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A prosecutor in Istanbul has remanded eight journalists in custody, reversing a decision to release them after they were arrested for covering Turkey’s largest anti-government protests in years. The journalists were among 10 arrested in dawn raids on their homes earlier this week. An Istanbul court initially ruled the journalists should be released before reversing … Read more

The Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has accused “left-wing” teaching unions of poisoning the minds of young people “against everything this country has ever stood for”. His outburst came after anti-racist campaigners disrupted a Reform UK event on Tuesday where Farage was due to announce the party’s candidate for the forthcoming mayoral election in Doncaster. … Read more

The Trump administration invoked the “state secrets” privilege to avoid providing more information to a federal judge regarding this month’s highly contentious immigrant expulsions to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act. The administration’s invocation of the privilege is a further escalation in Donald Trump’s immigration-related battle against the federal judiciary. According to a court … Read more

Escalating reports of vandalism at Tesla dealerships and charging stations across the US have prompted the FBI to create a taskforce to target the perpetrators. The development, announced by Kash Patel, the bureau’s director, comes as White House officials close ranks around Elon Musk, the Tesla owner and world’s richest person who has been leading … Read more

Australian researchers say they have debunked the “monogamy-superiority myth” that one-on-one romantic relationships are better than those with multiple partners. Research published on Wednesday in the Journal of Sex Research suggests that people in polyamorous, open or “monogamish” relationships have similar levels of satisfaction to those in monogamous relationships. Polyamorous relationships involve multiple consenting partners, … Read more

The number of Islamophobic posts aimed at Sadiq Khan has more than doubled in a year, according to fresh analysis that suggests the London mayor remains a lightning rod for racist abuse. Almost 28,000 social media posts referring to Khan included a key Islamophobic phrase last year, a huge increase on the 12,000 sent a … Read more

Donald Trump defended his embattled national security adviser on Tuesday and said the leak of highly classified military plans was “the only glitch in two months”, as scrutiny intensified into how top US officials shared operational details for bombing Yemen on a group chat. In an interview with NBC, Trump said, “Michael Waltz has learned … Read more

Mette Frederiksen, the Danish prime minister, has accused the US of putting “unacceptable pressure” on Greenland – which she has vowed to resist – before an unsolicited visit to the Arctic island by members of the Trump administration. The White House surprised Nuuk and Copenhagen on Sunday by announcing that a US delegation led by … Read more

South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics said on Tuesday that its co-chief executive officer Han Jong-hee has died due to cardiac arrest. Han was 63. Han was in charge of Samsung’s consumer electronics and mobile devices division, while co-CEO Jun Young-hyun oversees the chip business of South Korea’s biggest company. Han passed away at a … Read more

Hillary Clinton – the former US secretary of state who lost the 2016 presidential election to Donald Trump amid a scandal over her use of a private server for classified emails – reacted to Monday’s news of a leak of highly sensitive military plans at the White House by saying: “You have got to be … Read more