First female chief to take reins of secret service MI6 Blaise Metreweli, a career intelligence officer, will replace Sir Richard Moore. Evening Standard · Jun 15, 2025
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 · Jun 15, 2025
Dame Barbara Woodward: Civil servant could become first female MI6 chief IN FULL The Independent UK · May 11, 2025
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 The Independent UK · May 10, 2025
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 The Independent UK · Mar 18, 2025
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 · Mar 5, 2025
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 The Independent UK · Feb 27, 2025
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 The Independent UK · Feb 14, 2025
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 The Independent UK · Feb 7, 2025
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 · Jan 28, 2025
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. Top News · Jan 23, 2025
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 The Independent UK · Jan 22, 2025
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 The Independent UK · Jan 17, 2025
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 The Guardian - AU · Nov 30, 2024
The Guardian - AU · Nov 30, 2024 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
The Independent UK · Nov 29, 2024 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 · Nov 29, 2024 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 · Nov 29, 2024 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.
The Independent UK · Nov 29, 2024 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
The Independent UK · Nov 28, 2024 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
The Guardian - UK · Nov 27, 2024 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
The Independent UK · Nov 2, 2024 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
Top News · Nov 2, 2024 South Carolina Executes Richard Moore Despite Clemency Requests Richard Moore, a Black inmate in South Carolina, executed despite claims of racial bias in jury selection. Governor denied clemency despite pleas for mercy.
Top News · Nov 1, 2024 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...
The Guardian - US · Nov 1, 2024 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