15 h. ago Watch: Satellite images show North Korean warship laying on its side after botched launch

Satellite images show a damaged North Korean warship following a botched launch ceremony, which leader Kim Jong Un labelled a “criminal act”.

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46 h. ago Go and ask LIV demands Scottish Scheffler as he urges defectors to reunite golf

World No.1 gave it straight after questions about the PGA/LIV divide

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46 h. ago Go and ask LIV demands Scottie Scheffler as he urges defectors to reunite golf

World No.1 gave it straight after questions about the PGA/LIV divide

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46 h. ago Kim Jong Un rages at 'criminal act' as launch of North Korean warship ends in disaster

5,000-tonne destroyer suffers serious damage as its launch ceremony goes horribly wrong

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51 h. ago Kim Jong Un rages after new North Korean warship is damaged during grand launch ceremony

North Korea says a new 5,000-ton destroyer key to its naval advancement was damaged during its launching ceremony attended by leader Kim Jong Un

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51 h. ago Vika: The journalist who exposed Russian “black sites”, then ended up in one – podcast

Viktoriia Roshchyna was investigating Russia’s torture sites, then found herself inside one. Manisha Ganguly and Juliette Garside reportViktoriia Roshchyna, a Ukrainian journalist known as Vika, was determined to report on Russia’s “black sites”.“These ‘black sites’, they’re not prisons; there’s no control on behaviour there,” Juliette Garside, an editor at the Guardian, tells Michael Safi. “So it’s where we know that some of the worst war crimes, the worst human rights abuses, take place. Continue reading...

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51 h. ago North Korea's huge new warship sinks during launch in front of Kim Jong

North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un was left fuming after a 5,000-ton warship launch went wrong in front of him, with the vessel now needing to be restored ahead of a June meeting

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56 h. ago Primary school teacher and barrister win right to anonymity despite teacher 'strangling and abusing' one of their adopted sons

On one occasion in January last year, the teacher, X, 'strangled the teenager' and on another, called the 15-year-old, who is of mixed ethnic heritage, a 'black b*****d'., the judge found.

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67 h. ago Pakistani paedophile who abused teenage girls wins right to stay in UK because he faces a fatwa if returned to his home country

Child sex offender Jamil Ahmed said he should not be sent back to the nation of his birth because he is worried he will be persecuted there.

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3 d. ago North Korean defectors urge the UN to hold the country's leader accountable for rights abuses

Two women who fled North Korea have been telling the United Nations about the plight of people still living in the country and urging the world body to hold North Korea’s leader accountable for gross human rights violations

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6 d. ago Kim Jong Un does Top Gun: North Korean leader puts pilots through their paces as he calls on his people to step up preparations for war

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un channeled his inner Maverick this week as inspected anti-aircraft combat and air strike drills by North Korea 's 1st Air Division.

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7 d. ago Fact Check: Clip of uniformed men in London miscaptioned as North Korean troops in Burkina Faso

Fact Check: Clip of uniformed men in London miscaptioned as North Korean troops in Burkina Faso  Reuters

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8 d. ago We are human rights lawyers. Our new report is clear: Israel perpetrates apartheid | Sandra L Babock, Susan M Akram, Thomas Becker and James Cavallaro

We conclude that Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, including mass killing, arbitrary detention and torture, meets the legal threshold for the termWe are university professors and human rights advocates who teach and write about Palestine and Israel. We have collectively taught thousands of classes on human rights law, international law and government repression. We have defended death row prisoners in Malawi, documented forced labor in Brazil, helped women seeking gender equality in Burma, chronicled the struggle of the Sahrawi people for self-determination in Western Sahara, and advocated on behalf of families of disappeared immigrants in the United States. As human rights defenders, our job is to expose government abuses of power where we find them. And that includes Israel.It has never been easy for scholars in the United States to publicly criticize Israel. Now, anyone who does so risks professional suicide. The Trump administration deliberately conflates criticism of the gove...

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9 d. ago ‘Deeply creepy’: Enormous brooding banner of Trump now hangs next to Lincoln outside Department of Agriculture

Twitter users are scoffing at banner, saying it has a ‘North Korean aesthetic’ and gives off ‘Saddam Hussein vibes’

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1 week ago Lib Dems launch ‘Reform watch’ to monitor party in local government

Exclusive: Ed Davey says Labour and Tories too scared of Reform threat to hold Nigel Farage’s party to accountThe Liberal Democrats have set up an internal “Reform watch” system to monitor Nigel Farage’s party in local government, with Ed Davey saying Labour and the Conservatives are too scared of the threat from Reform to hold it to account.The Lib Dem leader defended his party’s performance in last week’s local elections, saying council contests where they unexpectedly ended up behind Reform mainly happened because of a collapse in votes for other parties. Continue reading...

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1 week ago India says it will respond to ‘violations’ of Kashmir ceasefire by Pakistan – live

The countries had agreed an immediate ceasefire but it appeared to hold for only a few hoursFull story: India and Pakistan agree immediate US-mediated ceasefireWho is Asim Munir, the army chief leading Pakistan’s military amid the crisis with India?The general once fell foul of Imran Khan, but since taking the top spot has been quietly amassing power over the government and supreme court, as our profile here says.Yet even now that the country is out of the clutches of martial law, it is still widely understood that the most powerful man in Pakistan is not the head of the government but instead the chief of the army.Since Gen Munir took over as Pakistan’s army chief more than two years ago, he has been accused of quietly consolidating greater power without even having to topple the country’s civilian rulers. As he kept himself largely out of the limelight, he consolidated an iron grip over the army’s ranks and bent government policy and even the supreme court to his will. Continue re...

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2 w. ago Prince Harry's African charity admits human rights abuses after rainforest families said their rangers raped and beat tribespeople

Prince Harry , who was the president of African Parks for six years until being elevated to the governing board of directors two years ago, is said to be bringing about change to deal with the issues.

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2 w. ago Gaza, gay rights, abuse and Trump: How will Pope Leo XIV confront global crisis?

The world receives a message of ‘peace and justice’ from the Vatican amid global turmoil and a long shadow of abuse in the church

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2 w. ago North Korean leader urges increased artillery shell production amid alignment with Russia

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called for his munitions industry to boost the production of artillery shells, as the country continues to supply arms and troops to support Russia’s war on Ukraine

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3 w. ago Trump officials increasingly recruit local police for immigration enforcement despite ‘red flags’

Agreements with agencies in 38 states resurrect aggressive tactics shelved more than a decade ago amid alarms about civil rights abusesThe first few months of 2025 have been tumultuous for Sheriff Bill Rogers, the chief law officer of Columbus county in North Carolina. In February, his department settled a lawsuit accusing Columbus jail deputies of neglecting the care of a county inmate who was almost beaten to death in 2023. Then in March, a group of Roger’s deputies were accused of assault during the arrest of a 57-year-old who claimed he was punched in the back of the head and left bloody after allegedly running a stop sign.Those episodes follow years of scandal. Continue reading...

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