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Senior world reporter for @WSJ . Drew.Hinshaw @wsj .com. Pulitzer finalist. Author, BRING BACK OUR GIRLS, the Overseas Press Club best book of 2021

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Today @HarperCollins publishes the book @JoeWSJ & I spent much of the past decade reporting: a full investigation on why it took 3 years to free 103 Chibok students. It's a story of social media, spycraft & teenage heroism & we hope you'll read. Thank you.

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Bring Back Our Girls: The Untold Story of the Global Search for Nigeria's Missing Schoolgirls a...

A 2021 Daily Telegraph Book of the YearWinner of the Overseas Press Club of America's Cornelius Ryan Award "Everyone should read the testimonies of the Chibok girls who survived the capture. We need...

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My dad, who died last month, was a freelance camera man. He shot interviews with many celebrities—the Dalai Lama, Monica Lewinsky, Gorbachev, Ludacris, Jane Goodall, many more. Exactly one took the time to learn his name, strike up a yearslong relationship. Deeply appreciate this

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Here's our reconstruction of the Lekki Toll Gate incident, based on seven witnesses, videos, and images verified by the Journal and Storyful, our social-media verification company. By @JoeWSJ and I.

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Young Nigerians Came to Protest Police Brutality. Then the Shooting Started.

Witnesses recounted how soldiers fired live rounds against peaceful protesters earlier this week, an incident that has deepened distrust between young Nigerians and the government.

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For weeks, the world’s atomic energy regulators have been trying to understand what is happening to the 200 nuclear workers held hostage in Chernobyl. @JoeWSJ & I managed to reach them. This is their story.

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Inside Chernobyl, 200 Exhausted Staff Toil Round the Clock at Russian Gunpoint

Trapped since their shift 3 weeks ago, the Ukrainians keeping the abandoned nuclear plant safe are ill-fed, stressed and desperate for relief. “Everyone wants to go home.”

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There are reporters and then there are reporters who spend 5 days camping by a raging forest fire in Siberia, because “I just wanna get the story right.” Our profile of a colleague whose drive to understand Russia represents the very best of my profession.

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Evan Gershkovich Loved Russia, the Country That Turned on Him

The correspondent, whose parents fled the Soviet Union, made Moscow a second home. He was detained Wednesday by the FSB for alleged espionage, an allegation the Journal vehemently denies.

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Dogs that worked for America were evacuated faster than many Afghans who worked for America.

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U.S. military dogs being evacuated from Afghanistan on Sunday.

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#IfAfricaWasaBar The bartender would apologize about the loud Nigerian table but explain that they're the ones keeping the place in business

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A CNN anchor just said: "The president of Burkina Faso has made a speech but it's in French so we're not able to translate it." Oh, America.

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Two scoops: Czech Republic has been quietly giving tanks to Ukraine, an intensification of NATO's weapon shipments. Secondly, some Central European governments are considering letting Ukraine bring equipment in and out of their territory for repairs.

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To mark a trip to Mongolia, the Pope praised a Russian symphony composed to celebrate Russia's conquest of Mongolia.

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Pope praises Russian composer, tells American Catholics to ‘move on’

Pope Francis seemed unbothered by the backlash his comments generated among American Catholics, saying, “Yes, they got mad, but move on, move on.”

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Three weeks later their exhaustion is mutating into rebellion. Some are threatening to walk home. Every morning, ‘Ukraine Has Not Yet Perished,’ blares through the loudspeaker. The Ukrainian workers stand, palms pressed to chests, then return to work.

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I don't think people reading from home fully grasp what is happening at the EU's borders. In all of 2015–the refugee 'crisis'–1.3 million people entered Europe. At this rate, we will surpass that with a week or two.

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Polio wasn’t cleared from Europe until 2002. Smallpox, humanity’s only eradication triumph, doesn’t hide in mink or mice. A coronavirus from the 1890s is still with us. What comes after the COVID pandemic? The COVID endemic, our only plausible future.

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As Covid-19 Vaccines Raise Hope, Cold Reality Dawns That Illness Is Likely Here to Stay

Governments and businesses are starting to accept that the coronavirus isn’t a temporary problem and instead will lead to long-term changes enabling society to co-exist with Covid-19, as it does with...

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Absolutely heartbreaking passage in this NYT story from a Gaza hospital.

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It is important to remember in all of this that Afghanistan is still on the verge of starvation.

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As Hunger Spreads in Afghanistan, Hospitals Fill With Premature, Dying Babies

Half of the country’s population faces acute hunger, according to the United Nations, with one million children in danger of dying from malnutrition, following an economic collapse under Taliban rule...

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To mark the coup in Gabon, here is a story I've never forgotten, about an incredible collision of American popular culture and Central African politics. It concerns the Bongo family, which ruled Gabon until today – and the Godfather of Soul, James Brown.

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I am realizing with horror that I'm one of the few American reporters who knows anything about Niger, and I know nothing, and am in Prague.

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Washington, caught without key personnel in its Africa posts, failed to anticipate what is now the region's seventh coup since 2020. A new story, by me & the team, on how the U.S. struggled to keep up as a coup escalated into threats of a regional war. …

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People in Boko Haram’s birthtown defy the threats. This is what counter jihad looks like: long voter lines. http://t.co/g3PvkMgD8F

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The night shift at Chernobyl clocked in at 9 p.m. on Feb. 23, anxious about the Russian build up just across the Belarus border. Three weeks later they are still there, nearing 500 hours on the job. Their diet has dwindled to porridge and canned food.

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Inside Chernobyl, 200 Exhausted Staff Toil Round the Clock at Russian Gunpoint

Trapped since their shift 3 weeks ago, the Ukrainians keeping the abandoned nuclear plant safe are ill-fed, stressed and desperate for relief. “Everyone wants to go home.”

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When the USSR broke up, Poland was nearly as poor as Ukraine. But then one country veered west, joined the EU, and is now nearly 5 times wealthier. Our story on how Ukraine’s envy for Poland—and Poland’s backing for Ukraine—led Europe to where it is now.

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For Years, Poland Warned of the Russian Threat. Now, the West Is Listening.

The past few weeks have been humbling for the West, who has been forced to acknowledge that its view of Russia was misguided, while the former Soviet bloc countries saw the situation more clearly.

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Poland is planning to honor a Lagos man – one "Ali" Agbola O'Browne – a jazz drummer from Nigeria who put his sticks down to fight the Nazi occupation of his wife's hometown in Warsaw's doomed but courageous 1944 uprising.

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Warsaw has fast become the epicenter of a staggering refugee crisis. –Two Ukrainians enter Poland every three seconds. –If the 200,000 who've come to Warsaw stay, as the most are expected to, one of every nine residents would be a newly arrived Ukrainian.

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Two Ukrainian Refugees Enter Poland Every Three Seconds Right Now

As two refugees cross the border every three seconds, cities can’t buy beds fast enough and Poland’s population is rising for the first time in decades.

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Chernobyl shut down in 2000 yet still needs staff to keep water circulating over thousands of spent fuel rods. On Feb. 24, technicians watched in horror as tanks drove up. They debated whether to fight or flee–but chose to stay on, monitoring the rods.

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Russian soldiers have taken their phones allow them only short calls to family. They have talked of extreme fatigue, dizziness, nausea and terrible headaches. Each morning, they get one call to their management, over a landline. A glimpse into Chernobyl.

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Inside Chernobyl, 200 Exhausted Staff Toil Round the Clock at Russian Gunpoint

Trapped since their shift 3 weeks ago, the Ukrainians keeping the abandoned nuclear plant safe are ill-fed, stressed and desperate for relief. “Everyone wants to go home.”

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In a twist of irony, Nigeria's military fired on unarmed protestors hours after three of the U.S. State Department’s top officials arrived in Abuja for a fact-finding trip to learn more about the drivers of instability in Nigeria.

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Young Nigerians Came to Protest Police Brutality. Then the Shooting Started.

Witnesses recounted how soldiers fired live rounds against peaceful protesters earlier this week, an incident that has deepened distrust between young Nigerians and the government.

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Hungary’s Viktor Orban, using new wartime emergency powers and ruling by decree, will make banks and multinational companies cede their excess profits to the state “to protect families. In addition, the army must be strengthened.”

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Hungary to Make Multinationals Cede Some Profits to State

WARSAW--Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban used newly acquired wartime powers to declare that multinational companies in his country must cede the bulk of their excess profits into new state funds...

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6 years

Amazing that robots can drive cars and fly planes but can't click the box "I'm not a robot."

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The Central Intelligence Agency warned the Ukrainian government not to attack Nord Stream last summer after it obtained detailed information on a Ukrainian plot to destroy the gas pipelines. With @bopanc , @JoeWSJ , and @wstrobel .

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WSJ News Exclusive | U.S. Warned Ukraine Not to Attack Nord Stream

CIA pressed Kyiv weeks before explosions sabotaged the natural gas pipelines bringing Russian gas to Europe.

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@dadakim Thanks Kim!

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Wow: The CDC is dramatically cutting back on its stop-the-next-plague-abroad work.

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CDC to Scale Back Work in Dozens of Foreign Countries Amid Funding Worries

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention plans to scale back or discontinue its work to prevent infectious-disease epidemics and other health threats in 39 foreign countries because it expects...

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For the past week, a team of WSJ reporters have been trying to sort out the details of what appears to be the largest weapons transfer since 1947: the guns-blazing race to arm Ukraine. What we have found is a bottleneck that could soon affect the war.

Weapons for Ukraine’s Fight Against Russia Flow Through Small Polish Border Towns

U.S. and allies race to buy and deliver more arms as Kyiv warns it is running low in its fight against Russia.

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7 years

In a year there’s going to be a civil war in Cameroon and all you silly twitter people are going to be pretending you understand what it’s about.

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3 years

Crédit where due. France got the locals out first, starting with (stereotype alert…) the chef. 🇫🇷

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Africa without borders. @PolicyMic 's map of the continent by prevailing language. http://t.co/mS2XGvA5dw

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Just over a year ago, in the dead of the night, a pair of prison vans left Beijing’s Detention Center No. 1, taking two blindfolded Canadians to an airport It was among the biggest prisoner swaps since the Cold War—the details held in secrecy, until now…

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Inside the Secret Prisoner Swap That Splintered the U.S. and China

The detention of a Chinese executive to stand trial in the U.S. provoked a standoff between global rivals and opened an acrimonious new era. “You are lapdogs of the United States.”

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Unrelated to the news, South Africa, which has been spat on in every way imaginable, is about to become more vaccinated than Bulgaria, which got a free all-you-can-jab vaccine buffet from the EU, but can’t be bothered.

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Nothing to see here but two of the world's most ancient civilizations fighting over the longest river, on an evermore dry and thirsty planet. by @MatinaStevis

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Imagine having to explain to the state where you got the name Muhammad Ali: "Well, in the 1960s, my father, who was a boxer..."

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— Children in Uganda have not been able to go to school since March 2020. (Covid). — Half the country is 16 or younger. — This is crazy.

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Learning from Twitter that being killed in Paris makes a person far more important, worthy of discussion than being killed in Baga, Nigeria.

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@paulg @elnathan_john But who decides which words are complicated? Our country of 320 million or theirs of 212 million? In Nigeria, the British English phrase "I will alight at the next stop" sounds more straightforward than the Americanism, "lemme hop off at the next stop." In America, the reverse.

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1 year

In today's Wall Street Journal: Peggy Noonan asks @JDVance1 and @TuckerCarlson to speak out against Russia's arrest of Evan Gershkovich. "You care about the free press, and have flourished within it. Protest what has happened here, sharply and repeatedly."

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Thread on thread: Joe and I reviewed ISIS’s West Africa comms as a part of our reporting on the Chibok kidnapping and last month’s copycat kidnapping at a school in Dapchi. The comms themselves reveal a significant strategic change in Nigeria’s ongoing war.

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2) We reviewed encrypted comms showing Barnawi's faction in regular contact with Islamic State emirs in Syria, Iraq and Libya. They have their own slickly-produced news channel (al-Hakik - or "credible") distributed on Telegram.

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Thank you to everyone who gave us their time, especially the victims of this and other kidnappings. via @WSJ

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Freedom for the World’s Most Famous Hostages Came at a Heavy Price

The fate of the Chibok schoolgirls sparked a social-media sensation, a global manhunt and a secret negotiation. At the center of the deal, which has been largely unreported, was a payment of €3...

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After 9/11, an airline pilot left the US to go home and become the mayor of Kabul. He’s still there, now governing a bankrupt city under Taliban rule. “I don’t expect to be here for too long.” By ⁦ @yarotrof ⁩

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In Kabul, a Former American Citizen Keeps Running the City Under Taliban Watch

A day after the fall of Kabul, as thousands of desperate members of the former government tried to escape via the U.S-controlled airport, the Taliban contacted the capital’s mayor to tell him that...

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I’ve been at the Ukraine border since Thursday. There is a lot of wrong information on what’s happening here. —Poland is letting in people of all nationalities. No visa or air ticket needed. —Ukraine is a chaotic emergency: no food, language barriers, days long waits.

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On this July 4, Wall Street Journal reporters are shaving their heads in solidarity with our jailed colleague, Evan, whose hair was buzzed in a Russian prison. Like the widow who Gospel tells us donated her last two coins, I sadly had little to offer.😂But I've given all I have.

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When I first wanted to enter this profession, I would buy a National Geographic then retype the articles just to see how they were structured. Such great writers. The world is worse off without them.

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My new National Geographic just arrived, which includes my latest feature—my 16th, and my last as a senior writer. NatGeo is laying off all of its staff writers. I’ve been so lucky. I got to work w/incredible journalists and tell important, global stories. It’s been an honor.

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Want to see the difference vaccines make? Poland is 54 % vaccinated, Spain 80%. Similar size populations. Neither hugely locked down. Spain is recording an almost identical number of cases. (26,136 a day). But nearly 700 Poles died yesterday. In Spain? 58.

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#Poland recorded 24,266 new confirmed #coronavirus cases and 669 deaths over the past 24 hours to Wednesday morning, a record high number this autumn, against 17,460 cases reported on Tuesday, data released by the Health Ministry shows.

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Very humbled to learn that ‘BRING BACK OUR GIRLS,’ by ⁦ @JoeWSJ ⁩ and I… …has won the Overseas Press Club of America’s Cornelius Ryan Award for the best nonfiction book on international affairs. Thank you to the many people who made this work of reporting possible.

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They also discussed selling the Nigerian military attack helicopters.

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Young Nigerians Came to Protest Police Brutality. Then the Shooting Started.

Witnesses recounted how soldiers fired live rounds against peaceful protesters earlier this week, an incident that has deepened distrust between young Nigerians and the government.

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The single biggest predictor of how a country did was whether they isolated international travelers on arrival, a step that the WHO and its International Health Regulations discouraged, and which got only cursory treatment in the UN’s independent pandemic review panel.

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One big global story of Covid response is the Asian Pacific countries vs Everyone Else. It’s so striking that across a variety of languages, cultures, development levels and forms of government that part of the world has been so successful in battling and containing the pandemic.

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Nigeria, Ghana beefing on twitter re: who makes best Jollof. As the WSJ expert: it's Ghana. Many Lagos shops MICROWAVE their jollof, shaaame

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Here is a story we have been reporting since the day Evan Gershkovich went missing, on the secret negotiations to free him. It features starring and walk-on roles from billionaires you didn't know were involved, spies, rule-bending diplomats, and his mom.

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Inside the Secret Negotiations to Free Evan Gershkovich

The secret negotiations to free The Wall Street Journal’s Evan Gershkovich unfolded on three continents, involving spy agencies, billionaires, political power players and his fiercest advocate—his...

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The whole episode reminds me of something Greg Tate wrote once. Subhuman or superhuman. No in between.

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Paris 'Spider-Man' joins fire brigade after citizenship fast-tracked

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Journalist Ivan Safronov, serving 22 years in a Russian penal colony, writes: "I've already been through it all: the methods used by investigators, by prosecutors, the partiality of the court. All I can say: If you allow yourself to despair you will crumble. But..." [1/2]

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“Reporting on Russia is now also a regular practice of watching people you know get locked away for years.” Our profile of a colleague whose desire to understand this country is being rewarded with imprisonment.

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Evan Gershkovich Loved Russia, the Country That Turned on Him

The correspondent, whose parents fled the Soviet Union, made Moscow a second home. He was detained Wednesday by the FSB for alleged espionage, an allegation the Journal vehemently denies.

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- 120 people at a Norwegian Christmas party - All vaccinated - All rapid tested negative the day before - More than half now have Covid in what appears to be the world’s biggest omicron outbreak - So far: Symptoms all mild.

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Omicron Cases at Norway Christmas Party Provide Clues on New Variant’s Spread

The event at an upscale Oslo restaurant included about 120 people, several of whom had just returned from South Africa.

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3 years

Now: A good time to tweet that Orban's most important defender by far has not been Tucker Carlson but Angela Merkel.

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My third audio report from the Ukrainian border, this one on the ordinary Ukrainian emigrants crossing the European Union's🇪🇺borders to go home and fight.

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Listen 🎧: Many Ukrainians who had been living in other parts of the world are heeding the call from President Zelensky, and returning home to fight. @drewhinshaw joins @annmariefertoli with their stories.

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Indeed, I am reminded of this essay from the excellent @HeidiVogt of what it was like waking up before dawn to carefully cover bomb blasts for a wire service whose readers in America didn't really care. The fault dear Brutus...

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When a Bomb Goes Off in Afghanistan

Heidi Vogt was always one of the first people to file when a bomb exploded in Afghanistan. But what happens when the press starts to draw down?

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"The protesters chanted things like, 'You will not replace us,' 'Russia is our friend' and 'Blood and soil.'"

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People are lambasting this latest Trumpism, but it's exactly what many African leaders have wanted a U.S. president to say for years.

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Trump to African leaders: "Africa has tremendous business potential. I have so many friends going to your countries trying to get rich."

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In 1998, the FSB created a spy unit to track foreigners visiting Russia, especially Americans: "DKRO." Its existence was so secret that until @JoeWSJ & I published a piece on it this month, this 25-year-old institution had virtually no google results – or even a Wikipedia page.⬇️

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🎧 In today’s episode of The Journal podcast, @JoeWSJ and @drewhinshaw report on the secretive spy unit that U.S. officials believe is responsible for the surveillance and harassment of Americans in Russia, including WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich

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Counter-Jihad: After years of hearing democracy=sin, many thousands in Boko Haram's hometown attend a rally. Bravery. http://t.co/i7mfvbDAH0

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This article, by a 27-year-old reporter murdered mid-assignment, is being read, word for word on Slovak radio this morning: Slovakia's prime minister hired an ex-topless model and Miss Universe contestant with mafia ties to be his chief government aid.

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The Model, the Mafia, and the Murderers - OCCRP

A former model hired as an assistant by Slovakia’s Prime Minister once did business with a man connected to Italy’s notorious ‘Ndrangheta mafia.

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If the number of people who have fled Ukraine into Poland over this past week was a city, it would be Poland's fifth largest.

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Final victims of a 20 year war: children of a US interpreter, killed gathering around their uncle’s car. Tells the WSJ “I no longer care” about the visa.

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New trend: The Western Media writing about how the Western Media is ignoring something everybody learned about through the Western Media.

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I'm just going to keep saying this. All is not well in West Africa. Everywhere I go, blackouts, frustration, and jobless young men.

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Is that the sound of one of America's closest allies calling for Joe Biden to step aside?

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Marcus Aurelius was a great emperor but he screwed up his succession by passing the baton to his feckless son Commodus (He, from the Gladiator). Whose disastrous rule started Rome's decline. It's important to manage one's ride into the sunset.

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Got this in the mail and found myself reading it all weekend. Couldn’t put it down: Page after page of elegantly told histories of people whose lives would be entertaining at book length. Nice one, @DoubleEph .

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After years of ever hardening borders, Slovakia, Romania, Hungary (!), Poland, all open. And yet hundreds of thousands of absolutely exhausted people are trekking in rain to wait for days at border checkpoints in Ukraine, manned by stressed soldiers watching their homeland burn.

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The song, if you'd like to hear it, is here. Ali Bongo was toppled today in a coup that ended 56 years of his family's rule. It's the latest in a wave of revolts against French-backed, civilian (but not very democratic) leaders in West & Central Africa.

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Alain Bongo ‎– I Wanna Stay With You ℗ 1978

Ali Bongo Ondimba (born Alain Bernard Bongo; 9 February 1959) sometimes known as Ali Bongo, is a Gabonese politician who has been President of Gabon since Oc...

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2 years

A French speaker is badly needed at these border points. Congolese, Senegalese and Ivorians coming across with no idea where to go or who to ask. Even more English speakers would help.

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3 years

For sale: French submarines, never used.

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2 years

We are talking about people walking 40 km to stand in line for three days. Thick crowds, no air to breathe. No shelter, no food. A tiny staff to manage this crush that may soon be millions. You must understand what is happening in this context. It is bedlam.

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2 years

Border point in Medyka - In theory there is everything: transport, medical aid, volunteers serving warm meals. In practice this place is a pure chaos: No information points and no proper coordination of transport. Especially African refugees feel lost. With @drewhinshaw

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Nigeria vanquishes Ebola with simple, scientist-prescribed methods. No travel ban, and just a little hystera. http://t.co/zZM9ambtkT @WSJ

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2 years

Czechia gave Ukraine attack helicopters, and has taken in dozens of armored vehicles for repairs so they can be sent back to combat “It's the start of what's probably going to be a bigger effort," in which the NATO member would also repair Ukraine's tanks

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Czech Republic Gives Ukraine Attack Helicopters and Repairs Its Vehicles

Officials say the efforts to repair Ukraine’s armored vehicles are part of a larger commitment to restore the Soviet-style equipment in Ukraine’s possession.

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6 years

A difference between say Macron and Orban is that the former merely pays African dictators to chase migrants into the desert, where thousands have died of thirst, then downplays it as a distant, technocratic adjustment, while Orban up-plays a fence as a civilizational victory.

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7 years

If I understand American politics correctly, the Senate just spent the last two weeks debating how to fund the government for the next three weeks. 🇺🇸

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9 years

Nigeria governors book conference room in one of world's most expensive hotels to announce they hv no $ to pay staff. http://t.co/eGkHHh6sDD

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3 years

New variant proposal: We name them via corporate sponsorship. But, like in reverse. If Coca-Cola supplies enough vaccines to cover South Africa, the government will rename b.1.351 "the Pepsi variant."

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10 years

Drums thundering, trumpet blaring, flags aloft. Chicken on the grill. Ghana's fans look ready to me! http://t.co/L0XGPmkql4

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Very important story that isn’t getting the media attention it deserves. 🇳🇬

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Opinion | I Have Never Been So Proud of My Fellow Nigerians (Published 2023)

The Biden administration needs to stand behind the Nigerian people now and make a firm commitment to support election transparency.

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2 years

FTX was handling about $500 million in trading volume a month in Africa, before it went bust. Overwhelmingly, that was Nigerians, who were trying to invest or transfer small sums they’d managed to save, someplace safe from the naira.

In Africa, FTX Posed as Haven From Tumbling Currencies, Inflation

The cryptocurrency exchange’s ambassadors recruited new customers through glitzy events, $5 sign-up bonuses and giveaways.

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4 years

A pro-democracy protest movement that has not won much support or recognition abroad.

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Tens Of Thousands Protest In Mali, Seek Resignation Of President

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2 years

More in the piece, but bottom line: Even NATO's arsenal has political and logistical limits. “For 20 years, most Western countries were not investing enough in their own militaries, and now we pay the price,” said Latvian Defense Minister Artis @Pabriks .

Weapons for Ukraine’s Fight Against Russia Flow Through Small Polish Border Towns

U.S. and allies race to buy and deliver more arms as Kyiv warns it is running low in its fight against Russia.

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2 years

@asemota Met up with someone for an absolute stellar sushi lunch years ago, on VI — a fortune of course. The owner comes out and tells me he flies to Paris 2x weekly to fill a suitcase with raw fish. I think about it all the time. As if Paris borders the sea and Lagos doesn’t.

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10 years

What's a Chinese firm to do when wages rise? Open a factory in Africa http://t.co/CqIBchyI3T

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China Inc. Moves Factory Floor to Africa

Faced with rising labor costs at home and negative perceptions of employment practices in Africa, Chinese companies are setting up new factories on the continent and hiring more Africans.

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2 years

Just met a 71-year-old grandmother who has only now arrived in Poland after five days waiting to cross the Polish border. Traffic the entire way. “We don’t deserve this.” For some reason, found it hard to finish the interview.

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11 months

Europe has overtaken the U.S. as Ukraine’s top benefactor, the Kiel Institute reports, based on recent pledges from the EU and its members.

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11 months

The above comes from one of the best–in my humble opinion–music biographies, ever: "The One: The Life and Music of James Brown," by RJ Smith. Among other things, it convinced me that James Brown was probably the most important musician of the 1960s.

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The One: The Life and Music of James Brown

The One: The Life and Music of James Brown

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1 year

A new one, by me & the team. Yevgeny Prigozhin spent his last days in meetings in Central African Republic, where Sudanese rebels presented him with gold bars, before flying to Mali, reassuring his clients that his business empire would survive.

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WSJ News Exclusive | The Last Days of Wagner’s Prigozhin

On the run, the paramilitary chief crisscrossed his global business empire, stopping in Central African Republic and Mali, desperate to show he was still in control; ‘I need more gold.’

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1 year

Here's what I have to say about the two best reporters covering Ukraine, @yarotrof & @marson_jr , finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting: The competition needed to fly in literally *dozens* of reporters to beat them on this one.

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Yaroslav Trofimov and James Marson of The Wall Street Journal

For prescient on-the-ground reporting from the shifting front lines of the war in Ukraine that presaged the Russian assault on Kyiv and chronicled the tenacious resistance of Ukrainian soldiers and...

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Very grateful to learn that @JoeWSJ , @aviswanatha , and I are finalists for the deadline club’s feature reporting category, for our investigation into the prisoner swap for an arrested Huawei executive for two Canadians detained in China.

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Also in the Newspaper or Digital Feature Reporting category, @drewhinshaw , @JoeWSJ and @aviswanatha are finalists for their story, "Inside the Secret Prisoner Swap That Splintered the U.S. and China."

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So Brown sent songwriter Charles Bobbit ("Make it Funky") to ask Bongo for a few hundred thousand more. Bobbit–tired of Brown's antics–kept the cash and stayed in Libreville as Bongo's chief advisor. He produced a record with Bongo's son Ali, Gabon's future president–until today

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2 years

The EU's new €18 billion for Ukraine does several things for Brussels: –Signals EU's commitment to Ukraine isn't dwindling, as Putin hopes. –Marginalizes Viktor Orban –Breaks new ground in centralizing finances –Helps Kyiv pay the bills w/ @laurnorman

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EU Signs Off on $19 Billion in Funding for Ukraine

The European Union cemented its pledge to provide funding for Ukraine next year after Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban backed down from threats to block the EU proposal.

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Adam Entous is really one of the best reporters I've known or worked with, and I was counting the days until he broke something this big.

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