The real reason for the floods is, you might've guessed it already, systemic corruption. Since the dam was built during Putin's era and with a lower maximum water threshold than the one the level of the river historically reached.

How ISIS has Europe and the US in sights after deadly Moscow attack Tim Lister buff.ly/3vtpPl1

As a visitor it's beyond comphension that such a major city has such a threadbare and dysfunctional mass transit system. European cities with one fifth of the Atl popn have better public transport.

More great reporting from Paul, among the very best reporting from Ukraine

ISKP “has the desire and a growing ability to project beyond Afghanistan and carry out regional attacks,” CEP Senior Advisor Edmund Fitton-Brown told CNN Tim Lister. edition.cnn.com/2024/03/30/eur…

The CIA director took a new proposal to the Cairo ceasefire talks this weekend which included pushing Israel to release more Palestinian prisoners for 40 Israeli hostages, a source tells me. The latest on the talks: cnn.com/2024/04/08/pol…

Ukraine struggles to cope with new Russian onslaughts cnn.com/2024/04/06/wor…

Always great to engage with Tim Lister. The risk of ISK’s “brand resonating with individual sympathizers in Western countries cannot be overlooked.” CNN International
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Ex-coordinator of UN threat assessment about ISIS, al Qaeda & Taliban – agreed that so far threat in Europe has been “naïve & embryonic” but warned ISIS-K “has plugged into central Asian diaspora, primarily in Russia & Turkey & to some extent in Germany.” cnn.com/2024/03/30/eur…

As Biden sends more 2,000-pound bombs to Israel washingtonpost.com/national-secur… here is a reminder of the devastation that Israel has been causing with these huge bombs by dropping them utterly inappropriately in Gaza. That's aiding and abetting war crimes. nytimes.com/video/world/10…

Valerie Amos seems rather under-priced as the next chancellor. Current head of a big Oxford college (ie unlike rory/May); ex-head of SOAS; ex-UN under sec gen; ex-high commissioner to Australia; first female BAME cabinet minister. Few with comparable insider/outsider experience.

Israeli forces detained Palestinian journalists and health workers, blindfolded them and stripped them down to their underwear in Al-Shifa Hospital, in northern Gaza, according to eyewitness accounts shared with CNN.

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Frightening times: Republican-appointed judges raise alarm over Trump attacks on law wapo.st/4cAS8yw

Putin: “A few days before Mr. Navalny passed away..some people said that there is an idea to exchange Mr. Navalny...The person who spoke to me had not finished his sentence yet when I said I agree.' Sebastian Shukla Tim Lister & I wrote about the talks cnn.com/2024/03/08/eur…

In June of 1944, paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division greet locals in the town square of Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, shortly after the assault on D-Day.

Meanwhile on Russian state TV - 'Macron Bonaparte'

A friend in Russia tells me that he voted today. The voting booth wasn't covered, so no privacy. Standing next to the 'booth' was a police officer with an assault rifle. And my friend was forced by his employer to send a photo of himself holding his ballot.

⚡️⚡️ Attention: Putin voted for Putin in Putin's election.