Alex Thomson
Ukraine: Minsk is not what matters
Whatever emerges from Minsk is only diplomatic rhetoric. The real game is on the steppe of eastern Ukraine where both sides either will or will not silence their guns.
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Government hits back over Calais ‘blame game’
Downing Street insists the government vows to continue working closely with the French authorities after Labour demand compensation from France over the chaos at Calais.
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Ukraine: far right group protests after police shootout
Ukraine’s ultra-nationalist Right Sector calls for the resignation of the country’s interior minister following the deaths of two of its members in a shootout with police.
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FactCheck: how many terror plots have been busted since the 7/7 bombings?
How many times have the authorities foiled terror plots since the events of July 7 2005?
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National Action’s Zack Davies guilty of attempted murder
A young neo-Nazi extremist who was radicalised online is found guilty of attempted murder at a court in North Wales. Zack Davies tried to decapitate a man because he was Asian.
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Jeb Bush presidential campaign: the key questions
Jeb Bush, younger brother of George W Bush and son of George H Bush, formally declares his candidacy for president of the United States.
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Europe’s anti-austerity movements: from Podemos to the SNP
The surge in support for the radical left Podemos party in Spain’s regional elections is the latest manifestation of a spectre haunting Europe: the rise of the anti-austerity movement.
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Failed Ukip candidate with 6000 votes turns to extreme right
He increased Ukip support in his constituency by 240 per cent and outpolled the party’s deputy leader – but Jack Sen, the party’s former candidate for Lancashire West, is also a “national socialist”.
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Texas Mohammed cartoon attack: home of suspect raided
Police search the home of a suspected gunman who was shot dead in Texas after attacking a controversial event showing caricatures of the prophet Mohammed, organised by an anti-Islamic group.
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Marine Le Pen attacks father over Holocaust comments
A furious row breaks out between Front National President Marine Le Pen and her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, over comments he made trivialising the Holocaust.
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Conservative candidate resigns in EDL row
Would-be Tory MP Afzal Amin resigns as the party’s candidate for Dudley North after being filmed talking to the former leader of the English Defence League about staging a far-right rally.
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Marmite and fruitcakes: Ukip activists in their own words
Meet the 15-year-old Harry Potter lookalike, Ukip’s first Goth and the Sikh who defected from Ed Miliband. Zed Nelson documents another side of Ukip.
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Ukraine conflict: why is the UK training Ukraine’s soldiers?
Britain has flown 35 military advisers to Ukraine to help fight pro-Russian separatists – with America set to follow suit. But what can the British army offer that Ukraine doesn’t have already?
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Israeli elections: who are the candidates?
Binyamin Netanyahu has dominated recent Israel politics. But the centre-left Zionist Union is a strong challenger in today’s parliamentary elections. So who are the main candidates?
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Newcastle ‘anti-Islam’ march outnumbered by counter demo
Anti-Islamisation protesters organised by the Pegida group hold their first UK march in Newcastle, but are confronted by 2,000 counter demonstrators.
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