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“ambassador, i’m just popping out for a meeting with a key contact” the meeting:

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@brianely @tingtingliuTVBS @TheRickWilson While you're not wrong about the Taiwan Strait, the Communist Party of China considers Taiwan an inalienable part of the mainland. Reunification of Taiwan is perhaps *the* most important foreign policy goal of Xi Jinping's Chinese Rejuvenation.

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WiFi is finally working for our very own Helen Zhang who is calling live from COP28! Make sure to check out our newsletter for more in-depth coverage!

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Top 5 articles on @Wikipedia this year: #1 : ChatGPT, 49,490,406 pageviews #2 : Deaths in 2023, 42,666,860 #3 : 2023 Cricket World Cup, 38,171,653 #4 : Indian Premier League, 32,012,810 #5 : Oppenheimer (film), 28,348,248 Any surprises? What would you have thought?

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Xi and Biden met in San Francisco last week. Can we get a vibe check? Check out Intrigue Outloud ( in comments) for the answer

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🎁 2023 Intrigue Advent Calendar - 14th December Ireland definitely takes the cake for most adorable Christmas political tradition!

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Santa Claus has been granted permission to enter Irish airspace this Christmas, the Dáil has heard | More:

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Travis Kelce jerseys saw a nearly 400% spike in sales after Taylor Swift attended his game, TMZ reports.

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Japan's Nippon Steel is set to buy legendary US Steel for more than $14 billion, but the news isn't sitting well with a lot of people Our take 👇

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🎁 2023 Intrigue Advent Calendar - 18th December Thai rice farmers drew a picture of a sleeping cat hugging a fish with rice seedlings in a stunning aerial art display. The picture is inspired by the Thai abundance proverb: "There is fish in the water and rice in the fields".

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What would a war over Taiwan look like? Which new tactics and technologies would armies use? General Mick Ryan ( @Warinthefuture ) answers those questions in his new book “White Sun War” and joins @EthanPlotkin_ on this week’s Intrigue Outloud to discuss:

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🎁 2023 Intrigue Advent Calendar - 20th December Ever wondered how far you could drive in a straight line without hitting a major body of water? Well, mathematicians Rohan Chabukswa and Kushal Mukherjee have got you covered: just start in Sagres, Portugal and keep going until

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🎁 2023 Intrigue Advent Calendar - 20th December We couldn't think of a better way to kick off our winter holidays than with this photo of former German Chancellor Angela Merkel ironing some fun-looking wrapping paper. Doesn't get much more geopolitically festive than this,

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What's next for Israel and Gaza? And is this fighting yet another sign that the prevailing world order is fraying? @jacobshap of @CognitiveInvest joins today's Intrigue Outloud to discuss:

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You've heard of Elf on the Shelf, now get ready for

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In our former life as diplomats, a Western ambassador in the Middle East told us: “Deep down, people don’t want peace; they want to win.” Our take on the Hamas attack on Israel 👇

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"Did it suddenly get very warm in here? Just me? Ok."

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I’m not gonna lie to y’all, I’ve watched this approximately 257 times… Blinken, dying inside, never gets old

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Absolutely wild, can’t believe this one!

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🎁 2023 Intrigue Advent Calendar - 15th December It's time to vote. Over the course of the last 12 months, our graphic designers (aka the content team) have created some pretty fun graphics. Here are 4 of our favourites: 1) Cocaine-hagen 2) Saudi Uranium 3) Chipping Away 4)

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Incredible pic of the weekend’s aurora australis caused by geomagnetic storms, submitted by a member of the Intrigue community ✨ 📌 Tasmania, Australia 📷 Brett Charlton

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📷 Today's photo of the day is a little different... ... because we got invited to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner! That’s right - last Saturday, Intrigue Media co-founder Helen Zhang ( @lilsproutzhang ) attended the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner, along with

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⌛️ We're just a couple weeks out from this year's #COP28 climate change talks in Dubai 🔎 And we're chuffed to have @danilic update us on a tussle playing out between Turkey and Australia 📬 Hitting 70k+ inboxes this Friday 👇 As always, free to subscribe

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This headline from today's newsletter certainly caught our eye 😳

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As reports emerge about a possible US prisoner deal with Iran, the remarkable @KMooreGilbert has shared some thoughts with Intrigue on what it all means. Hitting 50k+ inboxes in just a few hours📬 As always, free to subscribe 👇 Our thanks to Kylie 🙏

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Myanmar's rebels said they had the junta on its backheels Now, they've apparently negotiated a ceasefire

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Israelis woke up this morning to the most significant terror event in a generation. Intrigue's Helen Zhang joined @EthanPlotkin_ to break down what we know so far.

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🛤️ Why are the US and the EU backing a rail corridor through Africa? Our take 👇

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Rwandan pro-democracy leader @VictoireUmuhoza was detained while running for president in 2010 and spent eight years in prison. She tells her story and shares her hope for Rwanda’s future on today's Intrigue Outloud:

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We’re honoured to collaborate with @Charles_Lister to bring you an expert take on what’s going on in Syria 🇸🇾, and whether normalising ties with Assad was the right call… Don’t miss it 👀 Hitting 60k inboxes soon 📧 Free to subscribe 👇

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We won't be publishing a newsletter tomorrow because we're going to be playing with this all day. haha kidding. unless...

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Ever wonder where your house was located 300 million years ago? Thanks to software engineer Ian Webster, now you can. His interactive map tracks how the globe has changed over the course of the last 750 million years and... lets you pinpoint your address

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Do you need more than one?

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Incredible pic of yesterday’s total solar eclipse, submitted by a member of the Intrigue community 🌙 ☀️ 📌 Indiana, USA 📷 Michael Stanfill

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National and online security is paramount 🔒 So, we want to reassure our British readers and followers that we'll never ask you to divulge national security secrets or start spying on our behalf. Everyone else though, our DMs are open 😉

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2023 was quite a year for global politics... Here are some of the trends we were watching (from our 2023 end-of-year edition!)👇

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That’s why us diplomats write about them instead 🤔 😂

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Parisian architecture actually makes the city warmer in the summer months. And no, we're not talking about the Eiffel Tower, but ~75% of Paris’ buildings feature gray zinc rooftops. This trio of designers found the roofs were making it 10 degrees hotter than in the

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Over 500 million people around the world speak Spanish, and luckily so does our new Managing Editor, and former diplomat to Mexico and Peru, Jeremy Dicker. Without further ado, we introduce Intriga Internacional! Sign up for the once-a-week email delivery, all in Spanish!

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ambassador we've incorporated your helpful additions, here is the revised cable

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Don't think Mayor Adams understood the question 🤔

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DAN MANNARINO: [Describe the year in one word & tell me why that word.] MAYOR ADAMS: "New York. This is a place where everyday you wake up you could experience… a plane crashing into our Trade Center… And that's why it's the greatest city on the globe." DM: "Uh-huh." 🤷🏻‍♂️

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🎁 2023 Intrigue Advent Calendar - 6th December Here's a fun fact for those holiday dinners: The northernmost point in Brazil, Monte Caburaí, is closer to Canada and every other country in the Americas than it is to Brazil’s own southernmost point, Arroio Chuí. Big country,

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Out of all the types of diplomacy governments endorse, yurt diplomacy definitely takes the top spot

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Whether or not you were expecting things between Israel and Gaza to calm down soon, you can now be sure that is not happening. Israeli PM Netanyahu said on Monday, Israel will “have the overall security responsibility [in Gaza] for an indefinite period”. The image below shows

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🏦 Why's Goldman Sachs suing Malaysia? Our take on one of history's largest embezzlements 👇

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Doing this from now on

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This is actually the only correct way of saying “Venezuela”

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Holiday plans sorted!

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India becomes just the fourth nation (after the US, Russia, and China) to soft-land a rover on the Moon - and the first to ever land on its south pole

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Chandrayaan-3 Mission: 'India🇮🇳, I reached my destination and you too!' : Chandrayaan-3 Chandrayaan-3 has successfully soft-landed on the moon 🌖!. Congratulations, India🇮🇳! #Chandrayaan_3 #Ch3

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This week, the leaders of the the Five Eyes intelligence alliance appeared together in public for the first time. Click the link to see what they had to say about the “unprecedented threat” China’s espionage poses to the tech world 👇

The Five Eyes talk tech and China - Intrigue

The heads of US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand security agencies (the ‘Five Eyes’ intelligence alliance) have met in Silicon Valley this week.

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US lawmakers got a taste of life living next to Hamas on Sunday. Click the link in bio for our key takeaways from the Israel-Hamas conflict so far.

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Ensuring a "just transition" is a very buzzy phrase in the world of climate finance - but it looks like it's starting to take hold. One of the big "wins" of #COP28 was the $30B fund announced to focus on emerging economies. h/t @climatetech_vc for Headlines of 2023 edition.

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Whoa, just came across this footage of us recently. Wild!

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Would never be caught in outdated skinny jeans

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📊 Chart of the day: Solar power is set to overtake all other power sources by 2027! Credits: @FT

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3rd secretary, station chief deputy ambassador, ambassador

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The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Forum is set to kick off tomorrow, with India likely to skip the event. We thought we'd ask Neil Thomas ( @neilthomas123 ), Fellow on Chinese Politics at the @AsiaSociety to share his thoughts on what this means for India-China ties. Hitting 65k

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🎁 2023 Intrigue Advent Calendar - 13th December Behind this virtual calendar door is a fascinating graph! The small Caribbean nation of Anguilla is raking in cash from an unexpected source: its internet domain. Since the launch of Chat GPT last year and the AI craze that’s

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🚨 BREAKING: Javier Milei wins Argentina’s presidential elections 📬 Our take hits 70k+ inboxes soon 🆓 As ever, we’re free to subscribe 👇

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Times of Israel is reporting a 5-day ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas that will hopefully see 50 kidnapped Israelis released. There are additional reports that Israeli government is prepared to extend the ceasefire one additional day per 10 hostages released.

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Where is the world's next geopolitical hotspot? On today's Intrigue Outloud, @jmurtazashvili of @CGMPitt and @CarnegieEndow argues that Central Asia - the geopolitical centre of gravity in centuries past - is due for a resurgence:

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us finishing #UNGA this week

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🚨 Big news: @Dicker_JJ has joined @intintrigue ! JD previously served as a diplomat in 🇺🇸 🇵🇪 🇲🇽 Fun fact: he received Peru’s Presidential 🏅 for Distinguished Service. Funner fact: the same President was charged with corruption not long after (JD swears this is a coincidence)

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@VictoireUmuhoza Then, @anjansun joins the show to explain why Western governments continue to support Rwanda’s leader, why the country’s history of violence still endures, and how it all serves to destabilise the region:

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🚨 More than 1 in 4 people lost money to scams or identity theft in the last 12 months, according to @ScamAlliance 's 2023 report. People in Singapore, Switzerland, and Austria were found to have lost the most money on average.

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🎉 Today was our 200th newsletter - thanks to all those old and new who have supported us! We've worked hard to listen to feedback, update our product and deliver every day.

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Them: Geopolitics is boring! Us: ...

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🏦 The IMF and World Bank are in Morocco right now 🌱 They're both under pressure to evolve But that means 💰 stretched governments ponying up more cash, & 💪 spooked governments ceding more power And it’s hard to see either happening this week. Our take 👇

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Incumbents lost elections in Poland and New Zealand Voters voted for new blood in Ecuador And Australians roundly rejected a high-profile ballot initiative What do all these elections have in common? Check out today's Intrigue Outloud to find out

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⌛️ We're just days out from this year's #COP28 🔎 And we've got a special guest update from @danilic 📬 Hitting 70k+ inboxes tomorrow (Friday)! Free as always 👇

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Robert Hanssen, one of the most infamous double agents in US history, passed away on Monday while serving a life sentence. A short 🧵 on the former FBI agent turned Russian spy who went by the codename 'B'.

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We just closed out $1.75M seed round, and yeah, we're feeling good about it. Pumped to see coverage from @axios this morning.

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"If you’re anywhere close to the cutting edge of tech, you might not be interested in geopolitics, but geopolitics is interested in you" - Ken McCallum, MI5 director general

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@DmitryOpines A fourth: they never actually talked. They were both handed phones with nobody on the line and told to "give 'em hell boss".

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We also consider ourselves flag experts and let's just say: we disagree

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New Minnesota state flag! Have to say I was not optimistic during much of the final deliberations but largely no complaints about this final design. Thoughts?

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High marks for efficiency, low marks for security

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Donald Tusk, Poland's likely next prime minister, revealed his phone PIN code during a live TV broadcast of the first sitting of the new parliament

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Folks. 15 followers short of our first K stack. Help us out and we promise never to refer to 1000 as a K stack again.

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A quick read to understand more about this weekend's events between Israel/Gaza: 1) Hamas and Israel both sought to project strength while complying with their deal: Hamas released its third tranche of hostages in the middle of Gaza City (where Israel has established

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The French parliament is calling on the European Union to add the Wagner Group to its terrorist blacklist. But what does that mean? A 🧵

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We're back! We’ve got plenty of big things planned this year as we guide you through the most consequential global news as it happens. We're so grateful to have each and every one of you along for the ride. Click the link below to read our first newsletter of the year! 👇

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🚢 Finland says it's investigating whether a China-flagged ship was involved in damaging its gas pipeline 5⃣ Either way, it all reminds us of five things: 1) Undersea infrastructure is more critical than ever 2) It’s also more vulnerable than ever 3) Grey zone tactics are

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"Food is the essence of geopolitics. There is no more basic human need than securing access to food and water..." writes @JacobShap for @thelykeion . In today's edition, we look at how #COVID19 and now #WARINUKRAINE is threatening an already weak supply chain. (1/5)

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US-China relations reach a new low

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Bye-bye, Mei Xiang, Tian Tian and Xiao Qi Ji! 🐼With the help of a panda motorcade, D.C.'s favorite bears have left the National Zoo for China.

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Our managing editor @Dicker_JJ takes *one day* off, and we immediately violate his most sacred of rules

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Only one day left to prepare your arguments 🦃 🍁

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Germany will invest $500 million in renewable energy and technology projects in Nigeria in exchange for an increase in gas supplies. Nigeria is the largest African oil producer, and the continent’s third-largest gas producer behind Algeria and Egypt.

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Don't judge a book by its cover, and don't judge a country by its embassies? The North Korean embassy in London is a seven-bedroom family house in the capital’s suburbs. Far from the grandiose embassies in Belgravia and Kensington, Pyongyang opted for a more budget-friendly

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Portuguese politics is in an uproar after Prime Minister António Costa suddenly resigned on Tuesday, hours after police raided his home to look for evidence of corruption.

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Argentine President Javier Milei's inauguration on Sunday was a real who's who of global politics (that's Gabriel Boric of Chile, Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, and Hungary's Viktor Orban in the front row) 👇Check out today's newsletter to find out why they all made the trip

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How cool: Twitter wrote our tweet for us!

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Yevgeny Prigozhin was passenger on crashed plane, Russian officials say

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Nepalese Foreign Minister Narayan Prakash Saud announced a total TikTok ban on Monday, citing the app’s impact on “social harmony”. Several countries like the US, UK, and New Zealand have restricted TikTok, while others like India and now neighbouring Nepal have banned it

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again, hard-hitting journalism!

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If you’re wondering where your newsletter was this morning, it’s because we're taking a weeklong break to reset and recharge before a very exciting September!

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Epic first Intrigue Happy Hour in DC! It was so good, @johnsnonsense even lost his sweater.

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🇳🇬 Nigerians will head to the polls this Saturday, but they're not the only African nation preparing for change. In the next two years 30 African states will hold elections that could usher in a new legislature/ head of state. Credits: @TheEconomist

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Something v weird going on in Russia. Impossible to know what it is - don’t believe anyone who says they *know*. Visual ‘evidence’ meaningless. If real, Prigozhin would need internal support (or be crazy) so we’re watching for silence or scattered uncoordinated gov response.

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I just spoke to someone with contacts inside Wagner - he confirmed that this wasn't theatre, and that Prigozhin is making a move. "It's not clear exactly what's happening right now, but it's not nothing."

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