
Simon Marks
Africa Reporter at Bloomberg News
Reporter at Large @BloombergAfrica | Previously @nytimes + @Politico | [email protected] | Follow me on https://t.co/770BuWeV3K
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1 day ago |
inews.co.uk | Simon Marks
WASHINGTON DC – President Donald Trump served one of his favourite dishes for dinner on Wednesday night: as Americans all over the country tucked into their supper, he proffered the nation a steaming plate of distraction. Trump hastily signed three presidential proclamations that were then immediately disseminated by the White House at the end of a long day in which Elon Musk – the President’s former partner-in-crime – urged Republicans to derail Trump’s massive tax and spending bill.
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2 days ago |
msn.com | Simon Marks
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2 days ago |
inews.co.uk | Simon Marks
A mere 96 hours after President Donald Trump paid public tribute to a symbolically and literally bruised Elon Musk in the Oval Office, the richest man in the world began a scorched Earth effort to pull the rug out from under his former political patron. Having spent the past five months taking a chainsaw to America’s bureaucracy, Musk is now using a flamethrower to attack Trump and the Republicans on Capitol Hill who support the President’s tax and spending proposals.
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4 days ago |
inews.co.uk | Simon Marks
As the Prime Minister unveiled the long-awaited UK Strategic Defence Review, he and other top officials made extensive use of language designed to impress President Donald Trump. References to placing “war-fighting readiness” at the heart of British defence policy were ripped straight from the phrasebook of Trump’s Pentagon chief, Pete Hegseth, who floated renaming his own organization the Department of War.
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5 days ago |
msn.com | Simon Marks
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Following dramatic events in Port Sudan this week, where drone attacks on key infrastructure continue, @jennzaba and I explain the background to why the Sudanese army blame the UAE for supplying the RSF. https://t.co/L5Vc68R9IU

Explosions rocked the airport and port at Sudan’s main coastal city on Tuesday, the latest escalation in two years of conflict between the North African nation’s army and the Rapid Support Forces militia. https://t.co/ClTowZZiyj

The top UN court threw out Sudan's genocide case against the United Arab Emirates, saying it lacks the jurisdiction to decide on the allegations related to the North African country’s civil war. https://t.co/nHFJaI70fO