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Britain rejected atrocity prevention plans for Sudan despite intelligence warnings that the city of El Fasher would fall amid a wave of ethnic cleansing and possible genocide, according to a report seen by the Guardian. Government officials turned down the plans six months into the 18-month siege of El Fasher in favour of the “least

Lily Jamali, North America Technology correspondent and Osmond Chia, Business reporter Watch: Tesla shareholders cheer Elon Musk's $1tn pay deal Tesla boss Elon Musk has had a record-breaking pay package that could be worth nearly $1tn (£760bn) approved by shareholders. The unprecedented deal was approved by 75% of votes and drew huge applause from the

A Libyan general wanted by the international criminal court (ICC) for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity has been arrested in Tripoli. Osama Almasri Najim, the former chief of Libya’s judicial police, was arrested over allegations of torturing prisoners, leading to the death of one, at Tripoli’s main prison, Libya’s prosecutor’s office said on

Ed Thomas, UK editor , Patrick Clahane and Rebecca Wearn Watch: "Why are you facilitating illegal working?" BBC confronts Shaxawan after he is filmed by our undercover reporters A man at the centre of an organised crime network has been secretly filmed telling BBC undercover reporters how he can help to erase fines of up

The UN secretary general, António Guterres, has said the war in Sudan is spiralling out of control as he called for a halt to the fighting and an end to the violence. The Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which are reportedly backed by the United Arab Emirates, seized El Fasher in Darfur last week after a

Ed Thomas, UK editor , Patrick Clahane and Rebecca Wearn Watch: BBC's Ed Thomas confronts Surchi of the Top Store mini-mart in Crewe A Kurdish crime network is enabling migrants to work illegally in mini-marts on High Streets the length of Britain, a BBC investigation can reveal. The fake company directors are paid to put

More than 36,000 people have fled Sudan’s Kordofan region since Saturday amid a surge in fighting, the UN’s migration agency has said, after the capture last week of the city of El Fasher in neighbouring Darfur by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) after more than a year under siege. The strategic central area between

CCTV The BBC has obtained an image of Anthony Williams in Peterborough the evening before the alleged train attack Police are investigating whether a man accused of stabbing 10 people on a train is linked to an attack on a 14-year-old boy and to two reports of a knifeman at a barbers' shop. Cambridgeshire Police