@swajones

Madrid correspondent, the Guardian. Views my own. @swajones.bsky.social

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Joined March 2009
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EXCL: Keir Starmer’s national security adviser is to travel to Washington as government tries to persuade Donald Trump not to rip up Chagos Islands deal @elenicourea @kiranstacey report theguardian.com/world/2024/n…

UK government seeks meeting with Trump team over Chagos Islands agreement

National security adviser will travel to Washington in attempt to persuade US president-elect not to rip up deal

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#Spain’s apocalyptic floods show two undeniable truths: the climate crisis is getting worse and Big Oil is killing us. By @jonathanwatts theguardian.com/world/2024/n…

Spain’s apocalyptic floods show undeniable truths: the climate crisis is getting worse and Big Oil...

The devastating flooding should spur this month’s Cop29 climate conference to press for immediate action, not look away, writes Guardian global environment editor Jonathan Watts

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‘I keep calling it a horror film’: Spanish town of #Utiel recounts flooding as clean-up begins theguardian.com/world/2024/n…

‘I keep calling it a horror film’: Spaniards recount flooding as clean-up begins

Residents of Utiel in Valencia region describe how they escaped rising waters, and the devastation left behind

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‘It was a trap’: flood alert came too late for residents of Paiporta, Spain. By @ashifa_k theguardian.com/world/2024/o…

‘It was a trap’: flood alert came too late for residents of Paiporta, Spain

In the town where at least 62 have died, survivors are left with their grief and anger at the lack of official warning of the devastation on its way

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Hola @XaviBartroli y @baila_fm. Sigo esperando unas entradas que compré hace unos meses. Os he mandado varios correos pero ni siquiera me han contestado. Bastante decepcionado con este nivel de servicio. Alguien podría responderme por favor?
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Dom Phillips’ book: “How to Save the Amazon” has a cover and will be published in May, 2025. The murders of Dom and Bruno Pereira are not the end of their story. The voices they wanted to amplify will not be silenced. Our friend’s work goes on.
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Esclarecedor artículo de ⁦@guardian⁩ sobre #Fujimori y su legado. Gracias por citarme entre gente tan lúcida como ⁦@jgodoym⁩ y ⁦@michaelreid52⁩ 👍 theguardian.com/world/2024/s…

‘Transformative, for better and for worse’: what’s the legacy of Peru’s Alberto Fujimori

Despite his convictions for corruption and human rights abuses, many see the president who has died at 86 as the country’s greatest leader

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Such a beautiful and moving piece from my excellent colleague @estheraddley
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“Life needs fiction to make it bearable. We need fiction so that we can live a bit better” - I spoke to Pedro #Almodóvar about his short-story-collection-cum-memoir, The Last Dream, which is out in English very soon. theguardian.com/books/articl…

Pedro Almodóvar: ‘Life needs fiction to make it bearable’

The Spanish film-maker on the raw, real life experiences behind his first collection of short stories – and why his mother is his inspiration

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Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy and paste commands, dies at 74.
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On the Russian "illegals", whose kids only found out the family was not Argentinian on the plane to Moscow. With context and background to the family havoc that illegals have created for decades, from my upcoming book on the history of illegals program. theguardian.com/world/articl…

How children of freed spies learned they were Russian on flight to Moscow

Sofia, 11, and Daniel, 8, did not speak the language and knew nothing about their new home country

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There’s a direct connection between the Southport riots and Elon Musk. Not that he knows or cares. My column prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas…

Elon Musk’s misinformation machine made the horrors of Southport much worse

The X owner’s commitment to free speech absolutism contributed to a whirlwind of false reporting around the perpetrator’s identity. Why does he seem to care so little about the truth?

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What a night. My report from the tarmac at Andrews Air Force Base where our friend Evan got off a jet with Paul Whelan and Alsu Kurmasheva, embraced his mother, hugged Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, and then came over to chat after 491 days in jail. Unreal. theguardian.com/world/articl…

Evan Gershkovich release: Biden and Harris greet Americans freed after prisoner swap

Emotional scenes at Andrews air force base as Evan Gershkovich, Paul Whelan and Alsu Kurmasheva step onto American soil

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This famine is fully man-made. We again call on all the parties to provide the humanitarian system with unimpeded and safe access to children and families in need. We must be able to use all routes, across lines of conflict and borders. Sudan’s children cannot wait. @unicefchief
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Catastrophic news from #Sudan and sadly, confirmation of what we have been warning of for months. "The Famine Review Committee... have concluded that famine conditions are prevalent in parts of North Darfur, including the Zamzam camp south of El Fasher." ipcinfo.org/ipcinfo-website/…

FAMINE IN SUDAN: IPC Famine Review Committee Confirms Famine in parts of North Darfur

After a careful review of the recent IPC analyses conducted by

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US keeping quiet on details for now but Turkish presidency has put out triumphant statement on exchange, noting Evan Gershkovich, Ilya Yashin, Paul Whelan for Krasikov. 10 (inc 2 kids) going to Russia, 16 coming out. Follow the news on Guardian Live Blog theguardian.com/world/live/2…

Biden says ‘welcome home’ as Americans land in the US – as it happened

Detainees warmly greeted by family members and US president and vice-president after touching down at Joint Airbase Andrews in Maryland

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One of the most extraordinary stories I have reported from #Ukraine. In 2023 Russia blew up a dam & destroyed the vast Soviet-era Kakhovka reservoir. Since then nature has come back. Willow trees are 4m tall; sturgeon are swimming again in the Dnipro river theguardian.com/world/articl…

Life returns to Ukrainian reservoir drained by Russian strike on dam

A year later, animals, birds and saplings are populating a new landscape of ponds and lagoons

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🏅JO-2024 : Christina Assi et Dylan Collins, journalistes de l'AFP blessés lors d'un reportage en octobre 2023 au Liban, ont porté la flamme olympique dimanche à Vincennes, en hommage "à tous les journalistes, à nos collègues et amis tués cette année" #AFPVertical ⤵️
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