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The UK government planned “covert” measures to monitor “everything” which was said and written by Irish republican hunger strikers in prison in 1980, declassified files reveal.

The strike had been called in response to the removal of political status for convicted paramilitary prisoners, with seven men in HMP Maze refusing their first meal on 27 October.

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Northern Ireland’s chief constable Jon Boutcher is reviewing the security classification of an MI5 file from 1973 to see if it can finally be made public.

Jack Morton, a senior MI5 officer, drew up a dossier on how police special branch should respond to the IRA more than half a century ago.

Morton completed his report at the height of the Troubles when t...


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A pro-Palestine activist on hunger strike in a London prison has said the government is “just waiting for one of us to pass away”.

Kamran Ahmed, who has not eaten for over two months, told Declassified on Sunday that his body was “twitching” uncontrollably and he fears heart failure.

“If I pass out while I have this twitching, I can’t move. I’d p...


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Forty years ago, US warplanes bombed Libya, attempting to assassinate its leader Muammar Gaddafi. Failing in that task, they managed to kill dozens of civilians in Tripoli, Libya’s capital.

The attacks, which were in response to the bombing of a Berlin nightclub blamed on Gaddafi, were strongly supported by Margaret Thatcher’s government. Indeed, she allowed some o...


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