The detention of journalist Ariane Lavrilleux this week is ‘very worrying’, Amnesty International said The arrest this week of a journalist in France, in connection with their reporting in 2021 that French intelligence had been used by Egypt to kill civilians – could be viewed as an infringement of press freedom, Amnesty International has said.

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The UN has ranked Britain as one of the worst-performing countries in terms of child poverty rates among 39 members of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the EU. In a report published on Wednesday, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) estimated that nearly 70 million children in high- and upper middle-income…