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Iran protesters told they are ‘bringing down the patriarchy’

https://static.independent.co.uk/2023/01/08/18/8309d3b33bdf10b4c5e7d99eff5dd110Y29udGVudHNlYXJjaGFwaSwxNjczMjg2NzAz-2.70488913.jpg?width=1200&auto=webp&crop=3%3A2 Comedian Omid Djalili told Iranian protesters that they are “bringing down the patriarchy” at a…

Former boxer champion Wadi Camacho ‘cut ex-girlfriend while grabbing iPhone’

https://static.independent.co.uk/2022/08/30/13/2a84503be30ade7e636aa4ca5db804c7Y29udGVudHNlYXJjaGFwaSwxNjYxOTQ2NTIz-2.40977705.jpg?width=1200&auto=webp&crop=3%3A2 Update, October 7, 2025: Mr Camacho was cleared on all four counts by a jury…

UK-based Russian-Ukrainian couple reunited with family at visa centre in Poland

https://static.independent.co.uk/2022/03/16/08/16075929-61702d53-53ff-49c2-8f71-0f895ac00e7b.jpg?width=1200&auto=webp&crop=3%3A2 A Russian-Ukrainian couple broke down in tears when they were reunited with their one-year-old son…

UK-based Russian-Ukrainian couple reunited with family at visa centre in Poland

https://static.independent.co.uk/2022/03/16/08/16075929-61702d53-53ff-49c2-8f71-0f895ac00e7b.jpg?width=1200&auto=webp&crop=3%3A2 A Russian-Ukrainian couple broke down in tears when they were reunited with their one-year-old son…

From George to Breonna to Eric: What happens to police officers who kill Black people

https://static.independent.co.uk/2021/04/21/22/GettyImages-1216203917.jpg?width=1200&auto=webp&crop=3%3A2 George Floyd’s death at the hands of police offices in Minneapolis last year sparked nationwide…

Coronavirus diary: I didn’t think any of it applied to me – but suddenly it did

https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2020/03/22/17/central-london-5.jpeg?width=1200&auto=webp&crop=3%3A2 I was woken by the silence. That is when I should have known the world…

Family immigration rules that put a £18,600-a-year price tag on love are ‘heartbreaking’

https://static.independent.co.uk/2020/11/09/17/The%20Independent%20logo%20main.jpg?width=1200&auto=webp&crop=3%3A2 When Ashley, a minister in the Salvation Army, and his Georgian wife, Teya, returned from…

New immigration rules accused of splitting up families

https://static.independent.co.uk/2020/11/09/17/The%20Independent%20logo%20main.jpg?width=1200&auto=webp&crop=3%3A2 Britons on low incomes are being forced to live apart from their families because of…

4,115 names in 24 hours, and counting (continued)

https://static.independent.co.uk/2020/11/09/17/The%20Independent%20logo%20main.jpg?width=1200&auto=webp&crop=3%3A2 Today we publish the names of almost 5,000 people who have joined us in calling…

When obsessive adoration turns into hate: Nick Cohen on the sinister haunting of the famous

https://static.independent.co.uk/2020/10/25/11/newFile-1.jpg?width=1200&auto=webp&crop=3%3A2 ANDREW Farquharson is by any definition an obsessive fan. The unemployed fitness fanatic stalked, phoned…