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Feb 7, 2024 | 
tortoisemedia.com | Will Brown
Marked Men Your browser does not support the audio element. Our planet
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Jan 18, 2024 | 
tortoisemedia.com | Will Brown
A UK lawyer was detained in a secret location by unidentified agents on arrival in Pakistan for almost a week, then made to record a political statement under duress condemning his own political party, sources have told Tortoise. Abdullah Kahloon, a 36 year-old criminal barrister and father of two, was seized moments after he cleared immigration at Islamabad International Airport on 9 January.
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Jan 17, 2024 | 
tortoisemedia.com | Will Brown
Nigeria produces almost two million barrels of crude oil a day. By any measure, it should be rolling in cash and cheap energy. Not so. The nation of more than 200 million people has about as much energy to play with as Edinburgh, a city of half a million. A big part of the problem is a lack of functioning oil refineries, meaning Africa’s biggest economy spends vast amounts of its foreign exchange desperately importing refined petroleum products. Enter Africa’s richest man.
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Jan 17, 2024 | 
tortoisemedia.com | Will Brown
What does the appointment of Gabriel Attal as prime minister tell us about France today? Gabriel Attal is a striking choice. He’s part Tunisian Jewish, French and Greek-Russian. Not only is he the youngest, but also the country’s first openly gay head of government. In his first speech as prime minister last week, he promised to unleash France’s potential, saying:“The youngest president of the republic in history appoints the youngest prime minister in history.
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Jan 15, 2024 | 
tortoisemedia.com | Will Brown
The US military said it shot down an anti-ship cruise missile fired towards the USS Laboon off the coast of Yemen on Sunday afternoon. Such a direct threat to a US Navy ship will likely be met with a major US response. The UK’s reaction is less certain. A large part of its military assets – including one aircraft carrier and eight warships – are needed for a vast Nato exercise in Europe next month.
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Jan 15, 2024 | 
tortoisemedia.com | Will Brown |Liz Moseley |Chloe Hadjimatheou |Leslie Vinjamuri
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Jan 12, 2024 | 
tortoisemedia.com | Will Brown
South Africa says there is “incontrovertible” evidence that Israel is intent on committing genocide in Gaza. At the UN’s International Court of Justice in The Hague on Wednesday, five South African lawyers and the country’s justice minister laid out their case against Israel without graphic videos, focusing instead on the 1948 Genocide Convention and public statements from Israeli ministers and soldiers.
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Jan 10, 2024 | 
tortoisemedia.com | Will Brown
Napoleon made himself emperor of the French at 35. But the crown for the nation’s youngest leader just passed to President Macron’s protégée, Gabriel Attal, appointed prime minister yesterday at the age of 34. He is a striking choice. Part Tunisian Jewish, part Greek-Russian and openly gay, Attal was educated in Paris’s plush sixth arrondissement. A few years ago, he was an advisor in the health ministry.
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Dec 19, 2023 | 
tortoisemedia.com | Will Brown
As the Israel-Hamas war enters its 74th day, a battle is raging quietly on another front. Israel and its western allies are trying to come to grips with the terrorist group’s sprawling financial empire. So what? Over the past three decades, Hamas has built a dizzyingly complex system of global financing that tunnels from London and Istanbul to Qatar and Tehran, darting in and out of Muslim Brotherhood circles. Dismantling these flows is a key part of Israel’s war effort.
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Dec 15, 2023 | 
tortoisemedia.com | Will Brown
Six months ago, Putin was on shaky ground. He had just dodged a Wagner-sized bullet and Ukraine was gearing up for a counter-offensive. But on Thursday he basked under studio lights for a four-hour news conference at which he fielded carefully vetted questions from the public and journalists.
