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Emanuela Orlandi vanished 40 years ago. Why is the Vatican just now opening an investigation?

Nearly four decades after 15-year-old Emanuela Orlandi went missing, the Vatican opened its first official inquest into the case. Andrea Blanco explains her disappearance and asks, why now?

The Independent UK

Czech presidential election: Babiš likens rival to Putin after first-round defeat

Ex-PM ratchets up rhetoric after surprise loss to former army chief and Nato military chair Gen Petr Pavel

The Guardian - UK

Patriarch Kirill: The politically influential head of the Russian Orthodox Church

Born Vladimir Mikhailovich Gundyayev, Kirill has been the sixteenth patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church since he was enthroned in 2009. He has attracted international scrutiny with open declarations of support for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of neighbouring Ukraine in February 2022.

France 24

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Fallen colossus: USSR's terror, triumphs began 100 years ago

With its brutality, technological accomplishments and rigid ideology, the Soviet Union loomed over the world like an immortal colossus

The Independent UK

SVR Russia: Inside the secret intelligence agency once known as the infamous KGB

Russia’s 102-year-old foreign intelligence service traces its lineage to the time of Lenin

The Independent UK

David Tennant says he's 'aware of repercussions' with ITVX Litvinenko series

The Bathgate-born actor stars in the new four-part mini-series telling the story of the ex-KGB officer's fatal poisoning in London in 2006.

Daily Record

Who is Alexander Litvinenko’s wife Marina?

ITVX is airing a new four-part drama series exploring the assassination of Alexander Litvinenko

Manchester Evening News

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TV series show: 'Harry & Meghan' spills beans on royal split

Olivia Salazar-Winspear and Dheepthika Laurent look at the explosive revelations in Netflix's latest royal binge: the sleek, fawning docu-series "Harry & Meghan", in which the couple give their version of their decision to leave the British royal family. Also out this month is season two of the excellent Apple TV+…

France 24

Litvinenko: The true story behind David Tennant's new ITVX drama

Tennant, 51, will be portraying ex-KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko, who was fatally poisoned in London in 2006 in the four-part mini-series.

Daily Record

How did Alexander Litvinenko die? The shocking true story behind the ITV drama

Who Alexander 'Sacha' Litvinenko was and when he died as ITV series airs starring David Tennant

Manchester Evening News

Extreme times: polarised politics and what we can learn from the past

Compelling new ITVX drama A Spy Among Friends explores the real-life private and public fallout that ensues when MI6 agent Nicholas Elliott (Damian Lewis) discovers his decades-long colleague and friend Kim Philby (Guy Pearce) is a communist double-agent, radicalised at university and recruited by the KGB to spill top-level secrets.…

The Independent UK

From dead drops to laser-spying: tradecraft through the decades

New ITVX drama A Spy Among Friends explores the incredible story of two real-life MI6 spies – Nicholas Elliott (Damian Lewis) and Kim Philby (Guy Pearce) – whose decades-long friendship fell apart when Philby was revealed to be a treacherous double agent, spilling secrets to the KGB. Here historian Guy…

The Independent UK

MI5 error reveals Churchill was in on 'Valkyrie' plot to kill Hitler

Top secret wartime files mistakenly placed on the internet during the pandemic covered the attempt by Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg to blow up Nazi dictator

Wales Online

MI5 file 'bungle' during Covid revealed Churchill in on 'Valkyrie' plot to kill Hitler

Spooks dumped piles of top secret wartime files on the internet during pandemic lockdowns covering the attempt by Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg to blow up the dictator

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David Tennant 'wasn't sure if image was him or Alexander Litvinenko'

Ahead of Litvinenko being streamed on ITVx the Scot's transformation into the poisoned Russian who was murdered in 2006 even fooled the Doctor Who star himself

Daily Mirror

Belarus foreign minister and Putin ally dies 'after secret talks to end war in Ukraine'

Vladimir Makei, 64, was seen as the only main channel of communication to the West in dictator Alexander Lukashenko’s hardline pro-Russia regime. - he died a day after meeting with the Pope’s envoy Ante Jozić

Daily Mirror

David Tennant looks drastically different in first chilling trailer for ITVX’s Litvinenko

David Tennant looks unrecognisable in his latest TV role, as the Doctor Who actor portrays British-naturalised Russian defector Alexander Litvinenko in an upcoming ITVX drama about the former KGB officer's death

Daily Mirror

Two photos of Vladimir Putin from 1920 and 1941 have people thinking time travel is real

It feels like Vladimir Putin has been around forever, having been a leader on the world stage since 1999. Conspiracy theorists are using old photos to suggest he's older than he claims he is

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Woman detained by KGB over her Tinder pictures as she is forced to apologise on video

The unnamed woman, 29, who worked as a logistics company manager, took a photo of herself wrapped in the white-red-white flag of Belarus and has now been arrested by the country's KGB service

Daily Mirror

Boris Johnson met with son of ex-KGB oligarch the day after he was sanctioned

The then-Prime Minister met with Lord Lebedev the day after his father was hit by war sanctions in Canada. Former spy chief Alexander Lebedev has faced no such crackdowns from British Authorities

Daily Record

David Tennant looks unrecognisable as Alexander Litvinenko in first look at ITVX drama

The Scots actor, who recently returned to his role in Doctor Who as the 14th Doctor, will portray the former KGB Officer.

The Independent UK

Liz Cheney schools Marjorie Taylor Greene on Russia: ‘You stand with Putin against freedom and America’

‘Under Republicans, not another penny will go to Ukraine,’ Greene said at rally alongside Trump

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin losing grip and facing regime collapse as Kremlin 'predators' circle

Competing power groups are at each others' throats and weakened Russian president Vladimir Putin can no longer control those vying for position in his close circle, it has been claimed

Al Jazeera

Are Putin’s views fascist?

The Russian leader often evokes a philosopher who praised Mussolini, but analysts are divided on Putin’s own ideology.

The Conversation

Ukraine war: Putin escalates with sabotage and 'false flag' operations leaving the west struggling to find a response

From the start of his invasion of Ukraine, the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has employed the threat of escalation to the use of nuclear weapons as a means to deter western support. He has aimed to spread fear in Europe as a means to undermining solidarity with Kyiv. And as…

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