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Paul Peachey

Paul Peachey

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Paul has been based in London for The National since July 2017. He worked as a crime correspondent for a decade, and has been a staffer for newspapers and international news wires covering the UK, Middle East, Asia and Africa. He has worked on TV documentaries and produced radio programmes for the BBC.
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Rifaat Al Assad, pictured in 2011, was convicted of embezzling Syrian funds and jailed by a French court in 2020. AP
French MPs back new plans to return looted state assets

Parliamentary debate follows high-profile convictions including Syria's Rifaat Al Assad

EuropeFebruary 19, 2021
Left: Assadollah Assadi has been sentenced to jail for conspiring to blow up a dissidents' rally, right: NCRI leader Maryam Rajavi, in blue, flanked by some of the attendees of the 2018 conference outside Paris, targeted in an Iranian bomb plot. US Embassy Iran/AFP
Europeans demand retaliation against Iran in wake of Assadi’s conviction

Letter to EU precedes talks over future relations with ‘regime that uses terrorism as statecraft’

EuropeFebruary 18, 2021
Unaoil executives bribed Iraqi officials to secure oil-related contracts after the toppling of Saddam Hussein. Reuters
UK prosecutor fired for pub clash with FBI agent wins case

Tom Martin dismissed after dispute with FBI over Ahsani brothers who ran scandal-hit consultancy

EuropeFebruary 18, 2021
A medical worker prepares to administer the Sinopharm vaccine to Syrian refugees at a medical centre in the Zaatari refugee camp, north of the Jordanian capital Amman. AP
UK pushes for ceasefires to allow Covid vaccinations in conflict zones

Plans in motion to inoculate 160 million of world’s most vulnerable people

EuropeFebruary 17, 2021
An international team has recovered DNA from a mammoth dating back 1.2 million years. Springer Nature
Scientists recover oldest DNA sample from mammoth tooth

Molars retrieved from Siberian permafrost reveal new insights into how mammoths spread around the world

EuropeFebruary 17, 2021
Afghan refugees disembark from a dinghy after crossing a part of the Aegean sea from Turkish coast to the Greek island of Chios in 2016. AP
EU border force Frontex urged to halt migrant operations off Greece

Greek-based NGO accuses Frontex of complicity in violence against migrants trying to reach EU countries

EuropeFebruary 17, 2021
Alfred Yekatom, left, and Patrice-Edouard Ngaissona are accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed in the Central African Republic in 2013 and 2014. EPA
African militia leaders deny role in alleged anti-Muslim atrocities

Former football chief and an MP known as Rambo are accused of crimes against humanity on Muslim population

AfricaFebruary 16, 2021
Travellers arrive at Heathrow Airport as Britain introduces hotel quarantine programme for arrivals from a "red list" of 30 countries. Reuters.
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Chaos predicted at UK airports as hotel quarantine rules come into force

Travellers from 33 countries will have to stay in hotels for 10 nights on arrival

EuropeFebruary 15, 2021
A woman receives Covid-19 vaccine at a vaccination centre at a cinema in Maidstone, Britain. Reuters.
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UK hits 15 million Covid injections milestone

Government refuses to bow to party demands for end to lockdown measures in April

EuropeFebruary 15, 2021
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will speak to US President Joe Biden this week about the Covid-19 pandemic. Getty
Johnson welcomes shared UK and US policies

British leader speaks of two long conversations with US President Joe Biden on climate change

EuropeFebruary 14, 2021
The scene of the attack in which Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was killed outside Tehran on November 27, 2020. West Asia News Agency via Reuters
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Israel used one-tonne remote gun to kill top Iranian scientist

Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was gunned down in November as he drove to his weekend house outside Tehran

MENAFebruary 11, 2021
The explosions started as people emerged from the aircraft. Reuters
Video analysis shows Houthis hit Aden airport in December's deadly missile attack

Investigators say four missiles were fired from Houthi-held areas in Yemen

MENAFebruary 11, 2021
Special Naval Forces members seize at least 1,400 kilograms of cocaine in Honduras. AFP
Europe ripe for exploitation by cocaine gangs, report claims

Continent set to rival US in terms of cocaine market with gangs lured by high prices and low risks

EuropeFebruary 10, 2021
Egyptian extremist Yasser Al Siri addresses a conference in London. He has been labelled a threat to British security because of his support for extremist groups including ISIS and Al Qaeda. AP/Shutterstock
Britain fails to strip Egyptian extremist of refugee status

Yasser Al Siri wins latest tussle in 27-year legal battle with UK government

EuropeFebruary 09, 2021
Yasser Al Sirri moved to Britain in 1994 after he was convicted to death in Egypt in his absence. AFP
UK turned down numerous requests from Egypt to extradite extremist in 1990s

Yasser Al Sirri was later linked to the killing of a top anti-Taliban commander but was never convicted in the UK

EuropeFebruary 09, 2021
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