‘They told me to go back to my country’: Inside the UK’s wave of racism
From street attacks to political rhetoric, xenophobia is becoming quotidian.
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Peruvian journalist shot dead after threatening to expose police
Peruvian journalist ‘China Polo’ has been shot dead a week after receiving death threats over a police investigation.
Published On 20 Sep 2026
Israel’s president pardons soldier who killed wounded Palestinian in 2016
Elor Azaria had shot a Palestinian who had already been incapacitated by Israeli troops, in controversial case.
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Fear and anger in South Africa as bodies of nine women found: What we know
Police examining ‘all possibilities’ as women in Ekurhuleni, Johannesburg, fear murders could be linked.
UK jails teen asylum seeker for steering overcrowded Channel migrant boat
The boat lacked safety gear and took on water before interception by UK Border Force, authorities say.
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United Nations says US may have committed war crimes in Iran: What it means
UN probe finds US unlawfully struck an Iranian school and sports centre, killing children; White House rejects findings.
‘This is a war’: South Africa battles femicide as women’s bodies pile up
Bodies of nine women have been found in a Johannesburg neighbourhood in two months, as worries grow over women’s safety.
Trinidad and Tobago ends state of emergency amid pushback over mass arrests
Lawyers criticised mass arrests under emergency powers that allowed authorities to detain people without charge.
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South Africa gender commissioner: women ‘hunted’ amid femicide crisis
A ninth woman has been found dead amid a wave of killings in South Africa’s Ekurhuleni region, east of Johannesburg.
Published On 17 Sep 2026
Ninth woman’s body found as South Africa probes series of killings
All female victims in their 20s and 30s were killed on the outskirts of Johannesburg in the past two months.
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Al-Mughayyir: A village under siege
In al-Mughayyir, Palestinians say they are being squeezed into a smaller part of their own village in the West Bank.
Published On 16 Sep 2026
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