14 h. ago Israeli strikes kill 14 in Gaza and destroy heavy equipment needed to clear rubble

Israeli strikes have killed at least 14 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, mostly women and children, and destroyed bulldozers and other heavy equipment that had been supplied by mediators to clear rubble

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5 d. ago What is a ‘criminal’ immigrant? The word is an American rhetorical trap | Jonathan Ben

Allegations of criminality have always been deployed to justify state violence but even ‘imperfect’ victims deserve basic rightsUS politics live – latest updatesLast month, the Trump administration flew 238 Venezuelan immigrants to a brutal prison in El Salvador. Federal officials alleged that the detainees were members of the Tren de Aragua gang, calling them “heinous monsters” ,“criminal aliens”, “the worst of the worst”. The federal government has also revoked visas for a thousand international students over their alleged participation in protests against Israel’s genocide in Palestine. Some were abducted, like Mahmoud Khalil, who has spent more than a month incarcerated in one of the worst jails in the US. Officials alleged that Mahmoud “sided with terrorists who have killed innocent men, women, and children”.Media reports quickly revealed that the Trump administration is lying about “innocent” people to justify abducting them. But this raises a more important question: if Trump...

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5 d. ago Wave of Israeli airstrikes kill at least 40 people across Gaza, says Hamas

Missiles hit encampments for displaced Palestinians as talks on response to Israel truce offer ‘almost complete’A wave of Israeli air strikes on encampments for displaced Palestinians has killed at least 40 people across Gaza, as Hamas officials said consultations on response to Israel truce offer “almost complete”.Civil defence spokesperson Mahmud Bassal said two Israeli missiles hit several tents in the al-Mawasi area of the southern city of Khan Yunis, resulting in at least 16 deaths, most of them women and children, and 23 others were wounded. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Wave of Israeli airstrikes kill at least 40 across Gaza, says civil defence agency

Missiles hit encampments for displaced Palestinians as talks on response to Israel truce offer ‘almost complete’A wave of Israeli airstrikes on encampments for displaced Palestinians has killed at least 40 people across Gaza, as Hamas officials said consultations on response to Israel truce offer “almost complete”.Civil defence spokesperson Mahmud Bassal said two Israeli missiles hit several tents in the al-Mawasi area of the southern city of Khan Younis, resulting in at least 16 deaths, most of them women and children, and 23 others were wounded. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Elon Musk responds to claims he 'paid off' mums of his 'legion' of kids

The tech billionaire has at least 14 children with four women a report claims this figure could be ‘much higher than publicly known’

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6 d. ago Musk asked influencer Tiffany Fong to have his baby and she worried saying ‘no’ would hurt her X earnings, report says

The world’s richest man has at least 14 children with four women

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6 d. ago Sources close to Elon Musk believe number of children is much higher than publicly known

The tech billionaire, a vocal pro-natalist, has at least 14 children via four different women who are already publicly known

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6 d. ago American women and children are in crisis. Republicans are about to make it worse | Karen Dolan

Donald Trump’s budget could gut Medicaid, cut food assistance for millions and lead to 40,000 kids losing childcareWomen and children are under threat in America.Jocelyn Smith of Roswell, New Mexico, knows this too well. “I’m disabled, taking care of my disabled daughter. I work, and I volunteer to help feed and house my community,” she told me. “Yet I need assistance affording meals for my family. Something is broken.”Karen Dolan is a federal safety net expert and a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago The Nazi 'fashion house' where Jews were forced to make clothes for the rich... using fabric looted from murdered Holocaust victims

Amidst the death and disease of the Lodz Ghetto in occupied Poland, Jewish men, women and children were forced to make clothes and luxury goods for the Nazi regime and Third Reich civilians.

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8 d. ago Horrifying rape video game which encourages players to sexually assault women banned from Steam

A horrifying video game which simulates illegal sexual acts has been banned from Steam after a series of complaints, raising concerns over children's online safety and violence against women

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8 d. ago French investigation uncovers 'endemic and persistent' sexual violence in the entertainment industry

Following a six-month inquiry into violence committed in the film, audio-visual, and advertising sectors of France, the final report has outlined persistent abuse against women and children

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1 week ago France could recognise Palestinian state ‘in June’, says Emmanuel Macron – Middle East crisis live

President says ‘we must move towards recognition’ and process could start at UN conference on settling Israel-Palestine conflict in New York in JuneSuspected US airstrikes in Yemen overnight into Thursday killed at least three people, while the death toll in an earlier attack rose to 13 dead, the Iran-backed Houthi rebels said. The rebels meanwhile aired footage they said showed the debris left after shooting down yet another American MQ-9 Reaper drone, reports the Associated Press (AP). The 13 killed in strikes on Tuesday night around Hodeida’s al-Hawak district made it one of the deadliest single incidents in the ongoing US campaign, the rebels said.Another 15 people were injured. The Houthis described the majority of those killed as women and children, without providing a breakdown. The area is home to the city’s airport, which the rebels have used in the past to target shipping in the Red Sea. Since its start, the intense campaign of US airstrikes targeting the rebels over their...

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1 week ago Israeli airstrike on Gaza apartment block kills at least 23 Palestinians

Attack on densely populated Shijaiyah area of Gaza City kills at least eight women and as many children

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1 week ago Sexual violence and harassment ‘endemic’ in French entertainment industry, report finds

Attitudes in France ‘barely evolving’ amid ‘collective denial’ years after the #MeToo movement began, according to parliamentary commissionSexual violence and sexual harassment are “endemic” in France’s entertainment industry, a damning report by French politicians has found, concluding that women and children are still being routinely preyed on, despite the country’s #MeToo movement.The Green MP Sandrine Rousseau and the centrist Erwan Balanant found that sexual violence, harassment and bullying were “systemic, endemic and persistent” in all sectors of the French culture and entertainment industry, from TV and cinema to theatre, radio, comedy, advertising, rock and classical music. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Israeli strike on Gaza City residential block killed at least 23, officials say

Israeli military says it struck a senior Hamas militant who it claims was behind attacks emanating from ShijaiyahMiddle East crisis – live updatesIsraeli aircraft struck a residential block in war-ravaged northern Gaza on Wednesday, killing at least 23 people, health officials said, as the renewed fighting in the devastated Palestinian territory showed no signs of letting up.The Al-Ahli hospital said at least 23 people were killed in the strike, including eight women and eight children, figures confirmed by the territory’s health ministry. Continue reading...

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1 week ago ‘HillmanTok’: how The Cosby Show inspired resistance to Trump’s war on Black education

Inspired by the university setting of A Different World, the world’s first crowd-sourced HBCU is expanding onlineIn 1987, the Cosby Show spinoff A Different World made its US TV debut and followed the elder child, Denise Huxtable (Lisa Bonet), as she studied at her parents’ alma mater. The fictional historically Black college (or HBCU), Hillman, would go on to become a byword for Black excellence. “The influence of kids wanting to go to school, period, I think is very powerful,” one of the stars of the series, Jasmine Guy, said while touring HBCU campuses with her former castmates in 2024, 35 years after the sitcom ended. “Because they could see themselves there.”Hillman College is credited with driving record levels of enrollment at actual HBCUs in the 1980s and 90s, and remains a source of inspiration for Black creatives to this day. The actor-screenwriter Lena Waithe had the fabled campus in mind when she launched her production company, Hillman Grad. “I want to call it something...

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1 week ago Paedophiles target women on dating apps to access their children

A major new study has found 66% of men who have sexually offended against children using dating apps

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2 w. ago Middle East latest: Israeli strikes kill 25 people in Gaza as Supreme Court hears Shin Bet cases

Palestinian medics say Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip overnight and into Tuesday have killed at least 25 people, including eight children and five women

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2 w. ago ‘They didn’t call us for Live Aid’: the stars behind Black Britain’s forgotten charity record

In 1985, a star-studded lineup of Black UK musicians, including Aswad, Dennis Brown and Janet Kay, recorded a charity single to raise funds for famine-stricken Ethiopia. Why are their efforts so little known?The Ethiopian famine of the early 1980s was one of the defining news stories of the decade, an exposure of the stark divide between developed and developing nations, still referred to at the time as the Third World. It is a received wisdom that the general public in Britain learned about the crisis when shocking images of emaciated men, women and children were shown on BBC news reports. This is not entirely true. In fact, plenty of Rastafarians were already aware of the situation.The east African country was their spiritual home – many in the movement viewed its former emperor Haile Selassie as their messiah – and a place free from the iniquities of the west. “A lot of Rastafarians went to Ethiopia [before they] came to London,” says the musician and cam...

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2 w. ago Is the cost of living crisis contributing to a childless London?

The capital’s families are shrinking, as new data confirms that young women will have less children than previous generations. Why, and what does it mean for our city?

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