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Blood on our hands : Town famed for peace plans to invest £35m of taxpayers money in arms firm base

‘Blood on our hands’: Town famed for peace plans to invest £35m of taxpayers’ money in arms firm base Colin Drury © Provided by The Independent It is a medieval market town which, because of its Quaker heritage, has long been associated with peace and pacifism. Now, however, residents of Saffron Walden in Essex have been left aghast after it emerged their local council is to invest £35m of public money into developing a new manufacturing base – for a global arms company. Uttlesford District Council will plough the cash into the 184,000 sq ft facility as part of a new property portfolio aimed at generating future income.

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Sheikh Mohammed: Who is the father of Dubai princess being held hostage - and what are his UK connections?

Sheikh Mohammed: Who is the father of Dubai princess being held hostage - and what are his UK connections?
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A decade on from the uprising in Bahrain, the UK needs to look at its relationship with the kingdom

A decade on from the uprising in Bahrain, the UK needs to look at its relationship with the kingdom Bel Trew © Provided by The Independent A decade ago today, as pro-democracy uprisings raged across the Middle East, tens of thousands of protesters in Bahrain began their own rallies. Like many of the region’s revolutions, the protests were met with a bloody crackdown, according to those present (it’s an allegation the Bahrain government denies) – and 10 years later, many of the key voices of Bahrain’s revolt are behind bars, under travel bans or in exile. However, one difference is that over the last decade the UK has poured millions of pounds of taxpayer money into Bahrain in a bid to improve its human rights record. The UK has repeatedly said this £6.5m of technical assistance is having a positive impact on human rights.

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UK authorised £1 4bn of arms sales to Saudi Arabia after exports resumed

UK authorised £1.4bn of arms sales to Saudi Arabia after exports resumed Dan Sabbagh Defence and security editor © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images British officials authorised the export of almost £1.4bn of weapons to Saudi Arabia in the quarter after the UK resumed sales of weapons that could be used in the war in Yemen. Campaigners accused ministers of “putting profit before Yemeni lives” and said the figures highlighted the discrepancy between the UK and the US, which under President Joe Biden halted similar arms sales to Riyadh last week. Britain had resumed unrestricted arms sales early in July, after concluding there were only “isolated incidents” of civilian casualties from bombing raids conducted by the Saudi-led coalition fighting Houthi rebels.

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Biden s announcement on Yemen is a hopeful sign – now the UK must follow suit

In a speech at the US state department last week, President Biden turned the war in Yemen from a forgotten crisis to front-page news. Since March 2015, a Saudi-led coalition, militarily and diplomatically backed by the US and UK in particular, has been involved in the conflict, which grew out of a failed political transition following the 2011 revolution. The war has killed more than 100,000 people, destroyed much of the country’s.

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