Scholz defends the right to asylum German chancellor Olaf Scholz has defended the right to claim asylum in Germany, rejecting calls for a radical overhaul. The right to asylum is an integral part of our legal and value system. We must not abandon it today. Directly addressing the Aschaffenburg attack last week, he calls it…
More than 100 counter-terrorism police are investigating after a caravan was found laden with explosives at a residential property in greater Sydney with indications the explosives would be used in an antisemitic attack. Police said they had found the caravan on a property in Dural, on the outskirts of Sydney on 19 January after a…
Femicide will be struck from Argentina’s penal code, according to a vow from the administration of Javier Milei, the president. It is his administration’s latest attack on women’s rights. Mariano Cúneo Libarona, the justice minister, said the government will “eliminate the figure of femicide from the Argentine penal code” adding that feminism was a “distortion…
The Pentagon has confirmed that the new US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, is revoking the security clearance and personal security detail for Mark Milley – the retired decorated army general and former chair of the joint chiefs of staff who served under Donald Trump’s first presidency and went on to criticise him. Hegseth also directed…
The first step towards creating a Celtic rainforest – a now extremely rare habitat that once covered large swathes of the west coast of Britain – has been completed in Devon. More than 2,500 native trees have been planted so far this winter at Devon Wildlife Trust’s Bowden Pillars site, above the Dart valley and…
What we know so far … Dozens of people are feared to have died in crowd crushes at India’s Kumbh Mela festival, local officials at the scene have said, as vast crowds of people went to bathe at one of the holiest sites of the Hindu gathering Citing local reports, Associated Press put the death…