Chilcot Inquiry: stinging criticism as families still grieve
Sir John Chilcot’s statement, just delivered, was starker than the report itself in its criticism of the Iraq War.
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A London student, who once campaigned for Boris Johnson, was held in the same prison as Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, where she says she was psychologically tortured, sentenced to death and charged with being an MI6 spy.
A British PhD student who was jailed for life in the United Arab Emirates on spying charges has been released after being granted a pardon. The UAE insisted Matthew Hedges had admitted being a member of MI6. His wife said she was absolutely elated, while the Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said he’d never been shown…
Former head of MI6, Sir John Sawers, discusses the Jamal Khashoggi case. The Saudi king and crown prince have denied any involvement in, or knowledge of, his disappearance.
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Former Russian spy Sergei Skripal in hospital after exposure to what is believed to be a nerve agent. There’s no conclusive evidence yet to tell us who’s responsible. But this isn’t the first time that someone with links to the Kremlin has been attacked on British soil.
Richard Barrett, former director of global counter-terrorism operations at MI6, and Sasha Havlicek, co-founder of the counter-terrorism think tank, the Institute for Strategic Dialogue.
The former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw could be sued by a former Libyan dissident who was allegedly kidnapped by the CIA in 2004 and taken to Libya.
Interview with Richard Barrett, a former director of global counter-terrorism at MI6 and currently director of the Global Strategy Network.
Sir John Chilcot’s statement, just delivered, was starker than the report itself in its criticism of the Iraq War.
On 1 November 2006 Alexander Litvinenko, an former officer with Russia’s FSB intelligence agency now living in London, collapsed after drinking tea with an ex-colleague, Andrei Lugovoi. Litvinenko died three weeks later from what doctors eventually diagnosed as poisoning. He had drunk tea spiked with a lethal dose of Polonium-210, a highly radioactive isotope. Today,…
The Kray twins, Bond-style spy capers, scandalous MPs and the threat of imminent nuclear destruction all feature in previously classified documents from the 1950s released by the National Archives.
Harvey Proctor says he is “completely innocent” of gruesome allegations that he murdered boys as part of a Westminster paedophile ring and says police are pursuing a witch hunt.
A British journalist working for the Daily Express newspaper is said to have leaked highly sensitive secrets to the Russians during the Second World War.
After 12 years of talks, it seems Iran has agreed to scale back its nuclear programme in exchange for the lifting of UN sanctions that have crippled the country’s economy.
I have never heard President Kagame of Rwanda so angry. As he addressed parliament in Kigali yesterday his words dripped with fury and venom.