The Trump administration has ramped up deportations to third countries in an apparent bid to deter cross-border immigration. US President Donald Trump has pledged to carry out the largest deportation campaign in his country's history [File: Moises Castillo/AP Photo] The United States has sent about 2,300 Mexican nationals to Guatemala, despite objections from the Mexican government, as President Donald Trump steps up deportations. Guatemalan President Bernardo Arevalo confirm

Japan had tried to dissuade the U.S. from imposing sanctions on Tomoko Akane, president of the International Criminal Court, but the White House pressed ahead. Tomoko Akane, president of the International Criminal Court, in The Hague in 2024. Credit: Pool photo by Eva Plevier When the Trump administration escalated its attacks on the International Criminal Court last year, imposing sanctions on several judges, the court’s president, Judge Tomoko Akane, was distraught. Judge A

Far-right minister says those convicted in military courts of terror offences will be executed after passing of death penalty law that does not apply to Jewish extremists Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir in the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 20, 2026. OHAD ZWIGENBERG/AP Israel’s far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has posted a gloating video of the construction of a gallows complex where Palestinians convicted of terror offences – but not Je

The E1 plan has drawn criticism over concerns that construction could disrupt Palestinian territorial continuity and make statehood more difficult. Israeli minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich attends a press conference announcing his plans to approve more than 3,000 housing units in the E1 settlement project between Jerusalem and Ma’ale Adumim, August 14, 2025. (photo credit: YONATAN SINDEL/FLASH90) The government plan to populate the contentious E1 area, located between Ma’

The media’s coverage of the academic’s life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network Hundreds of articles were written about Jason Arday in the weeks before he died. Photo: Alamy Jason Arday, a 41-year-old academic who resigned as Cambridge’s Professor of Sociology of Education, was found dead on Friday following intense scrutiny of many aspects of his qualifications and personal life by the majority of the established press. His coordinated targeting b

Ghana's international summit on slavery reparations held in June included a re-enactment of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, performed for delegates at the former slave trading post Christiansborg Castle in Accra / Ernest Ankomah / Getty Images This year has seen a dramatic change in tone in the global conversation about the transatlantic slave trade. The demand for formal apologies, debt relief and financial compensation from nations and institutions that benefited from slave

Israel's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir (C) enters Al-Aqsa Mosque compound during the day of Tisha B'Av (the ninth day of Av) commemorating the destruction of the first and second temples in Jerusalem by the ancient Babylonians and Romans respectively, in Jerusalem, July 23, 2026. ilia YEFIMOVICH/AFP/Getty Israel once had a block of 21 settlements — known as Gush Katif — in the Gaza Strip, but the settlers and Israeli forces pulled out of the enclave two

Border security tightened after social media posts call for another mass crossing into Spain’s north African territory Moroccan police were seen monitoring dozens of migrants on the outskirts of the border town of Fnideq on Saturday. Photograph: Mohamed Siali/EPA Moroccan police have arrested 111 people as they tried to enter Spain’s north African territory of Ceuta, amid ⁠tightened security on both sides after social media posts ​called for another mass crossing. The attempt

Israeli troops stationed in the village of Zawtar el-Charqiyeh, Lebanon, on August 11, 2026 [AFP] Dozens of Lebanese Americans have filed a class action civil lawsuit against the US government and several defence contractors, saying their role in Israel’s war in Lebanon is a violation of a US law that bars assistance to foreign governments known to be committing human rights abuses. The lawsuit, filed on Tuesday in the US District Court in Michigan, names Secretary of State M

Geneva, 11 August 2026 – Investigations by the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar (Mechanism), as detailed in its Annual Report released today, show a pattern of deliberate aerial attacks on civilians, arbitrary detentions, torture and sexual violence committed by the Myanmar military. The Myanmar military escalated its aerial attacks and other crimes against civilians in the lead-up to the elections completed in January this year and these have continued unabat