BBC World Affairs Correspondent based in London. Previous postings in Moscow, Athens, Jakarta, Islamabad and Dhaka.
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#Kremlin backed #WagnerGroup apparently recruiting prisoners for the front lines as #Ukraine forces make significant advances in the ongoing war
PMC Wagner Group Evgeny Prigozhin is at a penal colony looking for new assault infantry to join his company. Refers to some of those who served 30 years in prison and died in battle as "heroes".
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Kharkiv Offensive: Russian Forces Flee as Ukraine Makes Rapid Eastern Push - Bloomberg bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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The Russians were hunting us down: the war on journalism in Mariupol - This is an incredible piece of journalism - extremely brave and revealing the reality of this awful war Of choice started by Vladimir #Putin. #Ukraine #Russia war #Kremlin — theguardian.com/world/2022/m…
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‘I offer you a chance to survive’: Zelenskiy urges Russian troops to surrender – video theguardian.com/world/video/…
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Alexei Navalny:
He was poisoned.
He was jailed.
His organisation was banned.
Now he’s been added to a list of ‘terrorists & extremists’ (along with several of his allies).
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A year ago today Alexei Navalny boarded a plane in Germany, returned to Russia and was arrested. What followed was a demolition of the Opposition by the authorities: a year of ‘foreign agents’, 'extremist groups', ‘undesirable organisations’ & Kremlin critics driven into exile.
#Russia,s #Covid nightmare driven by vaccine rejection - our piece from #Vologda in north west Russia where just 26% of the population has chosen to get vaccinated in the midst of a devastating epidemic #anti-vaxx bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-…
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#ConservativePartyConference
I've tried & failed to understand what #LevellingUp actually means.
I know what levelling means. It can only be done down.
Building up, yes.
Redressing the balance, yes.
If you have to wonder what Levelling Up means, it doesn't work as a slogan.
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15.40 hrs, October 1st 2021:
Just got a package from @amazon delivered by a cheerful but exhausted @DPDgroup_news driver. It was his 132nd delivery of the day, fifteen to go. He started at 6 am and had to load his van himself. I didn't ask him what he is paid. #gigeconomy
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2,000 days since she was arrested - a family separated for well over 5 YEARS. Nazanin's husband, Richard, and daughter Gabriella will mark the day with the family of Anoosheh Ashoori calling for government action. Last night, Iran again demanded the UK repay its £400 million debt
via @NYTimes - #NYT has evidence indicating the #US drone strike in #Kabul which killed 10 people, hit an aid worker and other civilians not members of ISIS who were supposed to have been the target nytimes.com/2021/09/10/world…
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#AFG Water- boarding Taliban style. Hands and feet chained and tied. There are genuine concerns about revenge and grievances at a village&district level- especially when the families of government officials and soldiers living inside Afghanistan.
#MI5 boss warns of morale boost' for extremists due to #Afghanistan situation +says risk terrorists will reconstitute with more sophisticated attack plots - in last 4 years 31 terrorist attack plots in #UK disrupted, mostly Islamist + Rightwing terrorists bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58512901
#Russia TV reporting that the Emergencies minister Yevgeny Zinichev has died after rushing to try to save a cameraman who fell off a cliff during an interview. The cameraman who also died had slipped and fallen into water
#SavetheChildren reporting that 6 children were killed in the US air strike targeting suspected ISIS-K suicide bomber
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Dr. Amin-ul-Haq, a major al-Qaeda player in Afghanistan, Osama Bin Laden security in charge in Tora Bora, returns to his native Nangarhar province after it fell to the Taliban. Dr. Amin became close to OBL in the 80s when he worked with Abdullah Azzam in Maktaba Akhidmat.
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Over the past hour, several Afghan female friends in Kabul told me the Taliban are in their neighbourhoods, going house to house, looking for women in govt and media, making lists. One sent me a photo from her living room showing armed Talibs outside. "I love you," she wrote. 💔
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Day 3 since Kabul collapse:
Gunfires reduced.
I can hear children playing outside. Frequent patrols in the neighbourhood.
Shops half open half close. Uncertainty peaking.
The baker boy knocked and said: they’ve nothing to do with me right?
Nervous voice and face.
Many questions.