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In 2022, Proudman wrote on X she was troubled by Cohen referring in a judgment to the relationship between a woman and her part-time judge and barrister ex-husband as “tempestuous”, and his use of the word “reckless” to describe the alleged domestic violence....

Fires made at least three times more likely by climate crisis and emitted about 2bn tonnes of CO2, data reveals...

Plans for a network of radars tracking deep space activity to help protect the UK from “space warfare” are to go ahead in Pembrokeshire, despite the opposition of local campaigners....

Shujun Wang helped found a pro-democracy group and used it to gain information on dissidents, prosecutors say...

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/18317331

While Indigenous nations fight the crown for compensation owed from an agreement signed in 1850, one nation fights a different battle...

Chiapas, once haven for Guatemalans fleeing genocide, sees citizens crossing border to escape tyranny of crime groups...

For the two hours drivers can spend on the eight-lane, often empty, highway from Cairo to El Dabaa on the north coast, all there is to see is miles and miles of intensively farmed land on each side. Ten years ago, this expanse of the Western desert was little more than rocks and sand....

An “egregious” refusal by successive Canadian governments to honor a key treaty signed with Indigenous nations made a “mockery” of the deal and deprived generations of fair compensation for their resources, Canada’s top court has ruled....

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/18410042

Brazil has recorded unprecedented levels of rape and other forms of gender-based violence for the second year running, amid growing concerns over rightwing efforts to criminalize rape victims who have an abortion....

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/18128972

Scientists have made a crucial DNA discovery that could help cure one of the deadliest cancers....