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First female chief to take reins of secret service MI6

Blaise Metreweli, a career intelligence officer, will replace Sir Richard Moore.

Evening Standard

Blaise Metreweli named as first woman to lead UK intelligence service MI6

Metreweli, 47, has held series of director-level roles in foreign intelligence service and in domestic agency MI5

The Guardian - UK

Dame Barbara Woodward: Civil servant could become first female MI6 chief

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MI6 set to appoint first female boss

Dame Barbara Woodward’s critics say she was reluctant to criticise Beijing while ambassador between 2015 and 2020

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MI6 has never had a female spy chief. That could be about to change

Real-life spies say their world is nothing like that of James Bond, but in one way truth may soon follow fiction: MI6 could be about to get its first female leader

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South Carolina Supreme Court rejects man's final appeal, clearing way for firing squad execution

The South Carolina Supreme Court has rejected what is likely the final appeal of condemned man Brad Sigmon, clearing the way for Friday’s firing squad execution

The Independent UK

South Carolina man set to face a firing squad seeks postponement, questioning execution procedures

A South Carolina man scheduled to face a firing squad next week is asking that his execution be postponed

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Man on death row in South Carolina seeks postponement to get autopsy from last execution

A condemned man who is the next person scheduled to be put to death in South Carolina is again asking for his execution be postponed because his lawyers have not yet received the autopsy report from the last execution two weeks ago

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South Carolina sets next execution date as inmate questions lethal injection doses

The South Carolina Supreme Court has set a March 7 date for the latest execution in the state’s suddenly busy death chamber

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Life on South Carolina death row: months of ‘barbaric’ isolation before execution

Marion Bowman Jr has been caged in a tiny ‘execution watch’ cell since September, waiting to be killed: ‘I won’t let the prison turn me into an animal’

The Guardian - US

South Carolina Execution Halted Due To Lethal Injection Concerns

South Carolina's upcoming execution raises concerns over lethal injection procedures and transparency in capital punishment.

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Condemned inmate worried South Carolina needed 2 lethal injections doses at last execution

Lawyers for a South Carolina inmate set to die by lethal injection next week want his execution halted so they can get more information about the drug that will kill him

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South Carolina man chooses to die by lethal injection instead of electric chair or firing squad

A South Carolina inmate who has spent more than half his life on death row has chosen to die by lethal injection

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Zelenskyy comments about Russian-held territory ‘a major concession’, says ex-UK ambassador – as it happened

Former UK ambassador to Russia says Zelenskyy playing ‘sophisticated game’ in calling for Kyiv-controlled territories to come under Nato umbrella

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Ukraine war briefing: Russia says military ties with North Korea ‘actively expanding’

Russian defence minister says on visit that cooperation between the countries growing ‘in all areas’ while Kim Jong-un vows North will ‘invariably support’ Moscow’s war. What we know on day 1,011

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World at most dangerous point in 40 years, MI6 chief warns

Vladimir Putin will not stop if he wins war against Ukraine, Richard Moore says

The Guardian - UK

Abandoning Ukraine means ‘infinitely higher’ long-term security costs, MI6 chief says

If Putin allowed to reduce Ukraine to vassal state ‘he will not stop there’, Richard Moore says in plea to Trump

Evening Standard

Russia conducting ‘staggeringly reckless’ sabotage campaign against Europe – MI6

The intelligence service also warned of a renewed threat from so-called Islamic State and a ‘reckoning’ to come from the conflict in the Middle East.

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UK intelligence chief accuses Russia of 'staggeringly reckless' sabotage campaign

The head of Britain’s foreign intelligence service says Russia is conducing a “staggeringly reckless” sabotage campaign against Ukraine's allies that risks dangerously escalating the conflict

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New blow for Mandelson as spy chief tipped for plum US ambassador role

MI6 chief Richard Moore is in the running to become the UK envoy In Washington

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Trump’s return raises questions over future of CIA’s Russian recruitment drive

Intelligence agency has been trying to entice Russians disaffected by invasion of Ukraine but president-elect is likely to want to make an ally of Kremlin

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South Carolina executes Richard Moore for 1999 killing despite pleas from former jurors

Three jurors, Moore’s trial judge, and a former state prison director called for the 59-year-old to get clemency

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US Supreme Court Denies Halt To Execution Of Black Inmate

US Supreme Court denies halt to execution of Black inmate in South Carolina amid claims of racial bias in jury selection. Governor's decision on clemency a...

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South Carolina executes Richard Moore despite objections from judge and jurors

‘To my children and granddaughters, I love you and am so proud of you,’ Moore, 59, said in his last words

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