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Researchers say Stelios Kouloglou’s device was compromised after he joined European parliamentary committee

Previously, the then-Conservative government declined to apologise, arguing that the state had not supported these practices. Starmer has now acknowledged the government’s role in forced adoptions.

In June 2026, the Swiss Parliament approved the EFTA–Malaysia free trade agreement. Concerns had been raised early in the negotiations about the tariff reductions on palm oil that were ultimately adopted.

Outgoing prime minister Sir Keir Starmer has insisted his government will “defend” LGBTQ+ rights, as he used a Downing Street Pride reception to highlight policy achievements - but his remarks come at a time of growing scepticism towards Labour among parts of the LGBTQ+ community.

The months after the October 7, 2023, attacks saw a wave of questionable mainstream news stories about alleged sexual assault in Hamas’s attacks that day on Israel.

Astens of thousands are freed, female survivors are increasingly reporting gender-based violence in the compounds, previously thought to hold mainly men.

The Home Secretary has pledged to save the asylum system “for generations to come” as she announced the opening of new safe routes for refugees from the autumn.

Russia’s Africa Corps mercenaries and Mali’s army killed four civilians in the country’s north this week and left one victim’s dismembered body arranged into a swastika, according to French broadcaster RFI.

Switzerland’s commodity trading hub thrives on risky business with global consequences – for human rights, the environment and the climate.

Independent report says by aiming at children Israel is undermining capacity of Palestinian people to exist.

Monika Silva Koniuszek died from a blow to the head and strangulation, a postmortem found, despite government claim of suicide.

The US military has struck a vessel in the Caribbean, killing two people, alleging that the vessel was operated by "designated terrorist organisations" that it did not identify.

Indonesia is booming as a production hub for sports shoes and sneakers for major brands.

Mozambican soldiers have been accused of rape and sexual violence against women and girls in Cabo Delgado, while staff working on TotalEnergies’ LNG project allegedly coerced women into sex, according to interviews and an unpublished UN report obtained by Forbidden Stories.

North Korea has recalled its UK ambassador after Britain sanctioned a children’s camp believed to be brainwashing abducted Ukrainian children.

The UK government has won its appeal to maintain the ban on Palestine Action. In response, the group’s co-founder, Huda Ammori, vowed to fight the proscription all the way to the Supreme Court and the European Court of Human Rights, calling the ban an extreme attack on free speech and protest.

Shadow home secretary Chris Philp has vowed to abolish immigration tribunals as part of plans to be announced by the Conservatives.

UK and European law has started from the premise that trans people exist since at least 1999.

Nigel Farage has told LBC he wants to be Prime Minister as he is the "only person that’s got sufficient public rapport and the courage to take on the establishment and do what needs to be done".

Mining giant Glencore’s vast coal mine in Colombia, Cerrejón, is an open pit six times the size of Manchester.

Amnesty International’s recent report highlights that Cambodia’s widely publicized crackdown on online scam operations largely left the majority of known compounds unaddressed and failed to rescue people trapped in forced labor, torture, and slavery.

As details of the deal emerge, POLITICO has identified the sectors that seem most likely to benefit as well as those that appear to be left out.

After being released from prisons in Russia, Ukrainian citizens are indefinitely kept in practical captivity.

There has been international condemnation of Israel’s treatment of pro-Palestinian activists who were on board a Gaza-bound aid flotilla intercepted by Israeli naval forces.

The BBC reported on an Afghan family who, due to extreme poverty and debt, agreed to give their 7-year-old twin daughters into forced marriage.