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The 2,000 British citizens known to be in Sudan have been given warning that the government cannot promise to rescue them
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🔺 Update: Britain is preparing to deploy a major warship to Sudan to assist with the evacuation of thousands of foreign nationals.
At least 2,000 British citizens remain trapped in the wartorn country
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At least 2,000 British citizens remain trapped in the wartorn country
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Parallels have been drawn with the withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 but there are key differences that make the situation in Sudan more complicated.
How could the UK evacuate nationals from Sudan? The options explained 👇
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How could the UK evacuate nationals from Sudan? The options explained 👇
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From public figures to personal heroines, our journalists celebrate inspirational women on #InternationalWomensDay 👇 thetimes.co.uk/article/she-st…
On International Women’s Day we highlight issues that are still contributing to an unequal society, but today is also an occasion to celebrate progress.
From trailblazing icons to personal heroines quietly making a difference, our writers celebrate inspirational women #IWD2023
From trailblazing icons to personal heroines quietly making a difference, our writers celebrate inspirational women #IWD2023
1. Olena Zelenska
Before the war started, Zelenska trained as an architect and had become a renowned, award-winning script writer.
She has been dignified and demanding, asking for more weapons while calling out the atrocities happening to Ukraine’s children
Before the war started, Zelenska trained as an architect and had become a renowned, award-winning script writer.
She has been dignified and demanding, asking for more weapons while calling out the atrocities happening to Ukraine’s children
🔺 BREAKING: Shamima Begum, the British schoolgirl who joined Islamic State, has lost her legal challenge over the stripping of her citizenship thetimes.co.uk/article/shamim…
What made the 15-year-old Shamima Begum leave Bethnal Green in 2015 and what happened to her when she joined Islamic State?
Read the full story 👇
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Read the full story 👇
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Begum claimed she was not a “bad person” and that the public was largely angry at Islamic State, not her, conflating the two because she had been “put on the media so much”.
But those who know her doubt she has changed
Read the full story here 👇
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But those who know her doubt she has changed
Read the full story here 👇
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Allowing workers to drop to a four-day week with no loss of pay leads to happier staff and a boost in revenue for employers, a landmark British study has found
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Employees in the trial reported lower levels of stress and burnout and took fewer sick days while employers saw improvements in both revenue and staff retention with no loss of productivity
Across Britain, 61 companies and organisations moved their staff to a four-day week with no drop in salary over a six-month period starting in June last year 
🧵 ICYMI: From Tutankhamun's tomb to Sturgeon's great independence gamble, catch up on this week's #storiesofourtimes.
1️⃣ How a dead police officer's phone exposed misogyny, corruption and racism podfollow.com/1501716010/epi…
1️⃣ How a dead police officer's phone exposed misogyny, corruption and racism podfollow.com/1501716010/epi…
2⃣ Will Rishi Sunak wave through Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list, creating Baroness Dorries and 30-year-old Lord Kempsell? Or will he block some of them?
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3⃣ Amidst the global interest in the discovery of a royal tomb in Egypt, The Times got exclusive access to report from inside
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A century on from one of the greatest ever archaeological discoveries, an epic tale of bribery, corruption, secret codes and seduction is brought to life in colourised photographs
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On November 30, 1922, The Times broke the news: the British archaeologist Howard Carter and his financial backer Lord Carnarvon had discovered an intact royal tomb in the Valley of the Kings
Arthur Merton, this newspaper’s Cairo correspondent, described Tutankhamun’s tomb as “the most sensational Egyptological discovery of the century”
🗣️ What happened to John Cantlie?
The fate of the journalist – kidnapped in Syria in 2012, last seen in an ISIS propaganda video in 2016 – has long obsessed @A_Loyd_Times.
So much so that he decided to look for answers himself
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The fate of the journalist – kidnapped in Syria in 2012, last seen in an ISIS propaganda video in 2016 – has long obsessed @A_Loyd_Times.
So much so that he decided to look for answers himself
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Over the course of an 8-part #StoriesOfOurTimes podcast series, Loyd and @ManveenRana have been investigating Cantlie’s disappearance.
🔹How did Cantlie survive so long as a hostage of the Islamic State?
🔹Did he really turn?
🔹What happened to him?
🔹How did Cantlie survive so long as a hostage of the Islamic State?
🔹Did he really turn?
🔹What happened to him?
Pt 1: On the trail
Loyd begins his investigation. He explores the events of a prior kidnap and asks: what compelled Cantlie to return to Syria after his first escape?
🎧 Listen ➡️ pod.fo/e/12c6cd?utm_s…
Loyd begins his investigation. He explores the events of a prior kidnap and asks: what compelled Cantlie to return to Syria after his first escape?
🎧 Listen ➡️ pod.fo/e/12c6cd?utm_s…
🔺 NEW: A “Stalinist” mass purge of Russian secret intelligence is under way after more than 100 agents were removed from their jobs and the head of the department responsible for Ukraine was sent to prison thetimes.co.uk/article/putin-…
In a sign of President Putin’s fury over the failures of the invasion, about 150 Federal Security Bureau (FSB) officers have been dismissed, including some who have been arrested
All of those ousted were employees of the Fifth Service, a division set up in 1998, when Putin was director of the FSB, to carry out operations in the countries of the former Soviet Union with the aim of keeping them within Russia’s orbit
#WorldatFive 🌎: The man who framed the anti-Jewish Nuremberg race laws also played a key role in Israel’s development of nuclear weapons, @olivernmoody writes thetimes.co.uk/article/hans-g…
During the Third Reich Hans Globke had given shape to some of the dictatorship’s most virulently antisemitic legislation, including the definitive handbook on the 1935 Nuremberg race laws.
Globke’s guidebook, which became ubiquitous in Nazi Germany’s court rooms, offered many harsh interpretations of the rules. He stipulated that sex between Aryans and non-Aryans was a crime even if it took place outside Germany.
