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Many European countries are cracking down on direct and indirect violence against women. Where are they more likely to fall victim to a close acquaintance?

A fake photo of an explosion near the Pentagon once rattled the stock market. A tearful video of a frightened young “Ukrainian conscript” went viral: until exposed as staged. We may be approaching a “synthetic media tipping point”, where AI-generated images and videos are becoming so realistic that traditional markers…

The 34-year-old victim suffered stab wounds to his right arm

Taxpayers were slugged almost $100,000 to fly communications minister Anika Wells and two staff to New York for a UN meeting to spruik the social media ban.

Known as Trump’s ‘favourite field marshal’, Munir’s power now extends over all the armed forces, along with lifelong immunity from prosecution, thanks to a constitutional amendment

Group including Margaret Atwood, Ian McKellen and Richard Branson sign open letter to free Marwan Barghouti

Stefanik wants to require the FBI to notify Congress when opening a counterintelligence investigation into candidates for federal office.

Gaza is going through one of the most severe economic collapses the world has seen in modern times. According to a UN report published in late November, the average income per person there is now just US$161 (£122) a year. Before 2007, when Israel imposed a blockade of Gaza after…

Thirty years ago, on December 14 1995, the presidents of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia signed the Dayton agreement. The treaty ended three years of bloodshed in what was, at the time, the largest war in Europe since 1945.