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Wall Street reporter, New York Post. DMs open. Email: jfraney @nypost .com. 🇬🇧🇧🇪 in 🗽 Former Europe correspondent for the Daily Mail newspaper.
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Personal news: After a cracking 3.5 years at the Daily Mail (and a nail-biting O-1 visa application expertly handled by
@WOLFSDORF
), I am delighted to say that I have started as the new Wall Street reporter for the New York Post
@nypost
.
I am looking forward to moving to NYC
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If verified as authentic, then this is a new, depraved low for war crimes committed by Russian forces in Ukraine.
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This is the greatest wire alert I have seen for some time:
COVID - UK HOUSING SECRETARY JENRICK SAYS A CORNISH PASTY WITH CHIPS OR SIDE-SALAD COUNTS AS A "SUBSTANTIAL MEAL"
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Calais mayor
@NatachaBouchart
has hit out at
@BorisJohnson
this morning, saying Britain is "an eldorado" for migrants with its generous conditions for new arrivals.
"The British government doesn't have the courage to review its legislation in this field," she told
@RTLFrance
.
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More than 700,000 AstraZeneca doses secretly flown to Australia from Britain
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Vladimir Putin called an urgent meeting of Russia's security council after reports of Ukrainian breakthroughs in the Kharkiv region.
Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words.
Source:
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Reuters reports the EU has not replied to Australia's request to release 1 million AstraZeneca doses paid for by Canberra.
PM Scott Morrison said last week the vaccines were destined for Papua New Guinea, which is facing a health crisis from rising coronavirus infection rates.
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Dutch MEP Derk Jan Eppink tells his fellow parliamentarians "since the British have left, the European Parliament has become more boring. Without Nigel Farage in the corner, rather quiet...like a provincial assembly."
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France's Libération newspaper doesn't hold back with its
#EUref
front page. Headline in English as well
@quatremer
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Fortunately this advice was ignored
Britain should stay well out of Russia’s border dispute with Ukraine | Simon Jenkins
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BREAKING: Former French PM Francois Fillon tells the Journal du Dimanche he will resign from his positions with top Russian firms Sibur and Zarubezhneft.
It comes after Tory MP
@TomTugendhat
suggested Mr Fillon, who served under Nicolas Sarkozy, could be hit with sanctions.
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Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky says Ukraine will create a foreign legion for volunteers from abroad to join the country's military: Reuters
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French election first round projections, released by Belgian broadcaster RTBF:
#presidentielles2022
Emmanuel Macron: 24%
Marine Le Pen: 24%
Jean-Luc Melenchon: 19%
Eric Zemmour: 8%
Valerie Pecresse: 8%
Turnout: 76%
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French Emmanuel Macron takes a pop at the British media in his post
#EUCO
remarks.
'Every day, when I read the press across the Channel, they make a case against us saying that it is the EU that is being selfish. This is false!'
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Granit Xhaka: ‘My dad’s first few months in jail were OK, then the beatings started’
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Ukraine brands ex-Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn one of Putin's 'useful idiots' after he signs up to speak at Russian propaganda event in the US
via
@MailOnline
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Revealed: Putin's 'secret plot' to seize crops across occupied Ukraine as Russian MPs admit Western sanctions led to food shortages.
It echoes Ukraine's Holodomor when Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin stole food, killing millions of people.
via
@mailplus
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Daily Mail exclusive: Novak Djokovic faces fresh allegations he broke Covid travel rules - this time when he visited Marbella last month, Spanish diplomats say. Spain's government has ordered a police investigation. Djokovic's team declined to comment.
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Speaking to the Daily Mail last night, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said he would veto any
#Brexit
deal that is UNFAIR on Britain. 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
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The UK government says it is going to announce sanctions tomorrow in response to Putin's decision to recognise Donetsk and Luhansk.
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Rush hour traffic returns to central Kyiv just four hours after a series of Iranian suicide drone attacks
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On board the Biden Express: Thousands of African migrants are snapping up seats on the daily Turkish Airlines flight TK800 from Istanbul to Bogotá, Colombia as part of a new people smuggling route into the United States. It’s sold out until mid-October.
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Joe Biden makes another Britain-bashing gaffe in remarks to mega-rich donors at a fundraising event in New York.
He says his recent trip to Ireland and NI to mark the 25th Anniversary of the Good Friday agreement was to make sure "the Brits didn't screw around." (pool report)
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.
@NatachaBouchart
wants
@EmmanuelMacron
and his government to hold showdown talks with Britain on the issue of migration.
She suggests the UK has created a "pull factor" because migrants can easily find work and housing at the expense of the British taxpayer.
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German Health Minister Jens Spahn says Germany could go it alone and sign its own deal to buy Sputnik V coronavirus vaccines from Russia.
"I am actually very much in favour of us doing it nationally if the EU does not do something," he told reporters in Berlin.
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GOP plans N.Y. crime hearing in latest anti-Bragg push
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Welcome to
#PlanetMEP
.
"We have to take public transport. Is that the protection that you think we are worthy of?"
A German MEP whines he can no longer claim his daily allowances, or use the European Parliament's limo service during Belgium's lockdown. Not a good look at all.
#EU
🇩🇪 MEP
@MarkusFerber
on behalf of the
@EPPGroup
fighting for per-diems, chauffeurs and quick fix legislation for banking & financial interests.
"we have to take public transport"
Fight for the soul of the
#EU
-parliament has begun.
#EPlockdown
#EPPlife
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BREAKING: Social media influencer Andrew Tate, his brother Tristan and two assistants have been remanded in custody for 30 days, a Bucharest court has ruled.
The four were detained last night in the Romanian capital as part of a human trafficking, organised crime and rape probe.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky makes a surprise visit to Izium after the Kharkiv counteroffensive
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I have no plans to play for England in this summer's Euros.
Greta Thunberg has no plans to attend Glasgow COP26 summit
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President Emmanuel Macron says Putin's decision to recognise the two self-declared republics is "an attack on Ukraine's sovereignty."
He says the EU should now agree to hit Russia with "targeted sanctions": Elysee statement.
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Can't imagine this is a top priority for anyone right now, but Spanish MEP Domenec Ruiz Devesa has started a petition calling on the European Commission to ensure that the EU flag is emblazoned across all
#coronavirus
vaccine deliveries throughout Europe.
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@SarahAshtonLV
Forgive me, but a piece-to-camera in front of a dead civilian? The victim's family may not yet have been informed.
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A survivor of last week's crossing tragedy claims authorities on both sides of the Channel refused to rescue the migrants as their boat was sinking. via
@MailOnline
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Russian military publication Top War has slammed the country's top brass after the latest developments in Ukraine.
It says the Kremlin, 🇷🇺 defence ministry & army "need to muster the courage from somewhere and begin to admit their mistakes, miscalculations and defeats aloud."
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Look forward to hearing the takes from the « what about Iraq? » crowd
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British govt source rejects report by Italy's La Stampa that authorities there blocked 30m AZ doses.
"The Catalent site is a fill and finish site part of the EU/Covax supply chain. The supplies haven’t been coming to the UK and we are not expecting anything from there."
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BREAKING: French president Emmanuel Macron is self-isolating for the next seven days after testing positive for coronavirus today: Elysee statement.
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Today is my first day in my new role as a senior U.S. political reporter for the Daily Mail in Washington, D.C. after a stint as Europe correspondent in Brussels. My DMs are open for tips, story ideas and meet-ups. Picked a ‘quiet’ week to get started!
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European Commission president
@vonderleyen
has just told leaders that she has "low expectations" that the EU can reach a Brexit deal with the UK, according to sources present at the
#EUCO
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This has to be the greatest sentence I've seen in
@POLITICOEurope
since it launched. Nice one
@rcolvile
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"We have a humanitarian disaster unfolding in our backyard," Reuters quotes an Australian government source as saying.
Australia is looking at jabs from their existing stocks to help its Pacific island neighbour, where hospitals are overwhelmed.
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"We have become a border town," says
@NatachaBouchart
, saying the number of migrants passing through Calais has inflicted "a trauma" on locals for nearly 20 years.
She wants changes to the 2003 Le Touquet agreement, Britain’s migration treaty with France.
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Starved into submission: Russia was last night accused by the EU, UN of using hunger as a weapon of war in besieged areas of Ukraine.
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@LozzaFox
I can top that. In one game during my torrid spell with Littleton Juniors FC U16's in the mid 90's, I was substituted at half-time for a kid who had an artificial leg.
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Ukraine's government calls for a global boycott of French carmaker Renault. The French state holds a 15 percent stake in the company.
Renault refuses to pull out of Russia. Not that it should surprise anyone when Renault supports a brutal war of aggression in Europe. But mistakes must come with a price, especially when repeated. I call on customers and businesses around the globe to boycott Group Renault.
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Sobbing on his baby's tiny coffin... agony of father who lost his family in missile strike
via
@mailplus
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Today's Remembrance Sunday is particularly poignant as it is our family's first without our grandfather, John, a Royal Air Force WW2 veteran who died on Thursday. John Edward Franey (148.468) volunteered to join the RAF aged 18 in 1940, serving in Squadrons 100 and 105. // Thread
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I apologise in advance to any
#FBPE
Twitter snobs if my 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 translations are not up to scratch 🤪
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Spanish diplomatic sources told the Mail over the past two days that all unvaccinated Serbian nationals, including
@DjokerNole
, require a special derogation from the Embassy to travel to Spain. But they said that no such request was made before he left Belgrade.
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Flowers laid outside the Cambodian restaurant where a gunman killed at least 12 people.
#ParisAttacks
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Boris Johnson Street? The mayor of Odesa says the Ukrainian city will honour the PM for his "principled and tough" stance against Russia.
Gennady Trukhanov also hit out at the EU for not immediately banning Russian fossil fuels.
"We cannot put a price on freedom," he said.
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Exclusive for
@dwnews
: In the fight against
#coronavirus
, the
#EU
is using Chinese technology with alleged links to human rights abuses at Muslim detention centres in Xinjiang,
#China
.
In June US
@SecPompeo
described the centres as "concentration camps."
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Aside from the main sticking points, bad news (for now) for UK students (and those in the EU who want to study for a year in the UK).
EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier told MEPs this morning "that we have no agreement with the British on Erasmus."
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The Middle East correspondent for Britain's Guardian newspaper has been denied a visa to visit....Britain.
Britain now joins an illustrious list of countries that have refused my visa applications. That list includes the UK, and Syria.
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Tony Blair says it was "never my case" there were links between Saddam & Al Qaeda. Just leaving this here.
#Chilcot
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Closing shot from the longer version of the PM's walkabout in Kyiv with President
@ZelenskyyUa
Caption this
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Exclusive: White House delivered EU-skeptic message before Pence visit - sources via
@Reuters
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Just last night, Fillon said of Russia's invasion of Ukraine:
"For the past 10 years, I have been warning against the West's refusal to take into account Russian demands on NATO expansion. This attitude is now leading to a dangerous confrontation that could have been avoided."
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@mediawhizz
@DaveKeating
All UK pundits? BBC coverage with
@KattyKay_
and
@afneil
four years ago was first class. And not as infuriatingly partisan as some of the US channels.
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Roughly 300 people, nearly all men, are marching towards Place de la Bourse. They have a banner that says "casuals against terrorism"
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Hungarian MEP Jozsef Szajer admits to breaking Belgium's lockdown rules by attending an orgy on Friday night.
"I apologize to my family, to my colleagues, and to my voters."
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"The reason why we have done so well in Israel is that we purchased a lot (of vaccines) fast. We didn't quibble about the price," PM Benjamin Netanyahu told a virtual
#WEF
meeting earlier, telling "bureaucrats to cut the crap." h/t
@Stone_SkyNews
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Posted just hours before that horrific video of a Russian soldier castrating a Ukrainian POW emerged online.
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Odessans queuing up earlier today at the city's main post office to get their hands on the commerative stamps issued before Ukraine’s military said it had sunk Russia's flagship navy vessel, the Moskva.
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"Is the monster coming?" asks Leonel, 2, after leaving Ukraine for Slovakia.
"The monster is not coming any more, sweetheart," his mother Olga replies.
She explains that by 'monster' her son means the bombs that rained down on their hometown, Kharkiv.
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@rdcParisAFP
@StevenJambot
Top work from team
@AFP
as always. Also a tip of the cap to the web team at
@dwnews
for this level of detail.
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BREAKING: State funerals in Britain are paid by the state
Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral, which will involve elaborate processions, vigils and rituals, will be paid for by British taxpayers as they deal with soaring energy prices and high inflation. The British government has not yet said how much it will cost.
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A British whistleblower, who has been trying to clear his name for nearly two decades, accuses
#EU
of 'Kafkaesque' behaviour after he exposed financial fraud
@EU_CoR
@tzitzikostas
via
@MailOnline
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"If unvaccinated and travelling from Serbia, you need for an exception to be approved and you need to follow the procedure. If not, you are breaking the rules," one Spanish diplomat told the Mail yesterday.
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Britain will achieve herd immunity on Monday, the Daily Telegraph reports
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The IDF put out a completely false statement about a ground invasion into Gaza on Friday morning. Why should anyone believe them now?
After providing advance warning to civilians & time to evacuate, IDF fighter jets struck a multi-story building containing Hamas military intelligence assets.
The building contained civilian media offices, which Hamas hides behind and deliberately uses as human shields.
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Belgian broadcasters are exempt from the French regulations that impose a media blackout until 2000 CET.
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The Ukrainian mothers who went hungry so their children could eat: Olga Kisilyova sold toys and a bicycle belonging to her son Alexander, 12, so she could put food on the table after prices skyrocketed in the Russian-occupied city of Kherson.
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Mr Zelensky said talks with Putin would never happen after the Kremlin staged a series of fake referendums in four occupied Ukrainian regions last month that were rigged in favour of joining Russia.
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Coronavirus vaccine breakthrough as Oxford scientists discover jab which could protect against virus for decades
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Mali-born Muslim, an employee at
#hypercasher
kosher supermarket, helped save the lives of 6 hostages
#ParisAttacks
http://t.co/Wi7aE6LcOQ
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Bild reports that German Health Minister Jens Spahn has said the country could keep coronavirus restrictions until next Spring.
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Exclusive: AstraZeneca may raise vaccine prices after EU attacks, warns Oxford's Sir John Bell
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Late on Wednesday, the Spanish interior ministry said it had asked police to investigate the circumstances surrounding the Serbian tennis star's trip to Marbella.
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Vaccine roll-out: the EU must be accountable for its decisions | UK in a changing Europe
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Belgian PM Charles Michel says Catalonia's Carles Puigdemont not invited by his govt, but will be treated like any EU citizen: via
@Reuters
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Russia's Everything Is Going to Plan in Ukraine latest:
Kremlin-installed Crimea senator Olga Kovitidi says basic military training should be taught in schools.
"Boys should know how trenches are built, the basics of mine types," she said, as well as essential medical skills.
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It comes as Australian Immigration Minister Alex Hawke considers whether to use executive powers to expel
@DjokerNole
from the country. According to the AAP's
@karenlsweeney
, that decision is likely to be handed down later on Thursday.
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Bizarre incident earlier. Brussels police arrested this Portuguese diplomat. PT Rep says he took pix of EU building.
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The first 40 bodies of the victims from Flight
#MH17
arrive in Eindhoven, the Netherlands from Ukraine.
http://t.co/i5fj5mqOTz
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@IAPonomarenko
Strange take. I thought most Republicans in the U.S. are opposed to illegal immigration.
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From Russia with 'love' - a present from Putin: the Moscow missile that landed in Vladimir Tereh's garden on March 27th as he celebrated his 62nd birthday with an old school friend in the Ukrainian village of Malaya Rogan, near Kharkiv.
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