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What weapons and other 'controlled exports' does Britain sell around the globe? This interactive guide finally gives us a way to navigate the official data
Interactive: Investigate Britain's arms trade | News | guardian.co.uk
Tibetan monk sets himself on fire | World news | guardian.co.uk
Reports say Tamchoe Sangpo died after setting himself alight at monastery, in latest in wave of protest self-immolations Another Tibetan Buddhist monk has set himself on fire in western China amid a wave of such protests against China's handling of the vast Tibetan areas it rules, overseas groups have said. Tamchoe Sangpo set himself alight on Friday during a prayer ceremony at Bongtak monastery in a remote region of Qinghai province, the advocacy group Free Tibet said.Special report: in Aba, a remote town on the Tibetan plateau, the Guardian witnesses how Chinese authorities are trying to quell dissent through security, propaganda and 're-education' On the roof of the world, Chinese paramilitaries are trying to snuff out Tibetan resistance to Beijing's rule with spiked batons, semi-automatic weapons and fire extinguishers. Every 20 metres along the main road of Aba, the remote town on the Tibetan plateau that is at the heart of the current wave of protests, police officers and communist officials wearing red armbands look out for potential protesters. Dozens more paramilitaries sit in ranks outside shops and restaurants in an intimidating show of force.
In Tibet acts of self-immolation rise amid a battle for hearts and minds | World news | The Guardian
Teenage Tibetan nun sets herself on fire in China | World news | guardian.co.uk
The 18-year-old nun set herself on fire in western China in the latest protest against Beijing's handling of Tibet An 18-year-old Tibetan nun has set herself on fire in western China in the latest protest against Beijing's handling of the Tibetan regions it rules, an activist group said. Free Tibet said in a statement that the nun had set herself on fire on Saturday and was believed to have survived. The young woman, identified as Tenzin Choezin, was a nun at the Mamae nunnery in Sichuan province's Aba prefecture, the statement said. It said Choezin shouted slogans of protest against the Chinese government before setting herself on fire at a junction close to the nunnery. "Soldiers and police came immediately and took her away," the statement said.
Paul Mason: 'These revolts have ended the period of capitalist realism' - video | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Comment is free videos The Newsnight economics editor, Paul Mason, talks about the theoretical backdrop to the global revolutions of the past few years Andy Gallagher Oliver Laughland
Britain has socialism in its psyche, too | Tristram Hunt | Comment is free | The Guardian
David Cameron's popular capitalism speech is a political move. History tells us another story The Conservative commentariat has gone weak-kneed at the prime minister's "popular capitalism" speech. Like no other political leader, we are told, David Cameron "gets" the creative, iconoclastic energy of capitalism. This is the kind of free-market economics, according to the Spectator's Fraser Nelson, writing in the Telegraph, that is "hard-wired into the national DNA". The Cameroonians like to think the ideological debate is over.#occupywallstreet