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International Projects & Investigations Editor at Reuters. [email protected]
Sydney
Joined April 2014
Insight: 'She's not coming back': Alawite women snatched from streets of Syria -
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Thirty-three women and girls from Syria's Alawite sect have been abducted or gone missing this year in the turmoil following the fall of Bashar al-Assad.
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While the island nation of Palau bills itself as a pristine paradise, the US military sees it as strategically critical in its tussle with China for dominance in the region https://t.co/rFGqtmhr4y
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Exclusive: The Sudanese government has suspended its participation in the global hunger-monitoring system on the eve of a report that’s expected to show famine spreading across the country.
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The Sudanese government has suspended its participation in the global hunger-monitoring system on the eve of a report that’s expected to show famine spreading across the country, a step likely to...
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Trump camp says China is ‘attacking’ U.S. with fentanyl. They aim to fight back @michaelvmartina
https://t.co/DAExAK9nnn via @SpecialReports
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President Joe Biden‘s fentanyl diplomacy with China is under scrutiny as President-elect Donald Trump’s team seeks a harder line to stop the flow of Chinese-made chemicals powering America’s epidemic.
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🚨 Reuters Impact: Foxconn has ordered Indian hiring agencies to drop age, gender, marital criteria, company name from job ads after a Reuters investigation revealed the Apple supplier rejected married women for iPhone assembly roles. 🛠️ Read. https://t.co/vG1X3JW5b3
#Thread
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The Apple supplier has ordered hiring agents that help recruit iPhone assembly workers in India to remove age, gender and marital criteria as well as the manufacturer's name in job advertisements.
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US officials talk of 'industrial level' theft. Donated grain, they say, was funneled to the Ethiopian and Tigrayan armies, and black marketeers. In an internal report, the World Food Program cleared itself of wrongdoing and pointed a finger at the hungry https://t.co/jdO20KMuGM
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Our latest in the @Reuters famine series: UN food agency failed to act as US aid was looted in Ethiopia https://t.co/IVS5g8EFI9 via @SpecialReports w/ @giuliaparavicin
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US officials talk of 'industrial level' theft of food assistance. They say donor grain was funneled to the Ethiopian and Tigrayan armies, and black marketeers.
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We're hiring. @Reuters is looking for an intrepid, tenacious and accomplished reporter for our new Business Investigations unit. Details here: https://t.co/Mj8o9wZ1zD
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We're hiring! @Reuters is seeking an ambitious Investigations Editor to drive our investigative, explanatory and longform narrative coverage in Europe, the Middle East & Africa. Details here:
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Traders and aid workers in Gaza with direct knowledge of the supply situation described to Reuters a chaotic system that often makes it too dangerous or costly for business owners to import food, even as aid agencies warn of the growing risk of famine
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Mohammed describes a delivery job from hell.
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Indian PM Narendra Modi's govt asks Tamil Nadu state to submit a report after @Reuters revealed Apple supplier Foxconn rejected married women from iPhone assembly jobs. Law "clearly" says no discrimination is to be made in hiring men, women, govt says
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The Labour ministry has requested a detailed report from the Labour Department of Tamil Nadu, site of a major iPhone factory where Reuters uncovered Foxconn’s practice of shunning married women from...
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India's federal labor ministry asks for a detailed report from the Tamil Nadu labor department on Reuters' report about Foxconn rejecting married women. Full statement:
Reuters investigated Foxconn's hiring practices in India over the past year. Here’s what we uncovered. Married women are barred from an otherwise all-female iPhone assembly workforce. Foxconn's logic: a married worker comes with “issues”, like pregnancy, or high absenteeism🧵
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Reuters Investigation: Foxconn excludes married women from Apple iPhone assembly jobs in India due to reasons such as family duties, pregnancy & higher absenteeism. This violates their anti-discrimination policies #LongRead #Thread
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Foxconn, the tech manufacturer that builds devices for Apple, has routinely excluded married women from iPhone assembly jobs at its plant in southern India.
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NEW: We spent 24 hours in a Ukrainian trench on the zero line in Donbas, less than 800 meters from Russian forces amassed on the other side. The infantryman holding the line spoke of constant Russian assaults and drones overhead. "It's worse than hell," he told me. pix: @tompeter
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I spent several weeks traveling along the eastern line of Ukraine's 1,000-km front, speaking with soldiers stationed all across the region. Here's what we heard and saw:
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As Russia takes new ground in Ukraine’s east, soldiers on the front line talk of exhaustion, a perilous shortage of munitions and personal loss.
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Reuters' latest investigation on Sudan shows spreading cases of starvation and hunger where people eat dirt, tree leaves, and cats. “We will likely see a famine that we haven’t seen in decades," @anette_hoffmann
https://t.co/epVhwpLfnw
#KeepEyesOnSudan
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“It can take up to 40 days for an aid truck to reach Darfur from Port Sudan in the east” Read the Reuters article where @JustinTBrady, the head of OCHA Sudan discusses how aid agencies struggle to get food & medicine to sick & starving people https://t.co/bAyX0DIwgB
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Nearly 5 million people are one step from famine as the country has been devastated by war. Aid officials say warring parties are blocking humanitarian relief.
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Reuters identified at least six RSF and militia commanders who played a key role in atrocities in West Darfur, based on testimonies of scores of survivors. #Sudan
The Masalit tribe in Sudan’s West Darfur region say they have been largely expelled from their historical homeland by Arab forces. @Reuters has identified six commanders who witnesses say were involved in a campaign of violence against the Masalit https://t.co/hDOq079MYC
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The Masalit people are being driven from Sudan in a campaign of bombing and massacres by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and its militia allies, according to multiple witnesses. @Reuters has identified 6 key commanders in the violence https://t.co/4EpnuS8irZ
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