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Policy adviser Jen Reed says tech-facilitated abuse has become ‘increasingly prevalent’ and calls for its inclusion in Domestic Abuse Act The Domestic Abuse Act fails to fully recognise the danger of technology-facilitated abuse, such as location tracking or hidden stalkerware, a Lords select committee has heard. Tech abuse has become “increasingly prevalent” and “very commonplace now within a do…

Boys physically overpowered and then filmed attacks on teenage victims in separate incidents in Hampshire Three teenage boys convicted of knife-point rape and other serious sexual offences against two teenage girls in Hampshire have not been given custodial sentences because the judge said he “should avoid criminalising these children unnecessarily”. The boys, who were aged between 13 and 14 at t…

Updated code of practice covering England, Wales and Scotland also relates to changing rooms and follows supreme court ruling Single-sex toilets and changing rooms in England, Wales and Scotland must exclude transgender men and women, according to a new code of practice from the equalities watchdog. But the long-awaited guidance also says that businesses and service providers have to offer practi…

Approval marks key step forward for project dubbed ‘Arc de Trump’, which will be near Arlington National Cemetery The Commission of Fine Arts on Thursday approved designs for Donald Trump’s proposed 250-ft triumphal arch in Washington DC. The vote on Thursday by the panel, which is made up of Trump appointees, marks a key step forward for the project. Next month, the proposed design is set to be …

DNC chair Ken Martin apologizes for initial bid to block release of report on the party’s disastrous election defeat The Democrats have belatedly published a postmortem on the party’s disastrous 2024 election defeat, after an initial decision to withhold the document triggered an angry backlash. Ken Martin, chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), released the report – which fails to men…

Africa CDC says restrictions could increase public health risks and highlight ‘deeper structural injustice’ in global health A US travel ban for people coming from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda or South Sudan in response to the Ebola outbreak could make the situation worse, critics have said. The outbreak was declared a public health emergency of international concern on Sunday and…

Music is banned on Wednesdays on island of Stromboli where Rolling Stones frontman was celebrating wrapping a film Police on an Italian island stopped a party attended by Mick Jagger – because music is banned on Wednesdays. The Rolling Stones frontman was on Stromboli, the volcanic island among Sicily’s Aeolian archipelago, for the production of Three Incestuous Sisters, a film by the Italian dir…

Exclusive: Scotland Yard criticises London mayor’s decision as disappointing and warns it could hit policing A £50m Metropolitan police deal with the controversial US tech company Palantir has been blocked by Sadiq Khan, sparking a bitter row between the London mayor and Scotland Yard. After the UK’s largest police force had agreed to use Palantir’s AI technology to automate intelligence analysis…

Highest-ranking staff will get 2.5% pay rise with bonuses for top performers in plan to ‘rewire’ civil service Senior civil servants will get bonuses for exceptional performance for the first time under a new system that Darren Jones, the Cabinet Office minister, said would reward the “doers, not the talkers”. Jones, who is also chief secretary to the prime minister, said most civil servants woul…

Senate will not pass the $70bn legislation ahead of a 1 June deadline set by Trump ahead of the Memorial Day recess A bid to restore funding to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and border patrol has been derailed by rows over a $1bn proposal for security measures tied to Donald Trump ’s White House ballroom and controversial plans to create a $1.8bn “anti-weaponization” fund. The US S…

Court throws out state’s challenge to judicial finding that inmate convicted of murder is ineligible for death penalty The US supreme court on Thursday threw out a challenge by the state of Alabama to a judicial finding that a death row inmate convicted of a 1997 murder is intellectually disabled and thus ineligible under the US constitution for the death penalty. In this highly unusual move, and…

Cubans express outrage at US charges against Raúl Castro but view military strikes as serious possibility A new question in being asked in Havana as people digest the news that the US has brought criminal charges against Cuba’s 94-year-old former president, Raúl Castro : who’s your neighbour? If you happen to live near a senior figure in Cuba’s government or armed forces, others suck their teeth …

Surging demand, low reserves and reduced Middle East exports predicted to cause global crunch by August Oil markets will enter the “red zone” by July and August as stocks dwindle before the summer travel season amid a shortage of fresh oil exports from the Middle East, the executive director of the International Energy Authority warned on Thursday. Fatih Birol added that the most important soluti…

Israel’s far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has triggered global outrage after sharing footage of himself taunting bound activists who had been detained as they tried to sail to Gaza with aid. The video has been widely condemned by world leaders, including the Italian prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, and by Israeli politicians, among them the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.…

Demands grow for launch of formal discussion process on how country should address legacies of enslavement Emmanuel Macron is under pressure to open discussions on reparatory justice for France’s role in hundreds of years of enslavement of African people as he makes a key speech on the legacy of slavery. On Thursday the French president will celebrate the 25th anniversary of France becoming the f…