The UN human rights office, OHCHR, on Friday reiterated its call for Russia to halt attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, adding that those responsible must be held to account.

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Reacting to the violent dispersal of what started as peaceful protest in Georgia’s capital Tbilisi, Denis Krivosheev, Amnesty International’s Eastern Europe and Central Asia Deputy Director, said: ...

While the bill cleared its second reading with a vote of 330 to 275, it is clear that this entire process is the worst way to consider a social issue of such importance.

Ahead of the reopening of Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris, eight of the cathedral’s church bells were renovated and blessed before their re-installation in the north tower. Philippe Jost, who has ...

Much has been made of proposed changes to inheritance tax for agricultural property in the recent UK budget. Opponents have focused on the number of farms that might be affected, while the ...

She was one of the first chroniclers of the modern experience of being black in Scotland. The daughter of a Scottish mother and Ghanaian father growing up in 1960s and 1970s Glasgow, Maud Sulter ...

When US voters re-elected former president Donald Trump, the result appeared to contradict the theory that democratic electorates punish governments for failure and reward them for success. That model ...

Prison officers allegedly sexually assaulted and harassed Vida Rabbani, an Iranian journalist and activist, during a body search at Evin Prison in Tehran on October 3, an informed source told Human ...

A central clock in the brain is closely tied to daily sleep rhythms. But there are also clocks in other tissues – such as liver, muscle and fat – and they play an important role in metabolism.

Adriana Humanes, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Coral Reef Ecology, Newcastle University, Newcastle University James Guest, Reader in Coral Reef Ecology, Newcastle University Peter J Mumby, Chair ...

Labour has vowed to end divisive discourse demonising out-of-work people as ‘scroungers’ - but how does this fit with its tough warnings about people who don’t ‘engage’?