Over 1.2 million Afghans have been deported from Iran since March 2024, returning to a homeland facing economic collapse. Many are now strangers in their own country, struggling to rebuild lives under immense hardship. ✍️ Manija Mirzaie reports 🔗 www.context.news/socioeconomi...

After the U.S. Supreme Court overturned abortion rights, concerns are rising over how data from period apps is collected and used. Sensitive health info can be sold or accessed by authorities—putting privacy and choice at risk. ✍️ @lintaylor.bsky.social reports 🔗 www.context.news/digital-righ...

The falling rate of vaccination shows people no longer understand the danger of not immunising children, warns the Covid-era chief scientific adviser

Tens of thousands defy Hungary’s ban on Pride in protest against Orbán

Despite increased awareness of cyber-scam compounds in Southeast Asia, rescuing trafficking victims remains a huge challenge. ✍️ Lin Taylor talks to Ling Li, a PhD candidate researching technology-facilitated modern slavery. 🔗 www.context.news/digital-divi...

Feminist influencer Abrège Soeur warned online before the festival that calls had been made on social media for women to be targeted with syringes. Officials did not say if these were cases of so-called needle spiking with date-rape drugs www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Israel-Iran live: Tehran vows retaliation after US strikes and Trump floats idea of regime change reut.rs/4liqPML

After fleeing Ukraine with her new-born baby and toddler in 2022, Lidiia rebuilt her life Britain. But now the 36-year-old fears she will have to return because there is no easy way to get the right to permanently stay in her new home. www.context.news/socioeconomi...

MPs set to vote on decriminalising abortion in England and Wales www.bbc.com/news/article...

As governments deploy AI to manage borders, citizens should be wary of this tech too, says researcher. ✍️ Lin Taylors talks to researcher Derya Ozkul 🔗 www.context.news/digital-righ...

Quite momentous! Pacific Islanders are starting to permanently relocate to Australia under the new PEV. www.abc.net.au/pacific/prog... Is this the start of official climate migration pathways?

Netanyahu vows to ‘take control’ of Gaza as UK, France and Canada threaten action against Israel

The British government is in talks with unspecified third countries about deals to send them migrants who have been refused the right to stay in Britain and run out of legal options to avoid deportation www.reuters.com/world/uk/bri...

The Home Office has been trialling the use of AI to process asylum claims. Asylum decisions are some of the most serious gov makes - wrong decisions put lives at risk. The trial has a 9% inaccuracy rate - clearly this system shouldn't be used. www.context.news/ai/ai-will-h...

Reuters wins Pulitzer for fentanyl trade investigation; New York Times wins four prizes reut.rs/4mgVtrs

I interviewed Anna and other HK activists in 2023 “The authorities are using any means to get to them through intimidating families that are still (in Hong Kong)” - this quote by @mayawang.bsky.social from @hrw.org still rings true today www.reuters.com/article/tech...

Who is Luis Antonio Tagle? The Philippine cardinal and ‘karaoke priest’ in the running for pope

Chinese President Xi Jinping called for Asian nations to unite in resisting geopolitical confrontation, unilateralism and protectionism, as he aims to consolidate ties with some of China's closest neighbors amid a deterioration of relations with the US reut.rs/3Yq3znp

The United States once led the world in running clinical trials, but Trump’s DEI roll back is putting that pressure on Europe. ✍️ Lin Taylor reports. 🔗 www.context.news/socioeconomi...

Chinese President Xi Jinping begins a three-nation tour of Southeast Asia next week, his first overseas trip this year, aiming to consolidate ties with some of China's closest neighbours as trade tension escalates with the United States. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

Trade between the US and Nauru is a drop in the bucket of the global economy. That didn’t stop the Trump administration from slapping the country with tariffs.

Tech giants are suppressing women's health content on their platforms, charities and businesses say. They are worried that this is a rollback of diversity policies and reproductive rights. ✍️ Lin Taylor reports.

Extreme heat and heavy rain in Myanmar could cause disease outbreaks among earthquake survivors camping in the open, global aid bodies warned, complicating rescue efforts made difficult by a civil war, as the death toll surpassed 3,000 reut.rs/4489O2w

Federal election 2025 live updates: Anthony Albanese calls Australia election and names 3 May poll date

As my family and community mark 50 years since the fall of Saigon, it’s hard to comprehend how much things have shifted in a few months

Rodrigo Duterte is accused of crimes against humanity for an estimated 30,000 deaths during his tenure as Davao’s mayor and as president of the Philippines. Here’s what we know about Duterte’s war on drugs aje.io/ubwu40

Goodbye Skype 🥲 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The CDC is planning a large study into potential connections between vaccines and autism despite extensive scientific research that has disproven or failed to find evidence of such links reut.rs/4kAhlgi

Donald Trump’s interest in acquiring Greenland has shaken the status quo and, combined with growing Inuit pride, has led some locals to view an upcoming election as a historic chance to free the territory from Danish influence reut.rs/3Fco1Bj

Thomson Reuters said its business with the Department of Defense was 'inaccurately represented,' in response to accusations on social media by Elon Musk and US President Donald Trump that the company played a role in 'large scale social deception' for the government reut.rs/3WYivYQ

LOVE all the nostalgic rom-comesque vignettes, music, styling, actors & models in the latest Burberry campaign. Everything is bang on and what we desperately need right now (escapism!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvzq...

The Trump administration's freeze of foreign funding has begun impacting an international effort to hold Russia responsible for alleged war crimes in Ukraine, according to eight sources, halting dozens of jobs and tens of millions of dollars in aid reut.rs/4gtiV0o 1/6

The Trump administration took sweeping new steps against the U.S. Agency for International Development, putting an additional vast swath of employees on leave and notifying all overseas staff they would be recalled within a month.

A fragile ceasefire in Gaza brings cautious hope that reconstruction can start. With 2.3M people displaced, the humanitarian crisis is immense. ✍️ Nazih Osseiran reports. 🔗 www.context.news/money-power-...

Syrian rebels declared President Bashar al-Assad's ouster after seizing control of Damascus on Sunday, ending his family's iron-fisted rule after more than 13 years of civil war reut.rs/4f2V5YN

Bashar Assad, Syria’s now former dictator, has fled the country after opposition forces stormed the Syrian capital with scant resistance from the regime.

The move on period doubling to 56 days will have significant impact and help prevent homelessness among those granted refugee status in the UK - an issue I’ve been covering for years for @contextnewsroom.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“It is understood that hundreds of UK residents have struggled to access the system from abroad and so cannot return to their homes. Migrant workers have complained that without an eVisa, they could not access employment or housing.” t.co/LnBBGDvfHi

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