
Adrian Blomfield
East Africa Correspondent at The Economist
Journalist covering global affairs with focus on former Soviet Union, Middle East and Africa. Formerly based in Moscow, Jerusalem and Cairo, now in Nairobi.
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msn.com | Daniel Martin |Danielle Sheridan |Adrian Blomfield
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msn.com | Iona Cleave |Kieran Kelly |Rob Crilly |Henry Bodkin |Sophia Yan |Adrian Blomfield | +2 more
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msn.com | Kieran Kelly |Adrian Blomfield
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telegraph.co.uk | Kieran Kelly |Adrian Blomfield
Israel has killed Iran's top military commander just four days after he was appointed. Ali Shadmani was killed in a command centre in central Tehran, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said, after "a sudden opportunity" arose for an airstrike. Shadmani, Iran's "wartime chief of staff" and aide to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was appointed to the position on Friday after Israel killed his predecessor in a military strike.
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msn.com | Paul Nuki |Rob Crilly |Adrian Blomfield
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I see that Lawrence Kanyuka, spokesman for the Congolese rebel movement M23, has dissolved Kingston Fresh, his foods company in the UK. Kanyuka and the company were placed under US sanctions earlier this year: https://t.co/YvpAaO8sQw

The Trump-Musk spat has shades of the fall out between Putin & Boris Berezovsky, the mouthy oligarch who helped him to power. Berezovsky wound up dead in a bathroom, a ligature round his neck. Things presumably won’t go that far, but maybe Elon should lock the door if he showers!

Truth social seems to have turned on Donald Trump as well… https://t.co/JmHXlCOg29