2 w. ago Grief, fear and fury: the Israeli and Palestinian mothers still standing united against bloodshed

Israeli movement Women Wage Peace and Palestinian group Women of the Sun held a mass rally in October 2023. Three days later a Hamas attack triggered war – leaving the women more determined than everOn the shores of the Dead Sea, about 1,500 Israeli and Palestinian women had gathered, holding hands and calling for an end to what they called a “vicious cycle of bloodshed”. It was an October evening in 2023 and they had travelled from villages, settlements and refugee camps around the region for a mass peace rally jointly organised by the Israeli movement Women Wage Peace and the Palestinian group Women of the Sun.Two of the organisers were friends: Yael Admi, 66, an Israeli mother of six, and Reem al-Hajajreh, 43, a Palestinian mother of four. The women had hoped their message would cut through decades of violence and mistrust. But three days later, Hamas launched its deadly attack on southern Israel, killing 1,200 people, followed swiftly by what turned into a genocidal war by Israe...

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2 w. ago Attacks on NHS staff surge by a FIFTH: Medics at one health trust suffered more than 8,000 assaults and threats of violence in a single year, figures show

Data obtained through FOI requests to every NHS trust in England showed violence and threats faced by staff is on the increase, up 19 percent in 2024 compared to 2022 levels.

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2 w. ago Yes, women’s rights are under threat around the world. But we’ve found hope in unlikely places | Rahila Gupta

From El Salvador to Russia, Iceland and Syria, women are pushing back against the rise of regressive forces. Let’s support their fightRahila Gupta is an anti-racist feminist activist and the co-author, with Beatrix Campbell, of Planet Patriarchy In 2025, the world that had been opened up by women has often seemed to be closing in. The forces behind the rollback of abortion rights in Donald Trump’s US are attempting to do the same in the UK. In Afghanistan, the Taliban has doubled down on its attacks on women and girls. Sexual violence is commonplace in Haiti and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In Mexico, even the president is not safe from sexual assault. A perverse rewilding appears to be taking place.You’d be forgiven for thinking that around the world, women’s rights are being concreted over. But in researching our book, Planet Patriarchy, Beatrix Campbell and I found women’s resistance erupting like green shoots through the cracks. In El Salvador, women can receive sentenc...

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2 w. ago 'I was so angry': Queen Camilla speaks for first time about sexual assault on London train

‘When I was a teenager, I was attacked on a train I remember at the time being so angry,’ recalls the Royal

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3 w. ago James Argent to complete domestic violence course from home after attacking ex

Former The Only Way Is Essex star James Argent has had a request to complete a domestic violence course from home approved by a Spanish court

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4 w. ago Moment vicious brawl breaks out at Winter Wonderland: Huge group of youths attack each other just weeks after woman punched unconscious in latest violence at festive funfair

Footage uploaded to TikTok shows two males throwing punches at each other inside the event's packed Bavarian Village in London's Hyde Park.

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