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“NO”: how Thatcher refused to help Mandela’s ANC
The Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, angrily rejected a proposal from her Foreign Secretary, Douglas Hurd, for £1 million to help the African National Congress three months after Nelson Mandela was released from prison.
The volunteers facing jail for rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean
The risk of refugees and migrants drowning in the Mediterranean is increasing, but lifesaving volunteers are being criminalised.
Scots pension funds linked to Yemen bus atrocity
Scots council pension funds have shares worth £110 million in US arms giants linked to an alleged war crime in Yemen when 40 children were killed.
Union wants pension funds clean-up over links to Trump migrant camps
One of Scotland’s largest unions is calling for a radical overhaul of council pension funds over links to Donald Trump's migrant detention camps.
Arms sales to Yemen slammed as report claims war crimes cover-up
War crimes have been covered up in Yemen and the UK risks complicity in “laws-of-war violations” due to its supply of bombs made in Scotland to Saudi Arabia, claims a new report.
Scots pension fund sells shares in controversial Israeli bank
A council pension fund has sold its shares in an Israeli bank at the centre of a global divestment campaign due to its financing of illegal settlements in the West Bank.
No rest for Manila’s dead: the front line of the Philippines drug war
The Philippines' president Rodrigo Duterte was elected in 2016 on a platform of ridding the country of its drug addiction problem. Thousands of people have been killed by police and vigilantes.
‘Serious flaw’ in management of Brexit donor Arron Banks’s charity
A charity set up by Brexit backer, Arron Banks, has been strongly criticised by the Charity Commission.
New airline route brings Israel’s ‘apartheid system’ to Scotland, say critics
A new airline route between Israel and Scotland has been criticised as most Palestinians are barred from using Ben Gurion Airport.