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Russian Deserters Reveal the Truth About Ukraine's Frontline

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When Nikolai’s assault unit was told to advance on a Ukrainian position, he decided he’d rather blow up his own arm than continue to fight. Nikolai and two other former Russian soldiers tell The Times about their harrowing experiences at war– and why they decided to flee.

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Luigi Mangione: Everything We Know So Far

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Mangione, 27, was arrested in December 2024 and charged with fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a sidewalk in Midtown Manhattan. Public officials condemned the shocking assassination. Mangione became a folk hero to some Americans who decry steep healthcare costs.

Mangione's lawyers are seeking to block prosecutors from using evidence allegedly found in his backpack - including a 3D-printed gun, a silencer, electronic devices and journal writings that appear to implicate him in the killing during his arrest - and statements he made to police, arguing he was illegally searched and questioned.

Prosecutors have opposed Mangione’s requests to suppress the evidence and denied his claims that he was illegally searched and questioned.

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Why Deadly Prison Gangs Are More Powerful than Ever

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Prison gangs have evolved into powerful organisations that maintain control of their criminal enterprises from inside jail. Before the 1950s, prisons in California were small, and prisoners had a set of rules they lived by. It was known as the ‘convict code’.

Since then, prison populations have grown. With so many new faces who didn’t know the code, the rules have been rewritten, resulting in an explosion of violence.

So how have these gangs become so influential, despite their freedoms being curtailed by the state?

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Is Labour at War with Liberals Over Asylum Reform?

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Shabana Mahmood brings Blue Labour values to the Home Office, but can the human rights lawyer in Keir Starmer hold the line? Also, after last week's episode unleashed chaos in Westminster, we look at the anatomy of a briefing war and the chancellor's sudden u-turn on income tax. And today's scoop: how the Corbynite left is eating itself while Zack Polanski is eating their lunch.

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Has Labour's Asylum Seeker Reform Gone Too Far?

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Home secretary Shabana Mahmood announced sweeping changes to the asylum rules yesterday; the largest overhaul since the Second World War. The changes have apparently been inspired by Denmark but will they work or are they - as one Labour MP said - ‘repugnant’?

Mahmood has been accused of using “children as a weapon” to make the country less attractive for refugees by a Labour peer who escaped to Britain from the Holocaust.

Lord Dubs, who was one of hundreds of Jewish children granted sanctuary in Britain from Nazi Germany in 1939, described the home secretary’s plans as “a shabby thing”, which would not reduce migration.

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Is Human Rights Law Destroying Britain's Military?

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It's a very special episode of the General and the Journalist this week. Patrick and Tom are joined by General Sir Nick Parker, who was Patrick's mentor in the army, to talk about a letter they and six other four-star Generals have signed, calling for an immediate end to retrospective legal cases being brought against former servicemen and women.

This is not only undermining the very basis of the compact between soldier and state, but it's also jeopardising operations in the field, a fact Patrick and Nick confirm when they discuss the departure of a "significant" number of Special Forces officers who've handed in their weapons rather than risk being dragged before the courts on some as yet unknown charge.

The army’s most senior former officers have accused the prime minister of allowing human rights law creep to undermine the effectiveness of Britain’s armed forces. In an unprecedented intervention, nine four-star generals signed an open letter in The Times to coincide with Armistice Day on Tuesday, the moment the nation remembers its forces’ sacrifices.

They warn that soldiers’ trust in the legal system has deteriorated so badly that it now “risks everything”.

The collapse of faith is stripping UK troops of their fighting edge, just as the threat of new wars rises again and a major new force is being prepared to keep any peace in Ukraine, the generals claim.

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Can Nigel Farage Learn from Trump's MAGA Revolution?

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Donald Trump and Nigel Farage are two populist leaders separated by an ocean but now united by a similar political strategy. Trump has transformed the Republican Party and been elected twice as US president. Farage has become one of the most influential politicians in Britain and his party, Reform UK, has had a seismic rise and created a political earthquake.

But how has Farage achieved this?

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Jeffrey Epstein's Emails on Donald Trump Revealed

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Thousands of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein have been released by the US House Oversight Committee. One email alleges Donald Trump 'knew about the girls'.

While the White House argues a selective leaking of this correspondence has created a fake narrative, what does this release tell us about the relationship between the US President and the convicted paedophile?

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Can the BBC Survive? I The Story PODCAST

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After the resignations of two of its most senior members of staff, the BBC is being questioned over allegations of institutional bias.

Donald Trump has threatened to sue the organisation, and with negotiations about the continuation of the BBC’s funding model underway, where does it leave our national broadcaster?

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Inside the Hunt for Syria’s Strongman Leader I Times Documentaries

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In December 2024, a lightning rebel advance sweeps into Syria’s capital Damascus, toppling the brutal Assad regime and ending half a century of dictatorship. At the centre of it all - Ahmed al-Sharaa. Once a designated terrorist with a 10-million-dollar bounty on his head – now the man steering Syria’s uncertain future. Nearly a year on and he’s formed an interim government, shaken hands with President Donald Trump and seen the majority of crippling sanctions lifted.

But beneath the headlines, the country is restless.

A crippled economy and violent clashes between government forces and religious minorities threaten to unravel fragile gains.

Oliver Marsden, The Times correspondent, has travelled to Syria to discover who Ahmed al-Sharaa really is.

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