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A committee of British lawmakers said Sunday that the U.K. will break its international human rights commitments if it goes through with government plans to detain and deport people who cross the English Channel in small boats.Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights said the Illegal Migration Bill breaches a number of the U.K.'s international human rights obligations and risks breaching others.

The Government has condemned Uganda's new anti-gay legislation calling it appalling and deeply discriminatory.The Bill was signed into law by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Monday, sparking international condemnation.The new law does not criminalise those who identify as LGBTQ but still prescribes the death penalty for aggravated homosexuality, which is defined as cases of sexual relations involving people infected with HIV as well as with minors and other categories of vulnerable people.

An Ontario program that distributes free rapid tests for COVID-19 at grocery stores and pharmacies will end after this month.The Ministry of Health wrote in a memo to the retailers recently that with lower rates of COVID-19, high vaccination rates and decreasing demand for tests, the program will wind down as of June 30.

WARNING: This story contains distressing details A British coroner on Friday urged police near London to wrap up their investigation into a student's 2021 suicide, amid authorities' renewed scrutiny of an Ontario man's controversial website.A detective in England's Surrey county last year reached out to Kenneth Law, months before he was arrested at his Mississauga, Ont., home, but British police declined at the time to pursue charges against him.

At least two Toronto-area police agencies are reviewing recent sudden deaths for possible links to Kenneth Law as a growing number of authorities across the country confirm they too have been involved in the sprawling probe.Law is accused of selling sodium nitrite, a potentially lethal substance, online to at-risk individuals in Canada and abroad.

London mayor Sadiq Khan has said he opposes in the strongest possible terms any Home Office plans to moor another barge housing asylum seekers at the city's Royal Docks.The east London docks, beside City Airport, was named in reports this week as a potential new site to house asylum seekers as part of government efforts to crack down on Channel crossings.

A Conservative MP has vowed to fight on against the use of a barge to house 500 asylum seekers in Dorset, as it is towed to the UK.The Bibby Stockholm is due to arrive in Cornwall later this week, and will be refitted and undergo checks before being moved to Portland Port.The Independent understands that asylum seekers are not expected to be moved on board until late June or July, as the Home Office continues a divisive campaign to transfer asylum seekers out of hotels into ships and military bases.

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Children who arrive in the UK on small boats will be detained in immigration centres under Rishi Sunak's plan to tackle the crisis, it has emerged sparking outrage among charities and concern among Tory MPs.

Homeless advocates penned a letter to a Manhattan Supreme Court judge opposing Mayor Eric Adams' recent legal motion calling for the suspension of the city's decades-old right-to-shelter law amid the ongoing migrant influx.The letter, sent last Thursday and released Tuesday, comes in response to Adams last week filing a court motion to exempt the city from its legal mandate established by the 1984 Callahan v. Carey consent decree to provide shelter to single adults and adult couples when it lacks the resources and capacity to do so.

1. The Metropolitan Police is taking proactive steps to ensure an appropriate response to mental health-related issues. Sir Mark Rowley, the former commissioner of the Met, has announced plans to increase the force’s mental health capacity with the introduction of new officers, specialist training, and increased support for those in

Patients who are prescribed a common antipsychotic used to treat depression, bipolar disorder, psychosis and schizophrenia need to be told there is a risk they could develop a gambling addiction, an expert has warned.The National Problem Gambling Clinic has observed growing numbers of patients who have developed a gambling addiction after starting to take aripiprazole.

On 29 June 2022, all the staff at Queen Mary University of London, where I work, received an email from management.To our horror, they were threatening to withhold 100% of our pay for 21 days of both July and August, because we were participating in a marking boycott over pensions, pay, labour precarity, inequality and working conditions.

The Home Office has been accused of operating an unashamedly racist refugee system after refusing to offer people fleeing fighting in Sudan a safe and legal route to the UK, in stark contrast to the schemes offered to those escaping the war in Ukraine.With the final evacuation flight from Khartoum to the UK having left last week, a lack of options from the UK government has crystallised concern that it has adopted a segregated immigration policy.

Gary Lineker has said the government should never be involved in appointing the chair of the BBC, after the resignation of the incumbent, Richard Sharp.Sharp announced on Friday he was stepping down after accepting the findings of an independent investigation which said he breached the rules for public appointments.

So the government thinks that it is compassionate and fair to criminalise and deport people who are jumping the queue over some of the most vulnerable people (UK migration bill impractical and morally unacceptable, says Justin Welby, 10 May).Presumably, in the interests of fairness and consistency, it will now apply the same sanctions to purchasers of private medical care in the UK who jump the queue over those vulnerable people languishing on obscenely long NHS waiting lists.

EFF proudly joins ACLU California Action and If/When/How to co-sponsor new California legislation to protect people seeking abortion and gender-affirming care from dragnet-style digital surveillance.A coalition of more than 25 reproductive justice, civil liberties, and privacy groups are supporting the bill at introduction.

A boy who raised money for charity by sleeping in his garden and a leukaemia patient who supported vulnerable people during the pandemic were among youngsters invited to the coronation.Max Woosey, 13, known as The Boy In The Tent for his efforts, was seated inside Westminster Abbey with his father, Major Mark Woosey.

Six months after taking the helm of Italy's most right-wing government since World War II, Giorgia Meloni has talked tough on domestic issues but not rocked the boat internationally.Meloni's Brothers of Italy party, which has roots in the post-war Fascist movement, sent shock waves across the European Union when it came top in September elections.

Following the news that Pakistani architect Yasmeen Lari has won this year's Royal Institute of British Architects' Royal Gold Medal, we've rounded up 10 of her most notable projects.The medal was awarded to Lari, Pakistan's first qualified female architect, in recognition of her humanitarian work since retiring in 2000.

Charities have expressed disappointment in the Government's plan to tackle anti-social behaviour, calling it a further criminalisation of vulnerable people.Part of the proposals include targeting beggars causing a nuisance on Britain's streets.The Government's plan, published on Monday, states an intention to introduce new powers to prohibit organised begging which is often facilitated by criminal gangs to obtain cash for illicit activity as well as begging where it is causing a public nuisance with examples given including by a cashpoint, in a shop doorway or on public transport.

Cyber security experts found phishing scams targeting Gmail and Outlook users had increased 240 per cent (Image: Getty) Billions of Outlook and Gmail users have been issued a red alert warning over a huge increase in email scams.A report, from cyber defence company BlueVoyant, has found a 240% increase in email scams targeting users, with phishing scams that are often hard to spot.

On Monday, like some Tunbridge Wells Daily Telegraph Tory who puts his foot through the television in a fury and sends Lenny Henry and Clare Balding the bill, I went online and cancelled my television licence.Why should I subsidise the rotting corpse of the BBC?It was once an idealistic public institution, but the Gary Lineker saga reveals it as a cowed Conservative propaganda outlet with no objectivity or autonomy.

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Former Tory chancellor George Osborne has backed Gary Lineker in the controversy over his comments about Rishi Sunak's new immigration plan in a major blow to the prime minister.

Japan has dropped its request for people to wear masks after three years, but hardly anything has changed in a country with an extremely high regard for their effectiveness at anti-virus protection.ost commuters exiting Tokyo's main train station in the morning were wearing masks as they headed to work.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails A Conservative MP and leading campaigner on homelessness has warned the Government is not on track to end rough sleeping by 2024.Bob Blackman, chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Ending Homelessness, cited recent figures suggesting an increase in rough sleeping and warned a strategy revision is needed.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails The BBC has undermined its own credibility by taking Gary Lineker off air, a former director-general of the corporation has said as the fallout from an impartiality row continues.