5 h. ago French police told by their human rights watchdog to stop using rubber bullets and tear gas on UK

Influential Defender of Rights Claire Hédon said that tactics used on the beaches of Calais and Normandy risk harming the thousands of young men flooding into Britain.

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14 h. ago Protesters swarm Minnesota hotel after Alex Pretti shooting leaving officer bloodied as windows smashed & tear gas fired

PROTESTERS stormed a hotel in Minneapolis - suspected to be housing ICE agents - a day after the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti on Saturday. Footage shows dozens of people outside the Home Suites by Hilton Hotel barricading the road with rubbish bins and traffic cones, while shouting anti-ICE slogans. It did not take long...

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19 h. ago ‘They told us to leave. They didn’t tell us where to go’: the demolitions destroying homes and lives in Lagos

Makoko’s waterfront stilt settlements were razed with little warning amid government claims that the move was essential for sanitation and securityIt was 12.30pm when amphibious excavators escorted by armed police roared through Makoko, crushing wooden shacks built on stilts. “It was the second time this year,” says Augustine Agpoko, 42, a fisher and father of eight whose six-bedroom bungalow was demolished on 16 January.Like many of his neighbours, Agpoko was already dismantling his home piece by piece in an attempt to save some of the materials before the machines arrived. “I was removing my roofing sheets, trying to salvage materials from my house when the bulldozers began demolition,” he says. “When they started firing tear gas into the air, I had to quickly evacuate my family to safety in a neighbouring community, because one of my two wives is in her second trimester.”Makoko waterfront community before the demolitions Continue reading...

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40 h. ago French spies and police mobilise in Calais and Dunkirk to repel 'D

The French authorities imposed a sweeping ban on gatherings between Calais and Dunkirk on Saturday, and threatened to arrest and deport anyone arriving from the UK.

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53 h. ago 'I stood feet from where ICE shot man in Minneapolis warzone as agents threw tear gas'

Shortly after 37-year-old Minneapolis resident Alex Jeffrey Pretti was fatally shot by ICE agents this morning, our reporter arrived at the scene among hundreds of residents when ICE threw tear gas on us

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56 h. ago Chaos erupts in Minneapolis as agents fire tear gas and pepper balls at protesters after federal agents shoot and kill man

ICE agents responded to growing protests at the site of the most recent shooting.

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4 d. ago On Censorship by Ai Weiwei review – are we losing the battle for free speech?

China isn’t the only country imposing limits on creative expression, argues the provocative artist‘Chinese culture is the opposite of provocation,” Ai Weiwei once told an interviewer. “It tries to seek harmony in human nature and society.” Harmony has never been his bag. Provocation though? In spades. As a student at the Beijing Film Academy in the late 1970s, he joined an artist group called Stars that had a slogan: “We Demand Political Democracy and Artistic Freedom”. In the 1990s, returning to Beijing after a decade in downtown New York, he and a couple of friends published and distributed samizdat-style books devoted to off-piste, often-political art of the kind that government censors tend to fear.Ai’s own work was bolshie and anathema to custodians of good taste. His Study of Perspective series showed him raising a middle finger at global sites – among them Tiananmen Square, the Eiffel Tower, the White House – that are expected to produce awe, delight, reverence...

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5 d. ago US officials tried to lobby against Marine Le Pen election ban, French judge says

Magali Lafourcade says the two envoys were convinced the far-right leader’s corruption trial had been politicalEurope live – latest updatesA French magistrate has said two Trump administration emissaries approached her seeking to lobby against an election ban on the French far-right leader Marine Le Pen.Magali Lafourcade, the secretary general of France’s human rights commission (CNCDH), an independent body that advises the government, told Agence France-Presse (AFP) she had reported the content of the meeting to the French foreign ministry immediately, fearing a potential “manipulation of the public debate in France”. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Teenager among Iranian protesters sexually assaulted in custody, rights group says

Two people detained in Kermanshah, including 16-year-old, tell group they were subjected to sexual abuse during arrestA 16-year-old was among protesters sexually assaulted in custody by the security forces in Iran during the nationwide uprising that has left thousands dead, according to a human rights group.Two people, one of them a child, detained in the city of Kermanshah in western Iran told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that they were subjected to sexual abuse by riot police during their arrest. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago ICE agent threw tear gas canister under a family’s SUV, leaving infant in need of hopsital treatment

The family was driving home from the middle school child’s basketball game

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9 d. ago Tear gas floods a Minneapolis family's SUV after they get caught between protesters and officers

A Minneapolis couple says federal officers rolled a tear gas canister under their SUV, flooding it with toxic fumes and leaving them and several of their six children, including an infant, in need of hospital treatment

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9 d. ago ICE agents are ordered NOT to retaliate against protesters or stop drivers in the streets during chaotic Minnesota operations

A Minnesota district court judge ruled that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents cannot detain or tear gas peaceful protesters or people observing agents.

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1 week ago Producer concerned for safety of ‘human swan’ expedition cameraman, inquiry told

Dan Burton, 54, died in a mid-air paramotor collision with climate activist Sacha Dench in the Highlands in 2021.

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1 week ago Sky reporter overcome by tear gas while reporting on ICE protests

A Sky News correspondent was left struggling to speak after she was teargassed whilst at the scene of an ICE protest in Minneapolis.

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1 week ago Revolut, Visa and Mastercard lose UK legal challenge over fee cap

High Court rules watchdog is within its rights to cap cross-border interchange fees

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1 week ago Minneapolis's night of chaos as protests erupt after another ICE shooting

Shocking images showed agents deploying tear gas and pepper balls at numerous protesters in a brutal clash, after another ICE official shot a person in Minneapolis

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1 week ago Iran crisis live: US citizens should ‘leave Iran now’, says US state department

US government issues warning as Donald Trump says US will take ‘very strong action’ if Iran hangs protestersTrump says countries doing business with Iran face 25% tariff on US tradePeople in Iran: share your views on the current situationNon-essential French embassy staff have left Iran, two sources with knowledge of the matter told Agence France-Presse. The personnel left on Sunday and Monday, the sources added, without saying how many people had departed. “The protection of our personnel and our citizens is a priority,” a French foreign ministry official told AFP.Commenting on the protests, the UN high commissioner for human rights Volker Türk said:This cycle of horrific violence cannot continue. The Iranian people and their demands for fairness, equality and justice must be heard. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Protesters 'hit by ICE with tear gas and pepper balls' in latest confrontation

Fury erupted in Minneapolis as President Trump’s ICE agents, backed by over 2,400 Homeland Security officers and 1,000 more on the way, clashed with outraged locals

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1 week ago Iran crisis live: Trump says ‘help is on its way’ as he urges Iranians to ‘keep protesting’ and to ‘take over’ their institutions

US president cancels meetings with Iranian officials ‘until senseless killing of protesters stops’Trump says countries doing business with Iran face 25% tariff on US tradePeople in Iran: share your views on the current situationNon-essential French embassy staff have left Iran, two sources with knowledge of the matter told Agence France-Presse. The personnel left on Sunday and Monday, the sources added, without saying how many people had departed. “The protection of our personnel and our citizens is a priority,” a French foreign ministry official told AFP.Commenting on the protests, the UN high commissioner for human rights Volker Türk said:This cycle of horrific violence cannot continue. The Iranian people and their demands for fairness, equality and justice must be heard. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Iran crisis live: UN says ‘cycle of horrific violence’ in Iran must end as official says 2,000 killed in crackdown

UN rights chief says ‘killing of peaceful demonstrators must stop’ as Iranian official tells Reuters around 2,000 have diedTrump says countries doing business with Iran face 25% tariff on US tradePeople in Iran: share your views on the current situationNon-essential French embassy staff have left Iran, two sources with knowledge of the matter told Agence France-Presse. The personnel left on Sunday and Monday, the sources added, without saying how many people had departed. “The protection of our personnel and our citizens is a priority,” a French foreign ministry official told AFP.Commenting on the protests, the UN high commissioner for human rights Volker Türk said:This cycle of horrific violence cannot continue. The Iranian people and their demands for fairness, equality and justice must be heard. Continue reading...

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