Nick Morrison
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Editor working on @AFP social media accounts, ex @EUDataNewsHub. Posts news, cricket, nature. Ex @guardian @independent. All posts/opinions my own etc.
London, England
Joined January 2009
UN summit in Brazil adds 40 new migratory species to international protection list, including the snowy owl and Hudsonian godwit https://t.co/adzdYXxsD7
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🇮🇷 🇺🇸 The speaker of Iran's parliament accused the United States on Sunday of plotting a ground attack despite publicly pushing for a negotiated deal, after a US warship with around 3,500 military personnel arrived in the Middle East ➡️ https://t.co/w1Ohx38pIL
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🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Russian drone hits UNESCO heritage site in Ukraine's Lviv President Volodymyr Zelensky slammed Russia's "absolute depravity" after Moscow staged massive drone attacks on Ukraine, killing multiple people and hitting the UNESCO heritage site in the centre of the western city
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🇬🇧 British police said on Monday they were investigating an online claim of responsibility for an arson attack after four volunteer ambulances run by a Jewish organisation based next to a London synagogue were set on fire ➡️ https://t.co/jkpuDUlCwG
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US President Donald Trump says he has ordered a halt to his threatened strikes on Iranian energy infrastructure after "very good and productive talks" with Tehran, and that negotiations are set to continue this week. The United States and Iran "have had, over the last two days,
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🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 UK minister Steve Reed on Sunday said one missile launched by Iran targeting a joint UK-US military base in the Indian Ocean “fell short” while another missile was "intercepted" ➡️ https://t.co/HxW0Hks5DN
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🇬🇧 The number of meningitis cases being probed by UK authorities has risen to 20, health officials said Wednesday, following an "unprecedented" deadly outbreak centred on a university. ➡️ https://t.co/D9OOlWE2QS
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🇮🇷 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 US-Israeli strikes hit Iranian facilities at a major Gulf gas field on Wednesday causing a fire, Iranian state television reported. The South Pars/North Dome mega-field is the largest known gas reserve in the world ➡️ https://t.co/5WYFF31RF2
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🇦🇪 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 US financial service group Citi and two other companies in Dubai's financial centre asked employees to evacuate their offices on Wednesday after Iran threatened to strike US and Israel-linked banks in the Middle East ➡️ https://t.co/6vM90QGBSP
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🛢️ 📈 The International Energy Agency said on Wednesday its member countries would unlock 400 million barrels of oil from their reserves to ease the impact of the Middle East war, the biggest such release ever ➡️ https://t.co/rZ1m6wwJmO
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🇮🇷 🇺🇸 New attacks have hit three commercial ships in the Gulf, with one of the vessels in flames as Iran pressed its campaign against its oil-exporting neighbours, threatening shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and plunging the global energy economy into crisis. ➡️
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A post by US Energy Secretary Chris Wright saying that the US Navy had escorted an oil tanker through the Strait of Hormuz was deleted on Tuesday, minutes after his account had posted it. https://t.co/kuUNQvP2Vl
barrons.com
The United States has not escorted any oil tanker through the Strait of Hormuz, the White House said Tuesday, after the energy secretary's social media account posted and deleted a claim that it did...
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🚨 BREAKING: HMS Dragon has now departed Portsmouth to defend RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus
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🇩🇪 🇮🇷 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 German Chancellor Merz sees 'no common plan' to end Iran war Friedrich Merz voices concern over the apparent lack of "a common plan" to bring the US-Israeli war with Iran to a "convincing end." Speaking in Berlin, Merz says that "with every day this war continues,
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🇦🇺 🇮🇷 ⚽ Support for Iran women's football team after refusal to sing anthem Australia is facing mounting pressure to offer asylum to the Iranian women's football team, after they refused to sing the national anthem ahead of an Asian Cup tournament match in Australia on 2 March.
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🇮🇷 🇮🇱 🇺🇸 🛢️ Massive fires after Israeli strikes hit oil depots in Tehran Four oil depots and a petroleum logistics site were hit by Israeli strikes, engulfing Tehran in thick black smoke and temporarily interrupting fuel distribution. The fuel depot strikes are the first time
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🇱🇧 🇮🇱 Israeli air strikes left behind massive destruction in Beirut's southern suburbs on Friday morning, with the Israeli military saying it had destroyed Hezbollah targets ➡️ https://t.co/eqGOBBb5et
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🇺🇸 🇮🇷 🇮🇱 US President Donald Trump on Friday demanded Iran's "unconditional surrender" as the only acceptable route to ending hostilities, while promising to help rebuild the country's economy if Tehran complied and installed new leadership ➡️ https://t.co/eDonLM3DR8
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