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‘A hunting ground for foreign regimes’: why violent attacks on dissidents are on the rise in Britain

Jun 21, 2026 |

| Yahoo News UK

As Pouria Zeraati was crossing the street between his Wimbledon home and his car in south London in March 2024, he was confronted by two men. One held him firmly as the other stabbed him three times in the leg before they both fled. It was later said to be a targeted attack on behalf of the Iranian regime in Tehran. A punishment for Zeraati's work as a journalist covering Iran. He survived, but the ambush is one of dozens of violent incidents in recent years linked to foreign states.

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‘I’m throwing everything at it’: one young man’s search for a job in Britain’s ‘worklessness capital’

May 26, 2026 |

By Tom Levitt

| Yahoo News UK

It’s mid-afternoon in the Lincolnshire seaside town of Cleethorpes and Cohen is sitting in the back seat of a car putting on an Easter bunny outfit. A group of teenagers nearby stare in amusement. Cohen isn’t fazed. He is hoping we can take some new photographs that he can use to advertise his mascot business for the upcoming holidays. Cohen, 19, lives with his parents a couple of miles down the road in neighbouring Grimsby and set up Co Co Mascots last year as one of his many attempts to find work.

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Stabbings, kidnap threats and arson attacks: how the Iranian regime targets UK journalists

Apr 19, 2026 |

By Tom Levitt , Deepa Parent, Maryam Foumani

| Yahoo News UK

Iranian journalists working in London say they fear for their lives after a recent spate of threats and physical attacks, which they blame on a Tehran regime intent on silencing Persian-language news media such as BBC Persian and Iran International.

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‘A few beatings won't kill you': Judge rejects divorce request of woman abused by husband in Afghanistan

Mar 12, 2026 |

By Tom Levitt , Zahra Joya

| MSN

The shocking level of physical violence against women permitted under the Taliban's new laws has been revealed this week by the case of a woman in northern Afghanistan, who said she was beaten with a cable wire by her husband and told by a judge: “You want a divorce just because of that? … A little anger and a few beatings won't kill you.” Farzana* said her husband was quick-tempered and often resorted to beating her.

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‘A few beatings won’t kill you’: judge rejects divorce request of woman abused by husband in Afghanistan

Mar 12, 2026 |

By Zahra Joya, Tom Levitt

| Yahoo News UK

The shocking level of physical violence against women permitted under the Taliban’s new laws has been revealed this week by the case of a woman in northern Afghanistan, who said she was beaten with a cable wire by her husband and told by a judge: “You want a divorce just because of that? … A little anger and a few beatings won’t kill you.” Farzana* said her husband was quick-tempered and often resorted to beating her.

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‘We want to give them their names back’: the team identifying Europe’s forgotten female murder victims

Mar 09, 2026 |

By Tom Levitt

| AOL UK

British-born Rita Roberts was recognised through Operation Identify Me, a joint European police appeal led by Interpol, 31 years after her body was discovered in an Antwerp river.Photograph: AP In the shadow of Antwerp’s main arena, close to the city’s docklands, runs the Groot Schijn River. It was here that the body of Rita Roberts was discovered in June 1992, floating against the grate of a water treatment plant. She appeared to have been murdered, but Belgian police were unable to identify her.

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‘Don’t they have mercy?’: A mother on losing her son in a record year of Saudi executions

Jan 26, 2026 |

By Tom Levitt

| Yahoo Canada

Tom Levitt Mon, January 26, 2026 at 12:00 p.m. UTC 5 min read Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Essam al-Shazly, a 28-year-old Egyptian, spent four years on death row in Saudi Arabia. His mother says he was coerced into smuggling and into making a confession.Photograph: Supplied (Photograph: Supplied) In his four years on death row, Essam al-Shazly’s mother was his only contact with the outside world.

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Woman pulled out of UK ultramarathon after death threats over Afghanistan fundraising

Jan 14, 2026 |

By Tom Levitt

| MSN UK

A woman was pulled out of Britain's most gruelling ultramarathon after receiving death threats over her fundraising for Afghan women and girls. Sarah Porter was nearly a third of the way through the 108-mile Montane Winter Spine Challenger South endurance race when organisers made the “difficult decision” to withdraw her due to threats to her life in relation to the foundation she runs helping women and girls in war zones. Speaking to the Guardian, Porter said she was disappointed.

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Anruf aus der Todeszelle in Saudi-Arabien: „Ich werde am Dienstag hingerichtet“

Nov 18, 2025 |

By Tom Levitt

| Der Freitag

In der Stadt Tabuk im äußersten Norden Saudi-Arabiens flackern Neonlichter in einer überfüllten Gefängniszelle und markieren den Beginn eines neuen Tages. Die Gefangenen warten. Wenn die Wärter eintreten, wissen sie, dass jemand weggebracht werden wird. Ein Exekutionskommando aus etwa 20 Wärtern nähert sich einem Insassen leise, flüstert ihm etwas ins Ohr und führt ihn hinaus. Einige brechen in Tränen aus, andere bitten einfach um Vergebung.

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‘I’ll be executed on Tuesday’: families reveal panicked last calls from foreigners on Saudi’s death row

Nov 12, 2025 |

By Tom Levitt

| Yahoo News UK

Tom Levitt and Guardian reporters Wed 12 November 2025 at 7:00 am UTC 5 min read In the city of Tabuk in the far north of Saudi Arabia, neon lights flicker on in an overcrowded ward of a prison marking the start of a new day. The prisoners are waiting. When the guards enter, they know someone is about to be taken away. An execution squad of about 20 guards will approach an inmate quietly, whisper something in their ear and escort them out. Some break down in tears, others simply ask for forgiveness.

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‘I’ll be executed on Tuesday’: families reveal panicked last calls from foreigners on Saudi’s death row

Nov 12, 2025 |

By Tom Levitt

| Yahoo

In the city of Tabuk in the far north of Saudi Arabia, neon lights flicker on in an overcrowded ward of a prison marking the start of a new day. The prisoners are waiting. When the guards enter, they know someone is about to be taken away. An execution squad of about 20 guards will approach an inmate quietly, whisper something in their ear and escort them out. Some break down in tears, others simply ask for forgiveness.

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‘They told me not to speak out’: the woman who took on China - and won her husband’s freedom

Oct 23, 2025 |

By Tom Levitt

| AOL UK

Zeynure Hasan was at home in Istanbul in July 2021 when her husband finally called. It had been four days since she last heard from him as he got ready to board a flight to Casablanca. The silence had been torturous. But the news Idris now shared with her was even worse. He had been arrested and imprisoned on arrival in Morocco and told he was going to be deported to China. “You should call anyone who can help me, anyone who can rescue me,” he told her, before the phone went dead.

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‘I sit alone and talk to myself’: a family ripped apart by Europe’s migration crisis

Aug 27, 2025 |

By Okba Mohammad, Tom Levitt

| Yahoo Canada

Okba Mohammad and Tom Levitt Wed, August 27, 2025 at 4:00 a.m. UTC 6 min read Each morning Zahia leaves the home she shares with her four grandchildren in the Algerian coastal city of Bou Ismaïl and heads to her job cleaning a primary school. For the past year she has lived alone with them, after the death of both her daughters ripped their family apart.

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How a teenager woke up with a Chinese bounty on her head

Aug 11, 2025 |

By Tom Levitt

| Taipei Times

By Tom Levitt / The Guardian It was Christmas Eve 2024 and 19-year-old Chloe Cheung was lying in bed at home in Leeds when she found out the Chinese authorities had put a bounty on her head. As she scrolled through Instagram looking at festive songs, a stream of messages from old school friends started coming into her phone. Look at the news, they told her.

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how a Leeds teenager woke up with a Chinese bounty on her head

Aug 11, 2025 |

By Tom Levitt

| MSN UK

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‘I don’t expect to live a normal life’: how a Leeds teenager woke up with a Chinese bounty on her head

Aug 11, 2025 |

By Tom Levitt

| Yahoo Canada

Tom Levitt Mon, August 11, 2025 at 5:00 a.m. UTC 8 min read It was Christmas Eve 2024 and 19-year-old Chloe Cheung was lying in bed at home in Leeds when she found out the Chinese authorities had put a bounty on her head. As she scrolled through Instagram looking at festive songs, a stream of messages from old school friends started coming into her phone. Look at the news, they told her.

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Saudi Arabia accused of banning women’s rights activists from leaving the country

Jul 24, 2025 |

By Tom Levitt

| Yahoo Canada

Saudi Arabia is banning large numbers of its own citizens from leaving the country in a “cruel” attempt to silence criticism, say human rights activists. High-profile women’s rights campaigners, including Loujain al-Hathloul, who pushed for the right for women to drive in Saudi Arabia, and Maryam al-Otaibi, one of three sisters targeted by the authorities for their activism, appear to have been given long travel bans. These restrictions frequently extend to family members.

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Saudi Arabia executing ‘horrifying’ number of foreigners for drug crimes

Jul 08, 2025 |

By Tom Levitt

| Yahoo Canada

Saudi Arabia has executed 118 people for non-violent drug offences just this year. Nearly 600 people have been put to death since 2014, with 75% of them foreigners. Saudi Arabia has executed 118 people for non-violent drug offences just this year. Nearly 600 people have been put to death since 2014, with 75% of them foreigners.

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is it possible to change the fortunes of young people living in England’s coastal towns?

Jul 07, 2025 |

By Lisa Bachelor , Annie Kelly , Tom Levitt , Oreoluwa Adeyoola

| MSN UK

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is it possible to change the fortunes of young people living in England’s coastal towns?

Jul 07, 2025 |

By Lisa Bachelor , Annie Kelly , Tom Levitt , Oreoluwa Adeyoola

| MSN UK

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‘We’re told we won’t amount to anything’: is it possible to change the fortunes of young people living in England’s coastal towns?

Jul 07, 2025 |

By Lisa Bachelor , Annie Kelly , Tom Levitt , Oreoluwa Adeyoola

| Yahoo Canada

‘We’re told we won’t amount to anything’: is it possible to change the fortunes of young people living in England’s coastal towns? Ceilidh, who has always lived in Weston-super-Mare, says the local focus is on the seafront, not the estates behind it. Ceilidh, who has always lived in Weston-super-Mare, says the local focus is on the seafront, not the estates behind it.

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BBC staff in London say their families are being ‘terrorised and punished’ by Iranian regime

Jun 04, 2025 |

By Tom Levitt

| Yahoo

BBC staff in London say their families are being “targeted and punished” by the Iranian regime as it intensifies a campaign of intimidation against journalists and media outlets. There have been more than 20 “threat-to-life” incidents against people in the UK by Iran in recent years, according to the Metropolitan police counter-terrorism commander.

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Revealed: Saudi Arabia’s secretive rehabilitation ‘prisons’ for disobedient women

May 28, 2025 |

By Tom Levitt , Deepa Parent

| Yahoo

A young woman wearing a black abaya is pictured in a city in north-west Saudi Arabia standing precariously on a second-floor window ledge. A second photograph shows a group of men escorting her down with the help of a crane. The woman’s identity is unknown, but she was allegedly being held at one of Saudi Arabia’s notoriously secretive “jails” for women banished by their families or husbands for disobedience, extramarital sexual relations or being absent from home.

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Company supplying critical EV metal ‘did not disclose’ Erin Brockovich pollutant in drinking water

Apr 30, 2025 |

By Tom Levitt

| Yahoo

One of Indonesia’s largest nickel-mining companies, which supplies a mineral critical to the global electric car industry, did not tell the public that local drinking water was polluted, according to documents seen by the Guardian. Indonesia has become the world’s biggest producer of nickel, used in the production of wind turbines, solar panels and electric vehicle batteries.

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Thailand condemned for ‘shameful’ mass deportation of Uyghur refugees to China

Mar 03, 2025 |

By Tom Levitt

| AOL UK

The family of one of dozens of Uyghurs feared to have been forcibly deported from Thailand to China have condemned the decision as “shameful”. The deportations came despite a UN statement saying those being sent to China faced a “real risk of torture” on their return. Thailand ignored protests by the UN refugee agency, EU and US in deporting 40 Uyghurs who had been detained in the country for a decade, claiming they had returned voluntarily “to their normal lives” with their families.

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Taliban minister ‘forced to flee Afghanistan’ after speech in support of girls’ education

Feb 03, 2025 |

By Tom Levitt , Zahra Joya

| AOL UK

A senior Taliban minister who expressed support for reversing the ban on girls’ education in Afghanistan appears to have been forced to flee the country. Speaking at a graduation ceremony in Khost province, near the Afghan-Pakistani border, on 20 January, Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, the Taliban’s deputy foreign minister, criticised the government’s ban on girls attending secondary schools and higher education. “There is no excuse for this – not now and not in the future,” Stanikzai said.

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El oscuro secreto del champán francés: migrantes explotados y sin techo para recoger la uva de los vinicultores de lujo

Dec 23, 2024 |

By Tom Levitt

| El Diario

Los trabajadores del sector del champán en Francia están mal pagados y se ven obligados a dormir a la intemperie y robar comida a los vecinos para no pasar hambre, asegura una investigación publicada por The Guardian.

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Ashland City Hall Tidbits by David Runkel, 12/9, Part 3, Parks Capital Improvement Budget $0 for Golf Course, $12M for Pool

Dec 09, 2024 |

By David Runkel, Pete Pattisson , Ryan Gilbey , Tom Levitt

| The Ashland Chronicle

Parks Capital Improvement Budget: Zero for Golf Course, $12 Million for Swimming Pool by David Runkel In response to the Parks Commission’s request for public feedback on its proposed Capital Improvement Plan for the 2025-27, two old issues were raised by citizens at last week’s commission meeting. John Maurer expressed surprise that “there is no mention of the golf course” which he said is the “laughing stock of courses in southern Oregon.

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Ashland City Hall Tidbits by David Runkel 12/9, Part 1, Budget Issues at Forefront for City Council and Ashland School Board

Dec 09, 2024 |

By David Runkel, Pete Pattisson , Ryan Gilbey , Tom Levitt

| The Ashland Chronicle

TIdbits 12/9/24 By David Runkel Budget Issues at Forefront for City, School Board While the school board is dealing with a budget gap in the current fiscal year, what happens in the 2025-27 city budget is of increasing concern for city officials, in particular City Manager Sabrina Cotta.

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Saudi Arabia’s 2034 World Cup bid to be ratified by Fifa despite rights violations

Dec 09, 2024 |

By Tom Levitt

| Yahoo Canada

A Saudi football fan with a replica World Cup. As sole bidder for the 2034 tournament, Saudi Arabia’s successful bid is likely to be confirmed this week. A Saudi football fan with a replica World Cup. As sole bidder for the 2034 tournament, Saudi Arabia’s successful bid is likely to be confirmed this week.

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Saudi Arabia’s 2034 World Cup bid to be ratified by Fifa despite rights violations

Dec 09, 2024 |

By Tom Levitt

| Business and Human Rights

Saudi Arabia’s hosting of the men’s World Cup in 2034 will probably lead to “severe and widespread rights violations”, say human rights organisations anticipating Fifa’s rubber-stamping of the Gulf state’s bid this week.

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Migrant workers exposed to deadly 45C temperatures in Gulf - report

Nov 05, 2024 |

By Tom Levitt

| AOL UK

Migrant workers across the Gulf are risking their lives by being forced to work up to 14 hours a day in deadly temperatures, according to human rights researchers. Equidem, a human rights organisation, interviewed more than 250 migrant workers in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and UAE between 2021 and May 2024 for a new report on the conditions they were facing including their exposure to extreme heat and long working hours.

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Top female footballers urge Fifa to end deal with Saudi ‘nightmare sponsor’

Oct 21, 2024 |

By Tom Levitt

| Yahoo Canada

The City forward Vivianne Miedema, heading at Barcelona’s goal, was one of the letter’s 106 signatories, which says the Saudi state ‘systematically oppresses women’. The City forward Vivianne Miedema, heading at Barcelona’s goal, was one of the letter’s 106 signatories, which says the Saudi state ‘systematically oppresses women’.

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‘A slap in the face to victims of abuse’: UN urged to reject Saudi Arabia’s bid to join Human Rights Council

Oct 08, 2024 |

By Tom Levitt

| Yahoo Canada

The UN general assembly is due to select 18 new members for three-year terms on the Human Rights Council. The UN general assembly is due to select 18 new members for three-year terms on the Human Rights Council.

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Saudi fitness instructor stabbed in face while jailed over women’s rights posts

Oct 02, 2024 |

By Tom Levitt , Deepa Parent

| Yahoo Canada

Manahel al-Otaibi, 30, a fitness instructor and activist, seen without an abaya robe in Riyadh in 2019. Otaibi has since been jailed and a sister fled to Bahrain. Manahel al-Otaibi, 30, a fitness instructor and activist, seen without an abaya robe in Riyadh in 2019. Otaibi has since been jailed and a sister fled to Bahrain.

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Gender equality stalling or going backwards for 1bn women and girls

Sep 04, 2024 |

By Tom Levitt

| Yahoo Canada

More than 850 million women and girls are living in countries rated as “very poor” for gender equality, says a new report, subjecting them to a litany of potential restrictions and abuses, including forced pregnancies, childhood marriage and bans from secondary education. The SDG Gender Index, published today by a coalition of NGOs, found that no country has, so far, achieved the promise of gender equality envisioned by the UN’s 2030 sustainable development goals (SDGs).

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‘Working here is hell’: latest death of farm worker in 40C heat shocks Italy

Aug 27, 2024 |

By Deepa Parent, Tom Levitt

| NewsBreak

A young worker from Bangladesh laying irrigation pipes on a farm in Foggia, Italy. Photograph: Stefania Prandi Italy has been shocked by reports of the “brutal” treatment of migrants working on farms across the country and the death of a flower picker in temperatures of about 40C (104F). Tens of thousands of migrants have been taking to fields to pick tomatoes and other crops across Italy at the same time as the country has been engulfed in consecutive heatwaves since the middle of June.

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UK ‘turning a blind eye’ to threats to kill Saudi activists living in exile

Jul 18, 2024 |

By Deepa Parent, Tom Levitt

| MSN UK

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UK ‘turning a blind eye’ to threats to kill Saudi activists living in exile

Jul 18, 2024 |

By Deepa Parent, Tom Levitt

| Yahoo Canada

Activists say Saudi Arabia is one of the main perpetrators of attacks on exiled critics, especially women’s rights activists. Amnesty says it pioneered ‘transnational repression’. Activists say Saudi Arabia is one of the main perpetrators of attacks on exiled critics, especially women’s rights activists. Amnesty says it pioneered ‘transnational repression’.

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Shutting Afghan women out of key UN conference to appease Taliban ‘a betrayal’

Jun 21, 2024 |

By Tom Levitt , Annie Kelly

| AOL UK

Members of a Taliban delegation in a meeting with foreign diplomats in Doha, shortly after the group took power in 2021.Photograph: Karim Jaafar/AFP/Getty Images Excluding Afghan women from an upcoming UN conference on Afghanistan would be a “betrayal” of women and girls in the country, say human rights groups and former politicians.

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Monday Reads

Jun 17, 2024 |

By Annie Kelly , Tom Levitt , Hikmat Noori , Anne Petersen

| Jill Filipovic Newsletter

Photo by Florencia Viadana on Unsplash Happy Monday! Here are some fine reads from around the web, plus what you might have missed from the newsletter and elsewhere this week. Jill Filipovic is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

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‘Nobody is coming to help us’: Afghan teenage girls on life without school

Jun 14, 2024 |

By Annie Kelly , Tom Levitt , Hikmat Noori

| Yahoo Canada

A 17-year-old girl in her room in Kabul last year. Girls have in effect been banned from secondary schools in Afghanistan for more than three years, with no prospect of the Taliban reversing their policy of excluding girls and women from education. A 17-year-old girl in her room in Kabul last year. Girls have in effect been banned from secondary schools in Afghanistan for more than three years, with no prospect of the Taliban reversing their policy of excluding girls and women from education.

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‘They’ve destroyed us because of some tweets’: the Saudi sisters jailed and intimidated for wanting equal rights

May 07, 2024 |

By Tom Levitt

| Yahoo Canada

Fawzia al-Otaibi says police dragged her out of her room before detaining her. ‘It felt more like a kidnapping.’ Fawzia al-Otaibi says police dragged her out of her room before detaining her. ‘It felt more like a kidnapping.’ Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian In September 2022, Fawzia al-Otaibi was a week into a trip to her home country of Saudi Arabia, staying with a friend near the Bahrain border, when her phone rang.

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‘They can’t grieve’: families in limbo as Channel boat victims left unidentified

Mar 01, 2024 |

By Maïa Courtois , Simon Mauvieux , Mael Galisson, Tom Levitt

| Yahoo Canada

Late in the evening of 14 December last year four friends made their way to a beach near Dunkirk. By midnight, they were sitting together in a sinking boat in the Channel, along with 66 other passengers. One passenger is known to have died that evening, but the fate of two of those four male friends – Hiva, 26, and Nima, 24 – has never been confirmed. They had arrived in France after fleeing from an increasingly authoritarian Iran and hoped to claim asylum in the UK.

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‘A part of me was always here’: falling in love with sheep-farming in the Norwegian fjords

Jan 31, 2024 |

By Tom Levitt

| Yahoo Canada

The small village of Engan lies perched on the hillside above the fjord of Kobbelvvågen, north of the Arctic Circle in Norway. After the dark and snowy winter, its terrain is a blanket of green in the spring and summer months, providing an ideal feeding ground for Rakel Nystabakk’s flock of sheep. “It’s so cool that they can walk around by themselves for the whole summer grazing everything – herbs, mushrooms and land that we cannot make food from.

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women fight Middle Eastern laws that keep them trapped at home

Jul 18, 2023 |

By Sarah Little, Tom Levitt

| MSN UK

She may be nearly 30, but Aya* is forbidden from leaving her home in Amman, Jordan. She can’t go for lunch with her friends and has no legal right to decide where to live, work or study. Aya’s story is common across the Middle East and north Africa, where countries including Jordan, Iran and Saudi Arabia still have laws requiring women to either “obey” their husbands, live with them or seek their permission to leave the marital home, work or travel. “I am a prisoner at home,” says Aya.

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'Our banks often exclude the poorest. A Fair Banking Act could change that'

Jun 28, 2023 |

By Tom Levitt

| LabourList

Today, the insidious and growing presence of illegal money lenders in towns and cities around the UK is uncovered in a new report from Fair4All Finance, entitled ‘As one door closes – Experiences of illegal moneylending during an emerging cost of living crisis’. The report recommends cross-party support for policy reform to ensure more low income households have access to fair credit from banks, as well as community finance providers, such as the one I helped set up in 2015.

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Animals Farmed: a leap in salmon deaths, superbug fears and the life of a Spanish shepherdess

Feb 08, 2023 |

By Tom Ambrose , Tom Levitt

| NewsBreak

Hello subscribers . This is our final newsletter from the Animals Farmed series . Thank you for all the correspondence you have sent in. The series itself will continue, and you can follow updates from across the environment desk with the Down to Earth newsletter .

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Animals Farmed: China’s pig skyscraper, lab-grown meat and egg shortages

Dec 08, 2022 |

By Tom Ambrose , Tom Levitt

| Inkl

Others said multistorey pig farms (Schweinehochhaus) had been documented as being in use in Germany in the 1970s, although not at the same scale as those in China today. Conditions in these facilities were reported as being “often atrocious”. In China, reports on the rise – quite literally – of high-rise farms have been cautious, with some noting the social upheaval that would occur in rural China with the end of back yard farming.

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Animals Farmed: China’s pig skyscraper, lab-grown meat and egg shortages

Dec 08, 2022 |

By Tom Ambrose , Tom Levitt

| Yahoo Sports Canada

‘High-rise cruelty’: China’s pig skyscraper An article on a new pig farm in Hubei province that is ready to produce 1 million pigs a year led to a large number of emails from readers. Many lamented the potential welfare of the pigs. “They deserve a natural life. It’s like a nightmare and based on greed,” one reader wrote. Others said multistorey pig farms (Schweinehochhaus) had been documented as being in use in Germany in the 1970s, although not at the same scale as those in China today.

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