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Judge at centre of row with Trump over Venezuela deportations will hear Signal lawsuit
US president had previously called for the impeachment of James Boasberg after the judge blocked his deportation flights The US judge set to hear a new lawsuit over the Signal fiasco is the same judge whom Donald Trump has argued should be impeached for blocking him from using wartime powers to deport Venezuelan migrants. James…
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 More than 500 people may have been tortured or starved to death and then buried in a secret mass grave north of Khartoum, according to…
The Ugandan arts centre bringing harmony to Africa’s biggest refugee camp
The Bidi Bidi performing arts venue offers more than 250,000 refugees the chance to sing, play, dance – and dream of a peaceful future The sound of a flute floats towards five young men in the 1,000-seat Bidi Bidi Performing Arts Centre theatre in Uganda – the country that hosts the highest number of refugees…
Teenager guilty of murdering schoolgirl outside shopping centre
A teenager who repeatedly stabbed schoolgirl Elianne Andam in a row over a teddy bear has been found guilty of her murder. Hassan Sentamu, then 17, attacked the 15-year-old outside a shopping centre in Croydon, south London, on 27 September 2023. Sentamu, now 18, admitted manslaughter, claiming he was not in control of his actions…
Austria’s far-right leader to invite centre right for coalition talks
Herbert Kickl’s move could pave way for anti-immigration, pro-Kremlin Freedom party to govern country The leader of Austria’s anti-immigration, pro-Kremlin Freedom party has said he intends to invite the mainstream centre-right party for coalition talks, potentially paving the way for the far right to rule the country for the first time since the second world…
Infants ‘ate food scraps off the floor’ of Wagga Wagga childcare centre, court told
NSW centre to remain closed after serious issues aired, though operators dispute many of the allegations and plan to contest tribunal’s finding A childcare centre will remain closed after children allegedly ate scraps of food off the floor, did not receive first aid after falls and were repeatedly left unsupervised. The serious safety concerns raised…
Health innovation centre looks to future of NHS while celebrating its past
First building to open at Huddersfield’s National Health Innovation Centre is named after NHS’s first black matron In a full-scale model of a house, a £50,000 mannequin that can breathe, blink and cough waits for the replica of an ambulance. “We can inject them and they will react. We can collapse lungs and intubate them,…
Inside a Syrian ‘reconciliation centre’ where Assad’s soldiers give up their weapons
On the night of 6 December, Mohammed el-Nadaf, a soldier in the Syrian army, was at his position in Homs. As rebels led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) pushed into the city, days after they had seized control of Aleppo and Hama in a lightning offensive, Mohammed decided he didn’t want to fight. “We had…