Chief International Correspondent @ObserverUk. Previously @WSJ + @Reuters in the Middle East & Ukraine
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Myanmar's junta requested data from a Norwegian telecommunications firm. Months later, an activist was dead observer.co.uk/news/internat…
An honour to be a @PulitzerPrizes finalist with former @WSJ colleagues @jmalsin @summer_said @AsmaaOma for our work on #Syria
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How a Teenage Romance Was Cut Short by a Russian Missile wsj.com/world/russia-missile… #Ukraine
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"Do what is necessary:" Syrian military intelligence files tell the story of the collapse of the Assad regime as seen by its most loyal and brutal agents who documented the fall right up until the last minute: wsj.com/world/middle-east/sy…
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Maksym Shaulskyi was only 12 years old when a Russian missile strike on his hometown of Kryvyi Rih took his life on Sept. 21. His biggest dream was to see his older brother Mykyta, who has been in Russian captivity since 2022.
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Inside Assad’s Ransacked Palace: Anxiety Pills, Graffiti and Shredded Posters wsj.com/world/middle-east/ba… by @jmalsin
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Here is an early look at the front page of today's Wall Street Journal trib.al/KzM554B
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In July 2022, Russia blew up the barracks of the Olenivka prison camp in occupied Donetsk, murdering more than 50 Ukrainian POWs and then blaming it on a Ukrainian missile strike.
Today, the director of the Olenivka camp at the time, Sergey Evsukov, was killed in a car bombing in Donetsk.
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From global jihad to local regime: we track the unlikely transformation of Jawlani, a former prisoner of an American camp in Iraq who rode triumphantly into Syria’s second largest city of Aleppo last week. With @IsabelColes wsj.com/world/middle-east/wh…
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Spent a couple of months working on this longread about Pablo González / Pavel Rubtsov, the Spanish journalist accused of being a GRU spy. Hopefully it goes some way to answering a few of the questions around Pablo.
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Here is an early look at the front page of today's Wall Street Journal on.wsj.com/3Xg3pxg
Two Ukrainian Pilots Lobbied for F-16s. They Won’t Get to See If the Jets Help Fend Off Russia. Our story about Juice & Moonfish w/ @laraseligman + @JaneLytv wsj.com/world/europe/ukraine…
The Last Days of Pokrovsk: Ukrainians Dig Trenches and Say Goodbye to Their City as Russians Close In - by @mjluxmoore wsj.com/world/europe/the-las…
A Ukrainian F-16 fighter jet was destroyed in a crash on Monday, according to a U.S. official, just weeks after the first of the American-made aircraft arrived in Ukraine wsj.com/world/ukrainian-f-16… by @laraseligman
During the 6-year legal proceeding that led to Dutch cocaine kingpin Ridouan Taghi’s conviction, 3 people linked to the state’s star witness were shot dead: his brother, his lawyer & a crime journalist who had joined the witness’s legal team wsj.com/world/europe/europe-… by @SuneEngel
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SCOOP: Ukraine and Russia were set to send delegations to Doha this month to negotiate a partial ceasefire agreement, halting strikes on energy and power infrastructure but Moscow called it off after Kyiv's surprise cross-border offensive in Kursk 🧵
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“You cannot win the war with mere fairness. War is unfair per se.”
Ukrainian businesses are lobbying for the chance to pay to exempt workers from military service.But it’s causing bitter debate over what is a fair and just conscription system.
New story: on.ft.com/4fvmV10
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"There's one thing I would like to say. It was great to get on that bus today and see not just Americans and Germans but Russian political prisoners.” Evan on advocating for the hundreds of political prisoners left behind.
