Sam Metz

RT @kanis_leung: We’re hiring a China Business Reporter based in Hong Kong. 📰🗞️ (come be my desk neighbor🙋🏻‍♀️）https://t.co/rQBEPeROtx

Incredibly well-told and tender story about the lives that migrants leave behind when their reality drives them to sea by @lyndaabbou & @maghrebemergent https://t.co/lZS5lMOVTz

LAGOS, #Nigeria (@AP) — In a country where hundreds drown every year, the initiative has so far taught at least 400 disabled people how to swim. It has also aided their personal development.https://t.co/TAJuvCMonS

RT @obed_lamy: Got to interview John Prevost, pope Leo's brother for the AP in the suburbs of Chicago yesterday. Very kind and gracious man…

RT @aseitzwald: Why a Maine newspaper opened its own cafe. Read @JulesWalkup on why we think local newspapers should be in the Third Spac…

RT @chicoharlan: There is some conflicting reporting on whether new Pope Leo XIV is a Cubs or White Sox fan. Well, I just spoke with Augu…

As Europe marks V-E Day, Algeria is recalling a darker memory: colonial-era massacres that took place the same day. While EU leaders then and now praise freedom and democracy, 80 years ago, neither extended to the 1M+ Africans who fought for the Allies.https://t.co/w78gVwFUq5

RT @AP: BREAKING: Black smoke pours out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, indicating no pope was elected on the conclave's first ballot. http…

RT @seungminkim: Amazing sentence: "With cardinals meeting for covert Chianti-fueled lunches, bartering prestigious post-conclave positions…

VATICAN CITY — Faced with the highly secretive and complex ritual of choosing a new pope, Catholic cardinals have turned to Hollywood to learn how it could all play out. “Some have watched [Conclave] in the cinema,” a cleric involved in the real thing admitted to @POLITICOEurope

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As crazy as it might sound, some of the 133 high-ranking clerics set to enter the Sistine Chapel to choose the next pope today have looked to the Ralph Fiennes movie ― handily titled just “Conclave” ― for pointers. 🔗 https://t.co/u2gJktTh4y https://t.co/hdp1xOw51C

Chinese automanufacturers are setting up shop in Morocco, @nytimes reports. In the last couple of years, investment in Morocco from Chinese energy and electric vehicle and battery producers has exploded, with $10 billion directed to that industry.https://t.co/9pHprTsc9k

Donald Trump's administration may deport migrants to Libya for the first time this week, three U.S. officials said on Tuesday, as part of his immigration crackdown and despite Washington's past condemnation of Libya's harsh treatment of detainees. https://t.co/8xdlPDko7h

RT @AJEnglish: A Tunisian court has sentenced former PM Ali Larayedh to 34 years in prison over accusations he facilitated the departure of…

A woman cried out upon seeing what looked like a corpse, a sheet-covered form lying on a stretcher. As volunteers wheeled it onto the stage, Boris Taleabong Alemnge recited a poem whose title spoke the unspoken: “Death.” —@AkuaNalova on poets & war @AP https://t.co/lKU9WkVLxI

.@AP story on protests against Morocco's recently normalized ties to Israel have revealed a gap between the government and the governed throughout the war: “I’ve rarely seen such a chasm between public opinion and the monarchy,” said @aboubakrj.https://t.co/245uND48eu

RT @JTAfrique: 🇹🇳L'arrestation de l'avocat #AhmedSouab a suscité une vague de solidarité en #Tunisie. Il avait dénoncé la partialité de la…

#Vietnam has spent decades cleaning up the toxic legacy of the war, in part funded by belated U.S. assistance, but the work is far from complete. Now, millions in Vietnam are worried that the U.S. may abandon Agent Orange cleanup as it slashes foreign aid. https://t.co/UT3rd0kl2D