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Home secretary insists she will press ahead with implementing policy

A timeline of Home Office’s plans to send asylum seekers to Kigali – and what may happen next

Human Rights Watch described Gaza as an "open-air prison" 15 years after Israel imposed a siege on in wake of the Hamas takeover of the coastal enclave. "Israel’s sweeping restrictions on leaving Gaza deprive its more than two million residents of opportunities to better their lives," HRW said. "Israel should…

The initial flight was cancelled at the last minute after a late intervention from the European Court of Human Rights

The home secretary says she is disappointed at the failure of the deportations, but she must rethink this terrible policy, says Enver Solomon, chief executive of the Refugee Council

Plans to send asylum seekers to the central African nation, which could be about to get underway, have been bitterly attacked as ‘unlawful’ and contested at the High Court

The plane was scheduled to depart the UK on Tuesday night.

In today’s newsletter: Boris Johnson said ‘tens of thousands’ would be sent to Rwanda. Last night the number on the first flight was reduced to zero

The Home Secretary described the European Court of Human Rights intervention as ‘very surprising’.

The Australian Capital Territory government has released a consultation draft law to protect the rights of intersex people.

Happy the elephant, a 37-year resident of the Bronx Zoo, must remain in her one-acre enclosure after a New York court ruled she is not legally a person.