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Law says conviction of two men for spying raises serious concerns about how they accessed sensitive informationNathan Law, an exiled leader of the Hong Kong student protest who lives with a £100,000 bounty on his head from the Chinese authorities, was …
PM praised for not pressuring Xi over his ties with Putin on a trip seen as business ‘taking precedence over politics’UK politics live – latest updatesKeir Starmer’s visit to Beijing has been cautiously welcomed by Chinese state media as an act of econ…
Inaugural prize expected to be handed to Donald Trump but ‘process’ for choosing future winners to be proposed by controversial tycoon’s committeeIt was the timing that set off the first alarm bells. With Donald Trump brooding over missing out on the N…
Friends Melanie Watters and Janine Reid have been trapped in Pussellawa since ThursdayTwo British women stranded by landslides in Sri Lanka’s tea mountains are running out of food and water, the daughter of one of them has said, as officials reported t…
Exclusive: High-profile lawyers suggest ex-City minister Tulip Siddiq has not enjoyed basic rights during her trial in absentiaThe trial in Bangladesh of the former UK City minister Tulip Siddiq has been “contrived and unfair”, leading lawyers includin…
Exclusive: Ex-minister being tried in absentia in Bangladesh claims ID card and passport tendered as evidence not hersThe former City minister Tulip Siddiq has said she fears prosecutors could be planning to use “fake” documents to secure her convictio…
Exclusive: MP and niece of ousted Bangladesh prime minister says allegations against her are ‘completely absurd’“There’s no extradition treaty, I looked that up myself actually,” says Tulip Siddiq, the MP for Hampstead and Highgate and a Treasury minis…
Ex-minister wants to clear up ‘misunderstanding’ over accusation she benefitted from regime of her aunt, ousted Bangladeshi PM Sheikh HasinaThe former City minister Tulip Siddiq has asked to meet Bangladesh’s leader during his London visit to clear up …
Charlotte May Lee, 21, from south London, flew from the same Bangkok airport as Bella May Culley, who was arrested a day earlierWithin a day of Bella May Culley being arrested at a Georgian airport for allegedly trying to smuggle 14kg of cannabis, the …
Once dubbed the ‘Afghan Rupert Murdoch’, Mohseni’s media business was founded after the fall of the Taliban and is now navigating their returnSaad Mohseni wants more female faces on his Afghan TV channel. He hopes he might get a deal with the Taliban f…
Exclusive: Aziz Ahmed, who has heart condition, has spent more than seven months in prison over extremism claims The wife of a British man arrested over extremism claims at an Indian airport at the end of a family holiday has spoken of her fears for h…
Exclusive: Michelin, Dunlop, Goodyear and Bridgestone products have found way to Russia via intermediariesRussia-Ukraine war – latest news updatesMore than $30m (£23m) worth of aircraft tyres made by western manufacturers including the French firm Mich…
For the first time, government military spending increased in all five geographical regions, Sipri thinktank findsGlobal military expenditure has reached a record high of $2440bn (£1970bn) after the largest annual rise in government spending on arms in…
Up to 500 ‘drop-and-forget’ bombs containing foreign components being fired every week, government saysUkraine war – live updatesThe mass use of “drop-and-forget” guided bombs containing foreign components is driving Russian advances in Ukraine, with u…
There are now an estimated 12,512 warheads across the globe, with most of the new ones in military stockpiles said to be China’sThe number of operational nuclear weapons in the arsenals of the major military powers is on the rise again according to a l…