Black Archives Day on 29 November 2025 (British Library, 2025)
Join us in celebrating and contributing to the living power of Black archival memory, activism, and cultural transformation.

Taliban used discarded UK kit to track down Afghans who worked with west, inquiry hears - Eleni Courea (The Guardian, 2025)
Whistleblower tells Afghan leak inquiry those affected were told to move and change phone numbers to protect themselves
Keywords: Afghanistan; Military; Ministry of Defence; Politics; Taliban; UK news; World news

Taliban used discarded UK kit to track down Afghans who worked with west, inquiry hears - Eleni Courea (The Guardian, 2025)
Whistleblower tells Afghan leak inquiry those affected were told to move and change phone numbers to protect themselves
Keywords: Afghanistan; Military; Ministry of Defence; Politics; Taliban; UK news; World news

‘We’re a bit jealous of Kneecap’: how Europe’s minority tongues are facing the digital future - Burgen, Stephen (The Guardian, 2025)
What does it mean to lose a language, and what does it take to save it? Those were the big questions being asked in Barcelona recently
Keywords: Culture; Education; Europe; European Union; Kneecap; Language; Languages; World news

A database could help revive the Arapaho language before its last speakers are gone - Cowell, Andrew (The Conversation, 2025)
Many Native American languages only have a few native speakers left.

25 years since the opening of the Securitate archives. (Foundation Office Romania, 2025)
The event will bring together historians and archival specialists from Romania and Moldova, as well as representatives of the key institutions that managed the Securitate files after 1990. A panel discussion will explore the role of archives in rebuilding a democratic society, and a special session will analyze the ethical and legal controversies surrounding the disclosure of the Securitate files.

25 years since the opening of the Securitate archives. (Foundation Office Romania, 2025)
The event will bring together historians and archival specialists from Romania and Moldova, as well as representatives of the key institutions that managed the Securitate files after 1990. A panel discussion will explore the role of archives in rebuilding a democratic society, and a special session will analyze the ethical and legal controversies surrounding the disclosure of the Securitate files.

Blue Shield Appeal for the Protection of Cultural Heritage in Sudan - Almeras, Clemence (ICA, 2025)
The International Council on Archives expresses its full support for the Blue Shield’s urgent appeal to protect Sudan’s cultural heritage amid ongoing conflict. Historic sites, archives, and sacred spaces are at risk, and ICA joins the call for all parties to uphold international law and safeguard the cultural memory of affected communities.

Russian Disinformation Comes to Mexico, Seeking to Rupture U.S. Ties - Abi-Habib, Maria (The New York Times, 2025)
A U.S. government cable said that Kremlin-run outlets had scaled up their efforts across Latin America, seeking to turn people against the United States and garner support for Russia.
Keywords: Diplomatic Service, Embassies and Consulates; International Relations; Latin America; Mexico; Morena (Mexican Political Party); Politics and Government; RT (TV Network); Russia; United States International Relations

‘It’s hell for us here’: Mumbai families suffer as datacentres keep the city hooked on coal - Barratt, Luke; Rehman, Atika (The Guardian, 2025)
As Mumbai sees increased energy demand from new datacenters, particularly from Amazon, the filthiest neighbourhood in one of India’s largest cities must keep its major coal plants
Keywords: Air pollution; Artificial intelligence (AI); Computing; Environment; India; Mumbai; Pollution; South and central Asia; Technology; World news

Documenting War Crimes in Sudan Begins Now - Janine di Giovanni (Foreign Policy, 2025)
Stopping ongoing violence in conflict zones is urgent, but with today’s technology, so is gathering evidence.

The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal - Levin, Sam (The Guardian, 2025)
Agency accessed private conversations of New York ‘courtwatch’ group that was observing public hearings
Keywords: Activism; FBI; US immigration; US news

Nuremberg trial records made available online after painstaking 25-year project - Connolly, Kate (The Guardian, 2025)
Launch of digitisation project marks 80th anniversary of start of legal effort to bring Nazi leaders to justice
Keywords: Germany; Harvard University; Holocaust; International law; Nazism; Second world war; US news; War crimes

Nuremberg trial records made available online after painstaking 25-year project - Connolly, Kate (The Guardian, 2025)
Launch of digitisation project marks 80th anniversary of start of legal effort to bring Nazi leaders to justice
Keywords: Germany; Harvard University; Holocaust; International law; Nazism; Second world war; US news; War crimes

Harvard Law releases digitized Nuremberg Trials archive on 80th anniversary - Karen Sloan (Reuters, 2025)
Harvard’s collection of Nuremberg Trials documents is the second most-complete outside of the U.S. National Archives, according to the law school’s library. The library received most of its collection in 1949 after the final trial, then added documents over the years through donations from trial participants.

Data & Justice: Mapping police violence in Rio’s Favela da Maré - Aline Galdino de Oliveira & André Galdino de Oliveira & Aristênio Gomes dos Santos (OpenGlobalRights, 2025)
Data analysis can serve as a potent tool to hold law enforcement accountable

EBU launches Ukraine Archive with 30,000 verified digital stories - Jacob Granger (Journalism UK, 2025)
Journalists can access a treasure trove of trusted audio and video war-time reporting

European Commission accused of ‘massive rollback’ of digital protections - Rankin, Jennifer (The Guardian, 2025)
Proposed changes to AI Act would make it easier for tech firms to use personal data to train models without consent
Keywords: Artificial intelligence (AI); Data protection; Europe; European Commission; European Union; GDPR; Privacy; Technology; World news

President Lai hails National Archives as unifying force for Taiwan (Focus Taiwan - CNA English News, 2025)
President Lai Ching-te (賴清德) said Monday that the newly launched National Archives will offer the public a deeper, unifying understanding of the endeavors of Taiwan's democracy pioneers.

White nationalist talking points and racial pseudoscience: welcome to Elon Musk’s Grokipedia - Wilson, Jason (The Guardian, 2025)
World’s richest person wanted to ‘purge’ propaganda from Wikipedia, so he created a compendium of racist disinformation
Keywords: Antisemitism; Artificial intelligence (AI); Elon Musk; Far right (US); Internet; Race; The super-rich; US news; Wikipedia; World news; X

Vatican to Return Indigenous Cultural Items to Canada Taken a Century Ago - Povoledo, Elisabetta; City, Ian Austen Elisabetta Povoledo reported from Vatican (The New York Times, 2025)
Dozen of pieces used in a 1925 exhibition, including a whale-hunting kayak, will be returned to Canada early next month.
Keywords: Arts and Antiquities Looting; Canada; Francis; Indigenous People; Inuit Indians; Leo XIV; Pius XI; Popes; Roman Catholic Church; Vatican Museums

‘Reframes history’: fears Māori knowledge diluted in plan to revise New Zealand curriculum - Duff, Michelle (The Guardian, 2025)
Minister rejects claims Māori history is being sidelined in rewrite which includes cutting some references to the Treaty of Waitangi
Keywords: Asia Pacific; Education; Māori; New Zealand

For its 40th anniversary, RSF transfers its archives to specialist history centre La Contemporaine to aid research (RSF, 2025)
To celebrate its 40th anniversary, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is transferring its archives to La Contemporaine, a library, archive and museum of 20th and 21st century history, based in a suburb to the west of Paris. The archives, which have been amassed over forty years, will enable researchers from around the world to study the history of both RSF and press freedom in the years to come.

Borderline ambiguity: How Google Maps removes disputed Western Sahara border for Morocco users - Agence France-Presse (The Guardian, 2025)
The tech giant has released a statement acknowledging the use of different border displays between Western Sahara and Morocco
Keywords: Africa; Google; Morocco; Western Sahara

Borderline ambiguity: How Google Maps removes disputed Western Sahara border for Morocco users - Agence France-Presse (The Guardian, 2025)
The tech giant has released a statement acknowledging the use of different border displays between Western Sahara and Morocco
Keywords: Africa; Google; Morocco; Western Sahara

US ethics officials removed for inquiring into improper access of mortgage files - Levine, Sam (The Guardian, 2025)
Fannie Mae officers were investigating whether Trump ally inappropriately accessed mortgage details of federal officials.
Keywords: Letitia James; Trump administration; US news; US politics

Human rights groups slam Kazakhstan's LGBT propaganda law - Искаков, Ерлан (Kursiv Media Kazakhstan, 2025)
International human rights organizations have condemned proposed amendments in Kazakhstan that would ban the “propaganda of nontraditional sexual orientation.”

Milan prosecutors investigate alleged ‘sniper tourism’ during Bosnian war - Giuffrida, Angela; Willsher, Kim (The Guardian, 2025)
Groups from Italy and elsewhere alleged to have paid Serb soldiers to shoot Sarajevo residents during siege. The investigation originated from a legal complaint submitted by Ezio Gavazzeni, a Milan-based writer who gathered evidence on the allegations, as well as a report sent to the prosecutors by the former mayor of Sarajevo, Benjamina Karić.
Keywords: Bosnia and Herzegovina; Europe; Italy; World news

Protesters target major new Nigerian museum embroiled in looted artefacts row - Egbejule, Eromo (The Guardian, 2025)
Protest at Mowaa comes amid dispute over ownership of Benin bronzes looted by British colonial forces
Keywords: Africa; British empire; Culture; Museums; Nigeria; Protest; World news

Protesters target major new Nigerian museum embroiled in looted artefacts row - Egbejule, Eromo (The Guardian, 2025)
Protest at Mowaa comes amid dispute over ownership of Benin bronzes looted by British colonial forces
Keywords: Africa; British empire; Culture; Museums; Nigeria; Protest; World news

US to demand countries share data on ‘pathogens with epidemic potential’ in return for health aid - Lay, Kat (The Guardian, 2025)
Draft template seen by the Guardian has no reference to countries receiving benefits for sharing information, such as guaranteed access to medicines developed as a result
Keywords: Aid; Epidemics; Global development; Global health; Infectious diseases; Medical research; Society; US news; USAID; World news

Integrating Local, Indigenous, and Traditional Knowledge into Early Warning Systems for Climate Resilience (Start Network, 2025)
integrating Local, Indigenous and Traditional Knowledge into formal Early Warning Systems can significantly enhance their reach, relevance, and effectiveness. This knowledge is sustained by community structures including elders and practitioners who steward knowledge, social mechanisms that transmit it (storytelling, ceremony, apprenticeship), and local forums that apply it (customary rules, committees, communal assemblies).

Unesco adopts global standards on ‘wild west’ field of neurotechnology - Down, Aisha (The Guardian, 2025)
The standards define a new category of data, “neural data”, and suggest guidelines governing its protection. A list of more than 100 recommendations ranges from rights-based concerns to addressing scenarios that are – at least for now – science fiction.
Keywords: Artificial intelligence (AI); Computing; Neuroscience; Science; Technology; Unesco; United Nations; World news

Secret Harvard archive preserves Israeli publications ‘in case Israel ceases to exist’ - Zein Khalil and Mohammad Sio (Anadolu Ajansı, 2025)
Haaretz says hidden facility at Harvard stores Israel’s cultural and scientific output as safeguard against potential national collapse - Anadolu Ajansı

Secret Harvard archive preserves Israeli publications ‘in case Israel ceases to exist’ - Zein Khalil and Mohammad Sio (Anadolu Ajansı, 2025)
Haaretz says hidden facility at Harvard stores Israel’s cultural and scientific output as safeguard against potential national collapse - Anadolu Ajansı

Bookstores on Edge as Kremlin Sets Sights on Policing Books - Petersburg, Nanna Heitmann Reporting from the many bookstores of St; Russia (The New York Times, 2025)
Restrictions on publishers and sellers have grown more severe. Volumes are being pulled from shelves or redacted like secret documents, but bookstores remain important sources of community.
Keywords: Book Bans; Books and Literature; Censorship; Fines (Penalties); Homosexuality and Bisexuality; Popcorn Books; Russia; St Petersburg (Russia); Writing and Writers; internal-open-access-from-nl

AI firm wins high court ruling after photo agency’s copyright claim - Booth, Robert (The Guardian, 2025)
Ruling in case brought by Getty Images against Stability AI is seen as a blow to copyright owners
Keywords: Artificial intelligence (AI); Intellectual property; Law; Media; Media law; News photography; Technology; UK news

Google plans to put datacentres in space to meet demand for AI - Booth, Robert (The Guardian, 2025)
US technology company’s engineers want to exploit solar power and the falling cost of rocket launches
Keywords: Artificial intelligence (AI); Climate crisis; Computing; Elon Musk; Google; Nvidia; Space; SpaceX; Technology

"Hide Records at Your own Peril," Government Warns Record Managers - Mbungu Harrison & Mwakwaya Raymond (The Coast Media Group, 2025)
Head of Public Service Felix Koskei has warned records managers against unprofessional conduct, including hiding or misplacing files, saying such actions undermine public trust and taint the image of the profession and government institutions.

Revealed: Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret ‘wink’ to sidestep legal orders - Davies, Harry; Abraham, Yuval (The Guardian, 2025)
Like other big tech companies, Google and Amazon’s cloud businesses routinely comply with requests from police, prosecutors and security services to hand over customer data to assist investigations. To deal with the threat, officials created a secret warning system: the companies must send signals hidden in payments to the Israeli government, tipping it off when it has disclosed Israeli data to foreign courts or investigators.
Keywords: Amazon; Google; Israel; Technology; US news; World news

At least 49 relatives and colleagues of Afghans in data leak have been killed, study suggests - Taylor, Diane (The Guardian, 2025)
Research also finds 200 of 231 people notified by MoD of breach reported threats to themselves or families
Keywords: Afghanistan; Data protection; Ministry of Defence; Superinjunctions; Taliban; UK news

Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres’ full water use secret, leaked document shows - Barratt, Luke; Furneaux, Rosa (The Guardian, 2025)
Executives at world’s biggest datacentre owner grappled with disclosing information about water used to help power facilities
Keywords: Amazon; E-commerce; Environment; Internet; Technology

Archives in times of war and algorithms: who will guard the memory? - Marimon, Sílvia (Ara in English, 2025)
Barcelona hosts more than 2,000 professionals from 110 countries to discuss the present and future of archives.

US expands facial recognition technology at borders to track non-citizens - Reuters (The Guardian, 2025)
New regulation will allow US authorities to require non-citizens to be photographed at any point of departure
Keywords: Facial recognition; Technology; US immigration; US news

Don’t use AI to tell you how to vote in election, says Dutch watchdog - France-Presse, Agence (The Guardian, 2025)
Data protection authority says chatbots are ‘clearly biased’, as Netherlands prepares for national poll
Keywords: Artificial intelligence (AI); Europe; Netherlands; Technology; World news

Massive leak exposes how China’s ‘Great Firewall’ is being exported to other countries - Ali Rogin (PBS News Weekend, 2025)
For years, China’s government has used what’s known as the “Great Firewall” to censor the internet inside its country and block access to select foreign websites. Now, a document leak shows that a little-known Chinese company is exporting these tools to other countries, including Myanmar, Pakistan, Kazakhstan and Ethiopia.

How Zimbabwe is suppressing journalism (GroundUp News, 2025)
Following arrests and draconian legislation, editors are self-censoring to protect their organisations

Inside the Sudden Collapse of a U.K. Spy Case Against China - Castle, Stephen (The New York Times, 2025)
Evidence prepared for a collapsed espionage trial was published by an under-pressure government in Britain, offering a window into Western countries’ struggle to define Beijing as friend or foe.
Keywords: China; Classified Information and State Secrets; Espionage and Intelligence Services; Great Britain; International Relations; London (England); Security Service (MI5); Starmer, Keir

Inside the Sudden Collapse of a U.K. Spy Case Against China - Castle, Stephen; London, Lizzie Dearden Reporting from (The New York Times, 2025)
Evidence prepared for a collapsed espionage trial was published by an under-pressure government in Britain, offering a window into Western countries’ struggle to define Beijing as friend or foe.
Keywords: China; Classified Information and State Secrets; Espionage and Intelligence Services; Great Britain; International Relations; London (England); Security Service (MI5); Starmer, Keir

Ex-Trump adviser John Bolton pleads not guilty to sharing classified information - Lowell, Hugo (The Guardian, 2025)
Ex-national security adviser surrendered to authorities and made court appearance as he faces 18-count indictment
Keywords: Donald Trump; John Bolton; Trump administration; US news; US politics

Djibouti President Urges Preservation of African Heritage - Africa, Dawan (Dawan Africa, 2025)
The inaugural forum in Djibouti brings together 17 African nations to promote digital archiving, legal transparency, and the preservation of Africa’s collective memory.

Launch of veteran card will be used to test UK government’s digital ID scheme - Booth, Robert (The Guardian, 2025)
Ministers hope scheme for 1.8 million people will show how technology works and ease privacy and security concerns
Keywords: Apps; British army; Identity cards; Military; Politics; Technology; UK civil liberties; UK news

Former Bush adviser charged with amassing top secret files - Ellis-Petersen, Hannah (The Guardian, 2025)
Indian-American Ashley Tellis allegedly obtained US military data and passed envelopes to Chinese officials
Keywords: India; South and central Asia; Trump administration; US national security; US news; US politics; World news

Former Bush adviser charged with amassing top secret files - Ellis-Petersen, Hannah (The Guardian, 2025)
Indian-American Ashley Tellis allegedly obtained US military data and passed envelopes to Chinese officials
Keywords: India; South and central Asia; Trump administration; US national security; US news; US politics; World news

Digital ID: Danes and Estonians find it ‘pretty uncontroversial’ - Bryant, Miranda (The Guardian, 2025)
Citizens have enrolled with little opposition, albeit with some concerns over security and privacy, as UK plans system
Keywords: Apps; Cybercrime; Data protection; Denmark; Estonia; Europe; Hacking; Identity cards; Internet; Politics; Privacy; Surveillance; Technology; UK news

A Photographer Who Brought a Vanished Central European Jewry to Life - Erlanger, Steven (The New York Times, 2025)
Edward Serotta created an archive of 1,230 in-depth interviews with Holocaust survivors about how they lived, both before and after. “Every one of them comes with a story,” he said.
Keywords: Archives and Records; Audio Recordings, Downloads and Streaming; Central Europe; Content Type: Personal Profile; Eastern Europe; Jews and Judaism; Photography; Serotta, Edward; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; Vienna (Austria)

Video: Inside Iran’s Museum of American Espionage - Walsh, Declan; Kiazand, Gelareh; Hazell, Jon; Thornell, Christina (The New York Times, 2025)
The enduring animosity between the United States and Iran is reflected inside the walls of the former U.S. embassy in Tehran, now turned into a museum of anti-American propaganda. U.S. involvement in the June Iran-Israel war has resurfaced that shared past.
Keywords: Central Intelligence Agency; Diplomatic Service, Embassies and Consulates; Iran; Israel; Museums; Tehran (Iran); United States International Relations

‘Your basis to live is checked at each and every step’: India’s ID system divides opinion - Ellis-Petersen, Hannah (The Guardian, 2025)
Keir Starmer is considering Aadhaar as model for UK, but detractors warn of ‘digital coercion’ and security breaches
Keywords: Human rights; India; South and central Asia; Technology; UK news; World news

US news outlets refuse to sign new Pentagon rules to report only official information - Helmore, Edward (The Guardian, 2025)
Defense department policy requires outlets to vow not to obtain unauthorized files and restricts access to some areas
Keywords: CNN; Media; New York Times; Newspapers; Pete Hegseth; The Guardian; Trump administration; US news; US politics; US press and publishing; Washington Post

Against ‘chat control’: we can’t eliminate child abuse by eliminating privacy - Jeremy Malcolm (The Guardian, 2025)
Banning online anonymity tools like Tor won’t stop crime. It will only drive people underground and normalize government control over the internet
Keywords: Children; Privacy; Society; Technology; Tor

Restitution row: how Nigeria’s new home for the Benin bronzes ended up with clay replicas - Oltermann, Philip; Egbejule, Eromo (The Guardian, 2025)
The public display of artefacts looted by British colonial forces at the new Museum of West African Art was supposed to be the crowning glory of a decades-long restitution effort. What went wrong?
Keywords: Africa; Benin; British empire; Culture; Germany; Museums; Nigeria; World news

UN rights chief hails Bangladesh prosecutions over enforced disappearances - UN News (UN News, 2025)
L’ouverture de poursuites contre des personnes accusées d’être responsables de disparitions forcées et d'actes de torture sous le précédent gouvernement au Bangladesh constitue une étape importante vers la reddition de comptes, a déclaré le Haut-Commissaire des Nations Unies aux droits de l’homme.

Meta AI adviser spreads disinformation about shootings, vaccines and trans people - Wilson, Jason (The Guardian, 2025)
Critics condemn Robby Starbuck, appointed in lawsuit settlement, for ‘peddling lies and pushing extremism’
Keywords: Meta; Technology; US news; World news

JP Morgan staff told they must share biometric data to access headquarters - Sweney, Mark (The Guardian, 2025)
Investment bank had previously planned for such information from New York workers to be voluntary
Keywords: Banking; Biometrics; Business; JP Morgan; New York; Technology sector; US news; World news

New film explores how Caribbean workers helped win second world war - Osuh, Chris (The Guardian, 2025)
Commissioned by the Imperial War Museum, Cornwallis Cloth ends ‘archival silence’ around invaluable West Indian contribution to war effort
Keywords: Black British culture; Caribbean; Imperial War Museums; Second world war; World news

Former premier of Nunavut calls on Carney to stop victimizing Inuit - Sanders, Leane (APTN News, 2025)
The former premier of Nunavut is calling on Prime Minister Mark Carney to end the federal government’s attempt to dismiss a lawsuit against Canada over an “International Biological Experiments” program undertaken in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Russia Restricts Access to Stalin-Era Purge Archives (Odessa Journal, 2025)
Russian archives block historians from accessing Stalin-era files, citing security, limiting research on millions repressed during Soviet purges.

Senegal Adopts Access-to-Information Law, Joining Africa’s Transparency Wave - Agency, Ecofin (Ecofin Agency, 2025)
Senegal enacts law granting universal access to public information. Reform aims to boost transparency, job access for youth. AFIC praises move as part of Africa-wide transparency trend.

Old wounds reopened for Tamils as mass grave discovered since the civil war - Canisius (ABC News, 2025)
A shocking mass grave discovery in Sri Lanka reignites global attention on one of the world's highest cases of unresolved enforced disappearances.
Keywords: Amnesty International; Chemmani grave; excavation; human rights; sri lanka mass grave; sri lankan civil war; sri lankan tamil; tamil; tamil community; war

Indigenous Peoples grapple with claims downplaying the history of residential schools - Passafiume, Alessia (CTVNews, 2025)
As Indigenous Peoples marked the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation this week, they also had to confront a persistent problem: public figures claiming the history of residential schools has been exaggerated or falsified.

Advocates raise alarm over Pfas pollution from datacenters amid AI boom - Perkins, Tom (The Guardian, 2025)
Tech companies’ use of Pfas gas at facilities may mean datacenters’ climate impact is worse than previously thought
Keywords: Artificial intelligence (AI); Business; Chemical industry; Climate crisis; Environment; Health; Pfas; Technology

The World's First Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects Wants Its Collection to Shrink, Not Grow - Feldman, Ella (Smithsonian Magazine, 2025)
Visitors can explore 3D renderings of stolen artworks, historical artifacts, rare books and more in UNESCO's new digital museum

Thousands of Germans access Stasi files, 35 years after reunification - DPA International (DPA International, 2025)
Tens of thousands of Germans continue to consult their files from the Stasi, the former East German state security agency, as the country prepares to mark 35 years since reunification on Friday. The Federal Archives received 16,213 applications from citizens for access to files in the first half of 2025, a spokesman told dpa on Thursday.

‘This is strength’: stories of enslaved Africans in Grenada will be made into searchable archive - Abdul, Geneva; Osuh, Chris (The Guardian, 2025)
Depths of Paradise project backed by British family and created by Stephen Lewis, a descendant of survivors
Keywords: Americas; Grenada; Slavery; UK news; World news

UK government resumes row with Apple by demanding access to British users’ data - Milmo, Dan (The Guardian, 2025)
New access order by Home Office would seek access to the tech company’s encrypted cloud backups
Keywords: Apple; Cloud computing; Computing; Data protection; Home Office; Law; Politics; Technology; Telecoms; UK news; US news

Nearly 100 years after her death, Oxford’s first female Indigenous scholar honoured - Tahana, Jamie (The Guardian, 2025)
Mākereti Papakura died weeks before handing in her thesis at Oxford university documenting the life and customs of her tribe, work that is still used by Māori today
Keywords: Asia Pacific; Māori; New Zealand; University of Oxford

‘Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5' Review: Raoul's Peck's Vital Film Shows How We're Living In A ‘1984'-Style Dystopia - Carey, Matthew (MSN, 2025)
Raoul Peck's vital documentary Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5, which premiered tonight at the Cannes Film Festival, makes it startlingly clear the degree to which we are living in Orwellian times. The parallels between the nightmare of 1984 – where Big Brother dictates every facet of life – and Trump's America have not been properly acknowledged. This film does that. T

Musk calls Anti-Defamation League ‘hate group’ for documenting Christian extremism - Robins-Early, Nick (The Guardian, 2025)
Organization earlier this year came to the tech mogul’s aid over his widely criticized salutes at Trump’s inauguration
Keywords: Antisemitism; Charlie Kirk shooting; Christianity; Donald Trump; Elon Musk; Far right (US); Germany; Technology; US news

Jo-Ann found her mum in 1991. Quiet changes will hurt the chance for others - Dennien, Matt (Brisbane Times, 2025)
A shift in Queensland’s approach to allowing adopted people or their families to access information to reunite has cast a shadow over three decades of reform.
Keywords: Adoption; Birth, death and marriage registration; Privacy; Queensland

Britain Is Introducing a Digital ID. Here’s How It Is Expected to Work. - Chutel, Lynsey (The New York Times, 2025)
The government said the new system would help to curb illegal migration, but opponents said it would infringe on citizens’ privacy.
Keywords: Corbyn, Jeremy (1949- ); Farage, Nigel (1964- ); Foreign Workers; Great Britain; Identification Devices; Illegal Immigration; Labour Party (Great Britain); Open Rights Group; Privacy; Starmer, Keir; Swinney, John R

When I was married at 13 I was told refusal would end in my death. Now girls in Iraq as young as nine face the same fate - Ali, Shams (The Guardian, 2025)
A new law legitimises violence and entrenches control over the bodies of millions of women and girls like me
Keywords: Children; Children's rights; Family; Forced marriage; Global development; Human rights; Iraq; Life and style; Marriage; Middle East and north Africa; Society; Women's rights and gender equality; World news

Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians - Davies, Harry; Abraham, Yuval (The Guardian, 2025)
Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project
Keywords: Gaza; Israel; Israel-Gaza war; Middle East and north Africa; Palestine; Surveillance; West Bank; World news

Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians - Davies, Harry; Abraham, Yuval (The Guardian, 2025)
Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project
Keywords: Gaza; Israel; Israel-Gaza war; Middle East and north Africa; Palestine; Surveillance; West Bank; World news

Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians - Davies, Harry; Abraham, Yuval (The Guardian, 2025)
Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project
Keywords: Gaza; Israel; Israel-Gaza war; Middle East and north Africa; Palestine; Surveillance; West Bank; World news

Escaping Gaza City, while reporting on its destruction - Hough, Lucy; Tantesh, Malak A.; Abrahams, Ruth; Khaleeli, Homa; Kent, Sami; Abrahams, Presented by Lucy Houghwith Malak A. Tantesh; produced by Ruth; Khaleeli, Brian McNamara; executive producer Homa (The Guardian, 2025)
Malak A Tantesh on fleeing the Israeli ground offensive in Gaza and becoming a reporter in the most dangerous place on Earth for journalists
Keywords: Gaza; Israel; Israel-Gaza war; Middle East and north Africa; Palestine; World news

The Librarians review – the heroic women battling against book bans and censorship - Clarke, Cath (The Guardian, 2025)
Kim A Snyder’s documentary highlights the defenders of young readers’ rights to see their lives in print facing rightwing attacks
Keywords: Books; Censorship; Culture; Documentary films; Film; Libraries; World news

US border patrol collected DNA from thousands of US citizens for years, data shows - Bhuiyan, Johana (The Guardian, 2025)
CBP officers took DNA samples from about 2,000 citizens, some as young as 14 and many who never faced criminal charges, new analysis shows
Keywords: DNA database; Privacy; Technology; US immigration; US news

Tasmanian right to information review makes 43 recommendations, including release of cabinet information - Holmes, Adam (ABC News, 2025)
From pulp mills to stadiums, Tasmanians don't have access to information about how and why decisions are made. A review of the state's transparency system says this — and many other things — should change.
Keywords: Tasmanian government; government documents; government transparency; right to information; rti

Letters found on eBay cast light on UK families who benefited from slavery - Osuh, Chris (The Guardian, 2025)
Researcher Malik Al Nasir bought historical documents while investigating his family history – and began building an archive
Keywords: Books; Guyana; Lancashire; Politics past; Research; Slavery; UK news; University of Cambridge

Documents offer rare insight on Ice’s close relationship with Palantir - Bhuiyan, Johana (The Guardian, 2025)
For years, little was known about the multibillion-dollar company that handles data for the US immigration enforcement agency. Now, a cache of emails, training documents and reports sheds light on how Palantir helps Ice with investigations and on-the-ground enforcement
Keywords: Ice (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement); Palantir; Peter Thiel; Technology; US immigration; US news; US policing

Pentagon demands journalists sign pledge not to gather certain information - Yang, Maya (The Guardian, 2025)
If they don’t agree to limits, including restricting movement within building, Pentagon press passes will be revoked
Keywords: Media; Pete Hegseth; Trump administration; US constitution and civil liberties; US military; US news; US politics

Monash IVF pauses donor treatments in NSW as it conducts review of patient records - Cockburn, Paige (ABC News, 2025)
Patients have been left blindsided by Monash IVF's decision to temporarily halt treatments using donated eggs and sperm in New South Wales.
Keywords: Monash IVF; New South Wales; donor; egg donor; fertility; fertility clinic; ivf; sperm donor

Intersex people in Europe face ‘alarming’ rise in violence, EU finds - Kassam, Ashifa (The Guardian, 2025)
Increase in violence since 2019 is linked to online campaigns seeking to sow disinformation and fuel hatred
Keywords: Europe; Inequality; LGBTQ+ rights; Online abuse; Society; Transgender; World news

UK’s public sector broadcasters demand more prominence on YouTube to combat misinformation - Michael Savage Media (The Guardian, 2025)
How can we archive against genocide in Gaza and its extension elsewhere in Palestine and surrounding countries like Lebanon in this urgent moment while avoiding the pitfalls of white guilt and paternalistic benevolence?
Keywords: BBC; Channel 4; ITV; Media; Public service broadcasting; Technology; Television industry; UK news; YouTube

‘We Are in a Zero State’: Scenes From the Ashes of Nepal’s Capital - Kathmandu, Atul Loke Reporting from; Nepal (The New York Times, 2025)
Arson attacks during protests in Nepal destroyed buildings, court files and even records of international agreements and state investments.
Keywords: Arson; Corruption (Institutional); Demonstrations, Protests and Riots; Fires and Firefighters; Karki, Sushila; Nepal; Politics and Government; internal-open-access-from-nl

Trump’s war on science leaves US public health experts reeling: ‘There will be lasting damage’ - Tait, Robert (The Guardian, 2025)
Career experts warn of decades of progress lost as administration fires staff, slashes budgets and buries data
Keywords: Climate science; Donald Trump; Science; Trump administration; US healthcare; US news

Russia Indoctrinates Children From Occupied Ukraine at 210 Sites, Study Says - Andrew E. Kramer (The New York Times, 2025)
War crime investigators at Yale discovered a program of re-education and military and police training that was larger than estimated earlier.
Keywords: Children and Childhood; Orphans and Orphanages; Politics and Government; Putin, Vladimir V; Russia; Ukraine; Yale University

Russia Indoctrinates Children From Occupied Ukraine at 210 Sites, Study Says - Andrew E. Kramer (The New York Times, 2025)
War crime investigators at Yale discovered a program of re-education and military and police training that was larger than estimated earlier.
Keywords: Children and Childhood; Orphans and Orphanages; Politics and Government; Putin, Vladimir V; Russia; Ukraine; Yale University

Syria Prisons Museum digital torture archive opens in Damascus (The New Arab, 2025)
The Syria Prisons Museum will provide an immersive experience paying homage to victims and survivors of the Assads’ brutal prison system.

Activist and writer Ruth Weiss lived life of service - Fisher, Nicola (DW, 2025)
Ruth Weiss, a Jewish journalist, author and human rights activist, was a tireless opponent of apartheid who used her pen to fight hatred and racism. A look at her extraordinary life.

Limitation review – bloodshed and chaos of Georgia’s coup d’etat comes alive from the archive - Le, Phuong (The Guardian, 2025)
Seaming together many different records of the civil war in the early 1990s we see a country’s fracture unfold through a crowd of partisan views
Keywords: Culture; Documentary films; Europe; Film; Georgia; World news

MI5 concedes it ‘unlawfully’ obtained data from former BBC journalist - Savage, Michael (The Guardian, 2025)
Revelation relating to then Northern Ireland home affairs correspondent, Vincent Kearney, a ‘matter of grave concern’
Keywords: BBC; Human rights; MI5; Media; Northern Ireland; UK news; UK security and counter-terrorism

‘I woke up and there was no water’: Gaza’s human rights defenders in their own words - Lawlor, Mary (The Guardian, 2025)
A UN special rapporteur shares the stories of those trying to record the horrors of Gaza even as they live through them
Keywords: Gaza; Israel; Israel-Gaza war; Middle East and north Africa; Palestine; United Nations; World news

The Bright Side: Iraq's Yazidis rediscover their lost history in photos found in a museum archive - France 24 (France 24, 2025)
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have been scouring the university's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology to create a visual archive of Iraq's Yazidi communities from photos left behind.

Jeffrey Epstein’s birthday book is a horrifying document - Donegan, Moira (The Guardian, 2025)
Conspiracy theorists wonder about what Epstein and his powerful friends may have done to cover up his crimes. But they barely were covered up
Keywords: Donald Trump; Ghislaine Maxwell; Jeffrey Epstein; Peter Mandelson; US news

South Africa reopens inquest into death of anti-apartheid leader Steve Biko - France 24 (France 24, 2025)
In tonight's edition: a South African court has reopened an inquest into the death of anti-apartheid leader Steve Biko, 48 years after he died of brain injuries in police custody.

Yes, this is who we are: America’s 250-year history of political violence - Valsania, Maurizio (The Conversation, 2025)
The US has long fused politics and violence, often through firearms. To claim that such shootings betray ‘who we are’ is to forget that the US was founded on this form of political violence.

Kashmiri representatives urge UNHRC to act against Indian repression in IIOJK - Kashmir Media Service (KMS News, 2025)
Kashmiri representatives Altaf Hussain Wani, Shamim Shawl and Advocate Parvez Ahmed Shah have urged the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to urgently intervene against India’s escalating repression in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, warning that durable peace in South Asia is impossible without granting the Kashmiris their UN-mandated right to self-determination.

Body parts taken without consent for museum display, coroner finds - Lohberger, Loretta (ABC News, 2025)
A Tasmanian coroner has released his findings from an investigation into 177 human specimens held in the collection of a university museum without the consent or knowledge of families. The investigation required complex manual searches and reconciliation of records with "very little additional resources" provided to the Coroners' Office to do the work.
Keywords: Rodda Museum; Tasmania; The University of Tasmania; autopsy specimens; body parts kept without permission; coronial findings

Defence won't have to keep some war records under law change - Pennington, Phil (RNZ, 2025)
A proposed law change to the Public Records Act would let the New Zealand Defence Force seek an exemption from its legal duty to keep records if it is in multinational deployment. This could make any war crimes harder to prove.
Keywords: Public Records Act; Regulatory Systems (Internal Affairs) Amendment Bill; War records

UN cooperates with National Archives to restore historical monuments and build capacity (Afghan Voice Agency (AVA), 2025)
The UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative in Afghanistan promised in a meeting with the head of the National Archives of the Ministry of Information and Culture that the organization will cooperate with the National Archives in the field of restoration of monuments, training of professional staff and building capacity.

Because no one asked: Archiving the Rohingya past - Amin, Naseef Faruque (The Daily Star, 2025)
It began with a question, the kind of question that arrives quietly, almost like a sigh.

FIDH denounces heinous U.S. sanctions against leading Palestinian human rights organisations (International Federation for Human Rights, 2025)
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) denounces in the strongest terms the heinous designations imposed by the United States on three major Palestinian human rights organisations – Al-Haq, Al Mezan, and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) – all members of FIDH. At a time when Palestinians face an ongoing genocide, these measures seek to silence those documenting atrocities, fighting for justice and accountability.

FIDH denounces heinous U.S. sanctions against leading Palestinian human rights organisations (International Federation for Human Rights, 2025)
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) denounces in the strongest terms the heinous designations imposed by the United States on three major Palestinian human rights organisations – Al-Haq, Al Mezan, and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) – all members of FIDH. At a time when Palestinians face an ongoing genocide, these measures seek to silence those documenting atrocities, fighting for justice and accountability.

FIDH denounces heinous U.S. sanctions against leading Palestinian human rights organisations (International Federation for Human Rights, 2025)
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) denounces in the strongest terms the heinous designations imposed by the United States on three major Palestinian human rights organisations – Al-Haq, Al Mezan, and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) – all members of FIDH. At a time when Palestinians face an ongoing genocide, these measures seek to silence those documenting atrocities, fighting for justice and accountability.

Proving War Crimes: Archives, Truth Commissions and Transitional Justice - Archives, Cécile Chemin- (Medium, 2025)
This is a very broad overview introducing the role of archives for the protection of human rights, reparation work and transitional justice.

US imposes sanctions on Palestinians for requesting war crimes inquiry - Christou, William (The Guardian, 2025)
Rights groups in Gaza and Ramallah had asked international criminal court to investigate Israel over genocide claims
Keywords: Gaza; Human rights; International criminal court; International criminal justice; Israel-Gaza war; Law; Middle East and north Africa; Palestinian territories; Trump administration; US foreign policy; US news; US politics; World news

US imposes sanctions on Palestinians for requesting war crimes inquiry - Christou, William (The Guardian, 2025)
Rights groups in Gaza and Ramallah had asked international criminal court to investigate Israel over genocide claims
Keywords: Gaza; Human rights; International criminal court; International criminal justice; Israel-Gaza war; Law; Middle East and north Africa; Palestinian territories; Trump administration; US foreign policy; US news; US politics; World news

Digital authoritarianism is on the rise: Australia should take note - Nicholas Morieson, Ihsan Yilmaz (Lowy Institute, 2025)
Democracies are increasingly using the tools of digital control under the guise of national security.

The missing half: The urgent need for more women’s representation in the media - UN News (UN News, 2025)
Women make up half of the world’s population but receive only 26 per cent of media coverage, according to the latest UN-backed Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) report, the world’s largest study on gender representation in news media.

‘Unrestrained’ Chinese Cyberattackers May Have Stolen Data From Almost Every American - Goldman, Adam (The New York Times, 2025)
Information collected during the yearslong Salt Typhoon attack could allow Beijing’s intelligence services to track targets from the United States and dozens of other countries.
Keywords: China; Cyberattacks and Hackers; Cyberwarfare and Defense; Defense and Military Forces; Espionage and Intelligence Services; International Relations; Surveillance of Citizens by Government; United States Politics and Government

Meta ‘eavesdropping’ on Flo exposes how period apps are a data… - Andjela Milivojevic (TBIJ, 2025)
Tech giant was found to have illegally collected user info – but this could be a landmark moment for data privacy

US House committee releases more than 33,000 pages of Jeffrey Epstein files - Anguiano, Dani (The Guardian, 2025)
Files appear to contain information already in public domain as calls grow for release of all pertinent documents
Keywords: House of Representatives; Jeffrey Epstein; Rape and sexual assault; US news; US politics

Alberta pauses book ban after schools remove Handmaid’s Tale, 1984 and other classics - Cecco, Leyland (The Guardian, 2025)
The province says it will review its controversial policy after outcry over removing beloved novels from classrooms
Keywords: Books; Canada; Culture; World news

‘Reparatory justice’ key to ending racism against Africans and their descendants - UN News (UN News, 2025)
Governments, academia and other stakeholders must “double down on delivering reparatory justice” for people from the African diaspora, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said in a report published on Wednesday.

‘Artefacts were just sitting in suitcases in people’s homes’: the London museum preserving Somali culture - Abdi, Sundus (The Guardian, 2025)
The UK’s first dedicated space for Somali heritage has built its collection from 15 years of donations. Culture House’s founders explain the power of giving a permanent home to a community’s heritage and hopes
Keywords: Architecture; Art and design; Culture; Exhibitions; Heritage; Museums; Somalia

‘Artefacts were just sitting in suitcases in people’s homes’: the London museum preserving Somali culture - Abdi, Sundus (The Guardian, 2025)
The UK’s first dedicated space for Somali heritage has built its collection from 15 years of donations. Culture House’s founders explain the power of giving a permanent home to a community’s heritage and hopes
Keywords: Architecture; Art and design; Culture; Exhibitions; Heritage; Museums; Somalia

More than 7,300 Afghans to be resettled in UK after MoD data leak, says National Audit Office - Boffey, Daniel (The Guardian, 2025)
Watchdog’s report says government is unable to calculate exact cost of response to data breach, raising doubt over £850m estimate
Keywords: Afghanistan; Data protection; Law; Ministry of Defence; Politics; Superinjunctions; UK news; World news

More than 7,300 Afghans to be resettled in UK after MoD data leak, says National Audit Office - Boffey, Daniel (The Guardian, 2025)
Watchdog’s report says government is unable to calculate exact cost of response to data breach, raising doubt over £850m estimate
Keywords: Afghanistan; Data protection; Law; Ministry of Defence; Politics; Superinjunctions; UK news; World news

Marshall Islands picks up the pieces after fire destroys its ‘heart of democracy’ - Letman, Jon (The Guardian, 2025)
The slow process to rebuild parliament, the Nitijela, begins as the Pacific nation confronts the loss of a vital cultural landmark
Keywords: Asia Pacific; Marshall Islands; Pacific islands; World news

A Hidden Camera Protest Turned the Tables on China’s Surveillance State - Yuan, Li (The New York Times, 2025)
Before fleeing China, an activist in Chongqing staged an elaborate one-man demonstration against the Communist Party that doubled as performance art.
Keywords: China; Chongqing (China); Communist Party of China; Demonstrations, Protests and Riots; Performance Art; Politics and Government; Surveillance of Citizens by Government

Bristol returns cultural artefacts taken from Larrakia people in Australia - Morris, Steven (The Guardian, 2025)
Objects including three-metre spears were collected in late 19th and early 20th centuries and donated to city’s museum
Keywords: Australia news; Bristol; Culture; Darwin; Indigenous Australians; Museums; Northern Territory; UK news; World news

Bristol returns cultural artefacts taken from Larrakia people in Australia - Morris, Steven (The Guardian, 2025)
Objects including three-metre spears were collected in late 19th and early 20th centuries and donated to city’s museum
Keywords: Australia news; Bristol; Culture; Darwin; Indigenous Australians; Museums; Northern Territory; UK news; World news

Archiving memories of the 1965 genocide in Indonesia - Inside Indonesia: The peoples and cultures of Indonesia - Wahyuningroem, Sri Lestari (Inside Indonesia, 2025)
Poor archival conditions have meant that the identification of victims, their experiences and their needs is incredibly difficult

Invisible, Silenced, and All but Abandoned: Two Decades of the Guatemalan Police Archive - . (Sri Lanka Guardian, 2025)
Twenty years ago, a team of human rights investigators in Guatemala made a discovery that would change the course of the country’s reckoning with its violent past.

Pentagon Warns Microsoft: Company’s Use of China-Based Engineers Was a “Breach of Trust” - Dudley, Renee (ProPublica, 2025)
The Defense Department is opening an investigation to determine if the tech giant’s use of overseas engineers to maintain sensitive U.S. government computer systems compromised national security.

Pentagon Warns Microsoft: Company’s Use of China-Based Engineers Was a “Breach of Trust” - Dudley, Renee (ProPublica, 2025)
The Defense Department is opening an investigation to determine if the tech giant’s use of overseas engineers to maintain sensitive U.S. government computer systems compromised national security.

Hurricane Katrina victim identified 20 years later: ‘finally where she belongs’ - Vargas, Ramon Antonio (The Guardian, 2025)
Guardian US partner WWL Louisiana called in Ray Theriot, who used utility bills, driver’s licenses and property records
Keywords: Hurricane Katrina; Louisiana; New Orleans; US news

National Identification and Registration Authority says NIDS remains safe, no security breach - . (Jamaica Gleaner, 2025)
The National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA), which oversees the National Identification System (NIDS), is reporting that there has been no evidence of a breach or compromise of the national identification system.

When the government can see everything: How one company – Palantir – is mapping the nation’s data - Bennett, Nicole M. (The Conversation, 2025)
Government agencies are contracting with Palantir to correlate disparate pieces of data, promising efficiency but raising civil liberties concerns.

Devastated families may take legal action over museum that kept body parts - Lohberger, Loretta (ABC News, 2025)
A University of Tasmania pathology museum retained and displayed body parts without consent from coronial autopsies. The specimens are from more than 100 people who died in Tasmania between 1953 and 1985. The Coroner's Office is investigating and has spent years reconciling their records with the museum's records.
Keywords: Medical Ethics; autopsy; body parts; coroners office; pathology

Elon Musk’s Doge put sensitive social security data at risk, whistleblower says - Robins-Early, Nick (The Guardian, 2025)
SSA official alleges that Doge staff uploaded personal data of hundreds of millions of Americans to vulnerable cloud server
Keywords: Data protection; Elon Musk; Privacy; Technology; Trump administration; US news; US politics; US social security

Germany charges US citizen with spying for China - Chris Lunday (POLITICO, 2025)
An American defense contractor is accused of offering military secrets to Beijing.

Germany charges US citizen with spying for China - Chris Lunday (POLITICO, 2025)
An American defense contractor is accused of offering military secrets to Beijing.

Germany charges US citizen with spying for China - Chris Lunday (POLITICO, 2025)
An American defense contractor is accused of offering military secrets to Beijing.

Privacy at a cost: the dark web’s main browser helps pedophile networks flourish, experts say - McQue, Katie (The Guardian, 2025)
The Tor network’s privacy architecture creates a safe haven for predators to share child sexual abuse material
Keywords: Child protection; Children; Rape and sexual assault; Technology; Tor

Donor crisis prompts rethink on humanitarian data partnership rules - Geneva Solutions - Paula Dupraz-Dobias (Geneva Solutions, 2025)
Under pressure from aid cuts, humanitarian groups may be exposing themselves and people they serve to privacy risks as they seek support from the private sector to improve efficiency. As artificial intelligence gains ground, experts say the rules of the game are due for a rethink.

White House Lists Smithsonian Exhibits It Finds Objectionable - Small, Zachary (The New York Times, 2025)
The Trump administration highlighted material dealing with topics like sexuality, slavery and immigration.
Keywords: Art; Bunch, Lonnie G III; Museums; Smithsonian Institution; Trump, Donald J; United States Politics and Government

Invisible Displacement: The Unregistered and Uncounted - Thematic Analysis - . (ReliefWeb, 2025)
Invisible displacement is a growing yet under-recognized phenomenon in humanitarian settings. This report explores the structural, operational, and political factors that obscure the presence of displaced persons who remain outside formal tracking systems, such as IDPs living outside camps, unregistered returnees, nomadic groups, or those who deliberately avoid institutional engagement due to protection concerns. Their invisibility skews humanitarian planning, which can lead to inaccurate data, underfunded programs, and systemic exclusion from life-saving services.

Trump administration to review all 55m US visa holders for potential rule violations - Campbell, Lucy (The Guardian, 2025)
State department says all people who hold valid US visas are subject to ‘continuous vetting’, including of social media
Keywords: Marco Rubio; Trump administration; US immigration; US news; US politics

The Guardian view on Britain’s AI strategy: the risk is that it is dependency dressed up in digital hype - Editorial (The Guardian, 2025)
Editorial: The UK’s plans seem to outsource sovereignty for phantom efficiency. Public services provide the data and power while US tech giants reap the rewards
Keywords: Artificial intelligence (AI); Business; Cloud computing; Computing; Economics; Global economy; NHS; Open source; Peter Kyle; Politics; Society; Technology; UK news

Cyber-attack on MoD-linked contractor exposes data of Afghans in resettlement scheme - Ali, Faisal (The Guardian, 2025)
Breach at Inflite The Jet Centre is latest in series of leaks involving private information of Afghan refugees
Keywords: Afghanistan; Cybercrime; Hacking; Immigration and asylum; Ministry of Defence; Refugees; UK news

Cyber-attack on MoD-linked contractor exposes data of Afghans in resettlement scheme - Ali, Faisal (The Guardian, 2025)
Breach at Inflite The Jet Centre is latest in series of leaks involving private information of Afghan refugees
Keywords: Afghanistan; Cybercrime; Hacking; Immigration and asylum; Ministry of Defence; Refugees; UK news

NHS to trial AI tool that speeds up hospital discharges - Grierson, Jamie (The Guardian, 2025)
Pilot at Chelsea and Westminster trust aims to reduce paperwork and free up doctors, as the UK moves to improve public services via AI
Keywords: Artificial intelligence (AI); Computing; Health; Hospitals; Labour; London; NHS; Technology; UK news; Wes Streeting

FBI returns stolen document signed by conquistador Hernán Cortés to Mexico - . (The Guardian, 2025)
US officials did not say who had the 16th-century page that was missing from Mexico’s archives for decades
Keywords: Americas; Mexico; US crime; US news; World news

FBI returns stolen document signed by conquistador Hernán Cortés to Mexico - . (The Guardian, 2025)
US officials did not say who had the 16th-century page that was missing from Mexico’s archives for decades
Keywords: Americas; Mexico; US crime; US news; World news

London museum tells forgotten story of African and Indian troops in second world war - Bakare, Lanre; Arts, Lanre Bakare; correspondent, culture (The Guardian, 2025)
National Army Museum’s Beyond Burma exhibition examines stories of soldiers from Britain’s colonies
Keywords: British army; Culture; Exhibitions; Myanmar; Second world war; South and central Asia; UK news

Russia restricts WhatsApp and Telegram, alleging apps used for fraud and terrorism - . (The Guardian, 2025)
Calls via foreign-owned platforms curbed as critics say Kremlin is pushing for greater control over Russia’s internet
Keywords: Censorship; Digital media; Europe; Internet; Russia; Social media; Technology; Telegram; Vladimir Putin; WhatsApp; World news

Working to Improve Access to Compensation for Iraqi victims of War and Terrorism - . (ReliefWeb, 2025)
No one should be excluded from rebuilding their life due to missing documentation or inefficient mechanism. This principle guided a high-level roundtable held in Baghdad with the participation of members of the Iraqi Parliament, including representatives from the Legal, Finance, and Displacement Committees, alongside the judiciary and the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers.

U.K. Secretly Spent $3.2 Million to Stop Journalists From Reporting on Data Breach - Dearden, Lizzie (The New York Times, 2025)
After British authorities accidentally exposed information about 19,000 Afghans, the government sought a legal order preventing disclosure of the breach.
Keywords: Afghanistan; Decisions and Verdicts; Freedom of Speech and Expression; Freedom of the Press; Great Britain; London (England); News and News Media; Politics and Government

France acknowledges role in repression of Cameroon independence movements - Egbejule, Eromo; correspondent, Eromo Egbejule West Africa (The Guardian, 2025)
Emmanuel Macron writes to Cameroonian president with findings of joint commission on country’s colonial past
Keywords: Africa; Cameroon; Colonialism; Europe; France; World news

Israel is wiping out Gaza’s journalists – and it’s no longer even hiding it - Ginsberg, Jodie (The Guardian, 2025)
The laws of war are clear: journalists are civilians. To target them deliberately in war is to commit a war crime
Keywords: Gaza; Israel; Israel-Gaza war; Journalist safety; Media; Middle East and north Africa; Newspapers & magazines; Press freedom; US news

Israel is wiping out Gaza’s journalists – and it’s no longer even hiding it - Ginsberg, Jodie (The Guardian, 2025)
The laws of war are clear: journalists are civilians. To target them deliberately in war is to commit a war crime
Keywords: Gaza; Israel; Israel-Gaza war; Journalist safety; Media; Middle East and north Africa; Newspapers & magazines; Press freedom; US news

Police should disclose ethnicity of suspects in certain cases, new guidance says - Syal, Rajeev (The Guardian, 2025)
Releasing nationality and ethnicity details could help keep peace ‘where there are high levels of disinformation’
Keywords: Crime; Police; UK criminal justice; UK news

Appeals Court Allows DOGE Access to Sensitive Data at Several Agencies - Montague, Zach (The New York Times, 2025)
The decision cited a Supreme Court order in June granting DOGE analysts sweeping access to other data stored at the Social Security Administration.
Keywords: Data Storage; Decisions and Verdicts; Federal Courts (US); Privacy; Richardson, Julius N; Trump, Donald J; United States Politics and Government

Are Undersea Cables a “Backdoor for Espionage” Against the U.S.? - Tom Nagorski (The Cipher Brief, 2025)
Chinese companies leading in the production and maintenance of undersea cables could be a national security threat to this critical undersea infrastructure.

Are Undersea Cables a “Backdoor for Espionage” Against the U.S.? - Tom Nagorski (The Cipher Brief, 2025)
Chinese companies leading in the production and maintenance of undersea cables could be a national security threat to this critical undersea infrastructure.

Saved from militants, Timbuktu's famed manuscripts return home after 13 years in Mali's capital - . (CityNews Halifax, 2025)
The Malian military government started returning home the historic manuscripts of Timbuktu, which were spirited out of their fabled northern city when it was occupied by al-Qaida-linked militants more than a decade ago. Islamic radicals destroyed more than 4,000 manuscripts, some dating back to the 13th century.

The Palestinian Museum Announces the Release of Over 6,000 New Archival Items on its Digital Archive - . (Palestinian Museum, 2025)
The Palestinian Museum has announced the release of over 6,000 archival items on its website as part of the third phase of its Digital Archive Project, through which more than 19,000 items have been digitized, as part of its ongoing efforts to preserve and document Palestinian social history.

‘Restoring humanity’: Paris exhibition showcases 5,000 years of history in Gaza - Chrisafis, Angelique (The Guardian, 2025)
Saved Treasures of Gaza aims to preserve territory’s historical identity against backdrop of war and famine
Keywords: Art and design; Ceramics; Culture; Europe; Exhibitions; France; Gaza; Israel-Gaza war; Middle East and north Africa; Palestinian territories; Paris; World news

‘Restoring humanity’: Paris exhibition showcases 5,000 years of history in Gaza - Chrisafis, Angelique (The Guardian, 2025)
Saved Treasures of Gaza aims to preserve territory’s historical identity against backdrop of war and famine
Keywords: Art and design; Ceramics; Culture; Europe; Exhibitions; France; Gaza; Israel-Gaza war; Middle East and north Africa; Palestinian territories; Paris; World news

‘Restoring humanity’: Paris exhibition showcases 5,000 years of history in Gaza - Chrisafis, Angelique (The Guardian, 2025)
Saved Treasures of Gaza aims to preserve territory’s historical identity against backdrop of war and famine
Keywords: Art and design; Ceramics; Culture; Europe; Exhibitions; France; Gaza; Israel-Gaza war; Middle East and north Africa; Palestinian territories; Paris; World news

The UK’s Online Safety Act is a licence for censorship – and the rest of the world is following suit - Lorenz, Taylor (The Guardian, 2025)
From the US and Australia to France and Italy, those seeking to obliterate privacy and restrict content are on the move, says technology journalist Taylor Lorenz
Keywords: Child protection; Internet; Internet safety; Technology; UK news; US news

Cash Working Group Legal Task Force Presentation on Data Protection - Dobra Fabryka Ukraina (ReliefWeb, 2025)
The protection of personal data is not merely a technical requirement—it is a core principle of humanitarian action, aligned with both humanitarian standards and legal obligations. Ensuring robust data protection helps prevent these risks, safeguarding the lives of beneficiaries and upholding their right to safety and dignity. It also helps prevent discrimination and exploitation by ensuring fair and respectful humanitarian response that upholds beneficiary confidentiality and adheres to humanitarian principles.

India’s war on books attempts to erase the violent atrocities committed on Kashmir - Nasir Qadri (TRT Global, 2025)
The Modi-led government’s ban on 25 books related to the Muslim-majority region is aimed at burying the tortured history of a land under occupation.

Cambodia takes control of its war crimes legacy - Andre Kwok (Lowy Institute, 2025)
The transformation of a hybrid court into a domestic institution offers lessons for localising international justice.

Arundhati Roy works among dozens of books banned in Indian-administered Kashmir - Ellis-Petersen, Hannah (The Guardian, 2025)
Censorship order accuses books of promoting ‘false narrative and secessionism’ in disputed territory
Keywords: Arundhati Roy; Books; Censorship; Culture; Freedom of speech; India; Kashmir; Narendra Modi; South and central Asia; World news

How Burkina Faso’s strongman became the Indo-Pacific’s unlikely hero – and other tales of disinformation - Jennifer Williams, Nava Nuraniyah, Jordon Borg, Julian Droogan (Lowy Institute, 2025)
Digital disciples are spreading false narratives in an effort to exploit anti-Western sentiment across the region.

‘I must document everything’: the film about the Palestinian photographer killed by Israeli missiles in Gaza - Borger, Julian (The Guardian, 2025)
Fatma Hassona used poetry and photography to record the death and devastation she saw daily. Was she targeted by the IDF?
Keywords: Culture; Documentary films; Edinburgh festival 2025; Edinburgh film festival; Film; Gaza; Israel; Israel-Gaza war; Journalist safety; Media; Palestinian territories; Photography; War reporting; World news

‘I must document everything’: the film about the Palestinian photographer killed by Israeli missiles in Gaza - Borger, Julian (The Guardian, 2025)
Fatma Hassona used poetry and photography to record the death and devastation she saw daily. Was she targeted by the IDF?
Keywords: Culture; Documentary films; Edinburgh festival 2025; Edinburgh film festival; Film; Gaza; Israel; Israel-Gaza war; Journalist safety; Media; Palestinian territories; Photography; War reporting; World news

China Turns to A.I. in Information Warfare - Julian E. Barnes (The New York Times, 2025)
Documents examined by researchers show how one company in China has collected data on members of Congress and other influential Americans.
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; China; Cyberwarfare and Defense; Espionage and Intelligence Services; GoLaxy; Propaganda; Research; Social Media; Trump, Donald J; United States Defense and Military Forces; United States International Relations; United States Politics and Government; Vanderbilt University

‘Women’s bodies exploited at an unprecedented scale’: Chinese censors failing to deal with deepfakes and hidden cameras, say activists - Lau, Jessie (The Guardian, 2025)
Secretly filmed images of women are spreading online, yet the authorities seem more focused on censorship than punishing the perpetrators, critics say
Keywords: Asia Pacific; China; Global development; Surveillance; World news

Secret plan to liberate Channel Islands found in dusty box - Silver, Jack (BBC, 2025)
A copy of the plan sets out the successful British plan to liberate the Channel Islands during WW2.

Charleston’s Climate Lawsuit Against Oil Giants Is Dismissed - Zraick, Karen (The New York Times, 2025)
The legal claim, one of a raft of lawsuits across the country, had accused companies of a yearslong disinformation campaign about climate change.
Keywords: Charleston (SC); Compensation for Damages (Law); Decisions and Verdicts; Federal-State Relations (US); Global Warming; Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Oil (Petroleum) and Gasoline; South Carolina

The killing code: strange symbols in a WA settler’s diaries lay bare frontier atrocities - Allam, Lorena; Collard, Sarah; Archibald-Binge, Ella (The Guardian, 2025)
Stories of murders passed down by Yamatji elders are confirmed by a code hidden in the 1850s journals of prominent Western Australian pastoralist Major Logue.
Keywords: Australia; Colonialism; Frontier wars; Indigenous Australians; Murder; Rural Australia; Western Australia

A Bid to Undo a Colonial-Era Wrong Touches a People’s Old Wounds - Dimapur, Pragati K. B. Reporting from; Nagaland; India, in (The New York Times, 2025)
An Oxford museum’s collection of objects taken from the Naga people includes human remains. What to do with them now is not a simple matter.
Keywords: Arts and Antiquities Looting; Human Rights and Human Rights Violations; India; Indigenous People; Museums; Nagaland (India); Pitt Rivers Museum; Secession and Independence Movements

Israel closes down or leaves unresolved 88% of cases of alleged war crimes or abuse – report - Sabbagh, Dan (The Guardian, 2025)
Conflict monitoring group Action on Armed Violence says Israel is seeking to create a ‘pattern of impunity’
Keywords: Human rights; International law; Israel; Israel-Gaza war; Law; Middle East and north Africa; Palestinian territories; War crimes; West Bank; World news

Israel closes down or leaves unresolved 88% of cases of alleged war crimes or abuse – report - Sabbagh, Dan (The Guardian, 2025)
Conflict monitoring group Action on Armed Violence says Israel is seeking to create a ‘pattern of impunity’
Keywords: Human rights; International law; Israel; Israel-Gaza war; Law; Middle East and north Africa; Palestinian territories; War crimes; West Bank; World news

Scientists slam Trump administration climate report as a ‘farce’ full of misinformation - Noor, Dharna; Milman, Oliver (The Guardian, 2025)
Experts say the report being used to justify the mass rollback of climate regulations has many claims based on long-debunked research
Keywords: Climate crisis; Environment; Science; Trump administration; US news; US politics

Historian uncovers evidence of second mass grave of Irish immigrant railroaders in Pennsylvania who suffered from cholera, violence and xenophobia - Watson, William E. (The Conversation, 2025)
Researchers have discovered a second mass grave of Irish immigrant railroaders in Chester County, Pa.

Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American history museum - Kingsberry, Janay (The Washington Post, 2025)
A temporary placard, on display since 2021, described the president's historic impeachments. Officials said the exhibit was restored to an earlier version following a review of legacy content.

Mass rape, forced pregnancy and sexual torture in Tigray amount to crimes against humanity - McClure, Tess (The Guardian, 2025)
Research documents ‘horrific and extreme’ attacks by Ethiopian and Eritrean forces and warns that impunity has meant such atrocities are expanding to new regions
Keywords: Africa; Eritrea; Ethiopia; Global development; Human rights; Sexual violence; Society; Violence against women and girls; War crimes; Women's rights and gender equality; World news

Mass rape, forced pregnancy and sexual torture in Tigray amount to crimes against humanity - McClure, Tess (The Guardian, 2025)
Research documents ‘horrific and extreme’ attacks by Ethiopian and Eritrean forces and warns that impunity has meant such atrocities are expanding to new regions
Keywords: Africa; Eritrea; Ethiopia; Global development; Human rights; Sexual violence; Society; Violence against women and girls; War crimes; Women's rights and gender equality; World news

Foreign spies are targeting defence employees working on Aukus, Asio boss reveals - McIlroy, Tom (The Guardian, 2025)
Public servants and private contractors with access to sensitive national security information are making it easy for spies, including by posting on LinkedIn.
Keywords: Aukus; Australia news; Australian intelligence agencies; Australian military; Australian universities; Espionage; Labor party

There are no secrets on the internet. Just ask the women who entrusted their data to Tea - Mahdawi, Arwa (The Guardian, 2025)
An app designed to protect its users from dodgy men has been hacked by dodgy men.
Keywords: 4chan; Apps; Data protection; Dating; Life and style; Online abuse; Social networking; Society; Technology; Women

In a Reversal, Key Hurricane-Monitoring Data Will Stay Online - Mulkey, Sachi Kitajima (The New York Times, 2025)
The Department of Defense said it no longer planned to shut down a program that makes satellite data publicly available to researchers and forecasters.
Keywords: Arctic Regions; Defense Department; Global Warming; Ice; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Research; Satellites; Sensors; Space and Astronomy; United States; United States Defense and Military Forces; United States Navy; United States Space Force; Weather

Housing, Land, and Property Documentation in the South of Lebanon: A Rapid Needs Assessment - UNHCR (ReliefWeb, 2025)
The escalation of hostilities in Lebanon during and after September 2024 led to severe destruction, affecting approximately 100,000 housing units and resulting in an estimated USD 3.2 billion in damages, according to the World Bank. This research assesses the impact of the renewed conflict on housing, land and property (HLP) documentation—specifically, the ownership and condition of these records. It examines whether these records were lost or destroyed, and how this loss affects internally displaced persons’ (IDPs) ability to rebuild their lives. The study also explores stakeholder perspectives on the role of the humanitarian community in addressing these challenges, and the potential risks to social stability arising from unclear property boundaries in areas that were completely destroyed.

‘Lumumba everlasting’: Belgium marks Congo’s slain leader’s 100th birthday with exhibition – and possible trial - Rankin, Jennifer (The Guardian, 2025)
Surprise move towards trial of veteran diplomat over Patrice Lumumba’s 1961 assassination coincides with show seeking to widen focus on his life and fight
Keywords: Africa; Art; Art and design; Belgium; Colonialism; Culture; Democratic Republic of the Congo; Europe; Patrice Lumumba; World news

Uruguay and Chile strengthen cooperation regarding human rights violations (MercoPress, 2025)
Uruguay and Chile advanced their collaboration on policies related to memory, truth, and justice regarding past human rights violations.

Uruguay and Chile strengthen cooperation regarding human rights violations (MercoPress, 2025)
Uruguay and Chile advanced their collaboration on policies related to memory, truth, and justice regarding past human rights violations.