Protected: Meeting Ayman Zawahiri’s family in Egypt, I gained some special insights into the now-assassinated Al Qaeda leader.
2 August 2022There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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By Paul Martin, Chornomorsk Port. Right opposite the port that could become the first gateway for wheat to leave Ukraine stands a grey lamp-post.. The area around it is now called Freedom Square, but until the Soviet Union ended it was known as Lenin Square. The name-change is part of a pattern across the Ukraine, of becoming more and more distant […]
Exclusive. David Linsey, whose younger brother and sister were killed in a suicide bombing in a hotel in Sri Lanka three years ago, has supported calls for a urgent investigation into who lay behind the terrorist attacks. He believes the collapse of the Rajapaksa family’s decades-long grip on power may make a proper investigation easier. “I […]
Now that the Sri Lankan president Gota Rajapaksa has fled his country and resigned, human rights organisations are dusting off their files on the thousands of ‘disappeared people’, many of them simply abducted and thrust into white vans. Those who disappeared ranged from anti-government activists to supporters of a rebel movement, or were human rights […]
FIFA’s former President Sepp Blatter has been vindicated and now “feels relieved and free“, his daughter and chief adviser Corinne Blatter-Andenmatten, who is also her father’s chief adviser, told Correspondent.World. He had chosen to resign in 2016 to save world football from financial ruin, she added. Blatter and Michel Platini, the former boss of European football and megastar player, […]
Exclusive. Vika Mats, aged 10, and her mother Liana, 36, are stuck underground again in a Metro station after a terrifying day and night of rocket bombardments from advancing Russian forces in north-east Ukraine. They had enjoyed a five days of sunlight after Ukrainian troops pushed the Russian forces back toward their border and out of […]
It’s been dubbed City of Heroes, the official accolade awarded by President Volodymyr Zelensky to Kharkiv — Ukraine’s battered second city. Two intrepid cameramen-producers have chronicled its trials and tribulations under Russian fire in a riveting film called “Ukraine: Life Under Attack”. Their documentary has added poignancy as the Russian bombardment, apparently receding a month ago, […]
First ever exclusive interview with BOTH Klitschkos in a location (“bunker”) we are not disclosing for security reasons. Vitali, the great world champ boxer now mayor of Kyiv, makes a direct appeal to the soldiers fighting Ukraine inside his country: “Go home now. Why should you die in a foreign land just for the money […]
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Exclusive from Bucha, Ukraine. Oleksii Tolkachov, 39, is delivering aid to people without food, electricity and heating in Bucha and Irpin, the until-recently Russian-occupied satellite towns north of Kyiv. They are both now ignominious worldwide symbols of the invaders’ ruthless destruction. Before we drive in, we pull up at the first of several destroyed tanks. […]