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The Independent
Rights abuses persist in North Korea, warns UN
More than a decade after a landmark United Nations report found North Korea guilty of crimes against humanity, many abuses continue, a UN official has said.
2 min |
June 21, 2025
The Independent
'I sold my house to the DfT 8 years ago - it's still empty'
More than 400 homes bought by the government for HS2 now sit unoccupied amid a housing crisis.
4 min |
June 21, 2025
The Independent
European foreign ministers are Iran's Trump whisperers
Europe’s frantic diplomatic mission in Geneva may go down as one of its most arduous ventures on the world stage and also one of its most consequential. The foreign ministers of Britain, France and Germany must persuade a battered Iranian regime to kowtow to the US and Israel over its nuclear ambitions, or face likely annihilation.
3 min |
June 21, 2025
The Independent
Dua Lipa and the problem with celebrity book clubs
The pop star is rebooting her reading-themed podcast. It’s a noble endeavour, but big names and influencers are getting too comfy with the publishing industry
4 min |
June 21, 2025
The Independent
Three men puzzled over the leakless lack of evidence
This week, Frieda Hughes was forced to forgo clean water when her neighbour accidentally turned off her stopcock
1 min |
June 21, 2025
The Independent
Huge Wimbledon boost for Draper after Queen's win
On one level, it is mission accomplished for Jack Draper at Queen’s Club this week. Of course, there is still a tournament to win, a prestigious tournament at that, especially for a British player. Rather tantalisingly, Draper remains on a final collision course with world No 2 Carlos Alcaraz. What a showdown that would be.
3 min |
June 21, 2025
The Independent
From Loaded to liberation
Kristen Smyth was once the enforcer at the notorious lads mag in the Nineties. After years of addiction and upheaval and searching, she finally found freedom as a trans woman
7 min |
June 21, 2025
The Independent
In order to succeed, Rayner must listen to housebuilders
Labour has promised to build 1.5 million new homes but for too long, the private sector has been regarded with suspicion, It’s time there was an ve rethink
4 min |
June 21, 2025
The Independent
Why is Rayner shifting the council tax burden south?
When Angela Rayner took over her department, the first thing she did was to delete levelling up” from its name. But she insisted that she was committed to the idea behind the phrase, and now she is about to announce a change in local government funding to prove it.
3 min |
June 21, 2025
The Independent
Buyer beware... this heat one spark mad online shopping
We’re plum in the middle of a British summer heatwave that blissful time when my overseas friends briefly stop complaining about the cold and recline, lizard-like, in contentment. As a redhead, this is not my time to shine.
3 min |
June 21, 2025
The Independent
Thank you for booking with us... have a nice non-flight
Wizz Air asks passengers to pre-select’ themselves for being offloaded from overbooked flights
2 min |
June 21, 2025
The Independent
Assisted dying bill would have ignored my husband
It takes something unusual to get an almost full attendance in the House of Commons on a Friday and that unusual, potentially epochmaking event was the decisive third reading of Kim Leadbeater’s bill to legalise assisted dying, or as formally entitled, the Terminally Il] Adults End of Life) Bill.
5 min |
June 21, 2025
The Independent
Superyacht lost in storm brought to surface off Sicily
A British superyacht that sank off Sicily last August, claiming seven lives, has resurfaced for the first time as salvage crews prepare to haul it ashore for further investigation.
1 min |
June 21, 2025
The Independent
Tourists make England toil during Headingley run-fet
Jaiswal and Gill hit centuries as India post 359-3 at stumps
3 min |
June 21, 2025
The Independent
Starmer needs quick fix to mend a broken Whitehall
It never rains but it pours for Keir Starmer. He is fighting to stop the Iran crisis wrecking his one success as prime minister a solid performance on foreign affairs in which he somehow maintains a productive relationship with Donald Trump.
3 min |
June 21, 2025
The Independent
The most dangerous battle facing Trump isn't in Iran
It had the feel of two ageing dons sparring in the senior common room, both smugly full of self-admiration with their own cleverness. This was the encounter between two of Maga’s leading intellectual apostles: Senator Ted Cruz from Texas Princeton University and Harvard Law) and one-time Fox News host, unrivalled leader in white grievance politics and influential beyond justification, Tucker Carlson.
3 min |
June 21, 2025
The Independent
Post-Brexit youth mobility scheme gets EU green light
The European Union has given the green light to post-Brexit youth visas with the UK, after member states approved talks on how they would work in practice. Campaigners welcomed what they hailed as a massive step forward for young people in the UK”
2 min |
June 21, 2025
The Independent
Why peace may not be the solution in the Middle East
Britain, France, Germany and the European Union are all rushing their foreign ministers to Geneva for talks with Iran in a desperate attempt to give peace a chance. But it is not clear that peace now is the best option.
3 min |
June 21, 2025
The Independent
Student who drugged and raped 10 women gets life
A PhD student suspected of being one of the UK's worst sex offenders has been jailed for life after drugging and raping 10 women in London and China.
4 min |
June 20, 2025
The Independent
South Africa opens inquiry into apartheid-era torture
Black men known as the Cradock Four - were abducted, tortured and killed 40 years ago this month by security forces
3 min |
June 20, 2025
The Independent
'The aid is a death trap'
As the world focuses on Israel's conflict with Iran, hundreds of starving Palestinians are being killed at American-run aid distribution sites in Gaza, write Bel Trew and Richard Hall
6 min |
June 20, 2025
The Independent
'I came here for dream jo The Home Office killed it'
A Brazilian student who worked for a leading art gallery has waited seven months to find out if she can remain in the UK
3 min |
June 20, 2025
The Independent
'As soon as I walked in, it felt warm, homely and safe'
Family fleeing abuse handed keys to reader-backed haven
2 min |
June 20, 2025
The Independent
Labour rebels hit back at threats over benefits vote
Rebel Labour MPs have hit back at Sir Keir Starmer after they were threatened with suspension or blacklisting for voting against his benefit cuts.
3 min |
June 20, 2025
The Independent
Jailed father who set himself alight moved to hospital
Despite schizophrenia and psychosis, Thomas White was serving an abolished IPP term, called 'torture' by the UN
3 min |
June 20, 2025
The Independent
Interest rates hold is a blow to Reeves - but all's not lost
Of all the losers from the Bank of England's decision to hold interest rates - which includes the 591,000 people currently on tracker mortgages, as well as those among the 7.1 million households on fixed rate mortgages who are scouting around for a new deal - the biggest loser of all could be one Rachel Reeves.
3 min |
June 20, 2025
The Independent
Cherki's City debut will leave fans wanting more
At the home of the Philadelphia Eagles, there was an NFL-style edge to Rayan Cherki's first Manchester City appearance.
2 min |
June 20, 2025
The Independent
Commons assisted dying vote: all you need to know
Kim Leadbeater, the Labour MP who came top in the private members' bill ballot last year, and was therefore given a chance of getting her own law onto the statute book, is \"confident\" that her Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill will complete its Commons stages today.
2 min |
June 20, 2025
The Independent
Fearnley tames Moutet to reach first ATP quarter-final
Be honest. A year ago, had you heard of current British No 2 Jacob Fearnley?
3 min |
June 20, 2025
The Independent
Starmer calls for a return to diplomacy in Iran-Israel war
PM urges Trump to show restraint and not conduct airstrikes
4 min |