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Global Security Editor @itvnews - one-time UK Editor and Africa Correspondent. RohitKachrooITV @protonmail .com IG @rohitkachrooitv

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Revealed: The plot to assassinate two TV news anchors on the streets of London. A double agent describes how he was hired by Iran to carry out the attack at a business park in Chiswick. The presenters only learned they were targets a year later, when contacted by ITV News.
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Breaking: ITV News learns Shamima Begum has been deprived of British citizenship
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More than 500 people were killed in an airstrike at Al-Ahly Baptist Hospital in Gaza, health official tells ITV News.
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Here’s the letter to her family
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Disastrous attempt by Australian PM Scott Morrison to console victims of wildfires
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I’m in a bunker beneath the silent streets of Kyiv. Around 30 people are here - kids drawing, teenagers on smart phones, parents wondering what tonight will bring - so are we. Some people raced down just before curfew, some won’t bother going back up until they absolutely have to
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An Australian senator who sparked outrage for blaming the New Zealand mosque shootings on Muslim immigration punches a child who hit him on the head with an egg.
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The goodbyes at Kyiv train station as thousands head west every hour…
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London Bridge attacker was a convicted terrorist released on licence, ITV News confirms. First reported by The Times
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Mayor of Irpin says Russia targeted suburbs of Kyiv with white phosphorus last night. Here’s what we saw from the centre of Kyiv.
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Stabbing in Stanwell, Surrey declared a terrorist incident. Police responded to reports of a man acting aggressively and shouting racist comments whilst carrying a baseball bat and a knife. “...hallmarks of a terror event, inspired by the far right” say counter-terrorism police
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Interesting to see how terror defined here. London Tube station stabbing included. But no sign of killing of Jo Cox MP by white supremacist
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Here's the list the White House sent of attacks they feel "did not receive adequate attention from Western media sources."
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A message for Russian soldiers on the outskirts of central Kyiv. ‘How would you be able to look in your children’s eyes?’
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Protesters in Bristol pull down a statue of slave trader Edward Colston
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This morning I told Shamima Begum that she had been stripped of her British citizenship - and showed her the letter that had been sent to her family. “It’s kind of heartbreaking to read” she told me. “It’s kind of hard to swallow”
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Decision made be the Home Secretary today, letter to Shamima Begum‘s family says
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It's 43 days since our former ITV News colleague in Zimbabwe, Hopewell Chin’ono, was detained shortly after exposing government corruption. Now there are fears for his health not just his case. Today he was brought to court despite fears he has Covid-19. He spoke to News at Ten.
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The White House releases an image it says was taken in the Situation Room yesterday during the operation to capture or kill Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
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ITV News filmmaker whose “extraordinary eyewitness journalism” from Ghouta is nominated for one of the industry’s top awards, is barred from the UK so can’t attend next week’s ceremony. Officials think there’s a chance he won’t leave (there’s no chance)
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NEW: Manchester bomber Salman Abedi shortly before Monday night's attack. CCTV image released by investigators tonight
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One of the largest gathering of Heads of State in recent times is about to begin at Buckingham Palace. Joe Biden can use his armoured limo ‘The Beast’ to get there - but others just arrived on a fleet of buses. Some irritated foreign diplomats call the arrangements “undignified”
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Dozens of metal balls close to the spot where a Russian drone was shot down by Ukrainian forces in central Kyiv this morning. Police say they were packed into the device to cause maximum damage. All this in a busy residential area.
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‘Disaster Girl’ - also known as Zoë Roth - is now a college senior. She became the face of a meme, made $500,000 and plans to pay off student debts and donate to charity
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Spent the day in Irpin, 16 miles from Kyiv. Thousands of civilians have fled over rubble, a river, then under a blown-up bridge to escape Russian bombardment. Met an elderly woman… alone, using a walking stick, clutching railings for support. She said she had escaped “hell”
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We’ve been in Jamaica asking people about the Coronation. Widespread disinterest. Most people we spoke to were more interested in the English Premier League this week than the British Royal Family - and feel only one of these U.K. institutions welcomes Black people.
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'Arsenal means more than the royals': Jamaica gives its view on the coronation | @RohitKachrooITV
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St Ann's Square, Manchester tonight
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Basis for the order is unclear. Last week MI6 chief said of British Isis members: “British nationals have a right to come to the UK”
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This video is being run in Ukrainian media. It appears to show citizens trying to stop a column of Russian tanks and armoured vehicles
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@danwootton Wasn’t she forced out following allegations of racist language and behaviour, rather than for her defence of Piers?
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Those who say booze/boredom/the topping of a statue are the simple explanations for the disorder in London might have missed something. The rising confidence of Britain’s extreme right wing - the normalising of some of its language - didn’t begin when the pubs closed for lockdown
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Is that a Dyson Cool Tower Fan?
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Nadezhda survived WW2. She still feels the pain in her foot from the injury she sustained escaping into the woods as a child in the 40s. Today she is hiding from conflict again - from the Russian army. Last night was her fourth in an underground bunker
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Army in Zimbabwe says it isn't staging a coup. Obviously this looks nothing like a coup:
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New allegations against Russian troops who took Kyiv suburb: They’re alleged to have raped, held hostage a girl whose mother died during detention Soldiers accused of shooting dead two elderly men who dared to leave their homes Irpin resident says evacuee coaches were shot at
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Russian troops are alleged to have raped and held hostage a teenage girl whose mum died while she was being detained against her will, ITV News has been told @RohitKachrooITV spoke to the volunteer who rescued the girl and relayed the horrifying details
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Evacuation from Mariupol postponed. Russia declared a ceasefire - officials say they’ve ignored it. Echoes of Syria where Russian approach to ceasefires and humanitarian corridors has been: ignore and regroup.
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‘Jihadi Jack’ - Jack Letts - is stripped of his British citizenship. He was a dual British-Canadian national. Mail on Sunday reports there has been a furious response from Canadian government
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Former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard
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Thanks for your concern. (Very) low blood sugar. Felt unwell earlier but much better now. Back at 10.
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. @RohitKachrooITV I thought I'd read somewhere he's type 1 diabetic and it looked like he was having a diabetic hypo. Hope someone gets his sugar level up!
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Jeremy Corbyn arrives at the scene of the Finsbury Park attack
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Signing off from Kyiv with huge respect and admiration for our Ukrainian colleagues who don’t have the option to just duck out for a while in the way visiting journalists can. Kseniia Kozhushko, Grigory Kuznetsov, Maxym Olshyn and many others.
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We pieced together what happened inside a hospital in Mariupol after the invasion. Russian forces killed as many as 50 patients who resisted attempts to forcibly deport them - “revenge for disobedience” the city’s mayor says
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For a second day Russian forces are taking a familiar approach to the ceasefire in Mariupol: declare it then ignore it, attack then regroup. Yesterday in Ukraine, previously in Syria.
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New details from AFP here. Sri Lanka's police chief issued an intelligence alert 10 days ago, warning that suicide bombers planned to hit "prominent churches" and Indian High Commission. The warning followed a tip off from a foreign intelligence agency
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Two applications submitted, ITV News promised to book return flights and accompany him during the short visit... even provided evidence that he had been offered a job in Turkey, and that his wife is at university there
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Scotland Yard issue 'Run, Hide, Tell' advice. Significantly, this indicates that the incident is not contained
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Met Police Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu says the “terrible news has only served to strengthen our resolve to identify and bring to justice the person or persons responsible for what I can only describe as an outrageous, reckless and barbaric act.”
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The Telegraph reports that UK Foreign Secretary Cameron summoned Iran’s most senior diplomat in the UK on Friday over ITV News revelation that Iranian spies offered a people smuggler $200k to assassinate two news presenters at ⁦ @IranIntl
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How a Damascus hospital became a secret “slaughterhouse” for anti-Assad Syrians. Doctors and nurses use medical equipment to taunt, torture and kill during check-ups. Images of a nearby mass grave taken two days ago show an open pit ready to take bodies.
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Home Office: “..the Home Secretary has clearly stated that his priority is the safety and security of Britain and the people who live here. In order to protect this country, he has the power to deprive someone of their British citizenship where it would not render them stateless”
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Sitting next to Meghan Markle’s old drama teacher. She says her former student waved at her and said ‘oh my god’ when she spotted her in the crowd. They’ve not seen each other for twenty years
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Surrey Police “Patrols will be stepped up across Stanwell in order to provide assurances to those in the area specifically around mosques...”
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Riley Williams packed up and left her home in Pennsylvania just before we arrived at her home last night. But there’s been no visit by the FBI. “Well she figures if it’s out there they’ll come to her and ask her about it," her mother told us.
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Who is the young woman who appeared to direct rioters during the storming of the US Capitol? ITV News has identified her. Ten days after the siege, her parents say the FBI/law enforcement haven’t been in touch - and she won’t hand herself in. ITV at 2240 and online shortly.
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Zimbabwe government spokesman Nick Mangwana blames 'interfering' foreign governments for attempting to influence Hopewell Chin'ono's case. His critique has echoes of the Mugabe era
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Helping us assess what Jamaicans are thinking about monarchy was Barbara Blake-Hannah - the first Black woman to be a reporter on U.K. TV. She was a television pioneer in the 1960s but was forced off TV screens because of racism before her story was widely known.
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Backdrop to this: Trumped up hysteria about legitimate media; warnings from Europol that media might become targets of violent extremists
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THREE of the 20 Russian major generals sent to Ukraine have now been killed, a western official has said.
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We were among the first people from outside her village that Ludmila was able to speak to for eight months. She hugged and kissed Ukrainian soldiers when they finally arrived yesterday. Today she gave them - and us - a bag of the grapes she’s been growing during occupation
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Detectives believe city centre flat was "final assembly place" for Abedi's bomb. From there he went to Manchester Arena.
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UK’s Chief of Defence Intelligence: “The Kremlin has so far failed to achieve its original objectives” “Russian operations have changed. Russia is now pursuing a Strategy of Attrition. This will involve the reckless and indiscriminate use of firepower”
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We spent a night with Ukrainians taking shelter from bombs beneath Kyiv’s silent streets. As we saw, there was no one way to respond as the troops crept closer. A 90 year old woman remembered escaping bombs in the 1940s, kids drew flags and played games
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How does Israel justify its strike against a tower block which houses news organisations like AP and Al Jazeera? We asked Israel Defense Forces spokesman Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus
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Strong statement. Kenya’s fury at the U.K. government after being added to travel ‘red list’. Says in “seeking to build back better”, U.K. should have shared vaccines with Kenya instead of practising “a form of vaccine nationalism”. Speaks of an international “vaccine apartheid”.
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The gym chain David Lloyd Clubs is in talks with the government about converting some of its leisure centres into temporary hospitals to prevent the NHS from being overwhelmed during the coronavirus pandemic, ITV News has learned. “A handful” of its health clubs could be used.
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NEW: I understand the NEC near Birmingham is being considered as a potential site for a temporary hospital to care for coronavirus patients. Officials are concerned by the rising number of cases in the West Midlands.
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An Iranian diplomat has just been given a 20-year sentence for planning a bomb attack against an exiled opposition group at a rally in France. The judge says he was supported by the authorities in Tehran. British MPs and Rudy Giuliani attended the event.
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Kyiv overnight: Continuous rocket shelling, gun battles. Huge blasts, red clouds over SW of the city close to a military airfield. Many people raced for bunkers as sirens sounded. Curfew continues until tomorrow AM. Ukrainian forces resisting, city remains under their control.
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“Ahead of us are Izium and many others” he says…
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The town of Balakliya, Kharkiv region, is liberated by Ukrainian troops! The Commander of Ukrainian Land Forces, Hero of Ukraine, Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskyi is leading the Ukrainian offensive in this sector. The Ukrainian flag has been raised in the town centre.
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100 year old Owen Filer on a once-in-a-century health crisis and his four pensioner kids
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The bar is high for International Criminal Court judges to issue an arrest warrant against a head of state - today they did against Vladimir Putin.  No immunity for a head of state in a case involving war crimes, genocide or crimes against humanity.
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New satellite images show Russian convoy moving closer to Kyiv. It is approximately 17 miles from the center of the city and stretches over nearly 17 miles. Hundreds of armoured vehicles, tanks and support vehicles. Images from @Maxar
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Self-invoked tweet. I’m adding one word and a bit more of the world to my job from tonight. I’ll now be covering more of the issues that shape the world beyond terrorism as Global Security Editor - beginning with the assassination of Iran’s top nuclear scientist on News at Ten.
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Shamima Begum seemed dazed when I told her she was no longer a UK citizen. Last week she told The Times that she’d been unfazed by the sight of severed heads. She said the case was ‘unjust’ and asked for the Home Secretary to review. Video on shortly
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Scotland Yard confirms the London Bridge terror suspect shot dead this afternoon was 28-year-old Usman Khan, who was convicted in 2012 for terrorism offences and released from prison in December 2018 on licence
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Yes, Thomas Mair is a Neo-nazi and white supremacist. He's also a terrorist. Just like the killers of Lee Rigby, just like the 7/7 bombers
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Riley Williams has been charged. The FBI is investigating claims she stole a computer from the office of Nancy Pelosi, the House Speaker, and attempted to sell it in Russia.
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“Enemies are only friends waiting to be made”. A few years ago, shortly after his retirement, I asked Archbishop Desmond Tutu to summarise his career and to reflect on the lessons of his life.
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Who is the young woman who appeared to direct rioters during the storming of the US Capitol? ITV News has identified her. Ten days after the siege, her parents say the FBI/law enforcement haven’t been in touch - and she won’t hand herself in. ITV at 2240 and online shortly.
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Our Programme Editor Mike Rigby has currently been going up and down in a lift for half an hour with no sign of escape. The bulletin tonight could be sparse without his heavy LIFTing #upanddown
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Our report from Taiz in Yemen’s highlands is a story of separation: where a front line divides Houthis and government soldiers, separates civilians from food, medicine and loved ones… and allows water to be used as a weapon more powerful than any missile
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@BraddJaffy and as for the countries that are on his list
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Rudy Giuliani on Trump’s Twitter suspension: “Well, I think it’s a violation of free speech, obviously”
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A very loud bang just now in Kyiv
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The battle of the bookshelves. Self isolated journalists on TV over Skype taking the opportunity to show everyone how well read they are. A real showcase.
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No 10 confirms that the U.K. will provide Challenger 2 tanks to Ukraine for the first time
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Always strong support of the UK is now impenetrable and ready for challenges. In a conversation with the Prime Minister, @RishiSunak , I thanked for the decisions that will not only strengthen us on the battlefield, but also send the right signal to other partners.
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@danriversitv Were they looking for the BBC?
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An Indian mother and a Jamaican father. For some people, defining Kamala Harris’ dual heritage is a problem. But it isn’t for her
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Fozia Hanif never got to meet her new-born baby but held a picture of him before she died in hospital with coronavirus. She had just celebrated her 29th birthday when she started to develop symptoms and tested positive, forcing a premature birth of her boy, Ayaan, on April 2.
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Painful day, predictable day: DIY terrorism, obvious target. Five lives lost, way of life unthreatened. Dark day, London has endured darker
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The London Eye tonight - red, white and blue #ParisAttacks
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Outside the Mandela home. Songs from the struggle being sung. Crowds celebrating a great life. Singing but no tears.
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Western intelligence indicates Russian officials were told by the Chinese government to delay the invasion of Ukraine until after the Winter Olympics, officials have told ITV News. The closing ceremony in Beijing was on 20th Feb. A full scale invasion was launched on 24th Feb.
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Russia has now deployed HALF the forces it had accumulated in Russia, Belarus and Crimea inside Ukraine, a western official says.
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Woken at 0504 in central Kyiv by at least two very loud explosions
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New year in Turkey. Armed attack at Reina - one of Istanbul's best known night clubs. Many casualties reported.
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@Josiensor @waelo01 Oh dear. In Humam’s case ITV News submitted two applications, they guaranteed they would book return flights AND that they accompany him during his visit... even provided evidence that he had been offered a job in Turkey, and that his wife is at university there
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