Dozens of Uyghurs have been deported from Thailand to China in the face of warnings from human rights experts that there is a high risk they will suffer torture, enforced disappearance and imprisonment. Local media reported that several trucks with their windows covered were seen in the early hours of Thursday leaving the Bangkok immigration…
Donald Trump’s presidency will boost rightwing political forces across Europe, the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, has said, as he announced an offensive “to occupy Brussels”. A Trump ally, Hungary’s long-serving prime minister was speaking as European far-right and nationalist politicians flocked to Washington to welcome the returning US president at Monday’s inauguration. Orbán, who…
I am in my 30s and the middle child of three sisters. We don’t see one another that often as we live across the UK, but try to speak regularly and meet up a few times a year. I have always seen my older sister as more of a mum figure as our mum was…
When the weather is hot and midsummer’s bounty of berries, stone fruit, melons and bananas need a life after the fruit bowl, these frozen desserts are just a quick blitz away. Who needs an ice-cream machine when granita, sorbet and ice blocks can be devised with a swift spin in a blender and a few…
Revenge, they say, is a dish best served cold. And for an endangered owl breeding program in Canada, it’s also a dish best served dead. For the price of a coffee, spurned and disgruntled lovers can revel in the satisfaction of having a dead rat named after an ex, before it is fed to a…
The question I have been married for 18 years to a man I now consider difficult. Over the past few years, I’ve realised he has serious issues, particularly severe OCD that has left him barely functioning. He refuses help, citing concerns it might affect future emigration plans, despite being unable to leave the house. I…