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Hope I haven’t picked the wrong day to start reading this 🧐

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Another group excited about the U.S.'s new pro-Kremlin foreign policy: separatist leaders in Transnistria. The region's foreign affairs minister, Vitali Ignatiev, expressed support for Washington's "new approach" to international affairs (tv.pgtrk.com/ru/news/2025...), ...

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Walking the #EnglandCoastPath, day 13: from Horden to Hartlepool. Great to arrive at the mouth of the mighty Tees where, among other things, we spotted a Carnegie library with fine inscriptions to remind us of the days when US oligarchs weren’t entirely a blight on the world 🧐

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Walking the #EnglandCoastPath, day 12: Sunderland to Horden, aka the Coal Coast. Remarkable to think how it’s changed in my lifetime…

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USAID cuts likely to “cause a surge in misinformation” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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A visit to #Speyer cathedral. Romanesque architecture, burial site of Hapsburg and other emperors, and a memorial to Edith Stein (the Carmelite St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross), who worshipped there and was murdered in Birkenau. A remarkable place.

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You can donate here - worth every penny! zdg.one/en/donatii/

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Heading home from a few days working in #Yerevan. What a treat to see Ararat sitting proud above the clouds as we took off. Farewell #Armenia

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It’s a foggy day in Chisinau but it suits it. Such a liveable, walkable city ❤️🇲🇩 #Moldova

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Another hotel in another Spanish mountain village means another vintage radio. Think I’ll tune to Beromünster this evening 🧐📻

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Statements today by both the EU in Georgia and the British Ambassador about developments in Georgia, including attacks on journalists.

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HAPPENING NOW: "Freedom for Mzia Amaghlobeli and all political prisoners of the regime" — About 30 Georgian media outlets, including online platforms and TV stations, have gone on strike. #GeorgianProtests #TerrorinGeorgia

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Vintage radio of the day, complete with water stain. Come in Londres, over! 📻

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Mzia, the owner of Batumelebi and Netgazeti, was arrested yesterday. Guram, one of their camera operators, now arrested too 😞🇬🇪.

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Mzia is a fine journalist. Very depressing 🇬🇪✊

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“The vast majority of the Transnistrian economy has shut down”. This is a very good summary of what’s happened in Moldova since Russian gas supplies stopped on Jan 1st - recommended read.

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Good morning from a freezing beach in #Northumberland 🥶

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Today is the official Christmas in the Russian world. On Xmas Eve people in Transnistrian region are informed that from today the blackouts will be prolonged from 4 to 8 hours, while there is no gas, heating and worm water in apartments for many days. Russia released threats to Md, EU, Ukr.

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We could do with more coverage of this story. There was reporting on Jan 1st when gas supplies via Ukraine ended. Moldova is in a vulnerable position. And as for Transnistria which relied on free gas from Russia…

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Setting off for another day’s walking along the England Coast Path, I didn’t expect this: North Shields’ local hero… Hastings Banda 🧐

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A New Year’s Day aurora is fighting to appear from behind the clouds here on the Northumberland coast

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A #Northumberland sunrise - from the beach at Low Newton. Happy New Year 2025 - even if the sun is invisible!

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Happy New Year! 2025 (Too windy for fireworks)

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“All of his property that is in the U.S. or in the possession or control of U.S. persons will be blocked” for being responsible for or complicit in actions undermining democratic processes or institutions in the U.S. or abroad, benefiting Russia. #Georgia #GeorgiaProtests

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Simultaneously having a small weep at Mishal’s farewell from Today at the same time as substituting the words of her farewell musical choice (Daydream Believer) with the traditional anti-SAFC wording “Cheer up Peter Reid”. Well it lessened the blow 🥲

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Syrian days

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The🎄was lit on Rustaveli Ave, #Tbilisi, as groups marched in on the 19th day of #GeorgiaProtests, demanding new elections and the release of anti-Russian protest detainees. Protesters left banners around the tree.

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We’re used to anti-tank blocks on our beach but this year’s storms have exposed barbed wire from #WWII and, fair play to @nationaltrust.bsky.social, they haven’t just safeguarded health & safety, they’ve provided some marvellous photos of the defences being built in the first place #northumberland

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How you know you and your friends are getting on a bit: 1. You’re all still sending Christmas cards 2. One arrives saying “Merry Christmas Maureen” Who? 🤷‍♀️😆 3. Another has sent me an empty envelope 🤦‍♀️ Merry Christmas, one and all 👵

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Day 10 of the #EnglandCoastPath today: Blyth to the Tyne. Today’s highlights: replica naval guns and the ship that spotted Antarctica as it rounded the Cape 200 years ago; plus wise advice to divers 👀

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Love @jimedwardsart.bsky.social paintings of the North East and this one, of the mouth of the Tyne, captures today’s mood beautifully

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A night of protests in #Georgia after the Georgian Dream (‘winners’ of a disputed election) halt EU accession talks.

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