Short-term Home Office facilities are holding people seeking refuge in overcrowded, unsanitary conditions and for far too long. This crisis has political roots.
Life-saving deal: the UN General Assembly watches the ‘Brave Commander’, the first ship to leave Ukraine loaded with grain after the deal was struck in July.
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You be the judge: just how wacky can jury decisions be?
French president Emmanuel Macron and Algerian president Abdelmadjid Tebboune after signing a “renewed partnership agreement” in August 2022.
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The Istanbul convention aims to tackle violence, including domestic abuse, rape, female genital mutilation and forced marriage. Some states are wavering in their commitment to its provisions.
Major concern: a simulation of the explosion of a ‘dirty bomb’ in Seattle, US, in 2003.
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Shakespeare often portrayed crises of legitimacy and reflected on the politics of his day but the Tories might not fare so well in a modern production.
Nicola Sturgeon at the SNP conference in April 2022.
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