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Warnings of a possible genocide in Sudan were removed from a UK risk assessment by Foreign Office officials, according to a whistleblower whose testimony raises fresh concern over British failures to act on the atrocities unfolding in the war-ravaged country. The threat analyst said they were prevented from warning that genocide could occur in Darfur by Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) officials in a humanitarian risk assessment collated days after Sudan's brutal civil war erupted in April 2023.

A proposed Kanye West concert in São Paulo, Brasil, where the rapper reportedly faced the threat of arrest if he espoused Nazism, was ultimately canceled after local authorities voted against permitting the event. According to CNN Brasil, the event was set to take place on November 29th at the Interlagos Racetrack in São Paulo. However, the São Paulo City Hall derailed those plans when it vetoed West's use of the venue, citing his past promotion of Nazism and hate speech.

"All of global data exchange flows through these cables," said Johannes Peters, the head of the Center for Maritime Strategy and Security at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel. "The internet, payment orders, any kind of information you can think of, any kind of spoken communication, it runs almost exclusively through these cables," Peters told DW. "On a global level, we are dependent on them."

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Levin posted an Instagram link to his source and a video sequence on Wednesday, one that has already widely circulated on social media, that appeared to show CCTV footage of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps personnel calmly at their computers before disappearing in blasts that wipe out the camera feeds. Quote-tweeting Levin, BBC Verify senior journalist Shayan Sardarizadeh publicly warned him that all except one of the clips were fabricated:

Amnesty International has called for a war crimes investigation into an assault by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on a displaced persons camp in Sudan's North Darfur state earlier this year. A report issued by the NGO on Wednesday documents accounts of atrocities committed by the RSF during a large-scale attack on the Zamzam camp. The RSF has been accused of indiscriminate killing and mass rape, among other crimes,

The family of a Colombian fisherman killed in a US airstrike in the Caribbean has filed a formal complaint with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) accusing the US administration of conducting an extrajudicial killing in breach of international law, according to US and British media outlets. It is the first legal challenge brought against airstrikes mandated by the Trump administration off the coasts of Central and South America, in which at least 83 people have died. Washington says its actions aim

Australia's world-first social media ban for children under the age of 16 is just a week away. The tech platforms large and small are working on functionality that will kick off existing under-16 account holders and prevent any new ones from signing up. But how will it work, what happens to those accounts and what can people do if they are wrongly banned?

If you're unfamiliar with the acronym and its rigorous but rewarding demands, FIFO has been around for hundreds of years. Essentially, it refers to temporary employment in a remote location, with Australia long regarded as a key destination. The task is simple yet challenging - work long hours in an intense job in short bursts, earn big and hopefully return home the happier for it. But there are notable concerns surrounding physical and mental health. To put it plainly, FIFO is not for everyone.

A Russian intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) fired from an underground silo on the country's southern steppe Friday on a scheduled test to deliver a dummy warhead to a remote impact zone nearly 4,000 miles away. The missile didn't even make it 4,000 feet. Russia's military has been silent on the accident, but the missile's crash was seen and heard for miles around the Dombarovsky air base in Orenburg Oblast near the Russian-Kazakh border.

During an appearance on Sportsnet's "Real Kyper and Bourne," DeBoer said he expects the playing surface to be several feet smaller than an NHL rink, though he was baffled as to why. "The ice surface, it looks like it's going to be smaller than NHL rink standards [by] it looks like three or four feet," he said. "I don't understand how that happened."

Melanie Watters, 54, and her friend Janine Reid, 55, both from London, were being driven through the mountains from Kandy in central Sri Lanka on Thursday when the road in front of them was swamped, sending a bus nearby over a cliff-edge. The women's own car was stuck in a ditch and at risk of being washed away, said Watters' daughter, Katie Beeching, but the friends and their driver had to stay in the vehicle overnight in worsening conditions.