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Rory Challands

@rorychallands

News correspondent for Al Jazeera English and ITV News. Formerly Moscow correspondent for Al Jazeera.

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Keir Starmer's famously profligate genie has woken up again. But obviously has 'only applies to the Tories' in the small print.

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The AfD. It's the hard-right, anti-immigrant, euro-sceptic party that's doing its best to upend Germany's political landscape. Watch the Al Jazeera English People and Power - Al Jazeera documentary A Far Right Reckoning. youtu.be/XzgtF9Wepeo?si…

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The far right #AfD is polling at over 20% in #Germany, pushing for mass deportations and dismantling fundamental parts of the #EU. With elections on February 23rd, Germany is on the threshold of a far right breakthrough. Al Jazeera's Rory Challands explains.

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"Our form of communication is gunfire." A damning report on the carnage at GHF aid points in Gaza. Israeli soldiers reveal how brute violence reigns in place of ethical crowd control. haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

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Ukraine says Russia launched one of its largest air assaults on Kyiv in months, killing one and injuring seven. Strikes hit a metro station used as a shelter and sparked fires, including at a kindergarten. Al Jazeera's Rory Challands reports.

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"He doesn't know how he found strength to get out." Our report from Kyiv on the people on the receiving end of Russia's massive drone assaults... and the air defence crews struggling to shoot them down. youtu.be/245BCfK78dw?si…

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Dangerous new territory for President Zelenskyy. Since the war started any frustration at his government has been muted by unity in the face of Russia's invasion. That balance has just snapped. Anger at the gutting of two anti-corruption bodies has been instant.

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On the ground at last night's protests in #Kyiv. A new law gutting #antireport-corruption bodies has unleashed an instant wave of public anger... at a perilous moment for #Ukraine. youtu.be/UcJrxWeUqPo?si…

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One week in the job and Ukraine’s new prime minister and deputy prime minister are scrambling to put out a raging blaze set by the president who appointed them. A new bill is to be submitted by Zelensky to parliament. It’s unclear what’s in it and whether it will restore the

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The protests in Ukraine have grown, and they've spread. And today the first sign from #Zelenskyy that he realises the mess he's made. Announcing the drafting of a new law that safeguards the independence of anti-corruption agencies #NABU and #SAPO.

The protests in Ukraine have grown, and they've spread. And today the first sign from #Zelenskyy that he realises the mess he's made. Announcing the drafting of a new law that safeguards the independence of anti-corruption agencies #NABU and #SAPO.
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Another blow to what remains of the 'rules-based' international order. Keir Starmer bartering recognition of Palestine for Israel playing nice(r) is cribbing from Trump's transactional playbook. Palestinian statehood should be a matter of principle, not a quid pro quo.

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Why is the austerity policies of the 2010 coalition gov not an option on this list?? No way can that not even be considered as an origin point for the UK's contemporary problems.

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HELP: Our friend Alec Luhn is currently missing while hiking in Norway's Folgefonna national park. If anyone has seen him please get in touch. If people in the area can share this please do Last seen July 31 after leaving Odda headed for Holmaskjer. Planned to go to Breidablikk

HELP: Our friend <a href="/AlecLuhn/">Alec Luhn</a> is currently missing while hiking in Norway's Folgefonna national park. If anyone has seen him please get in touch. If people in the area can share this please do
Last seen July 31 after leaving Odda headed for Holmaskjer. Planned to go to Breidablikk
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This is exactly the type of 'double tap' strike that would provoke appalled condemnation from Western govs when Assad and Putin did them. Let's see how appalled they are when it's Israel murdering paramedics and journalists.

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The double tap strike on Nasser Hospital that killed journalists and emergency workers in Gaza today is far from the first Israel has perpetrated - as Israeli publication +972 has highlighted.

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Like ABC News, I was also told by UK Prime Minister yesterday that Al Jazeera English was being taken off the Starmer/Trump press conference list for logistical reasons. The weather was mentioned. theguardian.com/media/2025/sep…