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Civil rescue groups in Mediterranean cut ties with Libyan coastguard
ByAshifa Kassam European community affairs correspondent November 7, 2025

Accusations of violent interceptions and human rights violations levelled at EU-funded Libyan services by NGOsEurope live – latest updatesMore than a dozen NGO rescue vessels operating in the Mediterranean have suspended communication with the Libyan c…

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Civil rescue groups in Mediterranean cut ties with Libyan coastguard
ByAshifa Kassam European community affairs correspondent November 7, 2025

Accusations of violent interceptions and human rights violations levelled at EU-funded Libyan services by NGOsEurope live – latest updatesMore than a dozen NGO rescue vessels operating in the Mediterranean have suspended communication with the Libyan c…

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UK rejected atrocity prevention plans for Sudan despite warning of possible genocide
ByMark Townsend November 7, 2025

Exclusive: British government adopted ‘least ambitious’ option months before RSF’s massacres in El FasherBritain rejected atrocity prevention plans for Sudan despite intelligence warnings that the city of El Fasher would fall amid a wave of ethnic clea…

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UK rejected atrocity prevention plans for Sudan despite warning of possible genocide
ByMark Townsend November 7, 2025

Exclusive: British government adopted ‘least ambitious’ option months before RSF’s massacres in El FasherBritain rejected atrocity prevention plans for Sudan despite intelligence warnings that the city of El Fasher would fall amid a wave of ethnic clea…

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UN expert urged to investigate Lebanon over alleged torture of Egyptian-Turkish poet
ByWilliam Christou November 1, 2025

Abdulrahman al-Qaradawi has been imprisoned in the UAE for almost a year for criticising Emirati, Egyptian and Saudi governmentsThe UN special rapporteur on torture is being urged to investigate Lebanon’s role in the treatment of the Egyptian-Turkish p…

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‘They told me not to speak out’: the woman who took on China – and won her husband’s freedom
ByTom Levitt October 23, 2025

After fleeing Chinese repression, Uyghurs Idris and Zeynure Hasan thought their family would be safe. But Beijing’s growing influence led to Idris’s arrest and a long battle to be reunitedZeynure Hasan was at home in Istanbul in July 2021 when her husb…

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Comedy in Riyadh is a sign of progress | Letter
ByGuardian staff October 16, 2025

Omid Djalili responds to criticism of his decision to perform at a comedy festival in Saudi ArabiaWhat the critics of the Riyadh comedy festival may have missed (Letters, 13 October) is the fact that performing comedy or any live event in Saudi Arabia …

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Comedy in Riyadh is a sign of progress | Letter
ByGuardian staff October 16, 2025

Omid Djalili responds to criticism of his decision to perform at a comedy festival in Saudi ArabiaWhat the critics of the Riyadh comedy festival may have missed (Letters, 13 October) is the fact that performing comedy or any live event in Saudi Arabia …

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Thousands trapped in El Fasher siege on ‘edge of survival’, says report
ByMark Townsend October 15, 2025

The city – the Sudanese army’s last stronghold in the west of the country – has withstood more than 500 days of attacks by paramilitary RSFThe besieged Sudanese city of El Fasher has been declared “uninhabitable” with new data indicating most homes are…

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Militia strikes kill at least 60 in Sudan displacement camp, says El Fasher group
ByOliver Holmes and agencies October 11, 2025October 11, 2025

Drone and artillery strikes by RSF paramilitary group hit Dar al-Arqam shelter in western city, says resistance committeeMilitia drone and artillery strikes have killed at least 60 people at a displacement shelter in the besieged city of El Fasher in w…

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