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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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Mass slaughter in Gaza stands apart from other genocides, Chris Sidoti says – ‘People cannot escape’
ByBen Doherty September 30, 2025

Australian human rights expert who was on UN commission of inquiry labels Israel’s strategy a failure that ‘has not brought peace and has not destroyed Hamas’Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast“The people of Gaza have absolutely…

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World must deny Israel ‘tools of genocide’, says growing alliance of activist states
ByPatrick Wintour in New York September 26, 2025

New York meeting of Hague Group warns of shared responsibility to prevent genocide and proposes steps to isolate IsraelThe international community has a legal and moral duty to deny Israel “the tools of genocide”, the Malaysian foreign minister, Mohama…

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World must deny Israel ‘tools of genocide’, says growing alliance of activist states
ByPatrick Wintour in New York September 26, 2025September 26, 2025

New York meeting of Hague Group warns of shared responsibility to prevent genocide and proposes steps to isolate IsraelThe international community has a legal and moral duty to deny Israel “the tools of genocide”, the Malaysian foreign minister, Mohama…

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Now the UN says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, too. How can western governments still refuse to act? | Steve Crawshaw
BySteve Crawshaw September 17, 2025

The UN commission of inquiry’s report makes it almost impossible for Israel – and its allies – to maintain the narrative that criticism of it is part of an antisemitic plotThe conclusion of a UN commission of inquiry that Israel has committed genocide …

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UK has ‘not concluded’ Israel carrying out genocide in Gaza, Lammy says
ByPatrick Wintour and Geneva Abdul September 9, 2025

Government position set out in letter to select committee as No 10 prepares for visit by Israeli presidentMiddle East crisis – live updatesThe UK has not concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, nor that any of the British-made parts for F…

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UK has ‘not concluded’ Israel carrying out genocide in Gaza, Lammy says
ByPatrick Wintour and Geneva Abdul September 9, 2025

Government position set out in letter to select committee as No 10 prepares for visit by Israeli presidentMiddle East crisis – live updatesThe UK has not concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, nor that any of the British-made parts for F…

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The deadly toll on journalists in the Gaza war
ByAnnie Kelly September 1, 2025

With foreign media barred, Palestinians have reported alone, facing the ‘most deliberate effort to kill and silence’ them ever Continue reading…

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The deadly toll on journalists in the Gaza war
ByAnnie Kelly September 1, 2025

With foreign media barred, Palestinians have reported alone, facing the ‘most deliberate effort to kill and silence’ them ever Continue reading…

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Assault on Sudan’s Zamzam refugee camp may have killed more than 1,500 civilians
ByMark Townsend August 7, 2025

Guardian investigation finds number killed in April attack by Rapid Support Forces far greater than current estimatesMore than 1,500 civilians may have been massacred during an attack on Sudan’s largest displacement camp in April, in what would be the …

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