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‘Punishment and imprisonment is not the answer’ to preventing late abortion, says Labour MP
A woman who was jailed for illegally obtaining abortion tablets to end her pregnancy during lockdown is to be released from prison early.
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Cookham Wood: weapons and violence rife at young offenders institute, report reveals
Children armed themselves with homemade weapons for protection at a young offenders institution in Kent where violence was rife – a damning report has revealed.
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UNHCR: People seeking refugee status ‘won’t have opportunity to have claim heard’ if migration bill made law
We speak to UNHCR Representative to the UK, Vicky Tennant.
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EU and Tunisia sign deal to help tackle illegal migration
Europe has also been trying to deliver on its pledge to tackle illegal migration, agreeing a new deal with the country that’s become the latest hub for people trying to cross the Mediterranean for European shores.
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Heatwave hits southern Europe, US and China – UK announces new climate plan
While millions of people across the world are sweltering in a heatwave so intense, it’s sending temperatures off the charts, the Government here has just published its five year plan designed to protect the country against the impact of extreme climate change.
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‘The crisis of Indian media is very unique’, says Indian journalist
We spoke with the documentary’s director Vinay Shukla and Ravish Kumar himself.
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AI warfare ‘more likely’ to make battlefield mistakes, says Queen Mary University senior lecturer
We spoke to Dr Elke Schwarz – she is an associate professor of political theory and the author of “Death machines: The ethics of violent technologies”.
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Councils call for disposable vape ban by 2024
Councils in England and Wales are pushing for a ban next year on single use vapes saying they are a danger to the environment as well to health, particularly that of children.
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One in 20 UK adults run out of food and couldn’t afford more
One in twenty adults in the UK have run short of food, and couldn’t afford to buy more – according to official figures on the cost of living crisis.
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Travel chaos ‘inevitable’ as hundreds of Gatwick workers pledge strike action
If you were hoping to get away from the strikes by heading abroad – think again.
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‘Junior doctors shouldn’t be on picket line, they should be in hospital,’ says Education Secretary
Teachers in England are likely to call off their strike action – after union leaders gave their support to a new Government pay offer.
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Female officer tells court of “toxic and discriminatory” culture in firearms unit
A female firearms officer has told a court that she felt frightened for her family’s safety after making complaints about a “toxic and discriminatory” culture in her unit.
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‘What’s happening in Sudan has all characteristics of genocide,’ says former UN co-oridinator
We spoke to Mukesh Kapila the former UN Humanitarian coordinator in Sudan in 2003, when the conflict in Darfur began.
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Sunak offers pay rise to millions of public sector workers
Within minutes of the government confirming that they’d accepted the recommendations of the pay review bodies, the teaching unions in England had called off their strikes.
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Hundreds of dead birds killed by avian flu removed from Scotland beaches
More than a thousand dead birds have been removed from beaches in Aberdeenshire so far this week, and 32, 000 hens have been culled after a dramatic rise in avian flu.
