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From a shop owner in India to a community worker in New South Wales, rising fuel prices are forcing people to ration oil usageMiddle East crisis – live updatesAlagesan, 35, needs liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) to run his roadside drink and snack shop in…
Gurpreet Singh Johal wants to know if stops are linked to his efforts to find out whether UK intelligence played a role in sibling’s arrestThe brother of Jagtar Singh Johal, a British Sikh jailed in India, has written to the Home Office to ask why he i…
Jagtar Singh Johal’s hopes of being freed on bail have been dashed for now despite being cleared of charges in one caseHopes that Jagtar Singh Johal, a British Sikh man held in an Indian jail for seven years, would be released on bail were dashed on Th…
Jagtar Singh Johal is being arbitrarily detained and targeted for his human rights activism, say campaignersDelhi’s high court has denied bail to the British activist Jagtar Singh Johal, who has been imprisoned in India for nearly seven years, in seven…
After 12 years in Scotland, pandas to fly home amid ongoing dispute about purpose of zoos and ethics of China’s panda diplomacyAs soon as she heard that Edinburgh’s pandas were about to be flown home, Sarah Greenwood knew she had to see them. “I love e…
Beijing’s strained relations with the west are less easily mollified by loans of cuddly endangered bearsAs the UK’s only giant pandas leave Edinburgh zoo , returning to their native country after a 12-year sojourn away from China, the era of panda dip…
Peers express fears Jaghtar Singh Johal will not receive ‘due process’ in India amid torture claimsAssurances by a UK minister that a British man imprisoned in India will receive a fair trial fly in the face of evidence that he has been tortured and ar…
Gurpreet Singh Johal calls for increased pressure to free brother Jagtar after Rishi Sunak raised case with Narendra ModiThe brother of a British man held in an Indian jail for six years fears the UK government is “more talk” and “no action”, after Ris…
Labour raises questions in the Commons over Johnson’s alleged actions as foreign secretary in the case of activist Jagtar Singh JohalLabour has accused Boris Johnson of authorising the sharing of intelligence that led to the imprisonment and alleged to…
Lawyers for Jagtar Singh Johal say he was given electric shocks after unlawful arrest in Punjab in 2017A British Sikh campaigner is facing a possible death sentence after the UK intelligence services passed on information about him to the Indian author…
From Montana’s prairies to Kazakhstan’s steppes, vast tracts of land are being enriched. Here’s how to witness those changesRead more in our Wild world seriesMozambique’s civil war (1977-1992) and the poaching connected to it decimated wildlife in Goro…
UK Health Security Agency says most cases in the community now new variant; France records over 208,000 new cases, health minister confirmsUS sets record for new daily Covid cases amid Omicron surgeScotland reports record number of cases as Omicron tak…
Female employees work for Linda Norgrove foundation, set up by parents of aid worker, which finds scholarships for Afghan womenThe foreign secretary has been urged to help evacuate two Afghan aid workers employed by a Scottish charity set up in the mem…
First minister raises ‘deep concerns’ about case of Jagtar Singh Johal, who has been imprisoned for four years awaiting trialNicola Sturgeon has written to the embattled foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, urging him to intervene in the case of a Scottish…
Allen’s climbing partners were rescued from world’s second highest mountainA Scottish climber has died in an avalanche on K2 as he attempted to take a new route to the summit.Rick Allen was attempting to climb the world’s second highest mountain to rai…