, she says she was taken to Afghanistan to forcibly marry a 30-year-old cousin

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4 d. ago Urgent recall is issued for popular air fryer brand over risk of serious injury or death

The CCPC said that a manufacturing defect could cause the appliances to dangerously overheat, posing a serious threat of fires, injury, or even death.

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5 d. ago Death threats over Texas flooding cartoon force museum journalism event to be postponed

A history museum event in Buffalo supporting local journalism was postponed after death threats against a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist

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6 d. ago Wimbledon reports 2,500 abusive social media messages as players targeted

Tennis players have previously called for more to be done to tackle online abuse

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7 d. ago Rhode Island man faces charges after threatening to kill Trump, Bondi and Stephen Miller on Truth Social

Law enforcement discovered the man ‘hiding in the bathtub’

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7 d. ago 'My brother was supposed to protect me but he hurt me, he hit me and raped me'

Shaun Lampitt, 51, was brought to justice decades after his offences when his sister reported the abuse to police

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1 week ago Death threats, 'oddballs' and underworld feuds: Big John Fury's life as a 'dial

'I worked alone. Always'

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1 week ago 'I walked straight over and hit him with a right hand, then put his head through a glass coffee table'

Big John Fury's life as a 'dial-a-muscle' gangland enforcer

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1 week ago The Valley star Janet Caperna flees US after receiving barrage of ‘sick’ threats from viewers

Bravo reality star has also made her Instagram account private

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1 week ago EasyJet horror flight as passenger 'urinates in aisle' and forces emergency landing

An EasyJet flight from Birmingham to Tenerife was forced to make an emergency landing after a passenger reportedly urinated in the aisle and became abusive

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1 week ago Greater Manchester police investigating over 1,000 grooming gang suspects

Inspectorate finds force has made ‘significant improvements’ in how it treats victims of sexual exploitationGreater Manchester police are investigating more than 1,000 grooming gang suspects, as a new report found the force was “trying to provide a better service to those who have experienced sexual exploitation”.The force has made “significant improvements” in how it investigates grooming gangs and other types of child sexual abuse offences, according to the report by His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago French PM François Bayrou failed to act on abuse at Catholic boarding school, report says

Damning report by MPs comes after inquiry into allegations of decades of physical abuse, rape and sexual assault at Notre-Dame de Bétharram schoolThe French prime minister, François Bayrou, failed to act to prevent physical and sexual abuse at a private Catholic school in south-west France when he served as education minister between 1993 and 1997, a parliamentary report has said.The damning report issued by French lawmakers on Wednesday comes after a long parliamentary inquiry into allegations of decades of physical abuse, rape and sexual assault at the Notre-Dame de Bétharram boarding school near Pau in south-west France. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Fast food delivery firms to ramp up security checks to curb illegal working

Deliveroo, Uber Eats and Just Eat met with Home Office bosses on Monday after concerns and reports of abuse in the sector.

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2 w. ago Conservative leader faces calls to resign after 'disgusting' Keir Starmer WhatsApp group 'joke'

It comes two week after he complained at a Bolton council meeting that he and other colleagues had received death threats

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2 w. ago Who are Bob Vylan? Duo who screamed 'Death to the IDF' at Glastonbury were rejected by major labels for being 'too extreme'... and was previously filmed violently threatening their OWN fans

Their name is a nod to a Nobel-winning rock legend acclaimed for his anti-war lyrics - yet the Glastonbury act facing a police probe have stirred controversies of their own.

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2 w. ago Starmer’s welfare cuts could leave thousands of disabled women trapped with abusers, campaigners warn

Exclusive: The prime minister’s controversial welfare cuts would deepen economic insecurity for disabled women and make them more vulnerable to abuse, a new report has warned

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2 w. ago Mamdani faces barrage of Islamophobic attacks after New York primary success

State assembly member subjected to death threats and xenophobic rhetoric from Republican figures“Hamas terrorist sympathizer”, “jihadist terrorist”, calls for deportation and predictions of another 9/11 – these are among the torrent of Islamophobic attacks that have erupted across social media and conservative political circles following Zohran Mamdani’s success in the Democratic primary for New York City mayor.The 33-year-old state assembly member, a democratic socialist who would become the first Muslim mayor of America’s largest city, has been subjected to a barrage of death threats and xenophobic rhetoric from prominent Republican figures and online activists since his primary win became apparent. Continue reading...

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