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Serial Sperm Donor Taken to Court Over Incest Fears After Fathering 550 Children
Forty one-year-old Dutch musician Jonathan Jacob Meijer is accused of defying limits intended to avoid unintended incest, inbreeding, and psychological trauma for his offspring.
‘They Treat You Like an Animal’: How British Farms Run on Exploitation
Migrants on the UK's rapidly expanding farmworker visa face systematic bullying, abuse and growing debt, an investigation by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and VICE World News reveals.
28-Year-Old Charged After 2 Men Set on Fire Outside Mosques 120 Miles Apart
Mohammed Abbkr has been charged with two counts of attempted murder after two elderly men had substances sprayed on them and were set alight after leaving mosques in Birmingham and London, three weeks apart.
Will Vladimir Putin Be Arrested in South Africa?
An arrest warrant was recently issued for the Russian president by the International Criminal Court. In the summer he's due to visit South Africa – one of the countries that’s obliged to carry out such a warrant.
Nigerian Senator and Wife Guilty of Trafficking Man to UK to Harvest His Organs
Ike Ekweremadu and his wife Beatrice were convicted of arranging an illegal kidney donation for their daughter. The verdict is the first of its kind under the Modern Slavery Act
There’s a Huge Energy Crisis in South Africa That the World Isn’t Talking About
Students are left to study without electricity, emergency workers must save lives in the dark, and restaurant owners are unable to feed customers during rolling blackouts in South Africa’s worst-ever energy crisis.
A Lunchbox Was Left Next To Rape Case Samples in a Police Evidence Fridge
The incident, alongside stories of rape cases being dropped because evidence freezers were broken and frosted over, is one of many detailed in a truly damning report into London’s Metropolitan Police that called for radical and urgent reform.
A US Citizen Jailed in Saudi Arabia Over a Bunch of Tweets Has Been Freed
US-Saudi dual-national Saad Ibrahim Almadi has been released from Saudi prison after more than a year, with all charges dropped, his son told VICE World News.
The Taliban Comes Out Against Nepo Babies
Afghanistan’s fundamentalist leader has instructed Taliban officials to sack their sons and other relatives from government posts, and rehire people from outside the family tree.
Death of a Palestinian Protester: How Did Walid al-Sharif Die?
VICE World News has reconstructed the death of Walid al-Sharif with never-before-seen footage from an al-Aqsa mosque raid by Israeli forces in April 2022.
5 Teenage Girls Reportedly Arrested in Iran For Dancing to Selena Gomez Song
The girls were forced to “confess that they’d made a mistake” after sharing a video of themselves dancing to “Calm Down” with their hair uncovered to mark International Women's Day.
Studying Abroad Is Awesome, Says Amanda Knox, Whose Roommate Was Murdered
Not everyone is buying the joke about a divisive opinion piece on studying abroad in Italy, where Knox spent four years in prison following a wrongful conviction after her British flatmate Meredith Kercher was murdered.