
Matthew Tostevin
@TostevinM
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Journalist who has reported from Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Europe.
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Joined January 2017
At least 16 people now reported dead from Myanmar junta’s bombing of a village in Sagaing region. The junta is stepping up its offensives. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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RT @poppymcp: Chinese embassy officials entered a top art gallery in Thailand and demanded an exhibition about transnational repression be….
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One of Thailand’s top art galleries removed, at China's request, materials about Beijing's treatment of ethnic minorities and Hong Kong from an exhibit on authoritarian governments, according to a...
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Far and wide in Myanmar people mark 37 years since the 8888 uprising against the military - as generations later they are still challenging another junta #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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The U.S. has lifted sanctions designations on several allies of Myanmar's ruling generals two weeks after the head of the ruling junta praised President Donald Trump and called for an easing of sanctions. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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The United States has lifted sanctions designations on several allies of Myanmar's ruling generals that had been imposed under the former Biden administration.
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Myanmar’s junta bombed a monastery and at least 22 people are reported killed. They sought refuge there because they thought it was safe from war. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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Iran has multiple options for responding after the U.S. strikes on its nuclear facilities. We look at seven of them here for @Newsweek. That doesn't mean any of them are good.
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On the 80th birthday of Myanmar’s elected leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been incarcerated by the military junta #WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar
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In Myanmar, cakes and anti-junta flower marches mark the 80th birthday of the country’s incarcerated elected leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. She remains a symbol of resistance to army rule as much as ever #WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar
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As Myanmar’s elected leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi turns 80 in the junta’s detention there are concerns for how she is surviving #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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Myanmar’s elected leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has turned 80 in the incarceration where she is held by the military junta. There are reports she was injured in the recent earthquake and concerns over how long she can hold on #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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Excellent news for coverage of Myanmar that the outstanding @thuttag will be taking over as @FrontierMM's editor in chief and keeping its reporting as strong as ever #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar.
frontiermyanmar.net
Seasoned journalist Thu Thu Aung will take over as Frontier Myanmar’s editor-in-chief next month from Ben Dunant, who steps down after seven years at the publication.
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"Israel by itself cannot completely halt the program. Only toppling the regime can do that. Anything less achieves at most a delay for X number of years. X being dependent on the level of success of the strikes," says Eado Hecht of @BESA_Center
newsweek.com
Unilateral Israeli strikes can delay but not stop Iran's nuclear program, but that may also not be possible with U.S. help
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Denmark's PM Mette Frederiksen spoke to me about challenges to the post Cold War order - if that can still be said it exist - covering Russia, China, Greenland and Donald Trump for @Newsweek
newsweek.com
How Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is navigating threats from both friends and foes
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This map from @FrontierMM highlights the huge importance of advances by the Arakan Army against Myanmar junta forces. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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