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Editor working on @AFP social media accounts, ex @EUDataNewsHub. Posts news, cricket, nature. Ex @guardian @independent. All posts/opinions my own etc.

London, England
Joined January 2009
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🇬🇧 🇺🇸 The United States has withdrawn military aircraft from a second British airbase following a threat from Iran, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has reported, citing people familiar with events u.afp.com/SFoM
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#BREAKING British comedian and TV star Russell Brand jailed for 10 years, 6 months for rape, sexual assaults
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🇵🇱 ⚠️ A Polish man accused of carrying out a deadly shooting spree in Krakow died in hospital on Monday, two days after he was wounded in a gunbattle with police, authorities said, as prosecutors said his reasons for killing nine people, including three family members, remained unclear u.afp.com/Syvq
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🇵🇱 ⚠️ Poland on Sunday launched a terrorism probe as mourners brought candles and flowers to Krakow's Main Market Square in tribute to six people killed by a gunman who authorities said was "fascinated by far-right ideologies" ➡️ u.afp.com/SyCH
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🇸🇦 🇾🇪 An Aramco building in Riyadh was targeted in an "attempted attack", the Saudi energy ministry said on Sunday, after the Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen's Houthis said it had intercepted missiles launched by the group ➡️ u.afp.com/SyCv
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🏏 🇦🇺 Former Australia opener Usman Khawaja claimed on Saturday that the entire team knew about the 2018 "Sandpapergate" scandal in Cape Town and said they also employed the tactic during the previous Test at Port Elizabeth ➡️ u.afp.com/Sy9S
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#BREAKING Gunman in deadly Krakow shooting acted alone, is Polish: police
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🇵🇱 ⚠️ Police in Poland said on Saturday that five people were killed and around a dozen wounded after a gunman opened fire in the historic centre of the country's second city of Krakow ➡️ u.afp.com/Sy9B
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#BREAKING New Zealand PM says sees 'pathway to forming next government' but acknowledges vote still 'too close to call' after tight poll
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🇫🇷 🪧 French unions and student groups are set to take to the streets for another day of protests on Saturday, while the Yellow Vests movement plans a separate rally in central Paris despite a ban by authorities ➡️ u.afp.com/Sy9w
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'Envision chandeliers' While Republicans nursed a brutal hangover from their US midterms defeat, President Donald Trump was busy -- showing off his new ballroom at the White House u.afp.com/SyaC
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🇮🇱 🗳️ Israeli electoral authorities on Wednesday rejected allegations promoted by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of fraud by Arab parties, who could hold the key to removing him from power after a divisive vote ➡️ u.afp.com/Sybz
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🇭🇺 Hungary released communist-era secret police files on Wednesday, identifying tens of thousands of former informants in a long-delayed reckoning with the country's repressive past, spearheaded by Prime Minister Peter Magyar ➡️ u.afp.com/Syaw
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📖 🏆 "Mogging", a word meaning to outshine someone, often in appearance, was crowned word of the year by Collins English Dictionary on Tuesday, beating "firewave" and "ghost jobs" ➡️ u.afp.com/SyXt
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🇬🇧 👑 🌎 🇦🇬 King Charles III called the transatlantic slave trade "a monstrous injustice" on Tuesday, opening a Commonwealth summit in which UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham is holding talks about apologising for Britain's role in slavery ➡️ u.afp.com/Sy29
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⚽ 🇪🇸 Tenerife striker Jesus de Miguel died on Tuesday as a result of injuries he suffered in a sickening collision with FC Andorra's goalkeeper in a Spanish second division match ➡️ u.afp.com/SyBg
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🇬🇧 🚶‍🌎 After 28 years, British adventurer Karl Bushby arrived back home in Hull, northeast England on Monday after a 50,000-kilometre (31,000-mile) trek from Chile across four continents without using any transport to progress ➡️ u.afp.com/Syhu
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🇬🇧 💷 Britain's Labour government will increase a tax on profits earned by banks to help fund support for soaring energy bills, finance minister John Healey said in his budget announcement on Wednesday ➡️ u.afp.com/SyGy
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🇪🇸 ⚠️ A high-speed train collision south of Madrid killed 64 people and injured over 100 more on Wednesday, with the toll likely to rise, authorities said, in one of Europe's deadliest such disasters this century ➡️ u.afp.com/SyGm
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🇪🇸 A high-speed train collision south of Madrid killed 64 people and injured scores more on Wednesday, with the toll likely to rise, authorities said, in one of Europe's deadliest such disasters this century ➡️ u.afp.com/SyGm
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