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Mother charged after two babies found dead in family's freezer, France

The mother of two infants found dead in a freezer in eastern France has been charged and placed in pre-trial detention, a prosecutor told AFP on Friday. The case is the latest suspected instance of infanticide to emerge in France in recent years. Prosecutor Cedric Logelin told AFP the 50-year-old woman was charged late on Thursday, a day after she was arrested in the western Paris suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt and admitted to freezing her newborns. No one else has been charged, he added. The grim discovery was made after the woman, who had nine children from three different fathers, had abruptly left the family home in the eastern town of Aillevillers-et-Lyaumont in December. She left behind four of her children, aged 14 to 20, their father and a fifth child from another relationship. On Tuesday, a family member discovered the body of a newborn in a freezer. After the family raised the alarm, police discovered a second body in the same freezer, wrapped in a bag. Suspicion quickly focu...
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UK terror ban on pro-Palestine group unlawful, court rules after appeal

The British government's ban on pro-Palestinian campaign group Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation is unlawful, London's High Court ruled on Friday after a legal challenge by the group's co-founder. Palestine Action was proscribed in July, having increasingly targeted Israel-linked defence companies – particularly Elbit Systems – in Britain, with "direct action", often blocking entrances, or spraying red paint. The ban had put Palestine Action on a par with Islamic State or al Qaeda and made it a crime to be a member, which carries a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison. Lawyers representing Huda Ammori, who co-founded Palestine Action in 2020, argued at a hearing last year that the move was an authoritarian restriction on the right to protest. The High Court upheld two grounds of challenge, including that the ban was a disproportionate interference with the right to freedom of expression and freedom of assembly. Read: Australia urges calm after violent clashes in Sydney during Israeli President's visit Judge Victoria Sharp said, however, that the ban would remain in place to give the Ammori and the Home Office's lawyers time to address the court on whether the ban should be lifted pending any appeal. In January 2026, British police arrested 86 people on suspicion of aggravated trespass after protesters breached the grounds of a prison in west London during a demonstration in support of a Palestine Action activist, authorities said. The Metropolitan Police said the arrests were made Saturday evening outside HMP Wormwood Scrubs, where demonstrators gathered to protest the detention of a prisoner reportedly on hunger strike. Police said the group refused to leave when ordered, blocked prison staff from entering and leaving the facility, and made threats toward officers. Some protesters also gained access to a staff entrance area of one of the prison buildings, according to authorities. A spokesperson for the Justice Ministry described the incident as “deeply concerning," The Independent reported.

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