Criminals and sanctions-busters exploiting UK secrecy loophole
Seychelles company linked to Putin’s inner circle exploited UK loophole for hundreds of firms, BBC finds.
2023-11-02 13:20
Gold One mine 'hostage situation': South African miners tell of escape
Hundreds of workers at a mine in South Africa are caught up in a dispute between two rival unions.
2023-10-25 20:26
Kenya to ban private children's homes over trafficking fears - Florence Bore
All privately owned orphanages and children's homes will be abolished, the social protection minister says.
2023-10-02 19:45
‘The state says our kids don’t exist’ - how LGBT life is changing in Italy
Italy is removing children from registers and stopping surrogacy abroad in new rules affecting same-sex couples.
2023-09-23 08:29
Brazil's top court boosts indigenous rights in landmark ruling
The Supreme Court sets a precedent for land claims by restoring territory to the Xokleng people.
2023-09-22 05:23
EU safety laws start to bite for TikTok, Instagram and others
Nineteen large platforms have to start complying with new rules as soon as Friday or risk big fines.
2023-08-25 07:25
California authorities destroy 2,000 bottles of wine illegally fermented under the ocean
Agencies in Santa Barbara, California, destroyed 2,000 bottles of wine that were sold by Ocean Fathoms, the office of the city's district attorney announced last week. Starting in 2017, the company was sinking crates full of bottles without a proper permit in hand from the California Coastal Commission and US Army Corps of Engineers.
2023-08-19 06:45
Federal appeals court strikes down law prohibiting users of illegal drugs from possessing firearms
A federal appeals court on Wednesday struck down a decades-old law barring users of illegal drugs from possessing firearms -- the latest blow to US gun regulations after the Supreme Court cleared the way last year for courts to reexamine the nation's gun laws under a new legal standard.
2023-08-10 06:53
Bishop of Dover: Migration concerns only for 'brown people’
The Bishop of Dover says British people do not understand their own history of economic migration.
2023-06-29 00:48
Organ harvesting: Trafficked for his kidney and now forced into hiding
The inside story of the Nigerian market trader whose case exposed illegal organ removal in the UK.
2023-06-27 08:23
Cost to remove a migrant £63,000 more than keeping in UK
A report finds the estimated savings of removing a migrant to a "safe country" such as Rwanda are uncertain.
2023-06-27 05:48
Dozens of fruit growers arrested in Spain over illegal wells as drought grips the country
Spanish police have arrested 26 people in recent months for an alleged scheme to use water from illegal wells to grow subtropical fruit, as the country grapples with damaging heat and drought.
2023-05-10 02:51