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Home Office documents reveal deep concerns about Rwanda's treatment of protesters, the killing of 12 refugees by police and discrimination toward LGBT people were dismissed

Tobias Ellwood said that the majority of Taliban members aren't fundamentalists, claiming many join the group for social and tribal reasons

Anders Breivik, Norway’s worst peacetime killer, claims his solitary confinement since being imprisoned in 2012 amounts to inhumane treatment despite living in a two-story complex

Records of blood testing of nuclear servicemen have been locked away for decades as a state secret, the Mirror can reveal

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT. The world's worst prisons include Camp 14 Kaechon in North Korea in which inmates as young as 11 are forced into labour and Gldani Prison in Georgia where guards were exposed for rape

Lee Jae-myung, the tough-talking leader of South Korea's main opposition party, was set upon by a knife-wielding man in Busan today before collapsing to the ground

Some argue that enshrining assisted dying in law could start a "slippery slope" to non-voluntary euthanasia, which could put more pressure on to poorer patients to ease the family burden

A previously-secret report written while Tony Blair was Prime Minister suggested deporting refugees to Turkey, Kenya and South Africa in the early 2000s

The framework agreement between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf shocked the sport back in June, and four-time major champion Ernie Els believes Jay Monahan wronged by negotiating with PIF

Many Brits believe that "following the law" is enough to keep themselves out of trouble in the United Arab Emirates, which is no longer the case, according to Detained in Dubai CEO Radha Stirling

The former USWNT goalkeeper has become a Homeless World Cup champion and is bidding to put an end to one of the world's widest-reaching human issues as a legacy to her late father

In the totalitarian state of North Korea, religious dissidents risk their lives to mark Christmas Day - anti-persecution charity Open Doors estimates there are 400,000 Christians and 50,000-70,000 are currently imprisoned in the country

Pep Guardiola's team end the year with a fifth trophy as Abu Dhabi reaps rewards with success in Saudi Arabia. The Gulf states are only going to become more powerful entering the new year but it is time to come up with an alternative descriptor than sportswashing

Conservative MP Miriam Cates is facing a probe by Parliament's Commissioner for Standards into allegations she caused 'significant damage to the reputation' of the House of Commons

Brendan Clarke-Smith said ministers can 'always rely' on the RAF amid reports commercial airlines are 'running a mile' from the Rwanda deportation scheme

Leonard Farruku was being treated “like an animal” on Bibby Stockholm before his death, his sister claims, and his death caused great distress among the other asylum seekers on the barge

A dissident in Rwanda who spent eight years in prison for challenging the regime has raised alarm about the money the UK is sending to the country in an attempt to get its migrant deal underway

Meanwhile, the Palestinian president met with United States officials to discuss postwar arrangements for Gaza that could include reactivating Palestinian security forces driven out by Hamas in its 2007 takeover of the territory

Twenty-four years ago Sabir Zazai arrived to Britain in the back of a lorry after an arduous journey from war-torn Afghanistan - now the refugee champion hopes to keep the spirit of sanctuary alive

Jon Venables and Robert Thompson took toddler James Bulger from a shopping centre in Liverpool and brutally murdered him before trying to blame each other for their sick crimes

Security Minister Tom Tugendhat aimed a jibe at his Cabinet colleague David Cameron, the Foreign Secretary, eight years after the then PM predicted a "golden era" of relations with Beijing

Hollywood star George Clooney joked that he has gotten used to being overshadowed by wife Amal's eye-catching outfits and, these days, is happy to play second fiddle

Tory rebels have threatened to torpedo Rishi Sunak's emergency Rwanda legislation unless the Prime Minister gives into their demands, with plotters warning he's 'f***ed'

Green Party MP Caroline Lucas says Rishi Sunak's desperate bid to push through the Rwanda plan in spite of a Supreme Court ruling that it is illegal represents a 'grim slide into authoritarianism'

Dorset Police officers were called to the Bibby Stockholm barge, which is being used by the Home Office to house asylum seekers, shortly after 6.20am