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Journalist, former Middle East editor of the Guardian newspaper. Author of 'Arabs Without God: Atheism and Freedom of Belief in the Middle East', plus several other books about the region. Website: al-bab.com
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4/4 Worse still, the book quotes Donald McCormick, the paper's foreign department manager, as saying that “half the foreign desk” were spies – and McCormick appears to have been one of them.
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3/4 It soon becomes clear from the first extract is that an extraordinary number of Holden's contacts had connections with various intelligence agencies. It also appears that someone in the paper's office was stealing telex messages relating to Holden's reporting trip.
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2/4 The book, Murder in Cairo, is a new attempt to solve this 48-year-old puzzle and it delves into "the shadows of espionage and double-dealing, of treason and revenge – the world Holden inhabited, and which held the key to his murder".
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Bush was able to do that because Arabic uses the same word (ra'is) for both "president" and "chairman".
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A reporter asks Trudeau what it says about his and Trump's relationship if Trump isn't taking his calls. Trudeau says, oh, you know how busy he's been
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I think it was supposed to be a geography lesson. We had a film about plagues of locusts. There was a close-up of two locusts mating.
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4/4 Emissions from replacing destroyed buildings in Gaza with something similar will be roughly equivalent to 30 million tonnes of CO2 — which is about the same as the total annual output of New Zealand.
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3/4 The carbon cost of Israel’s defensive system along the Gaza border was almost 274,000 tonnes of CO2, the study says, while construction of Hamas’s extensive tunnel system generated about 176,000 tonnes.