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Wu Gan, a blogger better known by his online name “Super Vulgar Butcher”, plans to appeal the eight-year sentence handed down by the Tianjin Municipality’s No 2 Intermediate People’s Court, his lawyer said. File photograph: From Youtube video
Rights activist gets harshest sentence yet in China crackdown

China sentenced a prominent rights activist to eight years in jail for subversion on Tuesday, his lawyer said, the harshest sentence passed in a gover(...)

An Afghan man reacts at the site of a blast in Kabul, Afghanistan. Photograph: Reuters/Omar Sobhani
At least 80 killed in Afghanistan bombing

A powerful bomb hidden in a sewage tanker exploded in the morning rush hour in the centre of Kabul on Wednesday, killing at least 80 people, wounding (...)

Gen John Maxwell and his entourage inspect British troops after the Easter Rising
How the British ‘lost’ the Easter Rising

The Easter Rising has generated a huge amount of analysis from an Irish perspective, but very little from the British side. It may have been the de(...)

1914: Edward Carson inspects a parade of armed Ulster Volunteers. By the time Carson announced in Belfast that an Ulster Division would be formed from the UVF, many young men, impatient with waiting, had already enlisted. Photograph: Central Press/Getty
From brink of civil war

One hundred years ago, in spring 1914, the idea of an imminent world war was far from the minds of Ulster people. The focus was much closer to home. M(...)

Hans-Christian Stroebele, a member of the German Greens Party and the Bundestag, holds up a letter from Edward Snowden, former contractor with the National Security Agency (NSA), that Mr Snowden gave him in Moscow yesterday. Photograph: Getty
Snowden has ‘no regrets’ about exposing surveillance

US whistleblower Edward Snowden has said he regrets nothing of his actions to expose surveillance programmes operated by the National Security Agency (...)

Conductor Zubin Mehta during a performance at Shalimar Garden in in Indian-administered Srinagar, Kashmir, last night. Photograph: Manpreet Romana/New York Times
Separatist groups protest over Kashmir concert

A concert by renowned conductor Zubin Mehta in Indian-controlled Kashmir, where separatist groups are fighting New Delhi’s rule, was mired in controv(...)