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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk called on Thursday for greater protection for environmental and land defenders, noting that hundreds worldwide have been killed or detained in recent years.

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Justice department filed charges against Trump’s former adviser in 2025 as part of onslaught against president’s critics US politics live – latest updates Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email John Bolton, the former US national security adviser who left Donald Trump’s first administration and became a staunch critic of the US president, has reached a plea agreement in a case criminally charging him with mishandling classified documents, according to a source familiar with the matter. The agreement, subject to court approval, will allow Bolton to plead guilty to one count of illegal retention of sensi...

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The latest development was captured 4 Jun 2026, 14:00 CEST. The dossier window contains 66 cards condensed into 5 events. The lead event is rated medium and rests on 1 source.

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Important publishers in the current slice: UN News - All, UN News - Peace and Security, NPR - World, BBC World and The Guardian - World. Visible are 63 direct reports, including 4 institutional and 10 public-broadcaster or established media reports.

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Peter Kyle says British politics fails to reward political accomplishment and Labour risks aping Tory instability The Labour party has not learned the right lessons from the Conservatives about changing leader, a senior cabinet minister has warned, saying in a swipe at potential challengers that “entitlement is not a qualification”. Peter Kyle, the business ...

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Justice department filed charges against Trump’s former adviser in 2025 as part of onslaught against president’s critics US politics live – latest updates Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email John Bolton, the former US national security adviser who left Donald Trump’s first administration and became a staunch critic of the US president, has reac...

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John Bolton reaches plea deal over mishandling classified documents

Justice department filed charges against Trump’s former adviser in 2025 as part of onslaught against president’s critics US politics live – latest updates Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email John Bolton, the former US national security adviser who left Donald Trump’s first administration and became a staunch critic of the US president, has reached a plea agreement in a case criminally charging him with mishandling classified documents, accord...

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Business secretary attacks ‘entitlement’ of Starmer leadership rivals

Peter Kyle says British politics fails to reward political accomplishment and Labour risks aping Tory instability The Labour party has not learned the right lessons from the Conservatives about changing leader, a senior cabinet minister has warned, saying in a swipe at potential challengers that “entitlement is not a qualification”. Peter Kyle, the business secretary, said he was worried that British politics “rewards the wrong behaviour” and there was lit...

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Trump to use wartime powers to dole out $700m to coal industry

US president accused of ‘putting polluters first’ by invoking Defense Production Act to prop up coal output Donald Trump is to use a wartime presidential authority to hand $700m to coal-fired power plants in the US, the latest move by the president to bolster what he calls “beautiful clean coal” despite it being the dirtiest of fossil fuels. Trump is using the Defense Production Act, a cold war-era statute used to accelerate American industrial output in t...

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Britain’s only female naval commando among victims of Devon helicopter crash

Lt Lily-Mae Fisher, Lt Cmdr Chris Grayson and Petty Officer Owen Green died during Royal Navy training exercise Britain’s only serving female naval commando has been named as one of the three people who died in a helicopter crash during a military training exercise in Devon on Wednesday. The victims have been named by the Ministry of Defence as Lt Lily-Mae Fisher, 31, Lt Cmdr Chris Gayson, 42, and Petty Officer Owen Green, 24. Continue reading...

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Nowak murder: police accused of ‘anti-white bias’ five times more likely to stop black people

Hampshire force whose officers responded to the murder of 18-year-old has a higher than average racial disparity The police force accused of anti-white racism after officers’ response to the murder of Henry Nowak is over five times more likely to subject black people to a stop and search than white people, according to the latest figures . The racial disparity in the Hampshire force is higher than the average for England and Wales, and has worsened in rece...

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Nauru issues rare statement after whistleblower alleges violent threats against Australia’s non-citizens

Nauran government says its citizens are ‘friendly’ after MP spoke of serious threats allegedly made against former Australian detainees Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The Nauruan government has issued a rare statement insisting it is a “friendly” and “welcoming” country after a whistleblower alleged “serious threats of physical violence” were made against a group of non-citizens removed there by the Albanese government. The un...

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‘Embarrassing’: pressure on Merz after Germany’s failure to win UN security council seat

Criticism comes from across political spectrum after blow to Friedrich Merz’s government Germany’s unprecedented failure to win one of the rotating seats on the UN security council has prompted an intense round of soul searching in Berlin, and raised questions about its claims to international leadership under Friedrich Merz. The council vote on Wednesday, which elected Austria and Portugal to a two-year term along with Trinidad and Tobago and Zimbabwe, wa...

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Bondi attack hero Ahmed al-Ahmed charged with assaulting his father

Police allege the 44-year-old lauded for disarming one of the gunmen in December’s attack put his father in a headlock Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The Sydney man who disarmed one of the Bondi terror attackers has been charged with assaulting his father. Ahmed al-Ahmed, 44, is accused of allegedly putting his father in a headlock on 9 March at a house in Bankstown, in the city’s west. Continue reading...

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UK university’s axing of black studies MA has ‘dangerous parallel’ with US, says academic

Civil rights scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw warns Birmingham City University’s decision part of extremist campaign that has ‘travelled across Atlantic’ A leading US civil rights scholar has urged Birmingham City University (BCU) to reverse its decision to close its black studies course, comparing it to the attack on diversity, equity and inclusion in the US. Kimberlé Crenshaw, a professor of law at the University of California, Los Angeles and Columbia Universi...

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Rebel attacks in eastern DRC kill 30 people and hamper Ebola response

Islamic State-linked militia blamed for raids in North Kivu as governor says three patients with disease fled clinics Rebel attacks around a town that is one of the centres of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have left more than 30 people dead over the past few days, complicating the response to the disease. At least 10 people were massacred in raids on three villages around the city of Beni, in North Kivu, in the early hours of W...

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Senate Republicans drop plans for $1bn to fund security at Trump’s ballroom

Fears that push for ballroom spending could jeopardize $70bn funding for immigration enforcement Senate Republicans on Wednesday formally dropped their attempt to spend $1bn on security improvements for Donald Trump’s White House ballroom, as it became clear the president’s demand for the money could jeopardize long-term funding for immigration enforcement. The Senate judiciary committee had last month included funding for security improvements related to ...

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Four migrant workers reportedly burned alive in their car in attack in Italy

Petrol station attack in Calabria throws spotlight on widespread exploitation of foreign farm labourers The exploitation of farm workers in Italy has come under the spotlight again after four men – three Afghans and one from Pakistan – were allegedly burned alive in a car at a petrol station in Calabria. The attack was captured by a surveillance camera at the garage in Amendolara, close to Cosenza. Two Pakistani nationals have been arrested on charges of a...

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Yemen: Hunger crisis deepens as funding cuts leave millions without support

Nearly half of the population in Government-controlled areas of Yemen are facing high levels of acute food insecurity with the crisis set to deepen further if international aid cuts continue, according to the latest analysis by the leading UN-backed global food security platform.

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Australia politics live: PM pushes back at attacks on tax changes saying millions have ‘never even heard of a discretionary trust’

Follow today’s news live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Chaney said: AI companies should be able to unlock the majority of global content with a handful of individual deals – in the same way that every other industry licenses copyrighted content. Government could further work to facilitate this process for the remainder of the copyrighted content, either directly or through a centralised mechanism. Continue reading...

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California: Bakersfield police respond as man with bomb holds hostages in bank

Police say one hostage has been safely surrendered with the rest ‘in good health’ as people urged to avoid downtown A man barricaded himself inside a bank in the southern California city of Bakersfield with an unknown number of people, police said on Tuesday. The unidentified man had a bomb strapped to his body, according to Bakersfield Now . Continue reading...

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Barnaby Joyce rallies anti-abortion activists ahead of tight NSW vote

Sydney crowd told to target National MPs as upper house prepares to vote on a bill outlawing sex-selective terminations Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast One Nation’s Barnaby Joyce has joined pro-life campaigners to pile pressure on Nationals MPs to vote to criminalise some abortions ahead of a tight vote in New South Wales. Anti-abortion activists have threatened to campaign...

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