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Maz Saleem (right) at a hearing into her father’s murder. (Photo: Oli Scarff / Getty)

Ukraine war: ‘Fantastic opportunity’ for British far-right fighters

22 March 2022

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Robert Dudley (left), then BP’s chief executive, meets with Vladimir Putin in 2011. (Photo: Kremlin)

Under Putin, MI6-linked BP extracted Russian oil worth £271 billion

17 March 2022

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Expanding Nato while welcoming oligarchs – how the UK misread Putin

15 March 2022

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Ukraine far-right groups with UK-made rocket launchers (Design: DCUK)

Ukraine neo-Nazis pictured with UK-made rocket launchers

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10 March 2022

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Ben Grant travels to Ukraine. (Screengrab: Twitter / Ukraine military)

Son of Boris Johnson’s special envoy joins Ukraine foreign legion

8 March 2022

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Alex, a British veteran who served in Afghanistan as a paramedic, waits to enter Ukraine via Medyka, Poland, on 6 March 2022. (Photo: Omar Marques / Getty)

Ukraine foreign legion: ‘Some of them will lay down their lives’

7 March 2022

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There are now fears Putin could invade the rest of Donbas. (Photo: Aris Messinis / AFP via Getty)

As Russian troops cross the border, what’s next for Ukraine?

23 February 2022

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British commanders (left) meet with senior officials from Ukraine’s National Guard in Kyiv, September 2021. (Photo: NGU)

UK commanders in Ukraine met neo-Nazi-linked National Guard to ‘deepen military cooperation’

15 February 2022

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UDA vigilantes detain IRA suspects in Belfast, 1972. (Photo: David Lomax / Getty)

Blood on London’s hands

10 February 2022

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Communication towers in Ukraine. Britain financed the installation of 16 radio transmitters in eastern Ukraine to broadcast to Russia-backed rebel regions. (Photo: Anton Petrus / Moment)

UK spends over £80m on media in 20 countries around Russia

8 February 2022

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Foreign Secretary Liz Truss rides a tank in Estonia (Photo: Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street)

Who’s driving the Russia invasion scare?

28 January 2022

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Richard Leakey burns confiscated elephant tusks in 1991. The British army advised him on anti-poaching. (Photo: Andrew Holbrooke / Corbis via Getty. File: UK MOD)

Stakeknife and the spy who went on safari

10 January 2022

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Seven of the ‘Hooded Men’ in 2018 (Photo: Liam McBurney / AFP via Getty)

‘Something awkward’: When Conservative ministers authorised torture

5 January 2022

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Jack Morton (centre) was a colonial police chief in India (Photo: Morton’s papers)

MI5 report on Troubles to stay secret, court rules

6 December 2021

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Ex-Met police officer Simon Byrne leads Northern Ireland’s force (Photo: Dan Kitwood / Getty)

Belfast murders: What are police trying to hide?

17 November 2021

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The coffin of Dennis Hutchings arrives at church (Photo: Finnbarr Webster / Getty)

Hero’s funeral for ex-soldier is an insult to real victim

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11 November 2021

Tagged Ireland
Mali’s anti-terrorist

Mali massacre: police marksmen had British backing via EU scheme despite Brexit

11 October 2021

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Vladimir Putin visits a Russian military base in the Arctic (Photo: Kremlin)

UK military plan to counter Russian “threat” in Arctic is three years late

8 October 2021

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16 year-old Henry Cunningham was murdered by Ulster Volunteer Force gunmen in 1973 (Supplied)

Will there be justice for Henry Cunningham?

7 October 2021

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The Lord Mayor of London, William Russell, meets Kuwait’s then head of state, Emir Sabah al-Sabah, February 2020, during a visit to the Gulf dictatorship. (Photo: Lord Mayor / Twitter)

Revealed: The City of London’s secret foreign policy shielded from democratic oversight

5 October 2021

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Former British army intelligence officer Colin Wallace (Photo: Michael Oswald / Independent POV)

FILM REVIEW: “The man who knew too much”

4 October 2021

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UK defence secretary Ben Wallace and Saudi ambassador to the UK Khalid bin Bandar at the DSEI arms fair in London, 15 September 2021. (Photo: Phil Miller / Declassified UK)

“Nothing to hide here”: Inside the world’s largest arms fair in the heart of London

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17 September 2021

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A British soldier grabs a civil rights protester on Bloody Sunday in January 1972 when 13 civilians were shot dead by paratroopers. (Photo: Getty Images)

Impunity for killings in service of the state: the UK government’s latest scheme

26 July 2021

Tagged Ireland

Why I took the police to court over a 48-year-old secret document

15 July 2021

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