5 h. ago Oligarch spy yachts feared to have helped scout undersea cables as part of Russian plot to black out Britain: Putin 'had billionaire cronies send vessels fitted with mini

The Ministry of Defence and Royal Navy found that Russian reconnaissance devices and sensors had been placed close to vital undersea cables off Britain's coastline

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63 h. ago Sex toys and exploding cosmetics: Inside the bizarre ‘Russian parcel fire sabotage plot’

Details of a bizarre, suspected Russian-run sabotage plot have been revealed following three depot fires in the summer of 2024.

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3 d. ago ‘They didn’t call us for Live Aid’: the stars behind Black Britain’s forgotten charity record

In 1985, a star-studded lineup of Black UK musicians, including Aswad, Dennis Brown and Janet Kay, recorded a charity single to raise funds for famine-stricken Ethiopia. Why are their efforts so little known?The Ethiopian famine of the early 1980s was one of the defining news stories of the decade, an exposure of the stark divide between developed and developing nations, still referred to at the time as the Third World. It is a received wisdom that the general public in Britain learned about the crisis when shocking images of emaciated men, women and children were shown on BBC news reports. This is not entirely true. In fact, plenty of Rastafarians were already aware of the situation.The east African country was their spiritual home – many in the movement viewed its former emperor Haile Selassie as their messiah – and a place free from the iniquities of the west. “A lot of Rastafarians went to Ethiopia [before they] came to London,” says the musician and cam...

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1 week ago What is behind Putin’s arrest of Russian billionaire Vadim Moshkovich

Rusagro has a head office in the Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine and is subject to frequent attacks

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2 w. ago My biggest fear was not waking up – Roger Black reflects on heart surgery

Roger Black was diagnosed with a heart condition at the age of 11, but won three Olympic medals.

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4 w. ago Russian spymaster's plot to control migration into UK and influence elections

Fugitive former businessman Jan Marsalek was allegedly behind a scheme to deploy 15,000 mercenaries to control the vital migration route through Libya - and influence elections across Europe

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