British writer in Tokyo. Japan correspondent for @Telegraph. Also writes about design, lifestyle, travel (for @designanthology, @wallpapermag, @cntraveler etc)
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Under fire with the local folk band leader in the Ukrainian village of Luch.
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The words “children” were written in Russian in large white letters in front of & behind the theater that was destroyed in #Mariupol today. These were added around March 12. Video posted on March 10 shows theater packed with sheltering families. @Maxar
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Meet Ukraine’s war poet in residence telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2…
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The Journalists safety Committee says the number of women journalists and media workers has dropped from 1,300 to 300 since the #Taliban took office.
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What your 11-years old kids do?
This 11y.o. boy travelled alone more than thousand kilometers from Zaporizhzhya to Slovakia. His parents couldn’t flee so he left alone, with only a bag-pack and contact phone number on his hand
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I left Russia on Friday. The scenes I've witnessed in Tbilisi and Istanbul this weekend are straight out of history books.
The talk on the streets of Istanbul and Tbilisi is all about where to go, where to settle.
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Read @colinfreeman99's dispatch from Irpin here 👇
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⚡️For those leaving Ukraine, the Customs Service recommends using the checkpoints on the border with Hungary, Slovakia, Romania and Moldova as they are less busy compared to Poland.
Map showing how busy each checkpoint is in real time: bit.ly/3J5LscJ
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Russia said this morning it would ceasefire to allow evacuation of civilians. Ukrainian military says Russians are still shelling the Mariupol road. Third day of these hopes raised and dashed.
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Today's piece from outside Irpin on Kyiv's north-west outskirts. Londoners: if it helps bring it home, this is the rough equivalent of say Watford getting shelled. telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2…
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My report from Kiev today telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2…
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#StandWithUkraine mothers and fathers #SaveChildrenofUkraine💔to see children cross borders unaccompanied, into the unknown. On borders buses arrive with children who said goodbye to their parents thousands of km away. Utter💔
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I don’t know what to write anymore. Second time in 3 months I had to hand off my 9 months baby girl, not knowing if I will ever see her again. This is a pain only a mother can know. It’s more painful than all of war put together. The amount of hatred in me grows every day
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Aftermath of the strike on Kharkivs administration building on the central square. “That’s my car” says the man at the end.
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My story about Russians fleeing the country as the Iron Curtain is about to fall.
"We were all shocked. I got scared and thought what if we can never get him out. He would be 18 in May, which means he could be conscripted."
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Words on today’s strange battle of Kharkiv. telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2…
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Our main read today on Ukraine, from my colleague @jameserothwell in Kiev and me in Lviv. telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2…
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This issue looks at the ambivalent state of the kitchen, between labour and leisure, and dissects the forces of capital, technology and politics that breathe it into being 🍜 it also includes homes in Spain, Sweden, Japan, Australia, Greece and Iceland 📔 architectural-review.com/mag…
