Human Rights Watch says Israeli forces have acted deliberately to cut availability of clean water Israel’s restriction of Gaza’s water supply to levels below minimum needs amounts to an act of genocide and extermination as a crime against humanity, a human rights report has alleged. Human Rights Watch (HRW) investigated Israeli attacks on the water…

Fighting claimed lives until the final moments before the truce between Israel and Hamas took effect. For some, an unexpected delay of a few hours proved deadly.

Yoon Suk Yeol told authorised soldiers to break down doors and drag politicians out of parliament, prosecutors say.

Police say students lured victim, 22, then accused him of being a pedophile for meeting an 18-year-old before filming attack Five Massachusetts college students are scheduled to make their first appearances in court Thursday, accused of plotting to lure a man through a dating app into visiting campus last fall and then seizing him as…

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Lisa Nandy defends Yvette Cooper’s decision to order urgent review following pressure driven by Elon Musk Rowena Mason is the Guardian’s Whitehall editor Rachel Reeves has said she is not going to let her critics get her down after a bruising week of speculation about whether she could be ousted as chancellor. Continue reading…