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Past articles by Anu:

Turkish asylum seekers allegedly being pushed back in small boats by Greece

Exclusive: Turkish nationals claim they were illegally put in boats by Greek authorities and returned to Turkey, where they risked persecution → Read More

‘Disparities we had before played out during the pandemic’

British Medical Association chief Chaand Nagpaul on the failure to protect ethnic minorities, and what can be done now. → Read More

Rohingya accuse Bangladesh officers of abuse over hunger strike

The Rohingya say they were beaten for holding a hunger strike to demand better living conditions on Bhashan Char island. → Read More

MIA on Assange: 'No one has fought for us the way he has'

British rapper who has long supported WikiLeaks founder tells Al Jazeera why she thinks UK, US are wrong to pursue him. → Read More

Fury at ‘Hunger Games-style’ application process for Grenfell funds sees council chief abandon Twitter

A scheme to decide the awarding of compensatory funds to people affected by the Grenfell Tower disaster has provoked fury among residents and politicians, who accused it of pitting members of the community against each other in a "game show-style" process. Kensington and Chelsea council has invited North Kensington individuals and organisations to apply for grants from a → Read More

Cameron and May must be called before inquiry to answer for Grenfell failings, councillors demand

Theresa May and David Cameron should be called before the inquiry into the Grenfell disaster to account for missed opportunities to prevent it, councillors are demanding. Labour councillors in Kensington and Chelsea made the call as part of a double-pronged move aiming to hold central and local governments to account for their “action or inaction” before and after the inferno → Read More

Kensington and Chelsea Council scrap committee that scrutinised response to Grenfell Tower fire

Kensington and Chelsea Council has voted to scrap a committee tasked with scrutinising the authority’s response to the Grenfell Tower fire, prompting angry protests outside the Town Hall on Wednesday evening as the decision was passed. Meetings about the aftermath of the disaster that killed 72 people in June 2017 will now take place in north Kensington, instead of at the Town → Read More

Are ethical investors funding the destruction of Brazilian forests?

Ethical investors in the world’s largest producer of eucalyptus pulp may think they are helping the environment but critics say their funding is doing the opposite or, at best, its green impact is negligible. The claims concern Fibria, a Brazilian firm that raised $700m (£560m) in 2017 through a sale of self-labelled green bonds. Earlier this year, Fibria merged with Suzano → Read More

Edinburgh food bank users ‘on brink of starvation as supplies run low amid soaring demand’

People in deprived parts of Edinburgh are facing the threat of starvation as supplies at food banks across the city run “critically low”, a charity has warned. → Read More

Airbnb boycott: 10,000 threaten to deactivate accounts in protest over occupied West Bank listings

More than 10,000 people have pledged to deactivate their Airbnb accounts for a global campaign protesting the company's decision to re-introduce property listings in Israeli West Bank settlements, considered illegal under international law. → Read More

Thousands march in London to support Palestinians after Gaza rocket exchanges

Thousands of people marched in central London to demand a right to determination for the Palestinian people and called for Israel to be held accountable for violations of international law. The National Demonstration for Palestine followed a week-long exchange of air raids and rockets that killed at least 25 Palestinians and four Israelis. → Read More

Police force condemns xenophobic comments about criminals on social media

A police force has condemned people for making racist comments about offenders and assumptions about their backgrounds on its Facebook page. → Read More

Chancellor Philip Hammond to announce fate of 1p and 2p coins this week

Chancellor Philip Hammond is to rule on the fate of 1p and 2p coins later this week, a year after the Treasury’s spring statement announced they could be phased out and he called them "obsolete." The Treasury has declined to comment on whether or not the coins will stay but said "the result of the review will be announced shortly." → Read More

Extinction Rebellion: Supporters warn ‘hippy language’ is watering down climate change message

Extinction Rebellion speakers should stop using "hippy" language because it is watering down the message about climate change, supporters of the group have said. Others critiqued the movement for its "cliquey" nature in Facebook posts. → Read More

AI used to reveal information hidden by FBI following decades-long programme of spying on US Muslims

A journalist determined to shed light on an FBI operation that saw US Muslim families spied on for two decades is using artificial intelligence to fill in the blanks in a heavily redacted trove of 33,000 documents she forced the bureau to release. Algerian-American filmmaker Assia Boundaoui ​had been investigating the bureau's covert surveillance of her Illinois Arab community → Read More

AI used to reveal information hidden by FBI following decades-long programme of spying on US Muslims

A journalist determined to shed light on an FBI operation that saw US Muslim families spied on for two decades is using artificial intelligence to fill in the blanks in a heavily redacted trove of 33,000 documents she forced the bureau to release. Algerian-American filmmaker Assia Boundaoui ​had been investigating the bureau's covert surveillance of her Illinois Arab community → Read More

Lauri Love will not get computer equipment back from NCA, judge rules

Alleged cyber-hacker Lauri Love has lost an appeal to reclaim his computers from the National Crime Agency (NCA). A district judge at Westminster Magistrates Court ruled on Tuesday it was not in the public interest for the computer scientist to have his equipment returned. → Read More

Scores protest against BP sponsorship of British Museum exhibition

Scores of protesters gathered at the British Museum to demonstrate against an exhibtion sponsored by oil giant BP. Around 350 activists and artists were among the crowd expressing their anger agaist the display entitled "I am Ashurbanipal, king of the world, king of Assyria". Earlier in the week they had already staged their own exhibtion at central London’s P21 Gallery → Read More

Made of money: Venezuelans transform banknotes into art in bid to give them value

Venezuelan migrants in Columbia are giving their devalued currency a new lease of life by recycling near-worthless Bolivars into artworks. Food and job shortages have spurred more than three million Venezuelans to emigrate since 2015. → Read More

Lauri Love: Alleged British hacker begins legal battle to get seized computers back

Lauri Love, the computer scientist who won a landmark appeal against extradition to the US for allegedly hacking into American government websites, has begun a legal battle to try to get his seized computers back. District Judge Margot Coleman told Hendon Magistrates' Court in north London, that the matter could be heard in public but that only limited details of it could be → Read More