Catherine Bennett
@cfbennett2
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Journalist for @ArteEN , @LeMonde_EN . Writing in @BBC , @washingtonpost , @citylab , @guardian , @wired , @techreview etc. Travel and translation, too. 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇬🇧
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"Well done paedophilia!" shouts French actress Adèle Haenel as she walks out of the César Awards after convicted rapist Roman Polanski won best director. She's not the only one: host Florence Foresti also didn't return to the stage, writing on Instagram that she was "disgusted".
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The other journalist called Catherine Bennett wrote a column about Imran Khan... RIP my mentions as the entirety of Pakistani Twitter turns on me 🙃
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Very excited to finally be able to announce some job news... I'm now working at
@lemondefr
as an editor and journalist on their new English-language website Le Monde in English.
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@violastefanello
After living in Bologna, I will forever have the endless chant of 'dottore, dottore' haunting my dreams
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@chemicollins
My second language is French and I can never remember the name for lid in French (couvercle) so I always end up saying châpeau, which makes my boyfriend laugh
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Six years already. I remember this beautiful photograph by
@laurencegeai
for
@polkamagazine
a few months afterwards - ‘Le baiser du Carillon’. The image and everything it symbolises still makes me catch my breath.
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Strewth, the patience of Bernard Jenkin. Like reprimanding a child. "Ok, now I'm going to count to three..."
This was the jaw-dropping moment in the Liaison Committee where Boris Johnson refused to say he'd resign if he lost the confidence of a majority of Conservative MPs.
He doesn't even respect his own party rules. And they don't trust him.
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For the record, I am not the Catherine Bennett who writes a column for the Guardian. She has been a journalist for considerably longer than I have; I live in a different country and work on completely different things. Please stop sending me insults about her latest column.
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@pallaviaiyar
The reason they're not picked is because they're inedible though! It's not that everyone is politely holding back, they truly are disgusting
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Today, I'm striking
@France24_en
because I love this channel and I want to see it get better. I'm striking because of poor management, arbitrary managerial decisions, favouritism, illegal work hours, bad pay and no right to disconnect.
@F24Solidaires
#F24
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Why is it so hard just to have the one rule: ‘Don’t harass women’? This is patronising towards men, indicating they’re incapable of restraining themselves from sexual harassment if they so much as sit next to a woman.
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Guys, you're in France, you're not going to have to go far to find someone pissing on a wall
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Oh my god, Paris has exploded. People screaming from their balconies, setting off fireworks in broad daylight, every single car on the road honking its horn... On est, on est, on est champions!
#FRACRO
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The number of Americans who've applied for unemployment benefit has reached 38.6m - but applications are going down every week. But that doesn't necessarily mean that the US job market is heading towards a recovery any time soon.
#F24
#F24business
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Back at the alma mater
@sciencespo
... But this time in uniform! Roll up, roll up to get yer free PCR tests
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I just sent an email to someone and their out-of-office was, 'I will be away until the 28 August. I'll get back to you then'. Live your best life queen. Long live insanely long summer holidays and vive la France 🇫🇷🍷☀️
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"A country in which you can’t see a GP for months and your mum can’t get an operation for years, where the beaches have been covered with sewage and the trains don’t work, is not one that can stand another round of spending cuts." |
@chakrabortty
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"Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at."
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Pretty disgusting seeing a vocal anti-vaxx contingent on French Twitter likening Macron's new health passport rules to a dictatorship, Satanism and even the Holocaust. They're calling the health pass (w/ QR code that lets you get into places) the
#PassDeLaHonte
, 'Pass of Shame'.
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So the UK may be shedding GDP after Brexit, but hey, why not bring its closest neighbour down with it too? Here's the IMF's forecast for Ireland in today's Business Daily for
@France24_en
.
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The mystery has been solved: all hail Omelette du Fromage man, or Meka Anyanetu. Plus details about stuff that no one really cared about, like why he wasn't wearing a shirt (he popped a bottle of fizz and quickly became "wet and sticky", apparently).
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I love writing the silliest things on my to-do lists for the satisfaction of crossing them off and feeling like I’ve achieved something. This morning I wrote ‘go out to get an ice cream’. You’re the boss, Catherine
#freelancing
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This was a fascinating piece to report for
@Observers
. I spoke to a
@seashepherd
marine activist and a Faroese man who has taken part in the
#grindadr
áp, to understand what's happening beyond the gory photos. Thank you to Dr
@izziclegg
for her wisdom!
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Back in the UK and finding it incredible how few people are wearing masks on public transport and in shops. I’m desperate to get home and see my mum without infecting her so I’m double-masking, but I’m so shocked at the arrogance and thoughtlessness of people around me.
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@andgoseek
The one where he invited his ex-girlfriend along to make her jealous and then pretended it was a hilarious coincidence. "What are YOU doing in this bar?!" They went home together.
Then he messaged me the next day saying he'd made a mistake and gone home with the wrong woman.
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My mum is getting her first dose of the vaccine today and I'm so relieved I could cry
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Blanche Gardin in May last year, talking about the trope of 'separating the art from the artist'.
"It's funny how this only applies to artists... At the bakery, we don't say about the baker, 'Yes, it's true, so he rapes kids - but he makes an extraordinarily good baguette!'"
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MP
@AngusMacNeilSNP
saying "an Englishman would burn his own bed to catch a flea", and is there a more apt image to sum up Brexit because I'm not sure there is?
#MeaningfulVote
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This is what it looks like filming at home for
@Observers
@France24_en
in front of my (precarious) camera tower!
#F24
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I am keeping an ear on
@trussliz
's local radio round and listening to her get absolutely demolished from Leeds to Lancashire, Bristol to Kent. A right drubbing up and down the country. Thank god for local radio.
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I'm a freelancer, which means that every day I don't work is a day I don't get paid.
@FRANCE24
is an amazing, exciting place to work with brilliant people, and I firmly believe that strike action is the only way to get our demands recognised by management.
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This French advert for marriage and relationship lawyers is really something. It uses the double meaning of the word ‘maitresse’ - both a mistress (in terms of infidelity) and a school teacher. It says ‘kids aren’t the only ones seeing their mistress again in September…’
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Follow us
@LeMonde_EN
for Le Monde articles translated into English, by journalists reporting in France and around the world. And follow the rest of the star team:
@PPBermingham
@Elvire_Camus
@HSteinkopfFrank
@antoine19791
@AdiaratouD
@Gil_Paris
@SophieTheGorman
🇫🇷🇬🇧🇺🇸🇮🇪
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The France 24
@Observers
was featured in
@iamjohnoliver
's
@LastWeekTonight
! Catch me talking about conspiracy theories - filmed in my boyfriend's music studio during lockdown in our apartment - in this tiny tiny segment at 1'17!
@France24_en
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"This will be an ecocide".
My latest piece for
@France24_en
looks at the planned extension of Paris's metro line 1 into the Bois de Vincennes, and how it's meeting fierce resistance from local activist groups.
@TpambVincennes
#F24
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The day I was born, my dad went out and bought the papers. He sent them to me in Paris for my birthday this year. 40p for a paper! (You can tell the
@FT
is the one for rich people cos it’s as much as 55p!)
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So today I found out that Italian media put 'crocodile' on their obits - except they have to remember to take them out before publishing. Oh, and wait for the person to be dead too
raga io da studentessa di editoria sono del tutto affascinata da questa roba perché è una vera lezione di giornalismo, “coccodrillo” è termine tecnico per indicare gli articoli già pronti sulla morte delle celebrità e che vanno solo ritoccati quando arriva l’ora x, sono in estasi
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The nightmare of every news channel happened this morning to French radio RFI: a technical error caused it to accidentally published all of its obituaries at once, killing off politicians, pop stars and even the Queen!
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"Daddy, how long are you going to be gone?"
US healthcare workers are saying goodbye to their families so they don't bring the virus back into their home. For the
@Observers
, I spoke to their spouses about the sacrifices these families are making.
#F24
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No American is allowed to complain about how long cricket matches last ever again
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I spoke to
@BBCRadio4
about an investigation we did at
@Observers
@FRANCE24
into - quite rudimentary - deepfakes being used in Mali to spread disinformation about France's presence there. Shout out to my colleague
@alexcapron
for his work on this!
The second episode of the Future Will Be Synthesised starts on
@BBCRadio4
in 15 minutes!
In this episode, I speak to Kateryna Fedotenko,
@SamGregory
,
@cfbennett2
, and
@vriparbelli
about deepfakes' use in disinformation.
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"No bun for my burger" - the tragedy of
@marksandspencer
's empty Paris shelves made its way onto my business bulletin for
@France24_en
. An opportunity for me to declare, slightly wide-eyed and voice wavering, "I need my cheddar!" I hope our prayers are answered soon. 🧀
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Sending off my postal vote from rainy Paris today for the
#EUElections2019
! Wherever you are in Europe, don’t forget to vote. Exercise your right at an important time in history!
#ThisTimeImVoting
#CetteFoisJeVote
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I’m just about to leave Peshawar, which was intense, exhausting and beautiful. I will remember the ‘Peshawar whisky’ (green tea) in a 360-year-old tea house, the people who let me go up to the roof of the mosque and the gemstone sellers who showed me how to polish lapis lazuli.
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I live in Italy and now even I have heard of Keith Arsewank
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Very proud to share my first piece for
@washingtonpost
! A juicy look inside the mausoleum-museum that is 5 bis rue Verneuil, Serge Gainsbourg's old home.
@MGainsbourg
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Just found out that Brice, a man who was homeless in the 5th arrondissement, died in hospital this week after a long battle with health problems. He was intelligent and fun, always teasing me in impeccable English. Paris is smaller without him. I'll raise a glass to him tonight.
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Ever been stuck near a noisy child on a flight? Japan Airlines is letting customers know where a child might be seated so passengers can sit further away if they want. What do you think? Good idea or rude?
#F24
#BusinessDaily
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Maybe - just maybe - waking up and immediately reading the latest coronavirus news across a variety of platforms in two languages *isn't* going to help with my crushing anxiety
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I was on the scene of today’s attack in the 11ème arrondissement for
@France24_en
. I spoke to local business owners and residents, who all said the same thing: sadly, we’re used to this.
#ATTAQUE_PARIS
#F24
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I can't stop thinking about this testimony from the Paris attacks trial. A man whose wife was killed said, "I still have her pregnancy test at home. I've never looked at it. I don't know if it was positive. I can't bear to think that I perhaps lost two loved ones that night."
Déchirant témoignage de Grégory, 46 ans, qui a perdu sa femme à La Belle Équipe. “J’ai encore chez moi son test de grossesse, que je n’ai pas regardé. Je ne sais pas s’il était positif. Je ne veux pas me dire que j’ai peut-être perdu deux être chers ce soir-là.”
#13Novembre
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Very happy to see my piece on learning voga alla veneta is finally out in the
@guardian
! You don't row in Venice just for fun - it's a way of understanding the city's history and culture, right down to its foundations.
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I need to stop drinking espressos in the morning
Welcome
@jsyche
in the
@Observers
team ! (So badass
@cfbennett2
)
@France24_en
@gjfaure
your legacy is in good hands
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Using my French passport for the first time to go back to the country where I was born. Hey London!
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At some point last year I got to wondering why all of our summer party spots were in abandoned stations. So I went and wrote about it. Here's my latest for the
@guardian
, out today!
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This chilling thread recounts how last night Paris police forcibly removed a migrant camp from the Place de la
#Republique
, kettled them in streets in the Marais, and eventually sent refugees out of the city streets. Out of sight, out of mind.
#Republique
Ce soir, c’était une soirée infiniment triste et d’une rare violence dans les rues de Paris. Thread ⤵️
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A far-right official in Zemmour's party went to a lot of trouble to produce a hard-hitting investigation into why he could traipse over the border from Italy to France and in doing so, discovered the concept of Schengen. Cute.
🔴⚠️ La nuit dernière j’ai traversé clandestinement la frontière France/Italie sans aucun contrôle !
🗳 Le 12 juin, votez pour un député garde-frontières pour donner effectifs et moyens à nos policiers et gendarmes !
#Menton
#Riviera
#Circo0604
#Legislatives
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Before researching this, I didn't quite realise how normal it is for US corporations to donate thousands of dollars to political parties. Many of them have decided to halt donations in the wake of the
#CapitolRiot
.
#business
#F24
@France24_en
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Great, sweeping piece about our ‘zeitenwende’ moment. "We are seeing a root-and-branch redrawing of the map of global energy distribution, aimed at cutting Russia out of it."
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The French police here asserting that race simply doesn't exist in the police force. For me, this is symptomatic of a wider French policy of not collecting data on ethnicity, as though by denying the existence of race you solve the problem of racism.
"Il n’y a pas de race dans la police, pas plus que de racisés ou d’oppresseurs racistes. Il y a des fonctionnaires qui s’engagent pour la liberté, l’égalité et la fraternité et cela au quotidien !" 1/2
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Great on a Monday morning having to ask the social media teams for extra moderation of the comments on a FRANCE 24 debunking video because it's just full of men talking about my boobs and what I look like 🙃 And a happy International Women's Day to you too
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Watch this year's edition of Truth or Fake! We worked with a number of French high schools to understand how young people interact with misinformation online and we share some tips for debunking fake news.
#F24
@Observers
@France24_en
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I am now pfully vaccinated, thanks to la
@CroixRouge
! And yes I did have to take my top off like Olivier Véran due to poor planning. Roll on summer!
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@France24_en
@F24Solidaires
Content across our French, English and Arabic channels and websites will be affected as hundreds of people take part in the strike today and possibly in the days to come.
#F24
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One of my hobbies is pretending I have the time and money to go back to school and this kind of course is exactly the sort of thing I indulgently dream about doing
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Why do I do that horribly British thing when someone asks, ‘Excuse me, is this Coach 4?‘ I say ‘Yes, I think so!’ And then add, ‘Well, at least I hope so!’ Why am I pretending I don’t know, it is fucking coach 4, I checked before sitting down cos I’m a fucking adult
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"Mais non, Papa, c'est *Minecraft*... Mais où t'as trouvé ça, c'est pas possible..."
This is iconic.
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Protesters carry placards with the names of over 100 women already murdered in Paris this year.
#NousToutes
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France's archi-mega-maxi strike starts today, bringing transport to a standstill across the country.
@franceinfo
has some archive photos from the last time this happened in 1995 - and Paris was forced to use boats on the Seine to help ferry people to work.
#greve5decembre
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This is actually quite a common narrative you hear in France. See also in the UK: "We gave India the railway, they should be grateful".
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Fell asleep in the train back up to Paris and drool pooled inside my mask and I only realised when I lifted my head and it dripped down my chin. 2020 still has horrors in store, it would seem
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I'm sorry,
@BBCNews
, "to stop a woman being stabbed"? Don't you mean to stop a man from stabbing a woman? Why write this passively? Why make it sound like it's her fault?
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God grant me the confidence of a French headline writer who did not get 'mention très bien' in his English class at lycée
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How *does* France get election results out so early? It's not exit polls but a combination of early vote counting and algorithms.
@LeMonde_EN
explains it all here:
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I have food poisoning or something and am alone in my apartment in Paris for Christmas so instead of making soufflé and drinking the fancy wine I bought myself, I am watching two dogs make sex eyes at each other. Merry Christmas.
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The man deserves a bloody medal for carrying on through that!
"I think that was vodka that's now in my eye."
Our correspondent
@olivermiocic
has been covering today's protests from Lyon. Things got messy a few times.
#greve5decembre
(pension reforms strikes)
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The European Parliament says the new farm policy is sustainable and lines up with their climate goals. But thousands of climate activists, including
@GretaThunberg
, are calling on Brussels to
#WithdrawTheCAP
. My latest for
@France24_en
:
#F24
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Will Boris really walk away from the country's biggest export market? And why is he insisting on calling it an 'Australia-style deal' when Britain is just going to end up relying on WTO rules? A quick look at the latest for the
#business
show on
@France24_en
#F24
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The EU has just agreed on 💰tax transparency rules!💰 They would oblige multinationals to be open about how much tax they pay and where they pay it. This is the report I did this morning ahead of today's trilogue. It'll be heading to plenary for a vote after the summer. 🇪🇺
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Finally ready to show my website to the world! It's a portfolio of my freelance work, including reporting, TV, translation, copywriting and voice-over... Hire me! Commission me! I even translated the whole thing into French!
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Did you use lockdown to finally write that novel you've had sitting in your head for years? Yeah, you and everyone else. In France, publishing houses inundated with manuscripts are begging people to stop sending them their books. Me for
@France24_en
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🇪🇺It's a deal!🇪🇺 European leaders have finally reached an agreement on the bloc's next long-term budget and Covid-19 recovery fund. The five frugal countries who were holding up the deal were won over by the offer of an increase in EU budget rebates... 📺
#F24
@France24_en
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The cargo ship Ever Given is caught in a tight spot on the Suez Canal, and now engineers have warned it could take weeks to dislodge it. As I explained on
@France24_en
earlier, that's one embarrassing way to disrupt global trade...
#F24
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Why do all of the photos of Macron meeting Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan look like they've just got married at the Mairie de Paris 15ème
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