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Britain records Europe’s biggest increase in asylum claims More than 108,000 claims in the UK last year, a 28 per cent increase on 2023 and the highest since records began in 1979

Britain records Europe’s biggest increase in asylum claims as @oecdstatistics.bsky.social indicate global surge in protection requests in developed countries

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Filmmaker highlights life on crumbling Happisburgh cliffs Joseph Harrington says seeing the coastal erosion for himself was "incredibly stark".

Film highlights villagers' life on crumbling cliff

#Norfolk

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London's Olympic Loop is a fab paddle boarding circuit any time of year but the autumn colours were unbeatable today

Classified U.S. report finds backlog of hundreds of possible Israeli human rights violations The report found “hundreds” of possible Israeli human rights violations, further complicating a process to review credible allegations against IDF military units in Gaza.

Classified U.S. State Department report finds backlog of hundreds of possible Israeli human rights violations that would take years to investigate - www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Classified U.S. report finds backlog of hundreds of possible Israeli human rights violations The report found “hundreds” of possible Israeli human rights violations, further complicating a process to review credible allegations against IDF military units in Gaza.

Classified U.S. State Department report finds backlog of hundreds of possible Israeli human rights violations that would take years to investigate - www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

London's Olympic Loop is a fab paddle boarding circuit any time of year but the autumn colours were unbeatable today

Paddle boarding along east London's Hertford Union Canal today. Tower Hamlets is fortunate to have so many historic docks and waterways l

Congratulations Maria Corina Machado for being named Nobel Peace Prize laureate 2026! A great achievement for Venezuela #Nobel

A grey heron keeps watch at east London's Old Ford 19 lock along the Lee Navigation

One of my favourite mountains; missing Gourmandie

Congratulations Maria Corina Machado for being named Nobel Peace Prize laureate 2026! A great achievement for Venezuela #Nobel

Paddle boarding #SUP down the Regent's Canal to Limehouse Basin - formerly Regent's Canal Dock - and up the Cut to the Lee Navigation. Discovered the middle pound of the Hertford Union Canal drained

Kudos to @chicago.suntimes.com photographers & editor Ashlee Rezin for impressive coverage of resistance to militarised behaviour of masked officers

UN refugee agency chief suggests that US deportation practices violate the law The head of the U.N. refugee agency has suggested that President Donald Trump’s America has carried out deportation practices that violate international law

UN @unhcr.org Filippo Grandi tells governments that US deportation practices violate the law while lamenting loss of contributions to support global displacement needs - www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

A Pattern Emerges: How Somali-Led Cartels Are Fueling Kenya’s Real Estate Boom With American Fraud Money Real estate agents in Nairobi’s upmarket estates—Kilimani, Kileleshwa, Lavington, and even Karen report a surge in cash purchases by Somali-Kenyan buyers over the past five years.

Somali-Led Cartels Are Fueling Kenya’s Real Estate Boom With Minnesota Fraud Money from American 🇺🇸 social welfare programs - Kenya Insights - kenyainsights.com/a-pattern-em...

UN refugee agency chief suggests that US deportation practices violate the law The head of the U.N. refugee agency has suggested that President Donald Trump’s America has carried out deportation practices that violate international law

UN @unhcr.org Filippo Grandi tells governments that US deportation practices violate the law while lamenting loss of contributions to support global displacement needs - www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

C'est si beau!

Another belated #BigPaddleCleanUp below Lock 8 along the Regents Canal & Hertford Union today.🙏

Opening tonight in Three Rooms, Walthamstow, Usaydh Agha, Irina Prentice, & Kate Brooks "Reality Check" exhibition of paintings, sculpture, & photography

A belated #BigPaddleCleanup with @paddleuk.bsky.social along the Hertford Union and Regents canals

Hvala vama! Divno!

A brilliant day out from Southend-on-Sea on the world's only surviving ocean-going paddle steamer, the Waverley, paddling up the River Thames, passing Gravesend, and under Tower Bridge

The clipper Stad Amsterdam leaving London's Docklands this evening

Kat Lay (@katlay.bsky.social) Journalist - global health correspondent at The Guardian (kat.lay@theguardian.com)

Cuts to humanitarian aid budgets by UK FCDO, USA & other donors mean hospitals lack vital medicines + fuel for generator's , leading yo higher mortality rates in pregnancy by @katlay.bsky.social - www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Kenyan police break up ring trafficking people to Russia to fight in Ukraine Recruitment materials, travel documents, and job offer letters were seized during the raid.

#BBCNews - Police break up ring trafficking Kenyans to fight for Russia in Ukraine
www.bbc.com/news/article...
#UkraineWar

Kat Lay (@katlay.bsky.social) Journalist - global health correspondent at The Guardian (kat.lay@theguardian.com)

Cuts to humanitarian aid budgets by UK FCDO, USA & other donors mean hospitals lack vital medicines + fuel for generator's , leading yo higher mortality rates in pregnancy by @katlay.bsky.social - www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

YouTube video by United Nations 🇯🇴 Jordan - King Addresses United Nations General Debate, 80th Session | #UNGA

HM King Abdullah II of @jordanfirst.bsky.social Jordan delivered a prescient address before the UN General Assembly this week calling out decades of abuses faced by Palestinian civilians. His measured words should be listened to by everyone - www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jXp...

They fled war and sexual violence and found a safe space in Athens. Then the aid cuts hit Thirty women and their children found themselves out on the streets when their shelter closed. It was a direct result of US and European governments slashing their aid budgets

Humanitarian aid cuts by EU and USA have left asylum seeking women and children on the streets in Athens, 🇬🇷 www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

YouTube video by United Nations 🇯🇴 Jordan - King Addresses United Nations General Debate, 80th Session | #UNGA

HM King Abdullah II of @jordanfirst.bsky.social Jordan delivered a prescient address before the UN General Assembly this week calling out decades of abuses faced by Palestinian civilians. His measured words should be listened to by everyone - www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jXp...