Jonathan Rugman
Foreign Affairs Correspondent at Channel 4 News
@channel4news for yonks. @BBCNews @guardian before. Sr Assoc. Fellow @RUSI_org . Lecturer @cityjournalism . Author: https://t.co/uTdAU3yIXs
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6 days ago |
channel4.com | Jonathan Rugman
After the US Middle East Envoy rejected Hamas’s response to his ceasefire proposal, there has been more bloodshed in Gaza, with airstrikes on Gaza City. But accounts of what happened near an aid distribution point in the south of the strip are mired in dispute. There are four distribution centres run by the controversial US-Israeli backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, with only a couple of them operational as yet.
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1 week ago |
channel4.com | Jonathan Rugman
Beijing poses a real and potentially imminent threat to Taiwan – so said US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth at the Shangri-La defence forum in Singapore. In turn, China accused the US of trying to provoke trouble in the Asia-Pacific region. Mr Hegseth also urged America’s Asian allies to increase their defence spending, echoing the demand he made of European allies earlier this year.
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1 week ago |
channel4.com | Jonathan Rugman
The former Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has been awarded £84,000 in damages after winning his libel case against the BBC. He sued for defamation over a documentary and accompanying online article that alleged he sanctioned the murder of a Denis Donaldson, an MI5 informant, which he denied. Donaldson’s daughter has called for an urgent public inquiry into her father’s killing.
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4 weeks ago |
channel4.com | Jonathan Rugman
Ukraine’s allies have called on President Putin to commit to a thirty-day ceasefire. Joining other European leaders in Kyiv, the Prime Minister said Russia had to show it was “serious about peace” or face “new and massive sanctions”. But a day after more than 20 world leaders travelled to Moscow for a victory day parade, the Kremlin condemned what it called the “confrontational character” of the leaders’ statements. But it said Russia would consider the ceasefire proposal.
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4 weeks ago |
channel4.com | Jonathan Rugman
Flanked by the Chinese president Xi Jinping and generals from North Korea, the Russian leader Vladimir Putin has presided over the annual Victory day parade in Moscow’s Red Square – the country’s biggest display of military might. The Kremlin imposed heavy security for the event – blocking off the city centre and shutting down most access to the internet, as scores of military vehicles rumbled past, from intercontinental ballistic missiles to unmanned battlefield drones.
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Many noting that Erdogan thinks he can do as he likes because of Trump in White House. That isn’t really it: after 20+ years, despotic types are often left with only ‘yes’ men in the palace and make mistakes. See: Putin, Ukraine, invasion of.
Critical friends, like France, are what Turkey needs. Diplomatic silence can be (mis)read as consent:
NEW: France says the imprisonment of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu and many other personalities constitute “serious attacks on democracy.” “France reiterates its deep concern in this regard.”
