22 h. ago Photos show relatives waiting outside prisons as Venezuela frees a handful of detainees

Relatives of jailed opposition figures, activists and journalists waited outside Venezuelan prisons as the government began releasing a small number of detainees nearly a week after former President Nicolás Maduro was captured by U.S. forces.

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58 h. ago Trump’s Venezuela incursion has nothing to do with its freedom | Judith Levine

Trump’s actions at home tell a different story – and they parallel many of Maduro’s own repressive movesWhatever else the US attack on Venezuela is ostensibly about – oil, drugs, communism – it’s not about the freedom of the Venezuelan people.If Trump cared about that, he would not have lifted the temporary protective status of the roughly 600,000 Venezuelan refugees in the US, the very people fleeing the tyranny and economic instability he is now supposedly liberating them from.Judith Levine is a Brooklyn-based journalist, essayist and author of five books. Her Substack is Today in Fascism Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Putin's secret deal to swap Ukraine for Venezuela? Fears US will give Russia free rein to crush Kyiv in wake of Maduro capture

Fears of the US allowing Russia to crush Ukraine in the wake of the incursion into Venezuela are growing.

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5 d. ago Woke protesters seamlessly switch from calls to Free Palestine to Free Maduro in wake of Trump's daring Venezuela raid

Protestors have taken to streets across the US to protest the capture of Nicolas Maduro and his wife.

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5 d. ago A timeline of Timothée Chalamet and Kylie Jenner's oddly enduring romance

When this unexpected couple were first rumoured in 2023, people were in disbelief. Two years on, Kylithée’s romance is still going strong

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6 d. ago Waiting for the Out’s Josh Finan: ‘It’s about prisoners using their brains, not their fists’

The Bafta-nominated supporting star of ‘The Responder’, ‘Black Mirror’ and ‘The Gentlemen’ is at the forefront of Dennis Kelly’s moving prison drama. He speaks to Annabel Nugent about becoming the BBC’s newest leading man

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7 d. ago BBC viewers left divided as prison drama based on 'heartbreaking' true story premieres

Waiting for the Out follows a man who teaches philosophy to prison inmates

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7 d. ago Waiting for the Out review – totally magnificent TV about philosophy in prison

Dennis Kelly’s brilliant drama about a teacher in prison is moving, gripping and almost painfully vulnerable – plus the main character decimates everyone at a middle-class dinner party. What more could you want?It’s hard to imagine a better route into true philosophical inquiry than time in prison. Regret, causality, the nature of freedom: these are urgent issues to the incarcerated. Time is both impossibly empty and passing at terrifying speed. You face endless days and nights with only the inside of your head for company. You are at the sharpest end of practical philosophy, whether you like it or not. What is life for? Could it be changed for the better?Accordingly, the teaching of philosophy in prison is entirely logical. But that depends on who is doing the teaching, and why. This magnificent six-part drama is adapted by Dennis Kelly (with both sitcom romp Pulling and conspiracy epic Utopia on his CV, Kelly is a hard man to predict) from Andy West’s memoir A Life Inside. By beco...

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7 d. ago Waiting for the Out review – Poignant prison drama tackles the reality of modern masculinity

Josh Finan gives a delicate, sensitive performance as an academic teaching a beginner class in philosophy at a British prison

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7 d. ago Waiting For The Out start time, cast and how to watch BBC drama

The BBC's new prison drama Waiting For The Out is about a man teaching philosophy behind bars

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7 d. ago Family of UK couple detained in Iran and supporters hand petition to No 10

It is a year since Lindsay and Craig Foreman were taken into custody in January during a world motorcycle tour and were later charged with espionage.

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1 week ago US justice department reportedly reviewing more than 5m pages of Epstein files

Figure represents significant expansion on earlier estimates as effort draws resources away from other DoJ cases The US justice department is believed to be reviewing more than 5m pages of documents relating to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein – an effort that is drawing resources away from existing cases, according to the New York Times.The figure represents a significant expansion on earlier estimates, which drew on calculations based on 300 gigabytes of data, papers, videos, photographs and audio files held within FBI archives that relate to investigations in Florida and New York. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Win a copy of Your Every Move by Sam Blake in this week’s Fabulous book competition

ROSIE moves to London and joins an exclusive agency selling high-end houses. But then she starts being stalked by “Michael”, who seems to think he’s in a relationship with her and even sends her creepy photos from inside her home. Who is he, and just how far will he go? A fast-paced thriller that will...

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2 w. ago Fury as illegal migrants waiting to be deported are getting free taxpayer

ILLEGAL migrants waiting to be deported are getting free taxpayer-funded mobile phones. Hundreds in the UK’s newest removal centre receive devices for communication and internet use. Official documents reveal that detainees at Campsfield House, in Kidlington, Oxfordshire, are handed phones with direct numbers and guaranteed wi-fi. Those who are given phones have to hand them...

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2 w. ago The unanswered questions after trove of Epstein files released — and possibly a million more to follow

Latest tranche of records and photographs relating to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein published by the Department of Justice contained almost 30,000 pages of information or 10GB of data, Joe Sommerlad reports

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2 w. ago US justice department restores photo featuring Trump from Epstein files

Department says image was flagged by prosecutors before determining it posed no risk to survivors of late sex offenderThe US justice department said on Sunday it had restored an image it had removed a day earlier from the public release of investigative files related to Jeffrey Epstein after concluding that the photograph, which included within it a photo of Donald Trump, posed no risk of public exposure to victims of the late convicted sex offender.The justice department said the image had been flagged by federal prosecutors in New York for potentially exposing victims of Epstein. Its unexplained removal on Saturday triggered a chorus of accusations from Democrats about evident political interference in favor of the president, a former friend of Epstein. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Photo of Donald Trump and more than a dozen other Epstein files mysteriously disappear as Dems say White House 'absolutely committed' a coverup

At least 16 files disappeared from the Justice Department's webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein- including a photograph showing President Donald Trump.

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3 w. ago Photo of Donald Trump and more than a dozen other Epstein files mysteriously disappear after they were released

At least 16 files disappeared from the Justice Department's webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein- including a photograph showing President Donald Trump.

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3 w. ago Inside Paul Doyle's grim prison life with 'lags waiting to attack after cowardly lies'

Liverpool parade attacker Paul Doyle told a web of lies when he was first interviewed by police. And they will likely come back to haunt him in prison, experts have warned

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4 w. ago Waiter facing trial over Liam Payne's hotel plunge death is released from prison on house arrest

Braian Paiz, 26, has been languishing in jail since the start of January after being charged with selling Liam Payne the cocaine he snorted and smoked before his fatal balcony plunge last October.

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