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  North Korea did not hesitate to lash out at US President Donald Trump over his country’s “gross” human rights violations shortly after his first State of the Union speech in which he referred to the North’s leadership as being “depraved.” Pyongyang’s “white paper” on the human rights situation in the US during Trump’s first […]

The FBI warned Wednesday it has “grave concerns” over the accuracy of a secret Congressional memo that could depict the agency as deeply politicized, as President Donald Trump’s top aide signalled the White House would allow the document’s release Based on highly classified information, the four-page memo — written by Republican lawmaker Devin Nunes, the chairman of […]

Much has been made recently of a rising far-right and an influx of Middle Eastern immigrants fuelling a rise in anti-Semitism. But official figures don’t seem to back these claims up. Photo: DPA At a ceremony on Saturday to mark Holocaust Memorial Day, Angela Merkel said that “it is inconceivable and shameful that no Jewish […]

Donald Trump confirmed this week that he would keep the Guantanamo Bay detention facility open, a move experts say is unsurprising yet will likely mean that several dozen remaining detainees will not be able to leave the infamous prison. The prison on Guantanamo Bay has held about 780 detainees since it opened in 2002 [Lucas Jackson/Reuters] The prison […]