Welfare cuts have fuelled rise of far right and populism, top UN expert says
Exclusive: Poverty rapporteur says governments must rethink welfare state as essential to fabric of society
Tue 21 Oct 2025 15.04 BST
Decades of efforts by mainstream politicians to roll back welfare programmes have given rise to an “extremely dangerous” discourse that has helped fuel the rise of the far right and rightwing populists in countries around the world, a top UN expert has told the Guardian.
From London to Lisbon, politicians from centre-right and centre-left parties alike had steadily eroded social programmes, fostering a sense of scarcity and creating fertile ground for the stirring up of anti-migrant sentiment, said Olivier De Schutter, the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights.
Myanmar: Notorious cyberscam center KK Park raided by army
Kalika Mehta AP, local media
Unlicensed Starlink terminals were siezed and more than 2,000 people detained following the raid at KK Park.
Myanmar's military have closed down an online scamming operation, detaining more than 2000 people, according to state media on Monday.
During the raid, which took place near the border with Thailand, dozens of Starlink satellite internet terminals were also seized.
LDP swallows Nippon Ishin’s demands to push hardline policies
THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
October 21, 2025 at 16:43 JST
The Liberal Democratic Party’s new coalition government with Nippon Ishin (Japan Innovation Party) has taken on a distinctly stronger conservative stance following the departure of Komeito, which had long served as a brake on the LDP’s hawkish policies.
In the coalition agreement signed on Oct. 20 by LDP President Sanae Takaichi and Hirofumi Yoshimura, her Nippon Ishin counterpart, the LDP largely swallowed the new partner’s po d deadlines for their implementation.
Trump claims Middle East countries offered to fight Hamas in Gaza
(He's lying.)
US president renews his threats to Hamas, saying that the Palestinian group could face ‘FAST, FURIOUS, BRUTAL’ end.
By Ali Harb
United States President Donald Trump has suggested that several countries in the Middle East have offered to send forces to Gaza to fight Hamas, renewing his threats to the Palestinian group amid the fragile ceasefire in the territory.
“Numerous of our NOW GREAT ALLIES in the Middle East, and areas surrounding the Middle East, have explicitly and strongly, with great enthusiasm, informed me that they would welcome the opportunity, at my request, to go into GAZA with a heavy force and ‘straighten our Hamas’ if Hamas continues to act badly, in violation of their agreement with us,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Tuesday.
Swarms of Russian drones plunge parts of Ukraine into darkness, as Zelensky turns to Europe again
By
, Kosta Gak and Victoria Butenko CNN
As temperatures drop in Ukraine, Russia has stepped up drone attacks on power facilities supplying millions of homes across the country.
There are signs that the Russian military is repeatedly hitting the same areas to aggravate the population’s suffering. The northern regions of Chernihiv and Sumy – adjoining Russia and Belarus – have seen constant attacks over the past month.
Anti-malaria funding cuts could lead to ‘deadliest resurgence ever’, study warns
Expected reduction in contributions by wealthy countries likely to cost millions of lives and billions in lost growth
Tue 21 Oct 2025 00.01 BST
Slashed contributions from wealthy countries to an anti-malaria fund could allow a resurgence of the disease, costing millions of lives and billions of pounds by the end of the decade, according to a new analysis.
The fight against malaria faces new threats, including extreme weather and humanitarian crises increasing the number of people exposed, and growing biological resistance to insecticides and drugs, the report warns.
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