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The communities secretary wants ‘trailblazer’ government departments to pilot a scheme to ban individuals and groups deemed extremist from public life
Master Japanese director wins his second Oscar for story of a young boy searching for his mother during the second world war
The Boy and the Heron, supposedly the final film from Japanese master director Hayao Miyazaki, has won the Oscar for best animated feature film at the 96th Academy Awards in Los Angeles.
Officials say marines deployed for night-time evacuation amid intense fighting in Port-au-Prince
The US has reportedly started airlifting embassy staff out of Haiti under the cover of darkness after dozens of heavily armed gang fighters tried to seize the political quarter of its capital, Port-au-Prince.
Two mass abductions were the latest in a series of group kidnappings by gunmen
Nigerian security forces continued to search forests and set up roadblocks in the north-west of the country on Sunday in an attempt to find hundreds of kidnapped schoolchildren, but observers said combing the woodland expanses could take weeks.
The Gaza conflict “is also a war on women”, who continue to suffer its devastating impacts, the UN agency championing gender equality has said.
UN Women estimated that 9,000 women have been reportedly killed by Israeli forces since the war erupted nearly five months ago.