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Trump Administration Hits International Criminal Court With Severe Sanctions

U.S. officials announced the new, sweeping punishments just hours after the Nobel Peace Prize committee gave its annual honor to a former court judge.

Edward Wong and Jeanna SmialekUnited States International RelationsCourts and the Judiciary

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US immigration officials defend ICE agents who shot man in same car as child

Oscar Belgal, the 28-year-old man, survived the shooting and is now being held at a detention facility outside of New York, officials said.

GuardianOct 9Preview

New spate of stabbings, overdoses and fires at Australian immigration detention centres run by ICE-linked US prison firm

Exclusive: Federal government under scrutiny as documents reveal serious security lapses at Melbourne and Villawood immigration detention centresGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA new spate of stabbings, overdoses and drug use in Australia’s immigration detention centres has put the Australian government in likely breach of laws designed to protect staff and detainees, internal documents show.Earlier this year, Guardian Australia revealed catastrophic security failings across Australia’s onshore immigration network since Management and Training Corporation – a US private prison company used by Donald Trump to hold ICE detainees – won the $2.3bn detention contract in late 2024. Continue reading...

Christopher Knaus and Ariel BogleAustralian immigration and asylumAustralian politics

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A Rural Village Voted to Leave the U.K., Stirring Britain’s Migration Debate

A plan to house 1,250 asylum seekers on the outskirts of Piddington prompted a symbolic independence vote, highlighting a growing dilemma for the government.

Megan SpeciaPiddington (England)Secession and Independence Movements

GuardianOct 9Preview

Please, sir, can I have a walk? Dickens biographer finds likely inspiration for Oliver Twist

Exclusive: Theresa Musgrove unearths newspaper archives showing one Alice Shepherd was severely punished in 1836 for similarly innocent requestCould a consumptive young woman called Alice Shepherd have been the inspiration for Oliver Twist? That is a question now being posed by a historian, who has discovered parallels between the brutality suffered by a real-life pauper incarcerated in one of Victorian London’s notorious workhouses and Charles Dickens’s fictional orphan.In researching a new book on Dickens, Theresa Musgrove unearthed 1836 newspaper reports on Alice Shepherd, who endured starvation and solitary confinement within a workhouse in Hendon, after a magistrate ruled she was to be punished for daring to ask for permission to take a walk. Continue reading...

Dalya AlbergeCharles DickensBooks