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Julian Borger
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Guardian's world affairs editor, author of The Butcher's Trail: How the Search for Balkan War Criminals Became the World's Most Successful Manhunt. DMs open.
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In the summer of 1938, small ads starting appearing in the Manchester Guardian from Jews in Nazi-run Vienna looking for families in Britain to take in their children. My dad was one of them and was saved. I set out to find what happened to the others.
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‘I seek a kind person’: the Guardian ad that saved my Jewish father from the Nazis
In 1938, there was a surge of classified ads in this newspaper as parents – including my grandparents – scrambled to get their children out of the Reich. What became of the families?
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Brett Bruen
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“This carries on a long tradition of shows that put a foreign policy focus in the title & then veer completely off into something that has nothing or little to do with actual diplomacy.” Explained to ⁦
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⁩ why I’m not a fan of #TheDiplomat
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‘I don’t recall so many attractive people’: experts reveal what The Diplomat gets right – and wrong
Foreign affairs staff seem mostly to be enjoying the new Netflix show starring Keri Russell, despite the many liberties it takes
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Szabolcs Panyi
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"US Republicans and their European allies tore up news headlines and ejected a Guardian journalist from a conference of radical rightwing activists, on the same day that they highlighted the importance of free speech."
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on #CPACHungary
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Rightwingers praise free speech at CPAC Hungary – then eject Guardian journalist
Kari Lake speaks at Budapest meeting of US Republicans and European allies aimed at cementing rightwing ties
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Hugo Lowell
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NEW: Four members of the Proud Boys extremist group, including its former leader Enrique Tarrio, were convicted of seditious conspiracy for their roles in planning and leading the January 6 Capitol attack in an effort to keep Trump in power.
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Proud Boys quartet found guilty of seditious conspiracy over Capitol attack
Former leader Enrique Tarrio among four members of US far-right group convicted after trial lasting nearly four months
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Ruth Michaelson
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British officials in Sudan presented families with terrible choices based on their citizenship or passport status: Split up and allow their children to fly to safety, or stay together in a war zone. My piece for
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Britons trapped in Sudan say relatives were not allowed on flights
Foreign Office accused of creating ‘confusion’ during evacuation, with some struggling to get visas or prove citizenship
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petersbeaumont
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Kherson got hit again heavily last night. Spoke to residents who are stocking up with food and water and planning to stay home even ahead of the start of the 56 hour curfew due to start tomorrow evening. Lot of anticipation and anxiety over what's coming
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Flora Garamvolgyi
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Tucker’s pre-recorded video message for CPAC Hungary: “I wish I could be there in Budapest. "If I ever get fired, I hope to join you."
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Szabolcs Panyi
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"🇺🇸@TuckerCarlson checks in with #CPAC in #Budapest. 📷#Tucker is many things: truth-teller, a TV star, a #Conservative thinker, a hero, a symbol. He's also a friend of #Hungary, having visited here and told the #American people the truth about us," CPAC Hungary organizer… Show more
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petersbeaumont
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Here’s my piece on the over night situation in Kherson with residents speculating where things are going after another bad night
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Ukraine residents prepare for curfew after night of heavy shelling theguardian.com/world/2023/may
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petersbeaumont
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We managed to work in Kherson yesterday just before all this happened. Story going up soon.
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Christopher Miller
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Oleksandr Prokudin, head of Kherson Oblast Military Admin, announces 58-hour curfew in Kherson from 8pm on May 5 to 6am on May 8, "for law enforcement to work." Entry/exit is banned; "forbidden to move & be on the streets of the city." He tells residents, stock up on food, meds.
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Philip Gourevitch
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This piece on DeSantis’s part, as a hotshot young military lawyer, in covering up atrocities at Guantanamo is essential (albeit gruesome) reading — and should be getting lots of attention.
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As a young navy lawyer, the Ron DeSantis was posted to the Guantanamo Bay prison camp. What he did there – and his role in the investigation of three deaths – remains controversial By @julianborger and me theguardian.com/us-news/2023/a
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Gail Helt
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“May constitute”…. That is too generous. What we did to abu Zubaydah is a crime against humanity. There’s no other term to describe torturing a man so severely that the torturers seek and get assurances that he will be detained forever so he can’t talk about what happened.
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The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has declared the detention of Abu Zubaydah at Guantanamo to be unlawful and called for his release. It said the "systematic deprivation of liberty" at Gitmo may constitute "constitute crimes against humanity". theguardian.com/us-news/2023/a
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Shpend Ahmeti
@ShpendA
The bridge in Mitrovica was opened. People were moving freely. Serbia says this could lead to conflict. Why? How? Why should both Serbs and Albanians be limited in their movement? Is Serbia afraid of what people would see in each other? Let people live!
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