24 h. ago ‘I don’t want to be here. But we can’t go home’: what life is like for people forced to flee floods and fighting

Around the globe, conflict and the climate crisis have caused 83.4m people – a record number – to become refugees within their own countries. Three people from Bangladesh, Sudan and Colombia tell their storiesIn 2024, the number of internally displaced people around the world reached 83.4m, the highest figure ever recorded. Men, women, children, whole families and generations have been forced to flee their homes within their country as a result of conflict, violence, or natural disasters.“Internal displacement rarely makes the headlines, but for those living it, the suffering can last for years,” says Jan Egeland, secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, commenting on the latest figures from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC). Continue reading...

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39 h. ago More than 60 charities demand UK reverse ‘shameful’ aid cuts that will expose women and girls to abuse

Exclusive: Cuts to spending will leave at least a million women and children at increased risk of violence, charities say

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46 h. ago Scotsman Obituaries: George Holmes, former Director General of the Forestry Commission

George Dennis Holmes CB, BSc, D.Sc (Hon. Wales), FRSE, FICFor. Born: 9 November 1926 in Conwy, North Wales. Died: 28 April 2025, aged 98

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3 d. ago Asylum seeker fisherman who ran £12m migrant smuggling ring from taxpayer funded flat is jailed for 25 years

Egyptian-born Ahmed Ebid, 42, masterminded the movement of nearly 3,800 migrants - including women and children - as part of the £12m illegal boat operation.

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4 d. ago Scotsman Obituaries: Rupasree Tewari, doctor who championed women and children’s health, and Indian music

Dr Rupasree Tewari, doctor. Born: 21 April 1948 in Kolkata, India. Died: 16 April 2025, aged 76

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4 d. ago Republicans are attacking childcare funding. Their goal? To push women out of the workforce | Moira Donegan

The right wants American women to bear more children and withdraw from full participation in societyLast month, the White House issued a proposed budget to Congress that completely eliminated funding for Head Start, the six-decade-old early childhood education program for low-income families that serves as a source of childcare for large swaths of the American working class.The funding was restored in the proposed budget after an outcry, but large numbers of employees who oversee the program at the office of Head Start were laid off in a budget-slashing measure under Robert F Kennedy Jr, the head of the Department of Health and Human Services. On Thursday, Kennedy said funding for the program would not be axed, but more cuts to childcare funding are likely coming: some Republicans have pushed to repeal a five-decade-old tax credit for daycare. The White House is entertaining proposals on how to incentivize and structurally coerce American women into bearing more children, but it see...

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5 d. ago How asylum seeker fisherman became virtual captain of £12million migrant smuggling ring from taxpayer funded flat

Ahmed Ebid, 42, masterminded a £12 million operation, in which around 3,800 migrants, including women and children, were transported to Europe from Libya on overcrowded fishing boats.

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5 d. ago Israel airstrikes kill at least 75 in Gaza in night of terror with kids among heartbreaking victims

Israel's latest barrage of airstrikes in Gaza has claimed at least 75 lives overnight, with women and children among the victims, after Benjamin Netanyahu broke a ceasefire deal earlier this year

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6 d. ago Did the 'Coward' of the Titanic REALLY do anything wrong? Moment relative of maligned White Star Line chief says sorry to granddaughter of woman whose husband died in 1912 disaster

Shipping chief Joseph Bruce Bruce Ismay survived the sinking of his own pride and joy, the Titanic, by finding a place in a lifeboat even though they were reserved for women and children.

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6 d. ago AP PHOTOS: Clashes between India and Pakistan upend lives in a Kashmiri village

Mohammad Younis Khan was among 40 residents seeking shelter in a cowshed when shelling began in Gingal, a scenic mountain village in north Kashmir on the Indian-controlled side of the de facto border with Pakistan. Men, women and children sought refuge in the 3-meter-by-4.2 meter (10-feet-by-14 feet) space, which they felt offered greater safety than their brick and cement homes.

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9 d. ago Scotsman Obituaries: Community doctor who championed women and children’s health, and Indian music

Dr Rupasree Tewari, doctor. Born: 21 April 1948 in Kolkata, India. Died: 16 April 2025, aged 76

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9 d. ago Where are Fred and Rose West's children now? The painfully sad truth about what happened to those who survived the House of Horror

Between 1967 and 1987, the depraved couple tortured, raped, and murdered at least 12 young women - including two of their own children - in Gloucester.

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1 week ago No evidence of genocide in Gaza, UK lawyers say in arms export case

Palestinian rights organisation Al-Haq has launched high court action over carve-out of F-35 fighter jet programmeNo evidence has been seen that a genocide is occurring in Gaza or that women and children were targeted by the IDF, UK government lawyers have claimed, as a high court case opened into the handling of arms exports controls to Israel.They also suggested there was no obligation placed on the UK to make other states comply with international humanitarian law but only to ensure that no breach occured within its jurisdiction. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Scotsman Obituaries: John Dickson MBE, senior fire officer and champion piper

John Dickson MBE, senior fire officer and champion piper. Born: 1937 in Dundee. Died: 27 April 2025 in Dunning, aged 87

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1 week ago Mercury fuels gold mining in Senegal. And it’s poisoning the people who use it

In Senegal’s gold-rich Kedougou region, women and children face serious health risks from mercury exposure used in gold processing

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1 week ago Obituaries: John Dickson MBE, senior fire officer and champion piper

John Dickson MBE, senior fire officer and champion piper. Born: 1937 in Dundee. Died: 27 April 2025 in Dunning, aged 87

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1 week ago Two children dead after rubber dinghy floats adrift in Mediterranean for days

On board were 62 people, including 17 women, two babies and four small children.

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1 week ago Israeli strikes on Gaza kill 10 people, mostly women and children

Palestinian health officials say Israeli strikes overnight and into Sunday killed 10 people in the Gaza Strip, mostly women and children

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1 week ago Rebecca Solnit: ‘Fiction was always treated as the most important, literary, aspirational goal – f*** that’

The prolific non-fiction writer returns to her favourite themes of hope and uncertainty in her cheerful new book, ‘No Straight Road Takes You There’. In a conversation with Hannah Ewens, she discusses why fiction is overrated, why new age spirituality is a hoax and how a functional social welfare state would encourage women to have children

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1 week ago Women and children among migrants to have crossed the Channel

The arrivals are the first to have made the crossing to the UK in more than a week.

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