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30 June 2022
The Man Behind the Curtain
Rainer Sonntag rode a wave of violence to become one of Germany’s leading neo-Nazis. He was also a communist spy—and worked for Vladimir Putin
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18 January 2021
UK helped arm Brazilian police during Rio’s deadliest year on record
The UK government facilitated arms sales which went to a police force that killed almost 2,000 civilians – twice as many as police in the US – in a single year
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13 April 2019
The heretic in the Vatican: How Pope Francis became a hate figure for the far right
On a mountain outside Rome, Steve Bannon’s anti-immigrant populism joins forces with Catholic extremists who say a 'gay plague' has infected the Vatican
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29 March 2019
Family event in Italy’s ‘city of love’ hides violent ties
A children's rights conference in Verona, the “city of love”, is linked to an extremist group whose members have been accused of violent attacks
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12 December 2018
‘Russia is the rock’ the yellow vests and France’s far right
The anger is real. But is outside influence aggravating France's popular revolt?
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