BBC World Affairs Correspondent, presenter and author. Views expressed are mine & not the BBC’s. RTs do not indicate endorsement
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Man, 82, dies after beach fight with 76-year-old over sunlounger in Greece bbc.in/4y0By5m
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A story that didn’t get as much attention as it otherwise would today but extraordinary reporting nonetheless
🚨Haaretz exposé: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received an explicit warning from UAE President bin Zayed days before October 7. He didn't brief Israel's security chiefs. @shlomieldar
🔗Link to full exposé in bio
Photos: Haim Goldberg/Flash90, Khalil Hamra/AP, Mandel Ngan/AFP. Editing: Masha Tzur
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As the UK was set to announce sanctions on Israeli settlements, predictions grew that condemnation and a backlash was coming from the White House.
So far, it hasn’t happened.
We tried to examine why…
bbc.com/news/articles/cevw2l…
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RT @humeyra_pamuk:
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's administration has told Congress it is sending more than $206 million for a proposed Gaza peacekeeping force, the first significant funding for the stalled U.S. plan to rebuild the devastated enclave.
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Honestly wtf @AmazonUK this is how your delivery driver delivered a Xmas present! We were home! No need to throw it like he did at all
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18gmt/19bst #TheNewsroom here ---> bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:b… - 📻@bbcblindgazza, @bealejonathan; @BBCWillVernon; and @FrankRGardner on the #Alaska talks; @Azadeh_Moshiri on deadly monsoon floods in #Pakistan; @ThomsonRadio on a warning of civil war in #Lebanon
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Woman smuggled baby into UK using fake birth story - I’ll be on @BBCNews shortly to talk about this bbc.com/news/articles/c98jl8…
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From @BBCNews Warsaw Correspondent through 20 years on @BBCr4today with stints on @BBCNewsnight and @BBCPanorama I’ve worked with great colleagues ..@Hoskea10 @ThomsonRadio @kirbyej @HughSykes @beckmilligan @Sarah_Montague @JustinOnWeb @MishalHusain @MeirionTweets @DannyShawNews @mpolachowska @RHarrabin …and many more …now time to join (most of)them outside bbc.
📢Personal news 📢 - I’ll be leaving BBC staff at the end of August . I'm working on a book proposal with @davidhigham and I intend to work freelance for the BBC and others in future.
I’m proud of the original and investigative work I’ve done over decades, with brilliant colleagues, breaking stories on so many issues on @BBCR4Today and @BBCnews. I'm especially proud of my recent work on Family Courts. It’s changed the law - helped open up these powerful courts to all journalists - and I plan to continue with it. You can find me here, on Linkedin and at [email protected].
Great night at the BBC Media Action Correspondents charity dinner - with many thousands raised - helped by auctioning Clive Myrie for a mighty sum!
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📣 Some news about me:
Yesterday (Wednesday) I was detained by police in Istanbul, held for 17 hours and then deported from Turkey to the UK. Told I was “a threat to public order”. In the country I lived in - and love.
Journalism is not a crime.
Here’s the BBC’s statement:
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For clarification: This letter is a request from the Director of Religious Affairs in Damascus to the Minister of Religious Affairs, asking and urging the implementation of such measures.
This is NOT an official decision but rather a formal request for action.
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‘You could see it in the satellite imagery—parallel lines of mass graves.’
@SoccerMouaz on NPR with @Rsherlock, revealing the Assad regime’s attempt to hide its crimes after key testimony before the U.S. Congress.
The truth is out. Justice must follow. #Syria #MassGraves #EndImpunity
Listen to the full episode: npr.org/2025/01/26/nx-s1-526…
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Still in #Syria searching for my father.
Thousands of families are searching for loved ones, desperate for any piece of information.
For years, the Assad regime denied our pain, denied our demands, and gaslit us about their arrests.
We won’t be silent. We demand the full truth
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We have been following Baby Elsa case in East London Family Court: her birth cannot be registered as long as police investigations continue.
£20,000 offered in search for parents of three abandoned babies bbc.com/news/articles/ckg00m…
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Thanks Sanchia! Lived experience informing a reporter's career and ....empathy: "Whose face am I not seeing in this photo?"...is a great question.
Oh, and a great new expression for me. "Ripsnorter of a morning."
Only in Australia.
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Fascinating documentary by @ThomsonRadio - caught in a cyclone 50 years ago. @Hoskea10 @beckmilligan @kirbyej @HughSykes bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00269…
If you’re near a radio this evening - or later via BBC Sounds - do lend an ear
illuminated_Radio 4 – Sunday Dec 29 - 7.15pm
