Colin Freeman
Journalist and Foreign Correspondent at Freelance
Journalist and author, one-time hostage of Somali pirates. Books on Iraq, Somalia, piracy, Ukraine.
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2 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Colin Freeman
Credit: X/@Cyber_HuntssTucked away in Belgravia, around the corner from Harrods, Lowndes Square is not a regular port of call for Metropolitan police riot squads. Last Friday night, though, it was packed with police vans as two angry crowds faced off outside a five-storey stuccoed villa. Number 34 is better known as the Pakistan High Commission, one of many foreign missions in the area – although there was nothing diplomatic about the language exchanged on Friday evening.
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2 weeks ago |
telegraph.co.uk | Colin Freeman
Scotland Yard is investigating footage of the Pakistani official, taken during a London protest for victims of the Pahalgam massacreTucked away in Belgravia around the corner from Harrods, Lowndes Square is not a regular port of call for Metropolitan police riot squads. Last Friday night, though, it was packed with police vans as two angry crowds faced off outside a five-storey stuccoed villa.
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2 weeks ago |
spectator.co.uk | Colin Freeman
In Alex Garland’s new film Warfare, one detail stakes the film’s claim to be the most honest depiction of combat yet. Not the severed foot left lying on an Iraqi street after a bomb blast, nor a wounded US soldier’s screams as a medic bandages up what is left of his leg. Instead, it is that throughout the film’s 20-minute-long gun battle, only one insurgent is shown being felled by a bullet.
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3 weeks ago |
independent.ie | Colin Freeman
How Kremlin diplomats are trained to ‘speak diplomacy but practise coercion’Russia's president Vladimir Putin and foreign minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow, Russia on Friday. Photo: Reuters©Telegraph Media Group Holdings LtdToday at 03:30The Moscow State Institute of International Relations is the Oxbridge of Russia’s foreign policy world and has trained the country’s diplomats since Stalin’s time.
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3 weeks ago |
m.independent.ie | Colin Freeman
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Daily Telegraph obit of Chris "Swampy" Garrett, land mine clearance expert killed in Ukraine. https://t.co/XU3EaFKo70
My new book on the story of Ukraine's International Legion will be published on July 17 by @HarperCollinsUK . It's the story of Ukraine war as witnessed by the Brits and Americans who risked their lives to fight there - and who sometimes paid the ultimate price. https://t.co/HZaC6RCMXX
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