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UK approves US extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

The Home Office says his extradition is approved but Assange can still appeal the decision. WikiLeaks says he will.

Al Jazeera

Hesta members pledge to ditch super fund over fossil fuel investments

Industry superannuation fund defends approach, saying engaging with companies changes their behaviour, as members urge it to ‘stop investing in climate catastrophe’

The Guardian - AU

France urged to drastically improve situation in overcrowded jails

The International Observatory for Prisons (OIP) and Amnesty International have jointly called on France to implement an emergency plan to overhaul its inefficient and overcrowded prison system.

Radio France Internationale

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Good Luck to You, Leo Grande: This is what a sex worker really thinks of intimacy with clients

Dame Emma Thompson and Daryl McCormack’s new film revolves around a powerful intimacy between a sex worker and their client. Kate Ng speaks to sex worker Audrey to find out if if this genuine connection is ever replicated in real life

The Independent UK

Use of spit and bite guards to be made permanent in frontline policing in Northern Ireland

Their use has been opposed by human rights groups and children's charities.

Belfast Live

Use of spit and bite guards to be made permanent in Northern Ireland policing

The move comes despite opposition from four groups including Amnesty International and the Children’s Law Centre.

The Independent UK

The arms manufacturing gold-rush

Major arms manufacturers are experiencing a genuine gold-rush moment

Salon

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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

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.

Al Jazeera

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

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The Guardian - AU

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

France 24

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).

Asharq Al-Awsat

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…

Reason

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.

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The Independent UK

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

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

Plus: International Whores' Day, U.S. Postal Service sued over the seizure of Black Lives Matter masks, and more...

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.

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