Articles by The Telegraph
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Iran Threatens to Shut Strait of Gibraltar as Tensions Ramp Up
Jörg Luyken | The Telegraph - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2023
23 Dec 2023 – Iran has threatened to close the Strait of Gibraltar and the Mediterranean Sea unless Israel stops bombing Gaza. Tehran issues warning on the day tanker is struck by drone in Arabian Sea.
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Face Masks Could Be Giving People Covid-19 Immunity, Researchers Suggest
Georgina Hayes | The Telegraph - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
12 Sep 2020 – Mask wearing might also be reducing the severity of the virus and ensuring that a greater proportion of new infections are asymptomatic.
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Portuguese Whistleblower Named as Leaker behind Isabel dos Santos Leaks
James Badcock – The Telegraph,
3 Feb 2020
27 Jan 2020 – A Portuguese whistleblower has claimed responsibility for leaked files that allegedly implicate Isabel dos Santos, the billionaire daughter of the former Angolan president, in murky international business deals. Lawyers for Rui Pinto today claimed he was behind the so-called “Luanda Leaks” and likened him to the whistleblower Edward Snowden.
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India Strips Four Million People of Citizenship in Assam as Modi’s BJP ‘Targets’ Muslim Minority
Rahul Bedi – The Telegraph,
6 Aug 2018
30 Jul 2018 – India was braced for unrest in its north eastern Assam state today after the authorities declared some four million residents to be foreigners, stripping them of their citizenship. The residents, mostly Muslims of Bangladeshi origin, were deemed ‘stateless’ as deemed to have entered the country before 1971, when millions fled Bangladesh’s war of independence into the state.
→ read full articleTyphoon Hato Leaves 16 Dead as 27,000 Evacuated in China
Neil Connor – The Telegraph,
4 Sep 2017
24 Aug 2017 – The strongest storm to hit parts of southern China in half a century continued to wreak havoc today, leaving 16 people dead, dozens injured and forcing tens of thousands to be evacuated from their homes. Powerful Typhoon Hato had brought widespread destruction to the gambling mecca of Macau and the nearby city of Hong Kong on 23 Aug.
→ read full article‘Mass Destruction’ of Ethnic Rohingya Villages Underway in Burma, Human Rights Group Warns
Nicola Smith – The Telegraph,
28 Nov 2016
New satellite imagery from Burma’s western Rakhine state reveals mass destruction in ethnic Rohingya villages, said Human Rights Watch on Monday [21 Nov 2016], calling for an urgent UN investigation. The high resolution images show that 820 structures were destroyed in five villages in the jungles of the remote state.
→ read full articleAung San Suu Kyi in Anti-Muslim Spat with BBC Presenter
Jennifer Rigby and Nicola Harley – The Telegraph,
28 Mar 2016
The Nobel Peace Prize laureate made an off-air comment about BBC Today presenter Mishal Husain after losing her temper, new book reveals. “No-one told me I was going to be interviewed by a Muslim.”
→ read full articleTorture Report: CIA Interrogations Chief Was Involved in Latin American Torture Camps
Peter Foster – The Telegraph,
15 Dec 2014
The CIA officer tasked with interrogating the most important prisoners in America’s secret detention programme allegedly abused captives during the agency’s covert operations in Latin America in the 1980s, it has emerged.
→ read full articleOne of Last Remaining Northern White Rhinos Dies in Kenya
Harriet Alexander – The Telegraph,
27 Oct 2014
Only six northern white rhinos are left after Suni, a 34-year-old male, died in a conservancy in Kenya. As late as 1960, there were more than 2,000 northern white rhinos remaining – but widespread poaching decimated the population, and in 1984 only about 15 individuals survived in the wild.
→ read full articleFirst Hint of ‘Life after Death’ in Biggest Ever Scientific Study
Sarah Knapton – The Telegraph,
13 Oct 2014
Southampton University scientists have found evidence that awareness can continue for several minutes after clinical death which was previously thought impossible. It is a controversial subject which has, until recently, been treated with widespread scepticism.
→ read full articleCIA ‘Tortured Al-Qaeda Suspects Close to the Point of Death by Drowning Them in Water-Filled Baths’
Peter Foster – The Telegraph,
15 Sep 2014
7 Sep 2014 – As the US Senate prepares to release a report documenting US torture programme after 9/11, Telegraph reveals new details about the scope of CIA excesses.
→ read full articleRussia Demands Publication of Recordings from Downed Flight MH17
Reuters – The Telegraph,
1 Sep 2014
The data from the black boxes should be published, says Russia’s deputy defence minister, saying the ‘Boeing catastrophe throws up more and more questions’.
→ read full articleIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report: ‘No One Will Be Untouched by Climate Change’
Danielle Demetriou in Yokohama – The Telegraph,
31 Mar 2014
Flooding, storm surges, droughts and heatwaves are among key risks of global warming. The warnings were published by the IPCC Working Group II report on Monday [31 Mar 2014], which was compiled by more than 300 authors from 70 countries and thousands of global experts.
→ read full articleBritain to Become First Non-Muslim Country to Launch Sharia Bond
Harry Wilson – The Telegraph,
4 Nov 2013
David Cameron to unveil £200m Sukuk at the World Islamic Economic Forum in London on Tuesday [29 Oct 2013]. Britain is set to become the first non-Muslim country to sell a bond that can be bought by Islamic investors in a bid to encourage massive new investment into the City.
→ read full articleHow Can Aung San Suu Kyi – a Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Fail to Condemn Anti-Muslim Violence?
David Blair – The Telegraph,
28 Oct 2013
I never thought I would write this, but Aung San Suu Kyi sent a shiver down my spine when she appeared on the Today programme this morning [24 Oct 2013]. Her equivocal attitude towards the violence suffered by Burma’s Muslim minority was deeply disturbing.
→ read full articleJulian Assange: My Life in the Embassy
John Hiscock – The Telegraph,
21 Oct 2013
As the Fifth Estate starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange is released, the WikiLeaks founder talks about his life in the Ecuadorian Embassy and how the staff there have become ‘like family’.
→ read full articleSyria: Western Activists Volunteer to Become ‘Human Shields’
Ruth Sherlock, Beirut – The Telegraph,
23 Sep 2013
Franklin Lamb, a lawyer recently appointed as the legal adviser for the group said he had been “inundated” with requests from activists including from Canada, France, Italy, the US, and Britain.
→ read full articleRecord Levels of Radiation Found in Fish near Japan’s Fukushima Plant
Danielle Demetriou – The Telegraph,
25 Mar 2013
Record levels of radiation contamination have been found in fish near Japan’s tsunami-damaged nuclear power plant. One fish, a greenling measuring 38 cm in length, was contaminated with 740,000 becquerels per kg – more than 7,400 times the recommended government limit regarded as safe for human consumption.
→ read full articleHunger Striking Activist Pleads Not Guilty to Attempted Suicide
Rahul Bedi – The Telegraph,
11 Mar 2013
A 40-year old Indian female activist, who has been on a protest hunger strike for more than 12 years, has pleaded not guilty to charges of attempted suicide. Attempted suicide is a criminal offence in India punishable with imprisonment. “This is my way of protest. I love life but at the same time I want the government to stop the killings in my state” she told the packed courtroom in New Delhi.
→ read full articleUS General Says Britain Risks ‘Special Relationship’ if It Cuts Military
Peter Foster – The Telegraph,
21 Jan 2013
Britain will be shut out of key decisions in the ‘Special Relationship’ with the US if it does not maintain credible military capabilities, Stanley McChrystal, America’s former top commander in Afghanistan has warned.
→ read full article‘Tsunami Bomb’ Tested Off New Zealand Coast
Jonathan Pearlman – The Telegraph,
7 Jan 2013
The United States and New Zealand conducted secret tests of a “tsunami bomb” designed to destroy coastal cities by using underwater blasts to trigger massive tidal waves.
→ read full articleBritish Have Invaded Nine Out of Ten Countries – So Look Out Luxembourg
Jasper Copping – The Telegraph,
12 Nov 2012
Britain has invaded all but 22 countries in the world in its long and colourful history, new research has found.
→ read full articleTotal Warns Against Drilling For Oil in Arctic
Jonathan Russell – The Telegraph,
1 Oct 2012
Total has become the first oil major to publicly warn against drilling for oil in the Arctic on concerns of the potential environment impact. Chief executive Christophe de Margerie said his company would not be joining the stampede north as an oil leak “would do too much damage to the company”.
→ read full articleIceland’s Viking Victory
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard – The Telegraph,
20 Feb 2012
Congratulations to Iceland. Fitch has upgraded the country to investment grade BBB – with stable outlook, expecting government debt to peak at 100pc of GDP. The OECD’s latest forecast said growth will be 2.4pc this year, after 2.9pc in 2011. Unemployment will fall from 7pc last year to 6.1pc this year and then 5.3pc in 2013.
→ read full articleBrazil to Overtake UK as Sixth-Largest Economy
Robin Yapp, in São Paulo – The Telegraph,
7 Nov 2011
The Latin American giant’s GDP for 2011 is expected to hit $2.44 trillion (£1.51 trillion) compared with $2.43 trillion for the UK, the latest monthly forecasts from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) show. This will see Brazil, which last year overtook Italy to become the world’s seventh biggest economy, move up one more place to sixth with the UK falling to seventh.
→ read full articleNATO in Libya a ‘Model’ For Euro-US Cooperation: US Official
The Telegraph – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2011
The operation in Libya was “in many ways a model on how the United States can lead the way that allows allies to support,” Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Philip Gordon said at an event in Washington.
→ read full articleEurope Declares War on Rating Agencies
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, International Business Editor – The Telegraph,
11 Jul 2011
A chorus of policy-makers from Europe and across the world have denounced Moody’s drastic downgrade of Portuguese debt as an act of financial vandalism, accusing the “Anglo-Saxon” rating agencies of driving states into bankruptcy and destabilising the global system.
→ read full articleLessons of Argentina Crisis Ignored In Handling of Greece
Jeremy Warner – The Telegraph,
11 Jul 2011
For a vision of how the Greek debt meltdown is going to end, look no further than the International Monetary Fund’s post mortem into a similar crisis that came to a head almost exactly a decade ago – Lessons From The Crisis In Argentina.
→ read full articleThere Is No War So Bad That It Cannot Be Made Worse By the Intervention of the ICC
Brendan O'Neill – The Telegraph,
4 Jul 2011
From the luxurious environs of The Hague, cheered on by liberals who get a cheap political thrill from seeing white lawyers stand up to evil Africans, the ICC has today [28 Jun 2011] issued an arrest warrant for Colonel Gaddafi, one of his sons and his security chief. This act of international moral posturing, designed to make the ICC look serious and superior, is likely to intensify the stand-off in Libya.
→ read full articleNuclear Meltdown at Fukushima Plant
Julian Ryall in Tokyo – The Telegraph,
16 May 2011
One of the reactors at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant did suffer a nuclear meltdown, Japanese officials admitted for the first time today [14 May 2011], describing a pool of molten fuel at the bottom of the reactor’s containment vessel.
→ read full articleGM Soy: The Invisible Ingredient ‘Poisoning’ Children
Louise Gray, Environment Correspondent – The Telegraph,
9 May 2011
The home of Petrona Villasboa is surrounded by genetically modified (GM) soy fields. The golden crop looks like a bumper harvest but for her it is a symbol of death. “Soy destroys people’s lives,” she says. “It is a poison. It is no way to live. Soy is deadly to us”. Sitting outside her painted green shack in rural Paraguay, the mother of eight describes the day in January 2003 when her 11-year-old son Silvino Talavera came home from cycling to the shops.
→ read full articleEgypt Crisis: The Young Revolutionaries Who Sparked the Protests
Jon Swaine – The Telegraph,
14 Feb 2011
The young Egyptian revolutionaries who sparked the protests have told how they used the internet to galvanise Cairo’s protest movement.
→ read full articleWikiLeaks: US and China in Military Standoff over Space Missiles
Tim Ross, Holly Watt and Christopher Hope – The Telegraph,
7 Feb 2011
The United States threatened to take military action against China during a secret “star wars” arms race within the past few years, according to leaked documents obtained by The Daily Telegraph.
→ read full articleSudan Referendum: Southerners Flood Home to Vote in Post-War Secession Poll
Mike Pflanz – The Telegraph,
10 Jan 2011
Tens of thousands of Sudanese are flooding ‘home’ ahead of a vote on Sunday [9 Jan 2011] which is expected to split Africa’s largest country in two and create the world’s newest nation.
→ read full articleIreland’s Debt Servitude
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard – The Telegraph,
6 Dec 2010
Stripped to its essentials, the €85bn package imposed on Ireland by the Eurogroup and the European Central Bank is a bail-out for improvident British, German, Dutch, and Belgian bankers and creditors. The Irish taxpayers carry the full burden, and deplete what remains of their reserve pension fund to cover a quarter of the cost. This arrangement – I am not going to grace it with the term deal – was announced in Brussels before the elected Taoiseach of Ireland had been able to tell his own people what their fate would be.
→ read full articleMikhail Gorbachev: Victory in Afghanistan is ‘Impossible’
The Telegraph – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2010
Mikhail Gorbachev, the former leader of the Soviet Union, has warned that Afghanistan risks turning into another Vietnam, telling NATO that victory is impossible. Mr. Gorbachev, who pulled Russian troops out of Afghanistan in 1989 after a 10-year war, said the US had no alternative but to withdraw troops.
→ read full articleGiant Salmon Will Be First GM Animal Available for Eating
Louise Gray, Environment Correspondent – The Telegraph,
5 Jul 2010
A salmon that grows at twice the normal rate is set to be the first genetically modified (GM) animal available for human consumption.
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