New species and regional instability are factors – but decisions made in the US and Britain are also costing lives, says Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh

The dire conditions on the USS Lincoln are due to a president’s being dangerously detached from what’s actually happening in the world.

Mother and son Olga and Nikita Belov were facing torture and death after their asylum claim was repeatedly rejected A Russian family who were on the brink of being deported from Finland after repeatedly being denied asylum – despite the threat of arrest, imprisonment and torture for their pro-Ukrainian activism – have won a court appeal and will now have their case reconsidered. Nikita Belov and his mother, Olga Belov, fled their homeland for Finland in 2022 after attracting the attention of Russian authorities – including military summons, threatening messages and attempts to locate them – for expressing opposition to the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Continue reading...

Party’s ‘welfare to work’ policy would force long-term claimants to do community work or face losing benefits Robert Jenrick went on to say that long-term benefits claimants will be made to clean up their local high street and do charity work or face having their benefits taken away. He said as part of the party’s “welfare to work” policy, long-term claimants, who are fit to work, will be forced to do 20-hours of work a week in the community. They’ll work to clean up high streets and parks, to beautify neglected places, to carry out minor repairs, to staff libraries and community centres to perform many other tasks from the list that we’ve published today. We’ll also embrace local charities and community groups and ask them to help us and take part. If claimants refuse to participate or fail to show up, they’ll face penalties. Continue reading...

She second-guessed herself and was eager to please. She ‘felt frozen’ when she believed she displeased someone

A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it

Leaders have thrown up walls and barriers throughout history – but their effects are unpredictable