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The rules on what counts as taxable income haven’t changed.
Nichimura Mako, bottom left, is the only woman to ever formally join a yakuza gang as a full member.
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Nishimura Mako’s life in the yakuza was dangerous and violent.
Judges arrive for the hearing of the genocide case against Israel brought by South Africa, at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, January 2024.
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The crime of genocide was first established in law by a Polish Jew who had fled the Nazis and wanted to hold them to account for the Holocaust.
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Donald Trump may be the GOP’s frontrunner, but there’s a good reason why President Biden wants to face him in November’s presidential election.
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A new law has been introduced that officially brings dog meat to an end as a commodity in South Korea.
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Private prosecutions can serve the public interest but the system needs better oversight and inspection.
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The government not only outsources the computer systems to companies like Fujitsu but all knowledge about how to operate them, maintain them and fix them when they go wrong.
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Conflict between Lebanon and Israel looms – it would throw the Lebanese economy further into crisis.
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Iran’s role in the recent conflict between Israel, Hamas and Hezbollah shows how badly western containment policy has failed.
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With the Panama Canal in drought and the Strait of Hormuz also vulnerable to Iran, global trade routes are under severe pressure.
Donald Trump claims he can force an end to the Ukraine war in 24 hours if he becomes president.
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Donald Trump’s foreign policy plans include forcing an end to the Ukraine war and moving thousands of troops to the Mexican border.
Yemen’s Houthi-affiliated security forces stand guard during a march in solidarity with the people of Gaza in the capital Sanaa.
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The Houthis have taken over much of northern Yemen, since they stormed the capital, Sanaa in 2014.
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It’s hard not to support the plan to right this miscarriage of justice but the government is setting a dangerous constitutional precedent in order to correct its own mistakes.
Paula Vennells.
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Constitutional expert Craig Prescott answers our questions about the UK honours system.
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The Post Office has exploited the slowness of legal and political institutions.
The head of Crimea’s Russian-backed government Sergey Aksyonov, is behind the reemergence of Smersh.
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Smersh was originally set up to trace German spies in the Soviet Union during the Second World War.
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A selection of analysis from our coverage of the war in Gaza over the past fortnight.
One in five Americans said they would vote for independent Robert F Kennedy Jr in a recent poll.
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Independent candidates have had significant power to affect the result of presidential elections in the past.
Campaigner Chris Head delivers a petition to Downing Street in 2020. Perhaps no one was home.
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The victims of the Horizon scandal had no political constituency and served no existing partisan debate.
In this photo provided by the North Korean government, Kim Jong Un and his daughter visit a factory that produces rocket launchers.
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Kim Jong-un is continuing to release statements about a possible military conflict with South Korea.
From May 2024, an elected mayor of the north-east will lead a new authority spanning Northumberland, Tyne & Wear and County Durham.
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Years of political turbulence, economic shocks and the failure to ‘level up’ as pledged have turned English devolution into a key political and constitutional issue
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Under Vladimir Putin homophobia has become a government policy reminiscent of Stalin’s era.
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John Major admitted to be too thin-skinned when his government started to crumble.
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Mothers are more likely to work poor quality jobs, with limited control over their work and flexibility.
Show of strength: an image released by the UK ministry of defence, of the Royal Navy responding to the Houthi attack.
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The Iran-backed Houthi rebels have the power to significantly destabilise global trade by endangering maritime activity in the Red Sea.