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Moscow’s forces home in on energy infrastructure as winter starts to bite

The United Nations grills Australia over its treatment of people in youth and immigration detention, describing the over-representation of Aboriginal people in detention as "horrific".

Ukrainian interior minister Denys Monastyrsky said the investigation into Russian crimes in Kherson had only just begun "so many more dungeons and burial places will be uncovered"

Martin McGinley was sentenced at Hamilton Sheriff Court yesterday after being found guilty of engaging in abusive behaviour towards his former partner, who said she endured mental torture at his hands.

More than 10 million Ukrainians were without electricity on Thursday, said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, as Russian missiles pounded energy facilities in yet another barrage targeting civilian infrastructure across the country. Read our blog to see how the day's events unfolded. All times are Paris time (GMT+1)

Oklahoma is preparing to execute a man for the torture killing of his girlfriend's 3-year-old son in 1993

A top Ukrainian human rights investigator on Thursday released a video of what he said was a torture chamber used by Russian forces in the recently liberated Kherson region, including a small room in which he said up to 25 people were kept at a time.

Ukraine's recapture of the city of Kherson comes two months after another military success: the liberation of large swathes of the northeastern Kharkiv region from Russian occupation. There, too, there were celebrations, as local people greeted soldiers with flowers, hugs and tears. But now as winter approaches, people are struggling…

Families can be seen looking on as the bodies of tortured men washed onto the beach at Acapulco, in Mexico, which was once a playground for celebrity tourists and now suffers from organized crime