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September 26, 2025

Drug traffickers livestream torture and killing of young Argentinian women and girl

Brenda del Castillo, Morena Verdi and Lara Gutiérrez were lured with a promise of a $300 payment for a ‘sex party’

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September 26, 2025

Assata Shakur, an icon of Black liberation who was exiled to Cuba, dies aged 78

Shakur spent decades exiled after she was convicted of killing a state trooper in 1977 and escaped from prisonOn 25 September, Assata Shakur, a...

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September 26, 2025

World must deny Israel ‘tools of genocide’, says growing alliance of activist states

New York meeting of Hague Group warns of shared responsibility to prevent genocide and proposes steps to isolate IsraelThe international community...

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September 26, 2025

Big trees in Amazon more climate-resistant than previously believed

Forest is ‘remarkably resilient to climate change’, but remains under threat from fires and deforestationThe biggest trees in the Amazon are growing...

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September 26, 2025

‘History will remember who showed up’: Keir Starmer faces call to attend Cop30 summit

Response from leaders and key climate figures comes after PM’s aides advised non-attendance over concerns Reform may attack himLeading climate...

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September 25, 2025

Trump’s UN speech makes it clear: the world can no longer look to the US for strong leadership

US president’s speech made a mockery of UN values and highlights the need for strong anti-Trumpian alliancesSuch is the gravitational pull cast by...

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September 23, 2025

Ice targeted me for organizing, says farm worker who left US for Mexico

Alfredo Juarez Zeferino spent a harrowing few months in Ice jail - and, under threat of deportation, chose to leaveAlfredo “Lelo” Juarez Zeferino...

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September 23, 2025

Brazil’s president says in UN speech that democracy can prevail over ‘would-be autocrats’

South American leftist Lula takes indirect swipes at Trump in speech and warns that global threat of ‘anti-democratic forces’ persists

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September 22, 2025

‘A heavy burden’: Belém residents evicted in rush for profits from Cop30 rentals

As the Brazilian city prepares to host 50,000 delegates, local people are being pushed from their homesThe two-bedroom apartment in Belém became...

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September 22, 2025

Weather tracker: Flash floods and landslides wreak havoc in California

Two-year-old boy dies and homes buried as remnants of Tropical Storm Mario bring downpours and thunderFlash flooding and landslides led to the

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September 20, 2025

Trump again asks supreme court to end protections for Venezuelans in US

Justice department urges court to overturn ruling that Kristi Noem lacked authority to end TPS programThe Trump administration asked the US supreme...

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September 17, 2025

‘We’re still in the dark’: a missing land defender and the deadly toll of land conflict on Indigenous people

Julia Chuñil is one of 146 land defenders who were killed or went missing last year, a third of them from Indigenous communitiesOne day last...

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