Christian Edwards
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Journalist @CNN covering the UK and Europe. Words in @FT @TheTimes @Tortoise
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Joined August 2022
“Donald Trump is right on the Chagos deal” Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch says the UK's plan to hand over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius “weakens our country” and is “not in the national interest” https://t.co/Cz3q32BPFt
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NEW: “They kicked me all over my body. At one point, someone stood on me with both feet and jumped… breaking my jaw.” I spoke to people in Georgia who have been beaten by police - or masked ‘special forces’ - during a week of pro-Europe protests. https://t.co/11qAk44eqO
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One protester said his jaw was broken as masked men threw him to the ground, stood on his face and jumped. Another man told CNN he had a bone fractured at the top of his spine. Some, trying to...
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ICYMI: What the term ‘escalation’ gets wrong about Ukraine striking Russia. Excellent analysis by CNN's @christianed_
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Over 1,000 days of war, Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly warned Kyiv’s Western allies of dire – potentially nuclear – consequences if they “escalate” the war by giving Ukraine the...
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Two days ago, Jan Egeland @NRC_Egeland was in Gaza and warned that “the chaos around the aid… is becoming worse and worse because there's so little aid coming in… I'm pretty shaken actually from what I saw.” Now, over 100 killed in exactly the circumstances he feared.
At least 100 killed and 700 injured in chaotic incident where IDF opened fire as people waited for food in Gaza, Palestinian officials say https://t.co/QZHK8tjzeI
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NEW: Freed Israeli hostage says she endured ‘psychological warfare’ during 50 days of Hamas captivity w/ @biannagolodryga
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Alexei Navalny is now 2000 km from Moscow, in a Siberian prison camp near the Arctic circle. History repeating itself https://t.co/5os1hz3W6O
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Who are the Houthis and why are they attacking ships in the Red Sea? | @CNN
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Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels are stepping up their strikes on ships in the Red Sea, which they say are revenge against Israel for its military campaign in Gaza.
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Fosse, Ernaux, Tokarczuk, Alexievich, Jelinek: that's five Nobel laureates for Fitzcarraldo. They were only set up nine years ago. Incredible!
BREAKING NEWS The 2023 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Norwegian author Jon Fosse “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable.”
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Sorry we took your homeland, have a biscuit
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More than 50,000 people have now fled Nagorno-Karabakh. Many thousands more are expected to follow. "They changed our flag, our government surrendered. That’s all. No Armenian will be left here within maybe two weeks," a resident of Stepanakert told me. https://t.co/FZTUgg3BLZ
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Nearly half of Nagorno-Karabakh’s population has fled to Armenia, with many thousands more still scrambling to evacuate, a week after the breakaway region surrendered following a lightning Azerbaij...
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Thousands of ethnic Armenians are fleeing Nagorno-Karabakh after Azerbaijan's offensive. Nonna Poghosyan, a resident in Stepanakert, told me her children had spent the morning deciding which of their belongings to leave behind. "They cry for every toy." https://t.co/nzpRJuRCZe
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“Time will prove that this ‘investment’ of appeasing #Serbia will go in vain.” Recalling the conclusive statement of this valuable analysis published less than a month ago by @CNN @ChristianEd_
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When Russia invaded Ukraine, the United States and European Union accelerated their pivot towards Serbia. Rather than juggling the contradictory demands of pluralistic and fractious Balkan states,...
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Po 18 měsících je zřejmé, že naivní přístup k Srbsku prostě nefunguje a ani fungovat nemůže. Je třeba to přiznat a konečně se poučit z minulosti. https://t.co/kd4fNLncqg
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When Russia invaded Ukraine, the United States and European Union accelerated their pivot towards Serbia. Rather than juggling the contradictory demands of pluralistic and fractious Balkan states,...
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A few months ago, we saw 3 Kosovo police kidnapped. Now one policeman has been killed and others injured in an ambush in the north of Kosovo. This is what happens when the West appeases Vucic - this article is a good reminder of how we got here.
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When Russia invaded Ukraine, the United States and European Union accelerated their pivot towards Serbia. Rather than juggling the contradictory demands of pluralistic and fractious Balkan states,...
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“In Nagorno-Karabakh, we live through the brief pauses in between wars.” I wrote this first person essay before the Azerbaijani attack of September 19. Thanks to @simonforco @YesVicken @OKatrandjian for encouraging me to write this piece @newlinesmag.
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An Armenian journalist details surviving three conflicts and an ongoing blockade in the disputed territory of her homeland
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A ceasefire has been agreed in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, a day after Azerbaijan launched a military offensive against ethnic Armenian forces. This is why have there been clashes over control.
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