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Eric Robert Reguly
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European bureau chief, The Globe and Mail. Rome and beyond. Author of Ghosts of War: Chasing My Father's Legend Through Vietnam ericreguly.com
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My bit on a good idea that could go wrong for #Canada

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Opinion: A Canadian-made Swedish fighter jet may kick-start a domestic defence aerospace industry. But at what cost?
Making Saab’s Gripen here could be a manufacturing boon, or a political boondoggle
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November 7, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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My piece on my crazy, wonderful determined friend who is trying to set the record to be the oldest man to bike around the world.

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How an American tennis coach set out to become the oldest person to cycle around the planet
Kevin Record’s journey through Europe just a part of a worldwide trek raising money for an Alzheimer’s charity
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November 5, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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7 nights at sea aboard the last grand ocean liner
A comic artist spent seven days traveling like royalty aboard the Queen Mary 2. She may have lost her mind.
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November 4, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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My bit:

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Bombardier, Sweden’s Saab in talks to build Gripen fighter jet in Canada
Bombardier says it is ‘open to providing local expertise if the government of Canada decides to go this route’
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November 1, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Haunting, beautiful pix from one of my fave photographers
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‘It’s been a cesspit, really, my life’: war photographer Don McCullin on 19 of his greatest pictures
At 90, McCullin has spent seven decades recording conflict and tragedy – while escaping snipers, mortar fire and capture. He reflects on pain, pride and regret
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October 29, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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My piece on the fab new museum and pyramids' experience in Giza #Egypt #Cairo #museums

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Egypt counts on a new tourism dynasty as museum joins a revamped Giza
The Grand Egyptian Museum, decades in the making, hopes to show off a nation’s history on the biggest scale possible
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October 26, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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My bit: #Ontario went whole hog on #EVs and it's backfiring

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Opinion: The EV industry is sputtering. Too bad Ontario bet so heavily on a battery-driven future
Customers have spoken and they don’t much want EVs – at least not yet
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October 24, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Son of Nero
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‘Dictator-for-life vibes’: our architecture critic on Trump’s bulletproof ballroom bling
He has already turned the Oval Office into a wrestler’s changing room. Now the president is building a place so gilded Nero would feel at home. Why did he pick an architect whose speciality is Catholi...
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October 24, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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My piece on the Pope's Kayak heading back home, to the Arctic, where it belongs.

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Indigenous artifacts at Vatican Museums heading back to Canada after repatriation campaign
The collection includes an extremely rare Western Arctic kayak and a two-metre-long wampum belt
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October 21, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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At least 135 mutilated bodies of Palestinians had been held at notorious Israeli jail, say Gaza officials
Documents indicate they came from Sde Teiman, which already faces allegations of torture and unlawful deaths
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October 21, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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Forza!
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No Kings protest live updates: thousands march against Trump in nationwide day of protest
Bernie Sanders and Raphael Warnock among Democratic lawmakers speaking at rallies
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October 18, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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My bit on #Gaza reconstruction -- the new Marshall Plan

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Opinion: The $70-billion effort to rebuild Gaza can’t start unless the war is truly over
The work in Gaza would be one of the biggest rebuilding projects since the Second World War
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October 17, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Plug-in hybrids pollute almost as much as petrol cars, report finds
Analysis of 800,000 European cars found real-world pollution from plug-in hybrids nearly five times greater than lab tests
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October 16, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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Palestinian bodies returned by Israel show signs of torture and execution, say doctors
Almost all had been blindfolded and had gunshot wounds between the eyes, says medic at Nasser hospital in Gaza
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October 15, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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‘Gateway to hell’: young reporter’s harrowing two years in besieged Gaza
Malak A Tantesh’s grim experience of living with perpetual fear and uncertainty amid Israel’s war after 2023 Hamas attack
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October 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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@ereguly.bsky.social, one the Globe's best writers, has an excellent article on the Catholic Church's involvement in the response to the war in Gaza: www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
Two more generations before Jews and Arabs can live in peace, says Vatican’s top man in Jerusalem
Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa says ‘the wounds are too deep’ and the healing process needs time
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October 11, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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My profile of the #Vatican man in the MidEast trying to keep the peace between Israeli and Palestinian Catholics: #cardinalpizzaballa

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Two more generations before Jews and Arabs can live in peace, says Vatican’s top man in Jerusalem
Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa says ‘the wounds are too deep’ and the healing process needs time
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October 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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My bit on #AI
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Opinion: Artificial intelligence: the good, the bad and the ugly environmental costs
AI data centres’ insatiable need for energy is driving quickie solutions that aren’t good for the planet
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October 11, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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Terribly sad story

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No family, no stability, no social fabric: the anguish of Gaza’s wounded orphans
As the number of WCNSFs – wounded child no surviving family – grows, charities struggle to find adults to look after them
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October 10, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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My piece on #marwanbarghouti -- the "Nelson Mandela" of #Palestine Palestinians want him released. #Israel is refusing.

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Hamas wants Marwan Barghouti freed in prisoner exchange, but Israel so far refuses
The prominent prisoner, who Palestinians see as a potential leader, is serving a life sentence in Israel
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October 9, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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My bit on #Egypt trying to pivot away from Trumpland, as #Canada is trying to do, on defence, trade and other areas

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Egypt is pivoting away from the U.S. and toward China
China has been courting Egypt and other North African countries, building relationships and selling arms
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October 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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My interview for the @theglobeandmail.com 's Decibel podcast on the end, maybe, of the war in #Gaza on the second anniversary of the carnage.

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How Trump’s peace plan for Gaza could end the war
The emerging Israel-Hamas deal, explained
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October 6, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Huge pro-Palestine protest - said to be 1 million strong -- right in front of my house in #Rome earlier today. The marching went on for hours.
October 4, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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A people without a home: My piece on the thousands of Palestinians from #Gaza trying to build a new life in #Egypt
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Fearing permanent exile, displaced Palestinians struggle to rebuild their lives in Egypt
Separated from their homeland and unsure whether they will ever be able to return, tens of thousands of Palestinian refugees rely on each other
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October 4, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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My bit fro #Egypt as the war in #Gaza gets too close for comfort for Egyptians

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Egypt builds its military presence in the Sinai as Israel threatens to empty Gaza of Palestinians
Analysts fear the peninsula next door to Gaza will be a new flashpoint
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September 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM