Boxes containing classified documents are stored in a bathroom of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club.
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The indictment identifies categories of risk to the United States and its allies due to his alleged mishandling of classified documents. A scholar of intelligence studies examines four of them.
Was Chaucer a toxic misogynist, or a staunch women’s ally?
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Chaucer’s career as a secret agent helped him assume different disguises in his writing. Some scholars interpret this role-playing as Chaucer being sexist and anti-Semitic.
The alleged attempted penetration of federal parliament is significant, given (if true) its deep implication for Australia’s democratic system.
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By (very unusually) confirming the investigation, ASIO boss Mike Burgess gives credibility to the Nine story that made the claim.
Military working in the area where the poisoning took place wear protective clothing to reduce risk to their own health.
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Even if they do eventually wake up, Sergei and Julia Skripal could suffer permanent damage as a result of their exposure to a Novichok nerve agent.
KPMG South Africa stands accused of advancing state capture and has come under immense pressure.
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KPMG South Africa sets a potential example of how shareholders can attack the soft underbelly of private sector state capture enablers.
Otto John, middle, in Berlin in 1954.
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The 1954 defection of West Germany’s first domestic spy chief and ardent anti-Nazi rocked the world – and then he returned to Bonn.