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Britain is a ‘bifurcated place nowadays’, says Julian Barnes

Author and patron for torture-survivor charity criticises politicians for encouraging ‘mean-spiritedness’

The Guardian - UK

Tanzanians sue Canada’s Barrick Gold over alleged abuses at mine

Tanzanian villagers accuse Canadian mining giant of being complicit in killings and torture at the North Mara gold mine.

Al Jazeera

Art or torture? France debates banning bullfighting

Sixteen-year old Baptiste is training to be a bullfighter in the southern French city of Arles and says lawmakers who want to ban it across the country simply do not comprehend what he calls an art.

Reuters

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Drew Barrymore says sobriety has allowed her to ‘finally become free of the torture of guilt and dysfunction’

Actor has been sober for more than three years

The Independent UK

Drew Barrymore on getting sober: ‘I’m finally free of the torture of guilt’

The Charlie’s Angels actor wrote about her sobriety journey in an essay published in the December issue of her magazine, Drew, and said it’s been a ‘liberating’ experience

Evening Standard

From Machine Gun Kelly to Taylor Swift: the AMAs 2022 red carpet was unbridled maximalist chaos

Torture device spikes! Red peacock feathers! Micro shorts and suspenders! Was this the most extra Sunday night ever?

Evening Standard

Baltimore’s Catholic archdiocese ‘does not object’ to release of report detailing sexual abuse, so long as it is accurate

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore does not oppose the Maryland Attorney General’s Office’s efforts to make public a report detailing sexual abuse and torture committed by area priests and laypeople over 80 years, so long as it is accurate, a spokesperson for the church said Friday.

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U.S. report says hundreds were detained, missing in Ukraine's Kherson

Hundreds of people were detained or went missing in Ukraine's Kherson region while it was under Russian control this year, and dozens may have been tortured, Yale University researchers have concluded in a report backed by the U.S. State Department.

Reuters

Kherson's newly liberated residents wonder: Who collaborated with the Russians?

KHERSON, Ukraine — First came rejoicing. Now comes the reckoning.

Los Angeles Times

Missing nurse found dead with signs of torture and limbs bound in abandoned house

The family believe the abandoned house is owned by her 26-year-old boyfriend’s mum and her boyfriend is being treated as a suspect in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Daily Mirror

Ugandan activist living in Vermont gets deportation reprieve

Authorities in Vermont say a Ugandan activist who fled his country after he says he was tortured for his human rights work and would fear for his life if he was deported can stay another year

The Independent UK

Screams from Russia's alleged torture basements still haunt Ukraine's Kherson

These are just some of the chilling accounts from Ukrainians in Kherson after 8 1/2 months under Russian occupation.

WEKU

Putin’s forces ‘dig in 60km behind Ukraine front line’ as Russia fears more losses

It comes as 10 million Ukrainians left without power as snowfall covers Kyiv

The Independent UK

Ukraine-Russia news - live: New Putin missile attacks prompt fresh power outage fears

Moscow’s forces home in on energy infrastructure as winter starts to bite

The Independent UK

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Australia facing questions at the UN about 'horrific' issues and 'significant concerns'

The United Nations grills Australia over its treatment of people in youth and immigration detention, describing the over-representation of Aboriginal people in detention as "horrific".

The Independent UK

'I thought I was going to die': Abuses widespread in Ukraine

As violence escalates in Ukraine, human rights abuses have become widespread

The Independent UK

Government plan to give immunity to ministers, spies and military involved in murder and torture abroad OLD

David Davis bringing amendments to strip ‘unconscionable’ clauses of National Security Bill

Daily Mirror

'My neighbour's noisy boiler wakes me up every 20 minutes all night long - it's torture'

The resident has been left at her wit's end as the noisy boiler regularly disturbs her sleep - and she struggles to get more than two hours of shut-eye per night

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Daily Mirror

'Torture' for family of axe killer's victim unable to hold her 'bruised' body in morgue

The family of Katie Kenyon have spoken of their torture caused by her murderer Andrew Burfield who axed her to death and left her body in a shallow grave in a forest, and seeing her 'bruised' body in a mortuary

Daily Mirror

Inside Russian 'torture dungeon' in liberated Kherson where Ukrainians were held

Ukrainian interior minister Denys Monastyrsky said the investigation into Russian crimes in Kherson had only just begun "so many more dungeons and burial places will be uncovered"

Glasgow Live

'Nasty and manipulative' Glasgow Instagram adventurer 'not the person he portrays'

Martin McGinley was sentenced at Hamilton Sheriff Court yesterday after being found guilty of engaging in abusive behaviour towards his former partner, who said she endured mental torture at his hands.

France 24

More than 10 million Ukrainians without electricity, says Zelensky

More than 10 million Ukrainians were without electricity on Thursday, said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, as Russian missiles pounded energy facilities in yet another barrage targeting civilian infrastructure across the country. Read our blog to see how the day's events unfolded. All times are Paris time (GMT+1)

The Independent UK

Oklahoma prepares to execute man for 3-year-old's killing

Oklahoma is preparing to execute a man for the torture killing of his girlfriend's 3-year-old son in 1993

Reuters

Ukraine rights chief releases video of 'torture chamber' in liberated Kherson

A top Ukrainian human rights investigator on Thursday released a video of what he said was a torture chamber used by Russian forces in the recently liberated Kherson region, including a small room in which he said up to 25 people were kept at a time.

France 24

War in Ukraine: Civilians in Balakliya share chilling accounts of Russian atrocities

Ukraine's recapture of the city of Kherson comes two months after another military success: the liberation of large swathes of the northeastern Kharkiv region from Russian occupation. There, too, there were celebrations, as local people greeted soldiers with flowers, hugs and tears. But now as winter approaches, people are struggling…

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