A group of 15 teenage girls in southeast England has taken its campaign against the sexualisation of school uniforms to the British Parliament, calling for legislation to prohibit their use in pornographic
A group of 15 teenage girls in southeast England has taken its campaign against the sexualisation of school uniforms to the British Parliament, calling for legislation to prohibit their use in pornographic
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Four young men have been arrested in connection with the alleged gang rape of a young woman at gunpoint in the Santhapuram area of Kilinochchi, northern Sri Lanka, police said. The suspects
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Patients undergoing surgery surrender control of their bodies to medical professionals, often becoming completely unconscious before an operation begins. While surgeons concentrate on the procedure, conversations continue around the operating table, sometimes
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On November 4, 2026, a 50-year-old man, Zahed Bepari, was hacked to death inside a Sufi Shrine in the Charkewar Union of the Munshiganj Sadar Upazila (Sub-District) in Munshiganj District. On October
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Editorial The arrest of Abdulla Shahid, former Foreign Minister of the Maldives and President of the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, over allegations of sexually abusing a minor is
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Economist Mariana Mazzucato has called for a fundamental restructuring of capitalism, arguing that economic policy must place public welfare ahead of private profit. In an interview with Der Spiegel, she said governments
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United Nations human rights experts have condemned the arrest, alleged enforced disappearance and detention of six Egyptian journalists who make up the entire newsroom of the independent investigative media platform Matsadaash, warning
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The Council of Europe’s anti-racism commission published its seventh report on Czechia on 27 October. ECRI’s team had been in the country the previous November, and by the standards of such documents
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Germany is reconsidering one of the fundamental principles governing its sexual criminal law: what constitutes consent. A proposed reform of Section 177 of the German Criminal Code would shift the legal focus
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The global toll of journalists killed has reached its highest level in more than a decade, with 189 media professionals losing their lives between January 2024 and December 2025, according to a
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The 2026 midterm elections have been the most expensive in history, with more than $11 billion being spent on political ads. While Democratic candidates have outraised Republicans in individual donations by appealing
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A violent confrontation inside his Munich apartment left a journalist who had considered himself a peaceful person contemplating an act of revenge with a hammer. The incident, followed by months of anger,
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Spanish actress Lucía Caraballo has criticised the promotion of hatred against minority groups, arguing that freedom of expression cannot be used to justify messages targeting people because of their identities. “Promoting hatred
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Almost three decades after Sean Brown was abducted and murdered in Northern Ireland, the British government is preparing to challenge a decision that could finally bring public scrutiny to the role of
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Editorial The death of a man in police custody is not an administrative mishap to be explained away by a routine statement from the Police Media Division. It is a matter of
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