25 h. ago A legal fight is playing out around a Mexican migrant activist accused of human trafficking

A legal battle is playing out in Mexico after police detained a well-known migration activist earlier this month, accusing him of human trafficking

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39 h. ago ‘Zombie grannies’ acting as ‘human bombers’ for Ukraine says Putin's secret service

Russia's FSB counterintelligence service has accused a group of elderly women of being 'human bombs', after the pensioners were allegedly lured by Ukraine's secret services

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44 h. ago FIFA moves ahead with new human rights strategy for World Cup games, but advocates are skeptical

FIFA is testing a new protocol for the 2026 World Cup in North America, requiring host committees to develop human rights action plans

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54 h. ago Arthur's Seat blaze continues as firefighters battle to bring fire under control

The cause of the blaze was likely started by human activity, according to Scottish Fire and Rescue Service Group Commander Niall MacLennan.

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57 h. ago Blaze at Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh likely started by human activity, fire chief says

Experts says wildfires are becoming more frequent in Scotland due to land use and climate change

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61 h. ago Arthur’s Seat fire live: Human activity ‘almost certainly’ the cause of Edinburgh blaze, fire chief says

Firefighters are still at the scene of the Scottish landmark and have told people to stay away from the area, with the hill being popular among tourists

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62 h. ago Arthur’s Seat fire live: Blaze at Edinburgh landmark likely started by human activity, fire chief says

Firefighters are still at the scene of the Scottish landmark and have told people to stay away from the area, with the hill being popular among tourists

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5 d. ago ‘Transnational repression’: Australia condemns Hong Kong’s attempts to silence exiled dissidents

G7 nations’ joint statement says arrest warrants and bounties for pro-democracy campaigners are undermining human rights and state sovereigntyGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Australian government has signed a joint statement issued on behalf of G7 nations condemning Hong Kong for seeking to “silence, intimidate, harass, harm or coerce” pro-democracy campaigners living abroad.The statement, which was also made on behalf of New Zealand, Sweden and the Netherlands, has described the issuing of arrest warrants and bounties for exiled dissidents as acts of “transnational repression” that undermine human rights and state sovereignty. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago UN plastic pollution talks must result in ambitious treaty, leading expert says

Professor Richard Thompson, a marine litter expert, says delegates must act decisively to ‘look next generation in the eye’Delegates at the UN plastic pollution treaty talks in Geneva must secure an ambitious global agreement so they can look future generations in the eye, one of the world’s leading marine litter experts has said.Prof Richard Thompson, who was named one of Time’s 100 most influential people this year for his groundbreaking work on plastic pollution, said decisive action was needed to protect human health and the planet. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Putin's 'secret daughter' says Russian leader 'destroyed her life' as she speaks out

Elizaveta Krivonogikh, also known as Luiza Rozova, 22, has reportedly broken her silence on her father for the first time in a string of cryptic social media posts

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9 d. ago Putin's secret daughter 'speaks about her father for the first time'

The young woman, who usually concealed her face in images posted to Instagram, has in recent days revealed her face as her latest upload shows her sitting in a branch of a Russian cafe chain.

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3 w. ago NATO scrambles fighter jets after Putin launches attack with nuclear bombers

Members of the international alliance were forced to deploy fighters for the second time in three days following the explosive attack on Ukraine carried out with nuclear bombers

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3 w. ago Revealed: Press officer who backed Palestine Action's fight against ban is celebrity author's privately

Georgie Robertson, the daughter of a bestselling author and a celebrity human rights barrister, has emerged as backer of Palestine Action's fight against their ban.

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3 w. ago ‘In the world of psychiatry, all your certainties are shattered’: has cinema’s champion of kindness run out of patience?

Nicolas Philibert completes his triptych of films about mental health centres with a documentary about where patients go on their darkest daysLaurence is a woman in desperate need of an act of human kindness. A hug, a cuddle: that is all she needs to keep at bay the nightmarish visions that haunt her day and night, the grey-haired patient urges her psychiatrist, words pressed through a clenched jaw, eyes bulging in panic. Yet on her ward at the Esquirol hospital centre in Paris, such simple gestures are impossible to come by. “When I asked for a hug,” Laurence laments, “they gave me a jar of yoghurt.”This scene, from Nicolas Philibert’s new documentary At Averroès & Rosa Parks, is as hard to watch as anything you are likely to see on a cinema screen this year. But it is especially remarkable coming from perhaps the world’s pre-eminent maker of humanist documentaries. The Frenchman Philibert is one of modern cinema’s great champions of kindness. Aged 74, he has built a career mak...

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4 w. ago Queen Camilla said 'I'd have taken him' as she considers new addition to Royal Family

Queen Camilla recently welcomed a new furry addition to the royal canine fold, but has also commented on the actions of human members of the Royal Family, including her husband

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4 w. ago Putin's 'secret son' revealed as he's caught on camera during public performance

Putin's alleged secret son was supposedly spotted during a public performance of the Lezginka folk dance organised by his supposed mother, ex-Olympian Alina Kabaeva

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