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Vadim Ostanin was accused of being an extremist and sentenced to nine years in prison. Ostanin demanded Russian President Vladimir Putin’s resignation. (Image: Twitter/@vigimadi)Vadim Ostanin is an ally of jailed Russian opposition activist…

The former head of a local branch of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's campaign organisation was sentenced to nine years in a Russian prison for participating in an "extremist community", Navalny's team said on Monday.Vadim Ostanin, who had…

<!-- -->Ms Jakapong thanked fans of the pageant for their love and support. (File)Bangkok: A Thai media mogul and transgender rights campaigner has bought the firm that runs Miss Universe pageants for $20 million, according to a…

LONDON: Britain should put together a bid for a 'North-West Olympics' centred around Manchester and Liverpool because it would have a much bigger impact than the London 2012 Games, veteran major event campaigner Bob Scott has said. Scott,…

Podcaster and campaigner Dame Deborah James, whose frank accounts of life with bowel cancer sparked an extraordinary deluge of charity donations, has died, her family have announced.In a statement posted on Instagram, her…

LONDON — Deborah James, a British podcaster, writer and cancer campaigner who chronicled her struggle with an incurable bowel tumor with candor and vivacity, died on Tuesday, more than five years after the illness was diagnosed.Her death…

Popular podcaster Deborah James has been moved to hospice-at-home care to treat for her terminal bowel cancer after telling followers she does not know "how long I've got left".The presenter of the BBC podcast You, Me And The…

Issued on: 25/04/2022 - 18:27 A Turkish court Monday sentenced leading intellectual and rights defender Osman Kavala to life in jail on highly controversial coup plot charges…

GENEVA: The UN rights chief has miserably failed to address China's "genocide" against the Uyghur minority, a leading campaigner told AFP, demanding that a long delayed report on abuses be released "immediately". Uyghur campaigner Rushan…

Official statisticians are to shake up the way they collect and widen how they present inflation data amid concerns that cost of living headlines fail to reflect the squeeze being felt by the worst off.The announcement by the…