For colonial policymakers, it was a weapon that left 'no victim as a martyr'. And for modern world leaders, it's used to crush dissent.
Lithuania has ordered its border guards to turn away, by force if needed, migrants attempting to enter as it blames the recent surge, of mostly Iraqis, on neighbouring Belarus.
Court ruling comes after UNESCO confirmed that the prehistoric site would be added to its "in danger" list and warned it could lose its World Heritage Site status.
In a letter to Interior Minister Priti Patel, Labour’s Yvette Cooper, chair of parliament’s Home Affairs Committee, questioned overcrowding and length of stays at a “completely inappropriate” accommodation where asylum seekers are detained.
Environment and climate ministers from the US, India and China will be among those taking part in the closed-door meeting, which will be the first face-to-face ministerial meeting of its kind in more than 18 months.
The Latitude Festival is taking place as part of a government pilot scheme, requiring each one of its 40,000 guests to prove their Covid status before they're allowed in.
The UK Home Secretary Priti Patel believes the Zimbabweans "committed murder, rape and other despicable crimes."
The annual prize shortlists 12 albums released by British and Irish acts in the United Kingdom in the past year.
Although the killer was given the maximum sentence Norway has still not confronted his political motives, survivor Astrid Eide Hoem who is now the leader of youth wing of Labour party says.
UN’s cultural agency cited concerns over construction of buildings and a proposed football stadium that will change the landscape of the English city that gave birth to The Beatles.
Dominic Cummings, one of the main figures behind the Leave campaign, dismissed accusations of fuelling Islamophobia and racism during the Brexit campaign in 2016.
Clothing has long been an issue in beach sports, with some women players finding bikinis degrading or impractical.
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