In a new four-article series, The Independent reveals the details of Bel Trew’s special investigation into the desperate plight of hundreds – potentially thousands – of people with disabilities caught up in Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. The mo ...

A new special investigation unveils how Russia is feared to have transferred hundreds if not thousands of people with disabilities

Comment: Reporting on the kidnapping and abuse of the most vulnerable in Ukrainian society makes one thing clear, writes Bel Trew: in war people with disabilities are the last to be remembered and the first to be left behind

‘We expect to win maybe very big,’ Mr Trump predicted

Keith Davidson, former lawyer for adult film star Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal, to give further evidence about details of ex-president’s hush money agreements with accusers

The population of El Fasher, which includes thousands of displaced people, is in ‘dire need of food, medicine and water’

Jeremiah Manele’s election seen as Solomon Islands’ continued policy to embrace China

A potential juror who was excused from Donald Trump’s criminal trial has revealed he received death threats, despite not being involved in the case. Mark DeMuro told Good Morning Britain how Trump supporters had contacted him saying they were going ...

Gaza protesters and police faced off at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, on Wednesday, 1 May, in similar scenes seen at other universities across the US this week. Scuffles broke out between demonstrators and officers, with local media re ...

Activists don hard hats, goggles and respirator masks in anticipation of police raid

Watch live as Donald Trump's hush money trial in New York resumes on Thursday, 2 May, at Manhattan Criminal Court.

‘They are no longer recognisable, and we can’t let that happen to our country,’ the former president claims

The body Miguel Angel Luna Gonzales, 49, has been found by salvage teams over a month since the Key Bridge catastrophically collapsed

Irish police dismantled approximately 200 tents housing asylum seekers in Dublin early on Wednesday, 1 May. A camp had been set up near government buildings in the Mount Street area. The government said the asylum seekers had been moved to sites sout ...

George Santos donned red lipstick, a wig, and a red feather boa as he resurrected his drag queen persona for the first time in 18 years. The former New York congressman released his first five videos to a Cameo account for his character “Kitara ...

The European Union has announced an aid package for Lebanon of 1 billion euros — about $1.06 billion — that will mostly go to strengthening border control to halt the flow of asylum seekers and migrants from the small, crisis-wracked country acro ...

Human Rights Watch has accused Kenyan authorities of not responding adequately to ongoing floods that have killed more than 170 people since the start of the rainy season

The ‘manta ray’ submarine is designed to operate over long distances of water and deliver pay loads to targets

President Joe Biden is detouring to Charlotte, North Carolina, to meet with the families of law enforcement officers shot to death on the job

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