7 h. ago Top human rights group leaves El Salvador after threats made by country’s president

Cristosal says decision to leave country and relocate employees comes after organisation was targeted by Nayib BukeleEl Salvador’s top human rights organisation, Cristosal, announced on Thursday it is leaving the country because of mounting harassment and legal threats by the government of President Nayib Bukele.The organisation has been one of the most visible critics of Bukele, documenting abuses in the strongman’s war on the country’s gangs and the detention of hundreds of Venezuelan deportees in an agreement with the US president Donald Trump. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Top rights group leaves El Salvador after threats from its government

Cristosal says decision to relocate employees was because of organisation being targeted by President Nayib BukeleEl Salvador’s top human rights organisation, Cristosal, announced on Thursday it is leaving the country because of mounting harassment and legal threats by the government of President Nayib Bukele.The organisation has been one of the most visible critics of Bukele, documenting abuses in the strongman’s war on the country’s gangs and the detention of hundreds of Venezuelan deportees in an agreement with the US president Donald Trump. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago Microsoft wants to use human poop to lower its vast carbon footprint

Microsoft announced a deal to purchase 4.9 million metric tons of durable carbon dioxide removal from Vaulted Deep, a company that injects ‘bioslurry’ underground

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11 h. ago Trump administration hands over nation's Medicaid enrollee data, including addresses, to ICE

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials will gain access to personally identifiable information for all of the nation’s 79 million Medicaid enrollees

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12 h. ago ‘In the world of psychiatry, all your certainties are shattered’: has cinema’s champion of kindness run out of patience?

Nicolas Philibert completes his triptych of films about mental health centres with a documentary about where patients go on their darkest daysLaurence is a woman in desperate need of an act of human kindness. A hug, a cuddle: that is all she needs to keep at bay the nightmarish visions that haunt her day and night, the grey-haired patient urges her psychiatrist, words pressed through a clenched jaw, eyes bulging in panic. Yet on her ward at the Esquirol hospital centre in Paris, such simple gestures are impossible to come by. “When I asked for a hug,” Laurence laments, “they gave me a jar of yoghurt.”This scene, from Nicolas Philibert’s new documentary At Averroès & Rosa Parks, is as hard to watch as anything you are likely to see on a cinema screen this year. But it is especially remarkable coming from perhaps the world’s pre-eminent maker of humanist documentaries. The Frenchman Philibert is one of modern cinema’s great champions of kindness. Aged 74, he has built a career mak...

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16 h. ago Brazil passes ‘devastation bill’ that drastically weakens environmental law

President has 15 days to approve or veto legislation which critics say will lead to vast deforestation and destruction of Indigenous communitiesBrazilian lawmakers have passed a bill that drastically weakens the country’s environmental safeguards and is seen by many activists as the most significant setback for the country’s environmental legislation in the past 40 years.The new law – widely referred to as the “devastation bill” and already approved by the senate in May – passed in congress in the early hours of Thursday by 267 votes to 116, despite opposition from more than 350 organisations and social movements. Continue reading...

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16 h. ago Olivia Attwood gasps in shock as woman who spent £250k on plastic surgery reveals what she looked like BEFORE extreme human Barbie transformation

The TV personality and former Love Island contestant (pictured), 34, returned last month to host the second series of her ITV documentary Olivia Attwood: The Price of Perfection.

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17 h. ago Kids charity looking for people from across Lanarkshire to take on Safeguarder role

A Safeguarder is appointed to make sure a child or young person’s best interests and human rights are represented in the court process. They can be asked to be involved in children’s hearings by Sheriffs to put children’s best interests at the heart of decisions.

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17 h. ago Man with 'world's longest chin' says trolls dub him 'different species of human'

The Japanese social media sensation, known only as Jonouchi, said his massive mandible began growing unusually around age five and he was teased at school due to his distinctive facial feature

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17 h. ago Archaeologists find evidence of Europe’s oldest lake settlement

The team have uncovered evidence of an organised hunting and farming community living up to 8,000 years ago

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18 h. ago Kids charity looking for people from across West Lothian to take on Safeguarder role

A Safeguarder is appointed to make sure a child or young person’s best interests and human rights are represented in the court process.

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18 h. ago Putin dubbed 'human emoji' over baffling facial expressions on factory tour

The many faces of Vladimir Putin have been detailed in some really bizarre snaps taken while the war-mad despot was on a factory tour in Russia earlier this week

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20 h. ago Mum finds herself alone on vast beach in 30C heat but then has grim realisation

There was a reason why the huge stretch of sand was unoccupied

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20 h. ago Reliable Sweden meet unpredictable England in a contest of razor

Sarina Wiegman’s side must respect opponents who smashed Germany and are a model of tournament consistencyThe homeless man lies in the doorway of England’s team hotel every morning and every night. The players pass him as they go to training and pass him again as they come back at the end of the day. His shirt is unbuttoned as he sleeps, dirt-smeared bags perched under his resting arm. The hotel staff barely even notice him any more. Security do not move him on. After all, he’s supposed to be there.And unless you decided to peer particularly closely, you might not even notice that the homeless man in the doorway of the Dolder Grand hotel in Zurich is not a human being at all but a hyper-realistic sculpture called The Traveler, created by an American artist called Duane Hanson in the 1980s and bought by the Dolder Grand hotel in Zurich in the late 2000s as a symbol of well, what exactly? Continue reading...

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23 h. ago Killer inmates on America's harshest death row get rare privileges and incredible new perk

The program allows the selected prisoners to spend several hours a day outside their cells and allows them to enjoy communal meals, TV time, prayer circles and - for the first time in decades - direct human contact

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The Daily Mail's new weekly royals newsletter, Palace Confidential, brings top experts and exclusive insider commentary to reveal the very human drama at the heart of this extraordinary institution.

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31 h. ago West Lothian battery energy storage site wins approval despite fire concerns

The Development Management Committee agreed to back the facility in the interests of reducing long term carbon emissions.

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34 h. ago People smuggler who trafficked adults and children into Britain claimed he shouldn't be deported because 'it would be too disruptive for his daughter'

Miklovan Bazegurore is wanted by authorities in Ghent where he was previously sentenced to five years in jail for his part of a human trafficking ring.

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35 h. ago Judge will consider releasing Kilmar Ábrego García from jail, which may allow second deportation

Lawyers for Trump’s justice department have said Maryland man will be detained if he is freedA federal judge in Tennessee could rule on Wednesday on whether to release Kilmar Ábrego García from jail to await trial on human smuggling charges, a decision that could allow Donald Trump’s administration to try to deport the Maryland construction worker for a second time.Lawyers for the justice department have said US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) will detain Ábrego García if he is freed. Ice officials have said they will initiate deportation proceedings against the Salvadorian national and will possibly try to send him to a third country such as Mexico or South Sudan. Continue reading...

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35 h. ago Rory McIlroy must scale emotional mountain in search of home Open glory

The Northern Irishman has nothing left to prove, but still has to carry a vast weight of expectation at Royal PortrushThere was a lick of breeze riffling the long grass at Royal Portrush on Wednesday morning, and a lot of swirling talk besides. “Have you seen him?” “I heard he’s over by the putting green.” “He’s on the range.” “I heard he’s on the first now.” Round here everyone’s either looking for Rory McIlroy, looking at Rory McIlroy, or looking back on Rory McIlroy. A stretch of time watching him play is the one thing everyone wants to tick off during their day at the Open, along with a trip to spectator village, and a stop at the golf shop. You can track his progress around the grounds by keeping one ear open for the whispers.Sometimes all this is wind at McIlroy’s back, others it seems to be blowing into his face. Last time the Open was here in Northern Ireland, in 2019, it threw him so far off course that he hooked his opening drive into the crowd and out of bounds, then hook...

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