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Radar satellite imagery from Umbra shows several damaged and destroyed structures at the Natanz nuclear facility in Iran, following Israeli strikes this morning More maps and videos of the multiple attacks in our story here: on.ft.com/445zvPR

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NEW - Mexico’s cartels have been setting up shop in a new business: smuggled fuel. Using satellite, customs, and maritime data, we identified misdeclared shipments of millions of barrels per year in a lucrative web that evades taxes and stretches across the country. ig.ft.com/mexico-fuel-...

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A very big day in Malta - the bomb-makers involved in the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia have been sentenced to whole-life terms. The first time the state has had to make its case before a jury -- and they managed to make it stick. www.ft.com/content/1896... @daphne.foundation

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That noise you hear? The sound of thousands of PR professionals scrambling to bury their bad news tomorrow. If this beef continues, it’ll be absolute peak conditions for a Friday news dump

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Alphaville x Weekend FT on.ft.com/3H2aWLC

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Among other gems, you'll learn that Sam understands the secret to a good pasta sauce: lots of garlic.

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@tinanguyen.bsky.social found the pope's facebook and feels kind of bad about it and is not sharing

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2025: Scrolling through the timeline of the new Supreme Pontiff and apostolic successor of St. Peter, to see if he mostly sent Good or Bad Tweets.

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Who had “deepfake Martin Wolf” on their bingo cards? on.ft.com/3RwFiIn

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This impressive, systematic investigation into claims about the 238 migrants deported to El Salvador is a must-read. (It also confirms our FT scoop from last month — that many were instead told they were headed to Venezuela.)

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Come hang out with our @journalismfestival.com panel on Saturday to chat about protests, eyewitness news, and shitposting on Bluesky!

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will be in perugia for @journalismfestival.com next week to talk about breaking news on bluesky w @peter.andringa.me @fadahjassem.bsky.social @sarahjeong.bsky.social! pls drop me a note if your org is hosting any side events there, would love to attend :)

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"Economists also attacked Trump’s obsession with reducing bilateral trade deficits to zero as economically illiterate, since there will always be items that it is impossible or economically unviable for countries to grow or make themselves ... the US cannot grow its own bananas." on.ft.com/3Egz8c9

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We're hiring a new FT data journalist in DC or New York! Check out the posting/apply here: job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/financialtim...

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This is the first time Bluesky has truly felt like old Twitter, in that my entire feed is just increasingly esoteric jokes about a single news event (new phone, houthis?)

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Attorneys have just filed a declaration from a woman on one of the flights, who was sent to El Salvador and returned when its government only accepted the male deportees. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... She also says she was told they were headed to Venezuela: (highlights my own)

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The US and Venezuela reached a deal to resume direct deportation flights yesterday, after the agreement broke down last weekend. Two planes met for a handover at Soto Cano air base in Honduras — the same place the three flights to El Salvador mysteriously stopped last week.

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For those following the court proceedings closely, we start to probe some of the details: When exactly did the flights leave? Why stop in Honduras? (And why would these details need to be a state secret?) @tomcartwright.bsky.social suggests some possibilities:

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One week ago, 238 Venezuelan immigrants were put on planes in Texas and deported to a mega-prison in El Salvador. Some believed they were heading not to prison, but back to Venezuela — and told their families they had signed documents agreeing to go home.

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NEW: Some Venezuelans now in a prison in El Salvador signed docs believing they would be sent home, per families and an activist. Flight records and gov statements suggest plans for a direct deportation flight may have been scrapped amid rising tensions btw the US and Venezuela. on.ft.com/4bNdwRa

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This is an extremely important win for real open government, which requires an independent civil society — unlike the facade of transparency on doge dot gov

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Inside Russia's shadow war in the Baltic Sea - a series of suspected sabotage incidents has exposed the vulnerability of Europe’s undersea infrastructure ig.ft.com/baltic-sea/

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New: Three decades after China liberalised its property market and ushered in a historic era of urbanisation, the state is back in force. Our latest visual investigation uses residential land sales to show that state-owned developers are propping up China’s housing sector. ig.ft.com/china-proper...

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NEW: Russian executions of Ukrainian POWs are not isolated incidents, but seem to be part of a broader pattern that suggests a systematic policy. By @christopherjm.ft.com @joesinft.ft.com @peter.andringa.me @digitalcampbell.ft.com @samjoiner.bsky.social and me. on.ft.com/4i6Yzve

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You’ll be shocked - shocked! - that the memecoin world is full of absolute chancers. (By @olihawkins.com, @eadehemingway.bsky.social and @nikasgari.bsky.social)

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My story in the FT Weekend Magazine today - The Fugitive Prince: how a man with a claim to a royal title and a vast fortune made a deal with a notorious businessman that cost him more than he could have imagined. www.ft.com/content/51f8...

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New The coming battle between social media and the state Behind the alignment of X and Meta with Trump is a cold business logic — and a position of weakness rather than strength By me, in todays @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/917c...

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2024 was the hottest year on record and the first to breach 1.5C above pre-industrial levels 2015 to 2024 were the 10 warmest years on record while this year is expected to be cooler, partly because of the diminished el niño impact, it will likely still rank among the 3 hottest on.ft.com/3PwbnPC

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Another detail in the piece: in addition to the $18mn in daily prizes, filings show Musk's group distributed over $40mn in smaller payments ($47/$100) to swing state voters who signed or referred others to the petition.

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Remember Musk’s $1mn prizes ahead of the US election? It turns out the final winner worked for the Trump campaign — and was already traveling to its election-night party in West Palm Beach when he won. Scoop, w/ Alex Rogers: on.ft.com/40tFSvu

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including replies, Musk has posted more than 1180 times in seven days www.ft.com/content/8e91...

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I filled in for @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social this week with a Data Points column on why fears that deepfakes would cause election chaos this year turned out to be - mostly - overblown on.ft.com/4gy9i1c

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NEW: Chinese companies have doubled their industrial footprint in Mexico in three years — a development that is emblematic of the closer ties that are poised to thrust Mexico into the centre of Trump’s trade war with Beijing. ig.ft.com/china-mexico...

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The grad trainee programme at the FT is extraordinary. We train you for THREE years you get decent money and an overseas placement. I've seen other news trainee schemes and this one is exceptional. It's open now. Pls share with anyone you know who would benefit d/l 14/1/25 www.ft.com/content/314f...

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Raya Jalabi and Sarah Dadouch share a great dispatch from inside Syria's new bureaucracy as it adapts meeting-room architecture, translates the regime's old euphemisms, and discovers a department for flags: www.ft.com/content/7efc...

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New: Inside the prison at the heart of Assad’s police state, Syrians search for the ghosts of loved ones that have haunted them since their enforced disappearances. W/ Raya Jalabi reporting from Saydnaya & @alisonkilling.bsky.social @peter.andringa.me @digitalcampbell.bsky.social on.ft.com/41s7W3A

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Raya Jalabi's profile of Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, the ambitious 42 year old Islamist who sees himself as the next leader of Syria on.ft.com/3ZtNVXP

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Compelling interviews and videos from the ground in Damascus today, via the FT's Malaika Kanaaneh Tapper: “No one has suffered as much as the Syrian people... The entire city has risen up in joy — everyone is in the streets, shouting, shooting.” on.ft.com/3Bm8P2X (first 300 free)

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New FT investigation: Russia uses civilians as ‘target practice’ for killer drones www.ft.com/content/31b6...

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New: Kherson’s civilians have been the target of an experiment without precedent in modern European warfare: a concerted Russian campaign to empty a city by stalking its residents with attack drones. Story w/ @samjoiner.bsky.social @inari-ta.bsky.social + @cen4infores.bsky.social on.ft.com/4fTNzAL

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