UK trained hundreds of guards working at Bahrain’s death row jail
A report by Reprieve, an anti-death penalty charity, has accused the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office of funding training for hundreds of prison guards working…
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Farm subsidies: Payment to billionaire prince sparks anger
Taxpayers are paying more than £400,000 a year to subsidise a farm where a billionaire Saudi prince breeds racehorses. The Newmarket farm of Khalid Abdullah…
Is it London dormitory for students from Middle East?
A pampered student from the Middle East is likely to be the first resident of the most opulent “digs” in Britain, where rent is close…
Is Boris Johnson Turk?
In the small village of Kalfat in the heart of Anatolia, residents say they would be more than happy to welcome the British Foreign Secretary…
Johnson ‘war crimes’ slur provokes Russia
The United Kingdom’s foreign minister Boris Johnson has provoked a furious response from Russia after he said Moscow’s forces may be guilty of war crimes…
UK can’t beat ISIL in Syria, Iraq with current strategy
Britain’s strategy to defeat Islamic State in Iraq and Syria is “necessary but not sufficient” and the country needs a “grand strategy” instead, according to British lawmakers from the…
Iraqi Christian who fled ISIS in Mosul now facing UK deportation – Video
An Assyrian Christian who fled Islamic State is fighting a Home Office decision to deny him asylum and send him back to Iraq. Sarmad Ozan,…
Syria ceasefire comes into effect under US-Russia deal
A nationwide ceasefire in Syria brokered by the US and Russia began at sundown on Monday, coinciding with the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday, but there are…
MPs split over UK-Saudi arms sales amid bid to water down report
MPs on Britain’s influential committee on arms export controls are divided over plans that would recommend suspending UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia over alleged…
White nationalists more influential on Twitter than Daesh
White nationalists and Nazi sympathizers use microblogging platform Twitter with “relative impunity” and often have more followers than accounts sympathetic to Daesh terrorist group, according…