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Survivors and bereaved relatives have told an inquiry into the biggest ever loss of life in a migrant dinghy in the Channel that they believe stereotyping them as “foreigners” contributed to the failure to rescue them before the majority died. The Cranston inquiry into how at least 27 people drowned on 24 November 2021 heard … Read more

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Welcome Good morning and welcome to our live blog. I’m Martin Farrer with some of the main headlines this morning before Krishani Dhanji takes over to guide you through what promises to be a big day. Anthony Albanese is expected to … Read more

The Italian government approved the use of a sophisticated surveillance tool to spy on members of a humanitarian NGO because they were allegedly deemed a possible threat to national security, MPs have heard. Alfredo Mantovano, a cabinet undersecretary, made the admission during a classified meeting with Copasir, the parliamentary committee for national security, according to … Read more

Human rights organizations on Thursday denounced the US homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem’s, visit to the notorious prison in El Salvador that is holding hundreds of Venezuelans deported from the US earlier this month without a hearing, calling her actions “political theatre”. Critics condemned Noem’s visit as just the latest example of the Trump administration’s … Read more

Nigel Farage has said men will more readily sacrifice their family lives to be successful in their business careers than women, and that young men are being too “feminised” by modern society. The Reform leader set out his view on gender balance in the workplace in a conversation with journalists in Westminster, saying women made … Read more

Belgian authorities are investigating the alleged rape and sexual assault of at least 41 women whose drinks are thought to have been spiked, with three bar managers identified as prime suspects, prosecutors have said. Officials believe drugs were mixed into the women’s drinks, including ketamine, a general anaesthetic used for recreational purposes because of its … Read more

A £150,000 prize for a device that can produce clean water from icy lunar soil has been won by a pair of inventors whose solution involves a microwave oven, a motorised device for feeding woodchips into a barbecue and sound waves. The £1.2m Aqualunar Challenge, funded by the UK Space Agency’s international bilateral fund and … Read more

The BBC correspondent Mark Lowen has been arrested and deported from Turkey, where he was reporting on the country’s largest anti-government protests in years, in an incident described by the corporation as extremely troubling. The broadcaster said Lowen had been arrested in Istanbul on Wednesday, having been there for several days to cover the protests, … Read more

French president Emmanuel Macron has called on Algeria to free Boualem Sansal, after the French-Algerian novelist was on Thursday sentenced to five years in prison and fined for allegedly undermining Algeria’s territorial integrity. Sansal was arrested on 16 November at Algiers airport on arrival from Paris, after saying in an interview with a far-right French … Read more

Noel Clarke told a producer to “fuck off” after being warned that his behaviour with a female actor before a sex scene would “end up on the front of a national newspaper”, a witness has told the high court. The producer said he had approached the former Doctor Who star after being informed by a … Read more