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Data breach exposing UK-allied Afghans to Taliban reprisals ‘completely foreseeable’

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Data breach exposing UK-allied Afghans to Taliban reprisals ‘completely foreseeable’

The UK defence committee has found a data breach which left UK-aligned Afghans exposed to the Taliban was “completely foreseeable”. The 2023 breach, kept secret until 2025 due to a court order, meant that a spreadsheet containing personal details of 18, 500 Afghans was made public. Afghan resettlement programme The Taliban took over Afghanistan after the US and UK left in defeat in 2021. The details were part of the UK’s so-called Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP). This British governmental scheme was meant to help relocate Afghans who had worked for the Brits in roles which made them targets for…

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Israel wants to ensure US military support is permanent and irreversible

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Israel wants to ensure US military support is permanent and irreversible

A new CIA assessment has exposed how Israel is scrabbling to entrench permanent US military backing. The settler-colonial state is terrified that future administrations will cut support amid plummeting public support. They’re right to worry. Israel’s brazenly genocidal assault on the Palestinians has seen traditionally solid US support for the ethno-state plunge. “Israel-first” Journalist Aida Chavez, formerly of the Nation and the Intercept, wrote on her Class and Empire Substack: Israeli officials believe the political fight over Israel in the United States is becoming harder to win, and that the era of indefinitely securing billions of dollars in annual military aid…

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Trump’s ex-campaign manager is running an Israeli propaganda operation

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Trump’s ex-campaign manager is running an Israeli propaganda operation

US President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Brad Parscale is overseeing an Israeli influence operation. Drop Site News reported that the operation is training bots to embellish fake claims that Palestinian journalists are linked to terrorism. The story has sparked debate about israel’s approach to using new technologies in information warfare. The campaign has even tried to muddy the waters around the Israeli military’s murder of Palestinian child Hind Rajab. The operation aims to shape the views not of humans, but of the AI chatbots that people increasingly turn to for ‘corroborating’ information. Drop Site reported on 28 July: The key…

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Ecuadorian lawyer investigating US drone strikes assassinated

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Ecuadorian lawyer investigating US drone strikes assassinated

A motorcycle hitman allegedly killed an Ecuadorian lawyer investigating US drone strikes. Alexandra Bravo and her sister were killed on 14 June 2026 when a hitman “aboard a black motorcycle opened fire”. This may be the latest phase in a renewed US bid to dominate the Americas. US drone strikes probe Drop Site News reported: Upon arriving at the crime scene, officers say they found five 9mm shell casings and Bravo’s injured driver, but no sign of the police detail that had been assigned to protect her. The Police Directorate, which operates entirely under the executive branch, has launched a probe…

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Authorities say no cameras worn during dad’s murder, but ICE insiders say otherwise

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Authorities say no cameras worn during dad’s murder, but ICE insiders say otherwise

Donald Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) claim their paramilitaries were not wearing body cameras during the recent killing of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero. Yet ICE insiders are saying the opposite. Meanwhile, new details have emerged about the background of one of the shooters, a former US soldier. The Intercept reported this week: Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, a 25-year-old father from Colombia, was driving slowly in Biddeford, Maine, when an agent shot into his vehicle. According to secretary of homeland security, Markwayne Mullin, the officers involved in the shooting “were not wearing body cameras”. However, ICE insiders familiar with the technology…

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UK lobbyists press Burnham for oil field that will create barely any jobs

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UK lobbyists press Burnham for oil field that will create barely any jobs

Oil and gas lobbyists are desperate to open a new North Sea gas field and are reportedly pressuring Andy Burnham for the go-ahead. Yet energy industry documents show the proposed new Jackdaw field will only create 27 full time jobs. These include an environmental impact assessment filed by the oil field’s owner Adura. Adura is a joint venture between Shell and Norway’s Equinor. The assessment says: Over the lifetime of the field there would be a consistent level of employment averaging at nearly 500 jobs a year in direct, indirect and induced employment – this includes 273 direct jobs which exist on…

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Rubio’s ‘left-wing terrorism’ summit is laughable and dangerous

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Rubio’s ‘left-wing terrorism’ summit is laughable and dangerous

Sixty-six countries attended US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s summit on left-wing terrorism this week. The farcical event was meant to highlight what Rubio says is a rising leftist threat, largely ignored on ideological grounds. In reality, it can be read as an attempt to found and codify a US-led fascist international — a new Axis steered by the Trump regime. Al Jazeera reported: The “Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism”, taking place on Thursday, brings together government representatives from around the world to coordinate on what the US Department of State calls a “renewed threat” that has “remained a…

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US defence secretary Pete Hegseth is being an absolute crayon again

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US defence secretary Pete Hegseth is being an absolute crayon again

US defence secretary and far-right tattooed plonker Pete Hegseth has pledged to test the testosterone levels of US military personnel. another normal one for Pete, then. In one of his irredeemably weird X posts, the former soldier and alleged danger announced that the US military would be “a High T department”: The High-T Department of War. pic.twitter.com/hlAUq3j2cD — Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (@SecWar) July 15, 2026 The defence secretary wants to test soldiers over 30 to ensure: you have the right testosterone levels to operate at your absolute best. Public health scientist and epidemiologist Eric Feigl-Ding said: I used to…

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Moroccan whistleblower reveals power and reach of Israel’s Pegasus spyware

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Moroccan whistleblower reveals power and reach of Israel’s Pegasus spyware

A Moroccan intelligence insider has helped expose the scale and reach of the country’s use of Pegasus spyware. The advanced Israeli-made technology hacks into smartphones allowing spies to eavesdrop on and manipulate the devices. The former agent said Pegasus was used to spy on journalists, activists and foreign officials from Spain and France. As the Guardian has it: Pegasus, which is manufactured by the Israel-based NSO Group, allows its operator to access everything on a target’s mobile phone, including emails, text messages and photographs. It can also activate the phone’s recorder and camera, turning it into a listening device. Morocco claims…

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MI5 lied to three courts in neo-Nazi agent case, inquiry finds

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MI5 lied to three courts in neo-Nazi agent case, inquiry finds

Senior figures at Britain’s internal security agency MI5 lied repeatedly in court over the case of an abusive neo-Nazi agent. Deputy investigatory powers commissioner Sir John Goldring has slammed a number of senior figures at MI5 over their behaviour. As the Canary reported on 17 March 2026, the spy agency has been ordered to pay compensation to a woman: coercively controlled, abused, and attacked with a machete by a neo-Nazi agent it employed. The fascist agent also: had fantasies about eating children. Goldring’s new report is scathing, confirming BBC revelations that: MI5 lied to the courts, something the security service vehemently…

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Trump’s hyped national guard deployments did absolutely nothing to lower crime

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Trump’s hyped national guard deployments did absolutely nothing to lower crime

US president Donald Trump’s much-hyped national guard deployments did nothing to lower crime rates. Canary readers will recall how Trump filled the streets of US cities with troops at the start of his second term. A major centre-left US thinktank has now debunked any claims that the military presence lowered crime. And what’s more, the whole project has ripped off taxpayers to the tune of billions. The Center for American Progress (CAP) warned in a new report: The second Trump administration is trying to take credit for the historic drop in violent crime across America despite the fact that this trend…

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SAS troops dropped prisoners from forklift ‘for fun’, inquiry hears

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SAS troops dropped prisoners from forklift ‘for fun’, inquiry hears

SAS troops currently under investigation for war crimes dropped prisoners from a forklift “for fun”, an inquiry has heard. And one soldier who served with them was allegedly called a “Taliban-loving apologist” for raising concerns about the elite unit’s behaviour. The inquiry into allegations that the SAS extrajudicially murdered Afghan civilians between 2010 and 2023 occupation heard from two whistleblowers on 14 July: Monica Grenfell, a former journalist, and Christopher Green, who was part of the Army Reserve, contacted the Afghanistan Inquiry to give evidence after the chairman issued a request for information. According to Sky News: Both witnesses spoke behind…

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Head of genocidal UAE-backed Sudanese militia convicted in absentia

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Head of genocidal UAE-backed Sudanese militia convicted in absentia

A court has convicted the head of a genocidal UAE-backed Sudanese militia in absentia. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemedti, was found guilty on multiple counts of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. Sudanese RSF verdict Dagalo leads the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). RSF’s main backer in the three-year war with the Sudanese state is the UAE — a key UK ally. The Sudan Tribune reported on 12 July: A Sudanese counter-terrorism court on Sunday sentenced Rapid Support Forces (RSF) commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemetti [SIC], to death in absentia along with his two brothers and 13 others…

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Covid cronyism: Inquiry finds Johnson government squandered £10bn in unusable PPE

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Covid cronyism: Inquiry finds Johnson government squandered £10bn in unusable PPE

Boris Johnson’s government wasted £10bn on unusable personal protective equipment (PPE), the Covid inquiry report has found. Inquiry chair Heather Hallett also slammed the then-Conservative government’s use of firms with Tory ‘VIP’ connections to fulfil major PPE contracts. Focusing on the broader impact of Covid, the Guardian reported: The most high-profile scandal of the VIP lane contracts was PPE Medpro, a newly formed company linked to the then Conservative peer Michelle Mone, which was awarded two contracts worth £203m after Mone first approached Michael Gove, the then Cabinet Office minister, in May 2020. Hallett noted in her report: “The ‘high priority…

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Influence operation: How an Arabic media outlet was linked to Israeli intelligence

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Influence operation: How an Arabic media outlet was linked to Israeli intelligence

A prominent Arabic-language media outlet appears to have ties to Israeli intelligence. Jusoor, which boasts 11 million Facebook followers and bills itself as the “pulse of the Arab street”, may be anything but an ordinary news outlet, according to leaked documents seen by +972 Magazine. +972 reported on 13 July that Jusoor: describes itself as an “independent media platform” that is “not affiliated with any political entity” and seeks out stories that “reflect the pulse of all societies and peoples” in the Middle East and North Africa. The publication’s main output consists of short video segments circulated largely through social media,…

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Trump touts bizarre automatic retaliation policy in case Iran assassinate him

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Trump touts bizarre automatic retaliation policy in case Iran assassinate him

US president Donald Trump wants to create an automatic retaliation policy if Iran manages to assassinate him. The erratic US leader’s idea emerged as Iran and the US returned to open hostilities around a month into the Oman-brokered negotiating period to end the war. Associated Press (AP) reported on 13 July: President Donald Trump is suggesting he has left standing orders for the U.S. military to destroy Iran “ at levels they’ve never seen before” if Tehran follows through on its long-standing threats to kill him. The news agency added that: the U.S. government has no way to create an automatic,…

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Twelve arrested over far-right terror plot against Suffolk Islamic event

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Twelve arrested over far-right terror plot against Suffolk Islamic event

UK counter-terror cops have arrested twelve people over an alleged far-right threat against an Islamic event in Suffolk, England. The arrests took place mostly in southern and eastern England with one individual detained in Greater Manchester. On 13 July, the Counter Terrorism Police (CTP) had said: The investigation, which is extreme right-wing terrorism-related, is connected to a suspected threat directed towards an Islamic event held at Shrubland Hall, Suffolk over the weekend (9-12 July). Due to the concerns over the possible threat, and as a precaution, advice was provided via Suffolk Police to the organisers of the UK Ijtima event to…

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Reform UK scramble to make themselves main victim in alleged Widdicombe murder

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Reform UK scramble to make themselves main victim in alleged Widdicombe murder

Reform UK party’s senior figures will do anything for a propaganda win. The billionaire-backed racist outfit are always desperate for attention. Now they’re trying to make themselves the primary victim of the alleged murder of former Tory and Reform UK politician Ann Widdicombe. Counter-terror investigation opened Widdicombe was found dead at her Devon home on 9 July 2026. Naturally, the British establishment scrambled to eulogise Widdicombe, a notorious homophobe and reactionary. Waxy TV prattler Piers Morgan even skipped over her bigotry to call her “fun and fiesty”. Counter-terrorism police have now taken over the investigation. Top counter-terror cop Laurence Taylor told…

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Defend Our Juries hit with five police raids over alleged Palestine Action video

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Defend Our Juries hit with five police raids over alleged Palestine Action video

Defend our Juries activists have been hit with five police raids in one day. The campaign group said the raids were linked to Palestine Action solidarity messages. Three raids were originally reported on 10 July according to an X post: Defend Our Juries can confirm that at least three home raids have taken place this morning. Individuals who have shared videos online declaring support for the unjustly proscribed direct action group Palestine Action were arrested. Saving lives is not terrorism. HOME RAIDS Defend Our Juries can confirm that at least three home raids have taken place this morning. Individuals who have…

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Ann Widdecombe: ghouls gloss over bigotry to praise “fun, feisty” politician as suspect arrested

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Ann Widdecombe: ghouls gloss over bigotry to praise “fun, feisty” politician as suspect arrested

A 26-year-old white male suspect has been arrested after former Tory minister and Reform UK politician Ann Widdecombe was found dead. She was an MP for over two decades and was known for her far-right and homophobic views. UK PM Keir Starmer skipped over her grotesque views to praise her “dedication” to “public service”: The whole country will be utterly shocked by the awful news about the circumstances of Ann Widdecombe’s death. Today we come together across the political divide and I pay tribute to Ann’s dedication during her many years of public service. My thoughts and deepest condolences… pic.twitter.com/hXps6A9s78 —…

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