16.06.2025
Two Factor Insecurity
How Google, Amazon, Meta and thousands of other companies leave customers vulnerable over one-time codes to save time and money
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Investigations
11.06.2025
The Limits of Ethical AI
Unprecedented access to high-stakes algorithmic experiment tests promise of Ethical AI
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20.05.2025
Forest Fraud: National Greenwashing Program
Satellite imagery analysis and inside sources reveal deforestation and questionable commodities across the Philippines’ national greening program
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01.02.2025
Inequality Before the Law
Investigating bias in the world’s most vaunted criminal justice system.
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14.01.2025
Computer says no fly
Opaque surveillance tools being sold to governments with the promise they can ‘export borders’ to everywhere we board trains, planes and ships
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08.12.2024
Drownings and Deterrence in the Rio Grande
More women and children are drowning trying to reach the US as Texas and Mexico militarize the border. Record requests reveal the soaring death toll in the Rio Grande amid official undercounts.
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04.12.2024
UK-trained commandos lured by Russia
Afghan special forces personnel in Iran left vulnerable to recruitment in Ukraine War after Britain abandons them
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27.11.2024
Sweden’s Suspicion Machine
Behind a veil of secrecy, the social security agency deploys discriminatory algorithms searching for fraud epidemic it has invented
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18.11.2024
Inside the Taliban’s demolition campaign in Kabul
Mapping the Taliban’s demolitions: the darker side of their development drive
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22.10.2024
Border911
Ahead of the US election, the architect of Trump’s family separation policy – slated to return to office if Trump is re-elected – is using border disinformation to lay the groundwork for challenging the election results.
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11.10.2024
Turkey’s EU-funded deportation machine
The EU has funnelled hundreds of millions of euros into a shadowy deportation system operating just outside its borders in Turkey. Syrian and Afghan refugees have been detained, abused and even killed as a result
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27.09.2024
Poison PR
US taxpayers funded a covert campaign to downplay the risks of pesticides and discredit environmentalists in Africa, Europe, and North America.
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09.09.2024
The Kutum massacre
Previously unpublished execution videos link leaders of the Sudanese RSF militia to ethnic massacres in the Western region of Darfur.
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01.07.2024
The QAnon Recipe
Analysis of 100mn conspiracy posts on social media reveals the key ingredients of virality by tracing the mainstream emergence of a climate denial theory
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05.06.2024
False Promise of Biometrics
Three-country investigation shows digital IDs in Africa failing to deliver promised democratic and development boost, while making fortunes for tech vendors
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31.05.2024
Afghan War Profiteers
Before the fall of Kabul, billions of dollars were sunk into a failing Western intervention. New records reveal the Afghan contractors who profited and the millions they stashed in Dubai property.
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23.05.2024
Farmers Protest, Who Gains?
Angry farmers seized the political agenda across Europe but how many of their actual demands reached the negotiating table? We profile the power brokers who turned protests to their advantage
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21.05.2024
Desert Dumps
Europe supports, finances and is directly involved in clandestine operations in North African countries to dump tens of thousands of Black people in the desert or remote areas each year to prevent them from coming to the EU.
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18.04.2024
Brain waste
Analysis of data previously unavailable to journalists reveals exclusion of skilled migrants from the jobs Europe most needs to fill to prevent economic decline
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23.03.2024
Sink the Boats
The UK government is paying France to ‘Stop the Boats’. Now first-time footage reveals French police have violently intercepted dinghies sailing for Britain, risking the lives of people on board
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19.03.2024
Smoke and Lies
Visual investigation reconstructs the unseen events which saw 40 people suffocate to death in a migrant detention centre fire in Ciudad Juárez, disproving official account
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27.02.2024
Automating Distrust
Digital profiling of Dutch low income, minority neighbourhoods spirals, series of local investigations reveals
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19.02.2024
Great British Betrayal
The UK has turned away hundreds of Afghan commandos paid and trained by the British military. Some had complained about or say they witnessed war crimes by the same UK forces who were given veto power over their applications, with insiders warning of a conflict of interest.
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12.02.2024
2,200 Frontex emails to Libya
Frontex has shared locations of migrant boats with Libya's coast guard more than 2,000 times in three years – despite watching them whip, beat and shoot at passengers
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13.12.2023
The Rubble King
President Bashar al-Assad is demolishing opposition neighbourhoods in order to create a shiny new Syria – one in which dissent never existed – and reward his cronies with the spoils
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11.12.2023
Frontex and the pirate ship
The EU’s border agency Frontex and the Maltese government are systematically sharing coordinates of refugee boats trying to escape Libya with a vessel operated by a militia linked to Russia, human trafficking, war crimes and smuggling.
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04.12.2023
France’s Digital Inquisition
Taking apart the secretive fraud detection algorithm that scores half of France’s population but pursues the most vulnerable.
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01.12.2023
Europe’s Nameless Dead
As more people try to reach Western Europe through the Balkans, taking increasingly dangerous routes to evade border police, many are dying without a trace
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01.11.2023
Abandoned Afghan Commandos
Left Behind: Dozens of Afghans who served in special forces units funded and trained by the UK have been murdered or tortured by the Taliban
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23.10.2023
Animal welfare wrecked
How an increasingly assertive meat industry helped derail a historic democratic demand to improve animal welfare standards in the EU
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10.10.2023
The West’s Next Plastics Dump
As Southeast Asia bans plastic waste imports, rich countries are offloading their plastic waste in even more vulnerable places – where citizens are too afraid to say no.
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23.09.2023
Left for Dead
Left Behind: Afghans who worked for Dutch-funded NGOs were told they’d be evacuated to safety, but a shift in policy left them to face the wrath of the Taliban – with consequences that have proven deadly
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15.09.2023
Syrian Women on the Run
Denmark’s threats to send refugees back to Syria has disproportionately affected women – including some who fled abusive partners
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28.07.2023
Germany’s Afghan Betrayal
Left Behind: The German government is rejecting its Afghan staff’s pleas for evacuation, despite its own development agency warning they face Taliban retaliation
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20.07.2023
Smuggler, Warlord, EU ally
The lead smugglers behind the Pylos shipwreck are closely linked to General Khalifa Haftar, the Libyan warlord who EU leaders are partnering with to curb migration
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10.07.2023
At war without ammo
Why Europe and Ukraine are still struggling to ramp up ammunition production
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29.06.2023
Drowning in Lies
Greece tries to cover up its own role in the Pylos shipwreck by tampering with evidence
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29.06.2023
Europe’s Potemkin Lobby
Powerful European farming lobby Copa-Cogeca is losing legitimacy even as it stymies the EU’s green agenda and hoovers up public funds
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02.06.2023
The Crotone Cover Up
Italy lied about its role in a shipwreck that killed 94 people – including 35 children – and the EU border agency Frontex helped cover it up
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10.05.2023
Ghost in the network
How a Swiss tech expert runs a global phone surveillance system
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09.05.2023
The Instagarchs
How the war in Ukraine and international sanctions upended the gilded world of Russia’s oligarch class – as seen through the prism of their social media
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25.04.2023
Toxic Rain
Hazardous and potential cancer-causing pesticides are being sprayed over farms supplying Nestlé and Coca-Cola
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24.04.2023
Ethnic Profiling
Whistleblower reveals Netherlands’ use of secret and potentially illegal algorithm to score visa applicants
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18.04.2023
Europe’s funding of EU-banned pesticides
Farmers in the Global South bear the brunt of European public investments on dangerous pesticides outlawed by the EU
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17.04.2023
Spain’s AI Doctor
Unpublished documents and inside sources give rare look into secretive AI system used to decide who is shirking work
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14.04.2023
Exposed: the hedge funds cashing in on the food price spike
Analysis shows hedge funds were some of the biggest winners from the global food price spike that followed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
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12.04.2023
France’s forgotten Afghan spies
Left Behind: A French-led intelligence cell in Afghanistan was kept secret for years – and now France has left its agents behind
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06.04.2023
Inside Croatia’s Secret WhatsApp Group
How high-ranking Croatian officials presided over clandestine communications about border operations
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06.03.2023
Suspicion Machines
Unprecedented experiment on welfare surveillance algorithm reveals discrimination
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25.01.2023
War profiteers
How an Estonian arms broker pocketed millions at Ukraine's expense
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18.01.2023
Detained below deck
Asylum seekers held in secret cells on ferries between Greece and Italy
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20.12.2022
The Algorithm Addiction
Mass profiling system SyRI resurfaces in the Netherlands despite ban
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08.12.2022
Europe’s Black Sites
Refugees arbitrarily detained, tortured at secret facilities in EU
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05.12.2022
Shot for Seeking Asylum
First video of live ammunition being used against asylum seekers in EU
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03.12.2022
The Left Behind
Tracing fate of Afghans who assisted the UK after fall of Kabul
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30.11.2022
Flight of the Predator
Private jet reveals business spyware web of Israeli tycoon from EU to Africa
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29.11.2022
Reconstructing the Melilla Massacre
Visual evidence, testimony, ground reporting reveal Spain and Morocco lies
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12.10.2022
Fate of Ukraine’s Foreign Students
Tracing non-white students who fled invasion but faced Europe’s hostility
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12.10.2022
Pension Funds Fuel Hunger Crisis
Uncovering the billions of euros gambled on commodities by reckless funds
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05.10.2022
Tracking QAnon in Europe
Lighthouse and Bellingcat in data-driven investigation into viral conspiracy
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26.09.2022
Big Meat
How Europe’s biggest meat companies avoid tax while raking in subsidies
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28.08.2022
Revealing Europe’s NSO
Uncovering major surveillance outfit operating from inside the EU
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30.06.2022
Syria’s “Bloody” Phosphates
Secret trade with EU enriches Assad regime and evades sanctions
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28.06.2022
“We were slaves”
Greece uses asylum seekers to forcibly return migrants to Turkey
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25.06.2022
Junk Science Underpins Fraud Scores
Crude software scoring vulnerable benefit claimants is random and prejudiced
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03.06.2022
Europe Threatens Popular Encryption
Documents show governments seeking to hack services like Whatsapp and Signal
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24.05.2022
Biometrics in Africa’s Elections
French multinational made 10s millions despite repeat failures
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06.05.2022
Frontex, the EU Pushback Agency
Frontex’s internal data shows EU border agency involved in mass pushbacks
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06.05.2022
The Hunger Profiteers
Financial speculators make a killing on food prices in regulatory failure
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01.04.2022
Putin’s Syrian Mercenaries
Russia’s exploitative foreign mercenary system sending Syrians to Ukraine
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25.03.2022
Turning a blind eye to Egypt’s violent navy
Dictatorship known for war crimes gets billions in naval exports
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23.03.2022
Syria’s Russian-Backed Demolition Campaign
Russian-led fake demining campaign a cover for community reprisals
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23.03.2022
Ukraine Exodus
Damaging double standards undermines Europe's response to Ukraine refugees
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22.03.2022
Europe’s Black Seas
Disastrous discharge of oily wastewater continues despite monitoring
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23.02.2022
From Switzerland with love
Swiss arms harming civilians from Brazil's favelas to Afghanistan
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17.02.2022
Aegean Pushbacks Lead to Drowning
Whistleblowers claims new tactic of being thrown overboard off Turkish coast
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10.01.2022
Syrians fleeing Denmark
Mapping the EU flight of refugees fleeing Danish crackdown on Syrians
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10.01.2022
Europol to be Europe’s NSA?
Investigation uncovers years of unlawful retention of personal data
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22.12.2021
Who died at Europe’s border?
Using OSINT to find life stories of nameless dead at Poland-Belarus border
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18.12.2021
Inside a Fraud Prediction Algorithm
Obtaining the source code Rotterdam uses to predict benefits cheating
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16.11.2021
Vaccinating Europe’s Undocumented
Policy scorecard ranks European countries efforts to respond to Covid 19
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19.10.2021
Big Meat Sabotages Reform
How the meat industrial complex exerts undue influence on EU policy
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13.10.2021
Dark Side of Spain Slaughterhouses
Fear, racism and exploitation in publicly subsidised pork companies
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13.10.2021
Spanish pork: out of control
Eco-disaster in EU's largest salt lagoon has culprit hiding in plain sight
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06.10.2021
Unmasking Europe’s Shadow Armies
Shocking evidence links violence against asylum seekers in EU to state security
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20.09.2021
Circumventing a Danish export ban
Denmark’s largest IT company arming UAE forces active in Yemen
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02.09.2021
Moria: After the Fire
Year in the life of survivors of blaze that destroyed EU's largest refugee camp
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14.06.2021
EU Spy Tech in Myanmar
EU funds and techn secretly aid junta in spying on Burmese
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29.04.2021
Frontex in the Central Mediterranean
EU agency plays a direct role in Libyan coast guard’s interception operations
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20.04.2021
Why Denmark Declared Syria Safe
Denmark's murky path to declaring refugees should return to Syrian capital
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02.04.2021
What is Palantir Doing in Europe?
Tracing US tech giant roots in EU security, public health, aviation and data
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05.02.2021
Frontex Chapter III: Agency in Turmoil
Toxic culture at EU’s border agency, leadership under investigation
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16.11.2020
EU’s Invisible Links to Wars
Maintenance deals perpetuate French involvement in war in Libya, Yemen
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23.10.2020
Frontex Complicit in Pushbacks
Pushbacks in Greece undertaken with support or connivance of EU super agency
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16.10.2020
Recycling Lies
Plastics labyrinth allows traders to illegally ship Europe’s waste
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05.10.2020
UK’s toothless arms control
Tracing British-made sniper rifles to Yemen, Syria and Russian-occupied Ukraine
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25.08.2020
Airbus maintaining Turkey’s war
European giant aids Turkey with military airbridge to embargoed Libya
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17.07.2020
Invisible Workers
Modern slavery conditions for migrant workers on EU's farms at height of pandemic
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23.06.2020
Masked men
Clandestine state forces behind most violent pushbacks, according to new evidence
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16.06.2020
Cast Adrift
Greek coast guard intercepts asylum seekers, abandons them on life rafts
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08.05.2020
Torment in Turkey
Asylum seekers funneled to EU border are pawns in power game
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08.05.2020
The Killing of Muhammad Gulzar
Reconstructing a death at the Greek-Turkish border raises serious questions
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05.04.2020
Deep Pushbacks From Greece
New wave in Greece of extrajudicial deportations overland and at sea
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12.03.2020
Central Mediterranean
Revealing EU role in refoulement by proxy off Libya
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06.03.2020
Iran’s Domestic Violence
Iranian activists attempt to address an endemic issue with violence against women
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19.02.2020
Sudan’s violent new rulers
Traveiling with perpetrators of Darfur atrocities illuminates self-styled saviors
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24.11.2019
Spain maintains war in Yemen
Iberia and Airbus secretly profit from Saudi bombing campaign in Yemen
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09.11.2019
Returns to Harm
Europe costly, inhumane and malfunctioning deportation machine
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13.08.2019
Under the Scandinavian radar
Swedish and Danish companies profit from selling arms to UAE and Saudis
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09.08.2019
Shadow Population
Why Europe has stopped counting its undocumented population
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07.05.2019
Belgian Arms
Belgium sells air power to Saudis and ‘cop killer’ guns Mexico cartels
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28.03.2019
French arms, and deception
Secrets of France's arms sales give lie to strict control regime
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26.02.2019
German support for Yemen
German-made military equipment used by Saudis and UAE in war in Yemen
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13.02.2019
Sudan’s secret hit squads
Protesters from the streets and take them to secret torture prisons
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16.12.2018
Italian arms serving dictators
Tracing Italian weapons to Turkmenistan, Syria and Saudi Arabia
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