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The arms manufacturing gold-rush

Major arms manufacturers are experiencing a genuine gold-rush moment

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Sievierodonetsk cut off by Russian forces, last bridge into Donbas destroyed, Zelenskyy warns of 'brutal' battle ahead

As the fight for the Donbas region intensifies, Ukraine's President says it will be remembered as "one of the most brutal battles" in European history.

ABC News

Police investigating killings of 12,000 Ukrainians in war

Ukraine's national police chief says authorities are investigating the killings of more than 12,000 Ukrainians nationwide in the war Russia is waging

The Independent UK

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Amnesty says Russia guilty of war crimes in Kharkiv shelling

Russia's relentless shelling of the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv with cluster munitions and scatterable land mines amounts to a war crime that indiscriminately killed hundreds of civilians, Amnesty International said on Monday.

Reuters

Ukraine news – live: Russian strikes destroy all bridges to embattled Sievierodonetsk

Governor Serhiy Gaidai wrote on the Telegram app that Russia had not taken full control of Sievierodonetsk

The Independent UK

Russia kills scores of civilians using ‘indiscriminate’ cluster bombs and rockets, Amnesty International says

A report accuses Russian forces of relentlessly using internationally banned cluster bombs in Ukraine’s second largest city

Evening Standard

Ukraine war: Amnesty accuses Russia of ‘war crimes’ in Kharkiv

Amnesty International accuses Moscow of dropping banned cluster bombs on Ukrainian city, killing hundreds of civilians.

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Amnesty Accuses Russia of War Crimes in Kharkiv, Killing Hundreds

Amnesty International on Monday accused Russia of war crimes in Ukraine, saying attacks on Kharkiv, many using banned cluster bombs, had killed hundreds of civilians.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Zelenskiy says the battle for Sievierodonetsk is taking a ‘terrifying’ toll on Ukraine – as it happened

This live blog is now closed, you can find our latest coverage of the Russia-Ukraine war here

The Guardian - AU

More bodies exhumed near Ukraine’s Bucha as battle rages for Severodonetsk

Ukrainian investigators exhumed seven bodies from makeshift graves in a forest near Bucha on Monday as Kyiv said its forces had been pushed back from the centre of Severodonetsk, the epicentre of a wider battle for control of the eastern Donbas region. All times Paris time (GMT+2).

France 24

8 Convicts Facing Finger Amputation in Iran

Eight Iranian men convicted of theft are in imminent risk of having their fingers cut off, campaign groups warned on Friday. All eight men are being held in the Greater Tehran prison waiting for their fingers on one hand to be amputated, the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center for Human Rights in…

Asharq Al-Awsat

El Salvador's Latest Gang Crackdown Includes Human Rights Violations

President Nayib Bukele is using brutal tools to solve a problem driven partly by U.S. immigration policy.

Reason

Sanctions and sportswashing – The key questions as golf’s rebel series kicks off

The likes of Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson will compete at Centurion Club.

The Independent UK

LIV Golf Q&A: The key questions as new Saudi-backed rebel series tees off

The likes of Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson will compete at Centurion Club

The Independent UK

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Al Jazeera

Bangladesh scrapping rights group’s licence a ‘chilling message’

Bangladeshi and global rights defenders slam the government’s move to deregister top NGO Odhikar.

The Independent UK

Nearly one in three adults concerned about ending up homeless in next five years, says Amnesty

The lack of affordable housing is driving people into homelessness, Amnesty report argues

Miami Herald

Cuba reduces sentences for some July 11 protesters, but activists warn crackdown continues

After a long struggle to get her son released from jail, Barbara Farrat shed tears of joy when the moment arrived last week.

Reason

COVID-19 Measures Magnified the Wars on Drugs and Sex Work

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Reuters

At least 18 have died in Salvadoran police custody amid crackdown - Amnesty

At least 18 people have died in Salvadoran police custody since the Central American country introduced a controversial state of emergency to combat gangs two months ago, according to an investigation presented Thursday by Amnesty International.

The Guardian - US

El Salvador accused of ‘massive’ human rights violations with 2% of adults in prison

More than 36,000 people arrested in just over two months in crackdown orchestrated by President Nayib Bukele

The Conversation

Online abuse against women is rife, but some women suffer more – and we need to step up for them

Women online suffer a disproportionate amount of harm and abuse, but it isn’t all based on their gender. This “cyber violence” is also shaped by a range of other intersecting factors such as race, religion, class, caste and disability.

Reuters

Amnesty International urges Croatia to release Pussy Riot member

Amnesty International urged Croatia on Wednesday to release Aysoltan Niyazov, an activist and member of the band Pussy Riot who was arrested on an Interpol warrant and faces possible extradition to Turkmenistan.

Bangkok Post

Myanmar junta likely using air strikes as 'collective punishment': Amnesty

Myanmar's military has likely used air strikes and artillery barrages as "collective punishment" against civilians opposing its coup, Amnesty International said Wednesday, accusing the junta of war crimes.

Reuters

Amnesty International urges UAE to release dissidents held past jail term

Amnesty International has called on authorities in the United Arab Emirates to release a group of dissidents who the human rights group said had completed prison terms earlier this year but not yet been freed.

The Independent UK

Algerian dissidents: Victims of crackdown, or outlaws?

An Algerian military officer-turned-democracy activist has been deported from Spain and charged in Algeria in a case that human rights groups see as another sign of an ever-expanding crackdown on dissent

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