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Dominicwaghorn
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Sky News International Affairs Editor
London
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The idea that UK press hushed up child sexual abuse until Musk is laughable. This is what my colleagues were writing 10+ years ago: "In Rotherham, this ethnic misogyny then ran up against the institutional misogyny of the police and the mostly white council" economist.com/britain/2014...
January 6, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Very well said @jkirkup and yes there must be a reckoning.
January 2, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Inside the actual house of Assad – @dominicwaghorn.bsky.social reports from inside the Assads' looted family home with its mess of abandoned items, rather than the more impersonal presidential palace:

news.sky.com/story/inside...
Inside Assad's abandoned home: Damning documents, wedding photos and children's notes
Sky's Dominic Waghorn is one of the first foreign journalists to be given access to the Assad family home. Inside were mementoes abandoned in a hurry - presents the children had made at school, holida...
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December 11, 2024 at 11:45 PM
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Khalil Barakat from the city of #Irbid was imprisoned by the #Syrian regime since 1982 on fabricated charges. He was released from prison a few days ago during the liberation of #Damascus and returned to #Jordan.
December 10, 2024 at 11:19 PM
In the private rooms of Bashar al Assad’s British born wife, Asma, the autobiography of Barack Obama’s First Lady Michele.
December 11, 2024 at 6:29 PM
This is really worth reading about Syria newlinesmag.com/argument/lib...
Liberation in Syria Is a Victory Worth Embracing
The country is now free, yet some remain trapped in the past
newlinesmag.com
December 11, 2024 at 7:16 AM
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The return of the displaced to their villages and towns in #Syria 😭😭❤️
December 8, 2024 at 2:06 PM
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December 8, 2024 at 4:18 AM
NPR quoting US officials: signs Russia pulling out of Syria. Reports Iran is too. Assad doomed now?
December 7, 2024 at 11:57 AM
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I'm sure Assad will be fine. After all, over 95% of Syrians voted for him barely 6 months ago....
December 7, 2024 at 11:41 AM
850m euros from 340k donors later, 5 years after its great fire Notre Dame will be reopened officially in a glittering ceremony later. A moment of huge pride for France at a time great political uncertainty
December 7, 2024 at 8:26 AM
Fascinating read on Syria's rebels. Drones, 3d printers, ingenuity, discipline and being inspired by other militaries, from Ukraine's to the British army all played a role in their stunning progress. Can Assad and his allies rally and repel? www.ft.com/content/aaa8...
December 5, 2024 at 2:49 PM
Extraordinary events in Syria where rebels appear to have taken Hama, where the country's uprising caught fire in 2011 but also a place synonymous with some of the Assad regime's most merciless brutality, going back to Bashar's father Hafez in the 80s
December 5, 2024 at 2:35 PM
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OTD in 1978 USSR & Afghanistan signed a "friendship treaty". We invaded them a year later.

So you can trust us with a peace deal now.
December 5, 2024 at 8:19 AM
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The easiest way to get invaded by russia is to sign a treaty with us.
December 5, 2024 at 8:39 AM
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Mass repressions have begun in Georgia.

Opposition leader Nika Gvaramia was just dragged out of his party’s office
December 4, 2024 at 1:04 PM
WATCH Georgian masked goons rough up and drag away M opposition figure in Tbilisi as their crackdown goes on www.facebook.com/share/r/1Db3...
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December 4, 2024 at 1:39 PM
If South Korean defence ministry does decide to enforce martial law, despite it being lifted by the parliament, the country is heading for a full blown constitutional crisis.
December 3, 2024 at 6:01 PM