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Byline: Luke Harding, Julian Borger and Dan Sabbagh Vladimir Putin personally authorised a secret spy agency operation to support a 'mentally unstable' Donald Trump in the 2016 US presidential election [...]

Byline: Helen Davidson in Taipei Hong Kong's leader, Carrie Lam, has refused to clarify how journalists can avoid breaking the vaguely defined national security law following the raid and prosecution [...]

Byline: Hugo Lowell in Washington Former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows turned over to the House select committee investigating the 6 January Capitol attack a PowerPoint recommending [...]

Byline: Helen Davidson in Taipei A Hong Kong newspaper executive on trial for national security offences had his bail denied in part because of comments made by Dominic Raab after [...]

Byline: Daniel Hurst Australia has its 'head in the sand' regarding the national security implications of climate change and should follow the US in spelling out the risks, a former [...]

Byline: Helen Davidson in Taipei Across Hong Kong on Thursday morning the queues stretched for hundreds of metres, wrapping around corner after corner. Starting before dawn, crowds in the city [...]

Byline: Patrick Wintour Diplomatic Editor In 2003, the Cabinet Office decided to allow the Chinese state-backed Huawei telecommunications network to start supplying BT for the first time. Nobody bothered to [...]

Byline: Helen Davidson China's ambassador has accused the UK government of blatantly interfering in China's internal affairs by suspending extradition with Hong Kong, and led a cavalcade of Beijing voices [...]

Top story: Work visa and 'route to citizenship' Hello, Warren Murray with you, well on our way through the week. Boris Johnson has opened the path to UK work and [...]

Byline: Maanvi Singh The New York Times is facing criticism over its decision to publish revealing details about the whistleblower whose explosive complaint, which raised concerns about Donald Trump's conversation [...]

Byline: Hannah Jane Parkinson Straight off the bat, I'll remind you that Gavin Williamson's Instagram avatar is a picture of him standing in a risk-free environment in a flak jacket, [...]

Top story: 'Compelling evidence' Williamson was responsible Good morning, Warren Murray with you as we plough on into Thursday. Penny Mordaunt has become Britain's first ever female defence secretary after [...]

Byline: Warren Murray Top story: 'Don't rush ahead of evidence' Hello -- it's Warren Murray book-ending the week in news. Jeremy Corbyn has continued to caveat his support for Theresa [...]

Byline: Jamie Doward The government has been accused of attempting to bury the truth about Britain's role in the CIA's extraordinary rendition process by seeking to have a case, brought [...]

Byline: Craig Scott Late last year, the German Federal Office for Information Security revealed in a report that an unnamed German steel mill had suffered 'massive damage' following a cyber-attack. [...]

Byline: Simon Bucks It is the most mythologised and misunderstood institution in British media, but now the D-notice (later the DA-notice) is no more. 'Slapping a D-notice' on something the [...]

Byline: Richard Ackland 2014 will be marked as a year of fantastic schemes of overindulgence and overreach on the part of lawyers and lawmakers. Whether it be national security, the [...]

Byline: Richard Norton-Taylor MI5 amassed hundreds of records on Eric Hobsbawm and Christopher Hill, two of Britain's leading historians who were both once members of the Communist party, secret files [...]

Byline: Nicholas Watt, Chief political correspondent Britain's intelligence chiefs may have exaggerated the threat posed to national security by the leaking of the NSA files, according to a former lord [...]

The Guardian has been calling for a debate about surveillance by the intelligence agencies since Edward Snowden began leaking files which showed the exponential rise in state snooping capabilities. On [...]

Byline: John Cusack Another week and another wave of stories on the NSA and the unconstitutional, out-of-control surveillance state hits the digital newsstands, showing once again why the tide is [...]

What officials said on Andy Coulson's vetting, and when. 20 July 2011 David Cameron tells MPs Coulson underwent the 'basic level of vetting' and could not see the 'most secret [...]

Byline: Karen McVeigh At least 20 women were brought to a hotel in Colombia by the secret service agents and military personnel who are now under investigation over allegations of [...]

Byline: Sam Jones The home secretary is fighting a legal battle to deport a Russian man described as a danger to national security and suspected of involvement in an apparent [...]

Democracies die behind closed doors, say the Americans. And so does justice. The principle that justice must not only be done but also be seen to be done is an [...]

Byline: Chris McGreal US officialdom could not quite make up its collective mind. The expose of years of diplomatic cables was either such a grave threat to national security, endangering [...]

Byline: Ken Gude The Guardian asked four experts in international law, Iraqi politics, military affairs and national security to assess the 400,000 Pentagon documents made public via the WikiLeaks website [...]

Byline: Nicholas Watt The government is to introduce a wholesale change to Britain's overseas aid budget by demanding that projects in the developing world must make the 'maximum possible contribution' [...]

Byline: Ian Traynor Brussels The elusive founder of WikiLeaks, who is at the centre of a potential US national security sensation, has surfaced from almost a month in hiding to [...]