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Police and intelligence services in Serbia are using advanced mobile forensics products and previously unknown spyware to illegally surveil journalists, environmental campaigners and civil rights activists, according to a report.

Hong Kong activist Jimmy Lai denies sedition charges as rights and campaign groups around the world call for his release

Rights chief also warns Britain will be ‘judged harshly by history for its failure to help prevent civilian slaughter in Gaza’

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT. The world's worst prisons include Camp 14 Kaechon in North Korea in which inmates as young as 11 are forced into labour and Gldani Prison in Georgia where guards were exposed for rape

The Home Office has had public failures including its inability to get a grip on the small boats crisis, including the shambles of its flagship policy to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda

David Beckham said he was 'proud' of his role as ambassador for the Qatar World Cup last year - but Amnesty International's Sacha Deshmukh criticised the football legend

Saudi-owned Premier League side meet Ligue 1 giants run by Qatar at St James' Park this evening to prove football really is more than a game

In an explosive critique of modern day ownership and oil rich states buying into football, Sunderland's former chairman says Newcastle’s risks becoming “tarnished” for generations

Saridewi Djamani is due to be hanged Friday after she was also convicted and sentenced for trafficking heroin and the last woman known to have been hanged in Singapore was in 2004

Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) have held an 80% stake in Newcastle since October 2021, with the club continually facing allegations of being a vehicle for sportswashing

The BBC took Gary Lineker off air - only to reinstate him a few days later - after the former footballer criticised the government's use of language towards refugees

Since forming last summer LIV Golf has been criticised for its involvement with the Saudi Arabian government, but CEO Greg Norman is looking to keep the focus on the action on the course

A number of LIV Golf's critics have labelled the league a cog in the sportswashing machine of Saudi Arabia, but American star Bryson DeChambeau has hit back at the claims

In a week where the Premier League refused to say if Newcastle's owners are being investigated, there were more warnings against Manchester United's potential takeover from a Qatari group

Manchester United are in the midst of a club sale as the Premier League has decided to crackdown on club owners and directors with a new ban

A group called Ukrainian Cyber Resistance name 41-year-old Colonel Sergei Atroshchenko as responsible for the bombing of Mariupol theatre in which up to 700 died

WARNING DISTRESSING CONTENT: On March 20, 2004, the US and UK Coalition invaded Iraq on the false belief that dictator Saddam Hussein was manufacturing weapons of mass destruction and planned to use them on his own people

Fifa will confirm the plans for 48-team tournament in 2026 at a council meeting today ahead of annual congress in Rwanda

Amnesty International has delivered a petition with more than a million signatures ahead of Thursday meeting in Rwanda following criticism that Fifa is yet to specify details around "legacy fund"

Newcastle United's takeover by Saudi Arabaia's Public Investment Fund is back under the spotlight after a claim in a US court case surrounding the LIV Golf tour

Court submission described club's chairman as "sitting minister" in Saudi Arabia government despite Premier League previously insisting it had received legally-binding assurances that there was separation between PIF and the state

The Glazers have set a deadline of Friday to receive outright takeover offers, with British billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe so far the only confirmed bidder for United

Suella Braverman said 'major reform' is needed of the controversial Prevent programme after a long-delayed review. But Amnesty International said it was 'riddled with biased thinking, errors, and plain anti-Muslim prejduice'

Kim Johnson's remark was branded "completely unacceptable" by Keir Starmer's official spokesman, and she is expected to be spoken to by the party's chief whip

Shadow Minister for the Middle East and North Africa Bambos Charalambous gave just a snapshot of the estimated 18,000 arrested since the Mahsa Amini protests began last September