11 h. ago ‘No other option’: inside the refugee camp for trans Americans fleeing Trump

Fear, abuse and eroding rights have forced many trans people to leave the US – can they claim asylum in the Netherlands?The transgender refugees fleeing the US – podcastTer Apel, a small, unassuming Dutch town near the German border, is a place tourists rarely have on their itinerary. There are no lovely old windmills, no cannabis-filled coffee shops and on a recent visit it was far too early for tulip season.When foreigners end up there, it is for one reason: to claim asylum at the Netherlands’ biggest refugee camp, home to 2,000 desperate people from all around the world. Continue reading...

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26 h. ago Chilean president declares state of catastrophe as wildfires kill at least 15

Fires blaze through 8,500 hectares, forcing 50,000 people to evacuate as firefighters struggle to extinguish flamesWildfires raging across central and southern Chile have killed at least 15 people, scorched thousands of hectares of forest and destroyed scores of homes, authorities said, as the South American country swelters under a heatwave.Chile’s president, Gabriel Boric, declared a state of catastrophe in the country’s central Biobío region and the neighbouring Ñuble region, about 500km (300 miles) south of Santiago, the capital. Continue reading...

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26 h. ago Chilean president declares state of catastrophe as wildfires kill at least 18

Fires blaze through 8,500 hectares, forcing 50,000 people to evacuate as firefighters struggle to extinguish flamesWildfires raging across central and southern Chile have killed at least 18 people, scorched thousands of hectares of forest and destroyed scores of homes, authorities said, as the South American country swelters under a heatwave.Chile’s president, Gabriel Boric, declared a state of catastrophe in the country’s central Biobío region and the neighbouring Ñuble region, about 500km (300 miles) south of Santiago, the capital. Continue reading...

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45 h. ago Rampaging elephant which has killed 22 people still on the loose: Terrified Indian villagers forced to sleep on rooftops or abandon their homes for fear it might return

The young male, which has one tusk, is still at large in the West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand, around 730 miles east of the Indian capital Delhi.

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51 h. ago Greenland protests pictured as Trump threatens tariffs if UK opposes takeover plans

US President Donald Trump has vowed to obtain Greenland by any means necessary and has refused to rule out military action to take the island by force - despite people on the island slamming the suggestion

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56 h. ago The horrifying reality of Britain's cocaine obsession: How middle

teachers and drugs experts have now hit out at middle-class drug users taking cocaine at fancy dinner parties for fueling the dangerous drugs gangs who are exploiting young teenagers.

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3 d. ago Aung San Suu Kyi has spent 20 years imprisoned – she must be freed

Editorial: The Nobel Prize winner’s continued incarceration is a burning injustice that must be righted – she is the only democratic hope for Myanmar

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3 d. ago Ugandan opposition MP says security forces stormed home killing 10 people

Muwanga Kivumbi says campaign staff shot dead after elections expected to extend President Yoweri Museveni’s ruleA senior member of the Ugandan opposition has said security forces stormed his house early on Friday morning and shot dead 10 members of his campaign team after a general election that was expected to result in President Yoweri Museveni extending his nearly four-decade grip on power.Muwanga Kivumbi, of the National Unity Platform (NUP), told Reuters the incident happened at about 3am local time when security forces “broke the front door and began shooting” inside a garage where the people were waiting for the results of the election for his parliamentary seat to be announced. “It was a massacre,” he said. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago WWII bomb discovery in Plymouth building site forces 800 people to evacuate homes overnight

The wartime bomb is being removed from the site and those living close to the removal route have been evacuated from their homes overnight as work is carried out

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5 d. ago Trump says the killing in Iran is 'stopping' after he threatened retaliation over executing protesters: Live updates

LIVEBLOG: Follow the latest developments as more than 3,400 people have been killed by Iranian security forces in a harsh crackdown on protesters

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5 d. ago Iran issues chilling assassination threat to Trump as tensions spiral: 'This time, the bullet will not miss the target': Live updates

LIVEBLOG: Follow the latest developments as more than 3,400 people have been killed by Iranian security forces in a harsh crackdown on protesters

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5 d. ago 'We'd never had a penny of Arts Council funding in Wigan, something needs to change'

EXCLUSIVE: The Culture Secretary, Lisa Nandy, makes £3.6m announcement as she admits how too many people feel forced to leave their home towns, and being 'pretty rude' to the Arts Council. Helena Vesty reports

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5 d. ago ‘It’s pretty grim’: Tunbridge Wells residents struggle through several days without water – again

South East Water blames bad weather as pubs are forced to close, toilets overflow and people go without showersAs the residents of Tunbridge Wells trudged down their sodden high street in the pouring rain, the idea that they had run out of water – for the second time in just a few weeks – seemed farcical.At the end of November the local water treatment centre, which had been flagged as at risk by the regulator in 2024, was forced to shut down, leaving 24,000 households without water for two weeks. The Drinking Water Inspectorate later said this outage was foreseen and was due to a lack of maintenance at the site. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Older people ‘forced to skip meals and turn down heating’ during winter, charity warns

Pensioners need to ‘jump through hoops’ to get support, charity boss says

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6 d. ago 'We're in a state nobody can imagine': residents describe devastating rainstorm in Gaza – video

A rainstorm swept across the Gaza Strip, flooding hundreds of tents and collapsing homes sheltering families displaced by two years of war. At least six people have been killed, local health officials said. Three months since a ceasefire halted major combat, Israeli forces have ordered the near-total depopulation of nearly two-thirds of Gaza. More than 2 million people have been forced into a narrow strip near the coast, with most living in makeshift tents or damaged buildings Continue reading...

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7 d. ago How Iran’s protest movement has gained increasing momentum – a visual guide

Demonstrations initially focused on economic issues but as they have grown and become political the regime has responded with deadly forceIran crisis live – latest updatesA protest movement in Iran that started as a small demonstration by shopkeepers in Tehran over a weakening currency has exploded into the largest nationwide uprising in years against the country’s theocratic leaders.Fearing a threat to its decades-old grip on the country, the government has responded with deadly force. Rights groups have reported that hundreds of people have been killed by security forces and the state-backed Basij militia. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Three arrested after alleged racially motivated attack on Muslim religious leader in Victoria

Police allege a 47-year-old imam was assaulted after he and his wife were forced off the road by three people in Melbourne’s south-eastFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA Victorian Muslim religious leader was punched in the face after he and his wife were allegedly forced from their car on a Melbourne freeway in what police allege was a racially motivated attack.Police allege the pair were travelling along the South Gippsland Highway in Melbourne’s south-east at 7.40pm on Saturday when they were “racially abused” by three occupants of a small black hatchback. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Iran’s regime is facing its gravest existential threat: here’s why

After a disastrous 12-day war with Israel last year and diminished support from its allies, Iran’s leaders have resorted to brutal violence to crush a mass uprising which is only going to get more bloody, writes chief international correspondent Bel Trew

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8 d. ago Iran’s regime is facing its gravest existential threat: here’s why – and what happens next

After a disastrous 12-day war with Israel last year and diminished support from its allies, Iran’s leaders have resorted to brutal violence to crush a mass uprising that is only going to get more bloody, writes chief international correspondent Bel Trew

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8 d. ago Myanmar junta holds second phase of election widely decried as a ‘sham exercise’

UN and many western countries as well as human rights groups say that in the absence of a meaningful opposition the election is neither free, fair nor credibleVoters in war-torn Myanmar queued up on Sunday to cast their ballots in the second stage of a military-run election, following low turnout in the initial round of polls that have been widely criticised as a tool to formalise junta rule.Myanmar has been ravaged by conflict since the military ousted a civilian government in a 2021 coup and detained its leader, Nobel peace prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, sparking a civil war that has engulfed large parts of the impoverished nation of 51 million people. Continue reading...

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