23 h. ago Vegan 'rescued' lamb from farm only to dress it in a nappy and almost starve it to death

Louise Murguia has been banned from owning or keeping sheep indefinitely after she took a lamb from a farm because it appeared to have a broken leg before keeping it confined in her house for three weeks

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2 w. ago 'Disabled people are starving to death and taking their own lives, when will DWP learn?'

The Mirror's Real Britain columnist Ros Wynne Jones takes Labour's benefits overhaul to task as she sheds light on the horrors that the most vulnerable members of our society could now face

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2 w. ago Aid workers warn ‘people are dying and they’re going to continue dying’ as funding cuts hit

Moves by US, UK and other donors to cut aid mean ‘high malnutrition rates, starvation and death’, say expertsCuts to food assistance by the US, Britain and others are already leading to more people starving to death around the world, experts have warned.As the United Nations and other agencies try to understand just how badly President Donald Trump’s announced 83% cut in funding to USAid will affect the world’s most vulnerable people, the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) has said its aid provision in Somalia is being reduced, after last month’s estimate that 4.4 million people in the east African nation will be pushed into malnutrition from April because of drought, global inflation and conflict. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Scots woman who starved pony to death banned from keeping animals

Louise Emslie pleaded guilty to causing two-year-old Jazzie unnecessary suffering.

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3 w. ago Woman who starved pet dog to death in her own home sprints from court

She told a judge she knew the dog would die when she abandoned it but 'it wasn't on purpose'

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3 w. ago Evidence of torture found as detention centre and mass grave discovered outside Khartoum

Exclusive: What appears to be a vast burial site found at former Rapid Support Forces base in Sudan, while rescued detainees speak of torture, starvation and deaths of fellow inmates‘Here you will die’: detainees speak of executions, starvation and beatings at hands of Sudan’s Rapid Support ForcesMore than 500 people may have been tortured or starved to death and then buried in a secret mass grave north of Khartoum, according to evidence seen by the Guardian.A visit to a base belonging to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) shortly after it was retaken by the Sudanese military found a previously unknown detention centre, with manacles hanging from doors, apparent punishment chambers and bloodstains on the floor. Accounts from people held at the detention centre describe being repeatedly tortured by their captors. Continue reading...

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