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The RAF Red Arrows display team of Hawk jets fly in formation over Windermere in the Lake District, Cumbria
THE true scale of Britain's global military presence was revealed for the first time today, with 145 bases in 42 countries and territories around the world.
The figure, unearthed by a Declassified UK investigation, makes Britain’s overseas military network the second-largest in the world after the US.
Among the findings include British military presence in seven Arab kingdoms, where citizens have little or no say in how they are governed.
Newly revealed documents reveal that MI5 taught Brazilian secret police the techniques deployed by the 1964-85 military dictatorship in horrific prisons like Rio de Janeiro’s House of Death. SARA VIVACQUA reports
From nuclear bomb storage in the 1950s to surveillance flights over Gaza today, the Cyprus base has enabled seven decades of machinations so heinous that Starmer once blurted out ‘we can’t tell the world’ what goes on there, writes NUVPREET KALRA