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Football superstar Lionel Messi has been criticised for promoting several apps and video games that are part of what Human Rights Watch has described as China's network of censorship and surveillance

Haiti's Prime Minister Ariel Henry has been forced to flee the country after mob boss Jimmy Cherizier, also known as Barbecue, freed 4,000 prisoners in an attempt to overthrow the government

A British man who visited the US has shared one of the key differences he found when he was abroad - leaving Americans shocked at how shopkeepers are addressed in the UK

Menopause can have a significant impact on your oral health, and researchers are urging women to 'receive special preventive and therapeutic care from doctors and dentists' during this time

Roger Clarke, 77, was pictured on British soil for the first time today since his transfer from a Portuguese prison in 2021 just days after his wife died behind bars

The equalities watchdog has issued guidance to employers to clarify their legal obligations to women going through the menopause

Vladimir Kara-Murza, 42, is serving 25 years in a penal colony for “treason” and criticising the tyrant’s war against Ukraine, and has called on Russians to end Vladimir Putin's reign

Alexei Navalny's cause of death has not yet been released, but sources have said he may have died of a signature technique used by the KGB - a single punch to the heart

Darren Lewis says the Labour Party appears convinced it needs only to turn up to win a general election – because it’s not the Tories

ITV's Breathtaking exposes the sacrifices made by NHS staff during the Covid-19 pandemic. As the number of people needing hospital care for the virus soared, hospital patients were discharged to care homes to free up vital beds, but this sparked deadly consequences among the elderly

There is now suspicion that Alexei Navalny could have been drugged or poisoned inside the penal colony run by brute jail governor Colonel Vadim Kalinin

Russian President Vladimir Putin was 'mentally unstable' and had 'lost his mind' when he ordered the killing of opponent Alexei Navalny, according to his former speechwriter

According to the Russian human rights group OVD-info, around 100 detentions have occurred in eight cities, including of journalists and mourners across the whole county

If Joe Biden stands against Donald Trump in November it won’t just be a disaster for America and its allies, it will be the moment the US finally gave up on any pretence of being the most powerful political force on Earth

Local Russian media outlets are jumping on claims that Ekaterina Mizulina, daughter of a fanatically pro-Putin and anti-Ukrainian senator, is President Vladimir Putin's new lover

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have launched a new website that constantly refers to them by their official Royal titles - despite being told not to use the 'Sussex Royal' brand

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have launched a new website boasting their links to the Royal family - four years after quitting their roles to seek 'financial freedom'

The Centre for the Confinement of Terrorism (Cecot) is a maximum security jail constructed to house 40,000 convicts in a remote part of El Salvador - where violent gangs rule the streets

The Equality and Human Rights Commission has condemned the firm after a whistleblower raised concerns about Pontins singling out Irish Travellers as "unwanted" guests

Meghan Markle has quietly issued a new statement after the Duchess and Prince Harry relaunched their website with a new URL, Sussex.com, amid criticism it trades off their royal connections

Prince Harry's wife is simply referred to as Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex in a new website launched by the couple, which has seriously raised eyebrows amongst royal watchers...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle quietly launched a new website last night, but the glaring omission of an integral part of their life has raised some eyebrows

Argentinian-Israeliselis Fernando Simon Marman, 60, and Louis Har, 70, were rescued from the Rafah region, as Israeli air strikes killed 164 people in just one 24-hour period

Professor Jon Yorke, Director of the Centre for Human Rights at Birmingham City University, described the execution of Kenneth Smith as a 'bad day for humanity'

To his fellow activists, friends and partner Mark Stone was 'one of them' - a passionate environmental activist who was trying to change the world. Finding out he was in fact Mark Kennedy - an undercover cop - left their lives in tatters