
Drew Hinshaw
Senior Reporter, World Enterprise Bureau at The Wall Street Journal
Senior world reporter for @WSJ. [email protected]. Pulitzer finalist. Author, BRING BACK OUR GIRLS, the Overseas Press Club best book of 2021 https://t.co/LZgXtINRyj
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6 days ago |
wsj.com | Marcus Walker |Drew Hinshaw
Few conclaves in modern history have needed more than two or three days of votingVATICAN CITY—The conclave to elect a new pope is approaching potentially decisive rounds of voting on Thursday afternoon, after cardinals failed to reach the necessary majority in the morning. Up to two ballots are scheduled for Thursday afternoon, the fourth and fifth rounds of the election to pick a successor to the late Pope Francis as leader of the global Catholic Church with its 1.4 billion faithful.
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1 week ago |
wsj.com | Drew Hinshaw |Joe Parkinson |Stacy Meichtry
The ailing pope was short of breath, sitting beneath a cherished painting of Mary, Untier of Knots, as he worked through a last-ditch plan to disentangle the finances of one of the world’s most opaque bureaucracies. For over a decade, Francis had struggled to bring some transparency to the Vatican’s shadowy balance sheet.
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3 weeks ago |
tovima.com | Joe Parkinson |Drew Hinshaw |Thomas Grove
Sergei Beseda, known to the CIA as ‘the Baron,’ also figured in one of the world’s biggest prisoner swapsThe Riyadh Ritz-Carlton was under lockdown last month and Russia-U.S. talks over the fate of Ukraine were entering their 13th hour when two wooden doors flung open to reveal the reclusive spy general helping lead the Kremlin’s negotiations. Col. Gen. Sergei Beseda marched forward until he saw cameras flashing, then shuffled awkwardly and offered a tight smile.
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1 month ago |
wsj.com | Joe Parkinson |Drew Hinshaw |Thomas Grove
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1 month ago |
wsj.com | Joe Parkinson |Drew Hinshaw |Thomas Grove
At this time last year, the career spy known to the CIA as “the Baron” was engaged in the kind of hyper-secretive business that had consumed most of his career—meeting the agency’s officials every few weeks in hotels booked under false names to negotiate the largest prisoner swap in U.S.-Russian history. That exchange, conducted Aug. 1, freed 24 prisoners including Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich.
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RT @geraldposner: Readers of God’s Bankers will not be surprised that the Vatican’s finances are “one of the world’s most opaque bureaucrac…

Honored to have been a finalist for the Pulitzer, alongside an excellent team, most notably @evangershkovich, who reported from a Russian jail. https://t.co/XZXY29EWvF

RT @JoeWSJ: He was appointed by Putin to lead the backchannel prisoner talks with the CIA that led to the August 1st prisoner swap. And has…