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Editor working on @AFP social media accounts, ex @EUDataNewsHub. Posts news, cricket, nature. Ex @guardian @independent. All posts/opinions my own etc.

London, England
Joined January 2009
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🏏 🇦🇺 Former Australia opener Usman Khawaja claimed on Saturday that the entire team knew about the 2018 "Sandpapergate" scandal in Cape Town and said they also employed the tactic during the previous Test at Port Elizabeth ➡️ u.afp.com/Sy9S
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#BREAKING Gunman in deadly Krakow shooting acted alone, is Polish: police
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🇵🇱 ⚠️ Police in Poland said on Saturday that five people were killed and around a dozen wounded after a gunman opened fire in the historic centre of the country's second city of Krakow ➡️ u.afp.com/Sy9B
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#BREAKING New Zealand PM says sees 'pathway to forming next government' but acknowledges vote still 'too close to call' after tight poll
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🇫🇷 🪧 French unions and student groups are set to take to the streets for another day of protests on Saturday, while the Yellow Vests movement plans a separate rally in central Paris despite a ban by authorities ➡️ u.afp.com/Sy9w
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'Envision chandeliers' While Republicans nursed a brutal hangover from their US midterms defeat, President Donald Trump was busy -- showing off his new ballroom at the White House u.afp.com/SyaC
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🇮🇱 🗳️ Israeli electoral authorities on Wednesday rejected allegations promoted by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of fraud by Arab parties, who could hold the key to removing him from power after a divisive vote ➡️ u.afp.com/Sybz
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🇭🇺 Hungary released communist-era secret police files on Wednesday, identifying tens of thousands of former informants in a long-delayed reckoning with the country's repressive past, spearheaded by Prime Minister Peter Magyar ➡️ u.afp.com/Syaw
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📖 🏆 "Mogging", a word meaning to outshine someone, often in appearance, was crowned word of the year by Collins English Dictionary on Tuesday, beating "firewave" and "ghost jobs" ➡️ u.afp.com/SyXt
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🇬🇧 👑 🌎 🇦🇬 King Charles III called the transatlantic slave trade "a monstrous injustice" on Tuesday, opening a Commonwealth summit in which UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham is holding talks about apologising for Britain's role in slavery ➡️ u.afp.com/Sy29
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⚽ 🇪🇸 Tenerife striker Jesus de Miguel died on Tuesday as a result of injuries he suffered in a sickening collision with FC Andorra's goalkeeper in a Spanish second division match ➡️ u.afp.com/SyBg
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🇬🇧 🚶‍🌎 After 28 years, British adventurer Karl Bushby arrived back home in Hull, northeast England on Monday after a 50,000-kilometre (31,000-mile) trek from Chile across four continents without using any transport to progress ➡️ u.afp.com/Syhu
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🇬🇧 💷 Britain's Labour government will increase a tax on profits earned by banks to help fund support for soaring energy bills, finance minister John Healey said in his budget announcement on Wednesday ➡️ u.afp.com/SyGy
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🇪🇸 ⚠️ A high-speed train collision south of Madrid killed 64 people and injured over 100 more on Wednesday, with the toll likely to rise, authorities said, in one of Europe's deadliest such disasters this century ➡️ u.afp.com/SyGm
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🇪🇸 A high-speed train collision south of Madrid killed 64 people and injured scores more on Wednesday, with the toll likely to rise, authorities said, in one of Europe's deadliest such disasters this century ➡️ u.afp.com/SyGm
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🇪🇸 A collision between two high-speed trains south of Madrid killed at least 10 people on Wednesday, a regional government spokeswoman said, warning the toll could rise.
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#BREAKING Spain train collision kills at least 10: regional govt
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🇮🇩 🔥 Gasping for air: Borneo residents struggle as island burns More than 11,000 people have been treated for respiratory infections in the city of Palangkaraya on the island of Borneo during a months-long wildfire crisis that has also affected Indonesia's neighbours with toxic haze pollution.
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⚽ 🇫🇷 🇨🇳 Kylian Mbappe apologised on Tuesday after the Real Madrid star was dropped by major Chinese brands for apparently joking about the country's founding leader Mao Zedong in a video that has gone viral ➡️ u.afp.com/SyT6
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🇬🇧 👑 🇧🇸 🇬🇾 🇦🇬 King Charles III begins a delicate tour of the Caribbean on Tuesday, overshadowed by calls to apologise and pay reparations for the slave trade, which he has called the "darkest days" of British history ➡️ u.afp.com/SySd
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