Adam Taylor

@mradamtaylor

Washington Post foreign news -- Reach me at adam.taylor@washpost.com or mradamtaylor@protonmail.com or my DMs are open

Washington, DCwashingtonpost.com/world/Joined September 2008

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For most coronations over the past 800 years, the city of Gloucester in England has presented newly crowned monarchs with lamprey pies. To reflect changing tastes, King Charles III’s pie was made with pork instead of the traditional slimy, eel-like fish. nyti.ms/42kdLNE

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Matthew Hay Brown

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May 5

BREAKING WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declares covid-19 no longer a global health emergency ⁦

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WHO declares covid-19 no longer a global health emergency

The World Health Organization lifted its designation, signifying a lessening of the danger posed by the coronavirus pandemic

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May 3

Wait until Americans find out about what Americans call Chinese food

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The Independent

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May 3

Americans are horrified at what British people call Chinese food indy100.com/tiktok/british

Adam Taylor

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Apr 29

Don’t disagree with the article overall but find the mention of journalism movies weird There are what, 2 or 3 revered journalism movies? And the best ones make clear how repetitive the work is (and show journalists as asocial schlubs wearing bad chinos)

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Opinion | Requiem for the Newsroom

Nobody’s going to make a movie about reporters at home with their cursors.

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Apr 28

Getting targeted ads for ... some kind of pointy, hooky medical device. Things must be going well at Twitter HQ.

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Ben Pauker

@benpauker

Apr 26

The Biden admin insists that sanctions are working and will decimate Russia's economy. But a top secret document says Moscow is mitigating "economic pressures" — and can fund the war in Ukraine for another year, at least NEW, from

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washingtonpost.com

Russia can fund war in Ukraine for another year despite sanctions, leaked document says

In previously unreported, leaked U.S. documents, senior Russian officials, intelligence agencies and oligarchs fret over sanctions — and work around them.

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Reuters

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Apr 25

Sweden launches research rocket, accidentally hits Norway reut.rs/3LurcF5

Adam Taylor

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Apr 24

Tucker?

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The Fence Magazine

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Apr 24

The hunt for the Murdoch employee with the chocolate-smeared grin has gone global... thedailybeast.com/murdoch-owned-

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Adam Taylor

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Apr 24

"Carlson signed off his final show by promoting his latest special, 'Let Them Eat Bugs,' and saying: 'We'll be back on Monday.'"

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Tucker Carlson has left Fox News

His final show on the network aired last Friday, Fox said in a statement.

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Michelle Ye Hee Lee

@myhlee

Apr 24

Chinese journalist Dong Yuyu, a longtime writer and a Harvard University fellow known for his sharp observations on Chinese society, has been arrested on charges of espionage, according to his family. By ⁦

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Prominent Chinese journalist faces espionage charges, family says

Dong Yuyu, a former Harvard University journalism fellow, was detained in February, in the latest sign of how boundaries are being redrawn in Xi Jinping’s China.

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Shane Harris

@shaneharris

Apr 24

Scoop: Ukraine was planning attacks on Moscow to mark the one-year anniversary of the war but held off at Washington’s request. washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/ By me and

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At U.S. behest, Ukraine held off anniversary attacks on Russia

Kyiv’s head of military intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov, planned bold strikes deep behind enemy lines that unnerved officials in Washington.

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Bill Bishop

@niubi

Apr 23

Chinese Censorship Is Quietly Rewriting the Covid-19 Story - The New York Times “Under government pressure, Chinese scientists have retracted studies and withheld or deleted data. The censorship has stymied efforts to understand the virus.”

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Chinese Censorship Is Quietly Rewriting the Covid-19 Story

Under government pressure, Chinese scientists have retracted studies and withheld or deleted data. The censorship has stymied efforts to understand the virus.

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is one of a growing list of excellent foreign journalists banned from entering Afghanistan by the Taliban. Many of these journos are women, often banned for covering women’s rights.

washingtonpost.com

Statement by Executive Editor Sally Buzbee on Susannah George ban from Afghanistan

Afghan authorities have barred George, The Post's Afghanistan and Pakistan bureau chief, from reporting inside the country.

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Time to cancel my country club membership

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb

@nntaleb

Apr 21

I can't get people who pay thousands, sometimes tens of thousands of dollars for their car lease, country club fees, (rarely used) gym membership, etc. and, while spending a lot of time on TWITTER, refuse to shell out $8 for the service. Despicable, domain dependent misers!

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Evan Hill

@evanhill

Apr 20

🚨 Exclusive: Ukraine’s military intelligence agency developed plans to conduct covert attacks on Russian forces in Syria using secret Kurdish help, and Turkey was aware, according to a leaked top secret U.S. intelligence document. Me with

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washingtonpost.com

Ukraine planned attacks on Russian forces in Syria, leaked document shows

THE DISCORD LEAKS | Last winter, Ukraine’s military intelligence directorate proposed striking Russian troops and Wagner mercenaries in Syria, before President Volodymyr Zelensky directed a halt to...

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"The biggest mystery is Bogner himself, who entered the influenza field in 2006 without any known links to research or science policy. In his early 20s, Bogner was convicted of securities fraud ...and had a falling out with a World Cup skier..."

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The ‘invented persona’ behind a key pandemic database

GISAID offers a safe space to post viral genomes. Peter Bogner, its perplexing creator and overseer, may be jeopardizing its future

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finding out some disturbing things about who may be paying for their blue checks

Seems odd that HuffPost can be made profitable but BuzzFeed News apparently cannot vanityfair.com/news/2023/04/b via

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vanityfair.com

BuzzFeed News Is Shutting Down: “I’m Shocked and Sad but Not Totally Surprised”

Jonah Peretti announced the end of BuzzFeed’s Pulitzer Prize–winning online news site, citing sluggish returns in the stock market and struggling advertising. The news comes alongside another round...

Adam Taylor

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Apr 20

"Tapper also said he wished we had at least waited until morning to give his news the attention it deserved: 'Collegiality wise it was you stepping on my dick,' he wrote." 🙄

theatlantic.com

After All That, I Would Still Publish the Dossier

But I would do some things differently.

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The Washington Post

@washingtonpost

Apr 20

Analysis: The shootings of Ralph Yarl and Kaylin Gillis are sadly similar to the 1992 shooting death of Yoshihiro Hattori, which prompted international anger.

washingtonpost.com

Analysis | Mistaken address shootings echo killing of Japanese teen 30 years ago

The shootings of Ralph Yarl and Kaylin Gillis are similar to the 1992 shooting death of Yoshihiro Hattori, which prompted international anger.

Adam Taylor

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Apr 20

Mistaken address shootings echo killing of Japanese teen Yoshihiro Hattori in 1992

washingtonpost.com

Analysis | Mistaken address shootings echo killing of Japanese teen 30 years ago

The shootings of Ralph Yarl and Kaylin Gillis are similar to the 1992 shooting death of Yoshihiro Hattori, which prompted international anger.

Adam Taylor

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Apr 17

40 percent of Americans have never heard of Narendra Modi, the leader of the world's most populous nation since 2014, according to Pew pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2023

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Christian Shepherd

@cdcshepherd

Apr 15

Taiwan is unlikely to thwart Chinese military air superiority in a cross-strait conflict, while U.S. spy agencies’ ability to detect a pending Chinese invasion has eroded, according to leaked Pentagon assessments washingtonpost.com/national-secur

Taiwan highly vulnerable to Chinese air attack, leaked documents show

The U.S. military assessments address the precariousness of Taiwan’s air defenses, reduced warning time for an attack and how China might use space assets.

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Richard Palmer

@RoyalReporter

Apr 14

Almost half the British public plan to watch the Coronation on TV or take part in festivities but many really couldn’t care less about it, including whether the Sussexes are there or not,

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express.co.uk

Majority of Britons don't care about King's Coronation, poll finds

The YouGov poll found that two-thirds of the British public don't care very much (35 percent) or at all (29 percent) about the Coronation.

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Ishaan Tharoor

@ishaantharoor

Apr 13

"The United States is simply collecting too much information, and sharing it with too many people, for it all to remain secret."

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washingtonpost.com

Analysis | Pentagon leak shows perils of spying on your friends

The United States may be collecting too much information, and sharing it with too many people, for it all to remain secret.

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Daniel Nasaw

@danielnasaw

Apr 13

Come for my analysis of the tensions inherent in modernizing a military in a representative democracy, stay for

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's gorgeous photographs of the Boneyard and the A-10s at

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wsj.com

Why Is America Still Flying the A-10 Warthog, a Cold War Relic?

Lawmakers protecting jobs and commerce for their districts block the military from retiring outdated equipment, impairing the effort to counter rapidly modernizing Chinese forces. This article is...

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Shane Harris

@shaneharris

Apr 13

SCOOP: The man behind the massive leak of U.S. government secrets worked on a "military base," his friend says. An online group that received hundreds of classified documents included foreigners. washingtonpost.com/national-secur By me and

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washingtonpost.com

Discord member details how documents leaked from closed chat group

In interviews with a member of the Discord group where intelligence documents were shared, The Washington Post learned details of the alleged leaker, “OG.”

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here with a bombshell about the initial leaker of the trove of military secrets that ended up on Discord. A friend says he shared documents with his online friends for months. Some were teenagers, others foreigners.

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Discord member details how documents leaked from closed chat group

In interviews with a member of the Discord group where intelligence documents were shared, The Washington Post learned details of the alleged leaker, “OG.”

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“The member said [the original leaker] wasn’t hostile to the U.S. government, and he insisted that he was not working on behalf of any country’s interests. ‘He is not a Russian operative. He is not a Ukrainian operative,’ the member said.”

washingtonpost.com

Discord member details how documents leaked from closed chat group

In interviews with a member of the Discord group where intelligence documents were shared, The Washington Post learned details of the alleged leaker, “OG.”

Adam Taylor

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Apr 13

Leaked document says peace talks to end Ukraine war unlikely in 2023

washingtonpost.com

No Russia-Ukraine peace talks expected this year, U.S. leak shows

The Ukraine war is expected to spill into 2024 with neither side notching victory and both refusing to negotiate, U.S. intelligence officials surmise.

Adam Taylor

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Apr 12

“According to another source, Lachlan told Rupert that James was leaking stories to the writers of Succession, HBO’s acclaimed drama about a Murdoch-like media dynasty.”

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Inside Rupert Murdoch’s Succession Drama

With the $1.6 billion Dominion lawsuit threatening to hobble Fox News, the ink on his divorce to Jerry Hall still wet, and his broken engagement to Ann Lesley Smith even fresher, it’s been a chaotic...

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Apr 12

2 percent is a higher than I would have predicted tbh

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Bobby Allyn

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Apr 12

NPR's analytics show that less than 2% of our traffic comes from Twitter. It's not a surprise to people who work in media, but even before the labeling saga, there was a pretty strong business case that the game wasn't worth the candle

Adam Taylor

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Apr 11

The IMF says "the UK economy's performance in 2023 will be the worst among the 20 biggest economies, known as the G20, which includes sanctions-hit Russia."

bbc.com

UK to be one of worst performing economies this year, predicts IMF

It is predicted to be the worst performing out of the G20 nations in 2023, including Russia.

Adam Taylor

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Apr 11

"A very cool and clever hacker, but ... We hacked him."

reuters.com

Ukrainian hackers say they have compromised Russian spy who hacked Democrats in 2016

It wasn't immediately clear what information the hackers had managed to steal or how significant it was. The senior military spy's inbox could potentially hold insight into Russia's hacking operati...

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Evan Hill

@evanhill

Apr 10

🚨Egypt planned to manufacture and supply up to 40,000 rockets for Russia and keep it secret from "the West." New exclusive from the US intelligence leaks from me,

@missy_ryan

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washingtonpost.com

Egypt secretly planned to supply rockets to Russia, leaked U.S. document says

President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi in February planned to produce 40,000 rockets for Russia and instructed officials to keep production and shipment secret “to avoid problems with the West.”

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Dmitry Medvedev

@MedvedevRussiaE

Apr 8

WHY WILL UKRAINE DISAPPEAR? BECAUSE NOBODY NEEDS IT 1. Europe doesn’t need Ukraine. The forced support of the Nazi regime, by the American mentor’s order, has put Europeans into a financial and political inferno. All for the sake of bandera’s unterukraine, that even the snobby,… Show more

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Francis Scarr

@francis_scarr

Apr 7

Olga Skabeyeva read in the

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that US space technology company Maxar had taken satellite images revealing lines of fortifications built recently by Russia in Crimea And she’s not happy about it washingtonpost.com/world/interact

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