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‘They kidnap people, then leave’: inside Nigeria’s bandit crisis
Banditry has been booming in northwest Nigeria in recent years, but government forces are now attempting to strike back and restore stability in one of Africa’s most dangerous regions.
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Meta scraps ‘biased’ fact checkers ahead of Trump presidency
Mark Zuckerberg is planning to team up with Donald Trump to “push back” against what he called the EU’s “ever increasing number of laws institutionalising censorship”.
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Shoshana Zuboff: ‘Zuckerberg is an information oligarch’
Former Harvard professor Shoshana Zuboff wrote the best-seller ‘The Age of Surveillance Capitalism’, a sociological analysis of the digital era.
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Jess Phillips: ‘I’ve had to make changes to my life’ after Musk posts
One MP who has been accused of not engaging with the grooming gang issue is the Safeguarding minister Jess Phillips.
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‘Victims and survivors have been failed for far too long’, says Tory MP
The Conservative MP Robbie Moore said his district in Bradford has been “haunted” by “the grooming of children for decades” and accused local leaders of “refusing” to launch an inquiry.
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Grooming gangs: What inquiries have already taken place?
There’s been a political divide over calls for a public inquiry into grooming gangs. We’ve been looking at the various reviews that have already taken place.
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French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen dies aged 96
He was the godfather of the far right in Europe and the father of the woman who could take far right-wing politics all the way into France’s Elysee Palace.
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Creation of sexually explicit deepfakes to become a crime
Creating sexually explicit “deep fake” images will become a criminal offence under new laws aimed at protecting women and girls.
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US imposes sanctions on Sudan, accuses RSF of genocide
The US has determined that the Rapid Support Forces who are fighting Sudan’s military in the country’s brutal civil war, have committed massacres and rape that amount to genocide.
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Deadly earthquake kills more than 126 in Tibet
Rescuers are desperately trying to reach survivors with temperatures expected to drop to minus 18 degrees at night.
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Exclusive: Serving senior officer speaks out about misogyny in policing
Lizzie Jones, a serving officer, has spoken exclusively to Channel 4 News about misogyny in policing.
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William Tell director on why the tale is more relevant than ever
William Tell may have been a fictional character, but the story of the Swiss huntsman and resistance leader forced to shoot an apple from his own son’s head has endured for over 500 years.
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Elon Musk v Donald Trump – who has the real power?
In this episode of the America Fourcast, Matt Frei is joined by Albert Eisenberg, a political strategist who runs the messaging firm BlueStateRed, and Joan Donovan, assistant professor of journalism at Boston University to discuss if Elon Musk is good for democracy and whether Donald Trump can rein him in.
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FactCheck: cuts to England’s bus network cost economy £2.6bn a year, exclusive research finds
Shrinking services are linked to thousands of jobs lost.
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Trump Junior visits ‘not up for sale’ Greenland
Donald Trump Junior, the eldest son of the incoming US president, is visiting Greenland just weeks after his father repeated wishes that Greenland join the USA.
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Palestinians will take control of Gaza after war says ambassador
Palestinian officials say Hamas and Fatah are getting close to an agreement to appoint a committee of technocrats to run Gaza after the war.
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‘Total regional war’ a risk without end to Gaza fighting – Qatar
We spoke about all this with Qatar’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Dr Majed al-Ansari in Doha.
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Twelve people killed overnight by Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon
We have the latest on the situation in Lebanon.
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Syrian army fighting rebels advancing on city in west
Syrian government forces are battling to stop rebels advancing towards Hama, in the west of the country.
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Welsh Conservative leader wins vote for survival then quits
He survived a confidence vote, but Andrew RT Davies has resigned as leader of the Welsh Conservatives in the Senedd anyway.
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Yoon’s martial law was ‘miscalculated’, says Koreas expert
Sojin Lim is a reader in Asia Pacific Studies at the University of Central Lancashire and an expert in both Koreas.
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US watches South Korea developments with concern
The Biden administration says it is watching the developments in South Korea with grave concern.
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President’s actions ‘huge overreaction’, says Koreas expert
We spoke to John Nilsson-Wright, who is head of the Japan and Koreas programme at the Centre for Geopolitics at Cambridge University.
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South Korea president revokes martial law after protests
South Korea president Yoon Suk Yeol shocked his country and the world by declaring emergency martial law.
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The real reason Syrian rebels attacked Assad now
Syrian rebels launched the biggest attack in years against President Bashar al-Assad’s government forces, reigniting a bloody civil war – but with Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and the Israel Gaza conflict just next door, the world appears to be on the brink.
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Stalking victims given ‘right to know’ perpetrator’s identity
The changes come after a class action brought by charities and campaign groups, who say in too many cases, police are failing to protect stalking victims.
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Cate Blanchett on AI, G7 and Syria crisis
A G7 summit may not seem like a promising setting for a film.
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Too poor for school: how poverty keeps children at home
Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson says she was “introducing free breakfast clubs in every primary school” and expanding an “attendance mentors programme”.
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How schools are tackling pupil absences
Last month the Education Secretary in England pledged to tackle what she called the school ‘absence epidemic’ seen in the wake of the pandemic.
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DUBBED On Ukraine’s eastern frontline as Russia marches forward
The German Chancellor has visited Ukraine – weeks after he was rebuked by Volodymyr Zelenskyy for holding a phone call with the Russian President.
