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Draft bill would criminalise identifying as gay and could see intersex people compelled to undergo surgery

A retired British geologist jailed in Iraq for antiquities smuggling has been freed and has left the country, his family said Sunday. Jim Fitton, 66, was sentenced in June to 15 years in an Iraqi prison. A Baghdad appeals court overturned the conviction and last week ordered his release. Fitton…

Caroline Lea has said she felt the NHS didn't care if she dies after allegedly being denied antivirals for coronavirus, despite being clinically extremely vulnerable and having five Covid jabs

Briton, 66, had faced 15 years behind bars after collecting 12 stones and shards of broken bottery as souvenirs

Since the Taliban came to power, food insecurity has risen. Women in blue burqas sit in front of the city's upscale bakeries, silently waiting for charitable passersby to purchase bread for them.

The official rule: no secondary school for girls. But behind a veil of secrecy, women are opening small schools so that at least some of these teenagers are able to continue learning.

‘Sounds like you helped her dodge a bullet’

Our dating columnist Lucy Holden on whether apps have created a ‘casual zone’ that’s making us all behave badly

For four decades, the theatre company has kept the subject of women in prison on the cultural radar, with its new play tackling addiction and the criminal justice system in a working-class Pakistani family

Worldwide, one person becomes forcibly displaced every three seconds. The thinktank the Institute for Economics and Peace estimates that the climate change crisis alone will account for 1.2 billion people having to migrate by 2050. That will only add to the major geopolitical shifts and conflicts that have led to…

The 66-year-old is being moved to a general population prison earlier than expected