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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8 h. ago Human rights groups hit out at Trump expanding ‘disastrous and deadly’ abortion policy

The longstanding Republican policy — which the US president has now substantially broadened — restricted organisations receiving US funding from performing or promoting abortion

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9 h. ago Human rights group hit out at Trump expanding ‘disastrous and deadly’ abortion policy

The longstanding Republican policy – which the US president has now substantially broadened – restricted organisations receiving US funding from performing or promoting abortion

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10 h. ago Woman with ‘rejection sensitivity’ wins £12k payout after manager told her ‘stop thinking outside the box’

A WOMAN with "rejection sensitivity" has pocketed a £12,000 after her manager reportedly told her to "stop thinking outside the box". Sophie Stone, who is neurodivergent, said her "human right to respect was violated" when her boss Julie Knox made the "triggering" comment. Mrs Stone had asked Knox if there would be a 'break-out area'...

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10 h. ago Suella Braverman’s journey from Tory right torchbearer to party defector

The former home secretary has courted controversy.

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19 h. ago Sadiq Khan isn’t gaslighting on true crime levels in London, mayor’s anti

Lib Peck hit back at critics - including US President Donald Trump - as Australian delegation visits capital on fact-finding mission

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3 d. ago Chinese asylum seeker who exposed rights abuses fights to stay in the US

Guan Heng sought asylum in the United States after exposing human rights abuses in his native China

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3 d. ago Watch: Starmer reacts to Trump’s ‘insulting’ claims over British troops in Afghanistan

Sir Keir Starmer has hit out at Donald Trump over the US president's false claims about British troops in Afghanistan.

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3 d. ago Trump laughs off global warming as US to be hit by 'catastrophic' ice storm

Millions of Americans from New Mexico to the Carolinas are bracing for a potentially catastrophic ice storm leading Donald Trump to now question global warming

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3 d. ago How Trump’s relations with America’s biggest banking boss hit rock bottom

US president’s $5bn lawsuit against JP Morgan and Jamie Dimon follows a steady rise in tensions between the two menWeeks after Donald Trump’s first shock election win, bosses from across corporate America were scrambling to enter the president’s orbit.Business leaders ranging from the General Motors boss, Mary Barra, to Disney’s chief, Bob Iger, quickly signed up to a new advisory council in 2016 to help shape the aggressively pro-growth policies of this new populist politician. Among them was the head of America’s largest bank: Jamie Dimon, the chair and chief executive of JP Morgan. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago The lesson for Europe from Trump’s climbdown? When we stop genuflecting and hit back, he 'tacos' | Nathalie Tocci

With conflict over Greenland averted for now, European leaders will be tempted to retreat to their comfort zone of cowardice. But the next crisis will soon be hereDonald Trump’s climbdown, after days of escalation during which he had refused to rule out a military attack to annex Greenland, was spectacular. In his Davos speech, Trump repeated his desire to own Greenland, claiming that you cannot defend what you do not own, only to then announce that he would not conquer the Arctic island by force. Hours later, he claimed that he had reached an unspecified deal on Greenland, and would therefore refrain from imposing additional tariffs on those European countries that had had the audacity to participate in a joint military exercise in Greenland at Denmark’s invitation.We know neither the details of the framework agreement reached by Trump and the Nato secretary general, Mark Rutte, nor whether it carries any weight, given the US president’s fickleness. But it appears that the deal, wh...

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4 d. ago Europe must heed Mark Carney – and embrace a painful emancipation from the US | Paul Taylor

Trump’s tariff retreat should lull nobody into dropping their guard. The EU must join forces with Canada, Japan and other like-minded countriesEU leaders would do well to meditate on the seminal lesson that the Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, delivered at this year’s World Economic Forum.In an incisive analysis of the new age of predatory great powers, where might is increasingly asserted as right, Carney not only accurately defined the coarsening of international relations as “a rupture, not a transition”. He also outlined how liberal democratic “middle powers” such as Canada – but also European countries – must build coalitions to counter coercion and defend as much as possible of the principles of territorial integrity, the rule of law, free trade, climate action and human rights. He spelled out a hedging strategy that Canada is already pursuing, diversifying its trade and supply chains and even opening its market to Chinese electric vehicles to counter Donald Trump’s tarif...

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5 d. ago Minnesota toy shop hit with shock audit by Trump officials after criticizing ICE on TV, owners claim

Toy store says it was hit with an audit notice hours after one of its owners said ICE had ‘terrorized’ Minnesota

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5 d. ago Minneapolis businesses struggle during Trump's immigration enforcement surge

Business in Minnesota has taken a hit a President Donald Trump's administration carries out an immigration sweep that has spurred protests

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5 d. ago MPs vote to remove conditional immunity for Troubles’ crimes from Legacy Act

The High Court in Belfast ruled parts of the Act were incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights in 2024.

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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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5 d. ago Here’s how to fix America’s immigration system. Trump’s path is not the solution | Kenneth Roth

A grand bargain on immigration could address problems with both the old approach and Trump’s new approachImmigration is one of the most divisive issues facing the United States, as it is in many countries. An ICE agent’s killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis is only the latest outrage that has brought the issue to the fore.Facing a 30 January deadline to renew funding for the Department of Homeland Security, which houses ICE, Democrats are now insisting on limits on ICE, at risk of another shutdown. It may be a pipe dream, but it is worth asking whether now might finally be a time to forge the long-elusive bipartisan agreement on immigration.Kenneth Roth, former executive director of Human Rights Watch (1993-2022), is a visiting professor at Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs. His book, Righting Wrongs: Three Decades on the Front Lines Battling Abusive Governments, is published by Knopf and Allen Lane Continue reading...

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5 d. ago ‘The powerful have their power. We have the capacity to stop pretending’: the Canadian PM’s call to action at Davos | Mark Carney

In a rousing speech, Mark Carney made the case for unity in the face of Donald Trump’s new world order. We reproduce it hereToday I will talk about a rupture in the world order, the end of a pleasant fiction and the beginning of a harsh reality, where geopolitics – where the large, main power, geopolitics – is submitted to no limits, no constraints.On the other hand, I would like to tell you that the other countries, especially intermediate powers like Canada, are not powerless. They have the capacity to build a new order that encompasses our values, such as respect for human rights, sustainable development, solidarity, sovereignty and territorial integrity of the various states. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago A ‘trade bazooka’, tariffs and a World Cup boycott: How Europe can hit back at Trump over Greenland

European leaders have made bullish threats of a response to Trump’s latest tariff threats. But economists tell Craig Hoyle that an extended trade war would be a ‘worst-case scenario’

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5 d. ago US futures edge higher and gold hits another record as markets swoon over Greenland dispute

Asian shares have extended their losses while gold prices hit a record high as concerns over U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff threats on Greenland fueled unease among investors

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