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9 Nov, 10 tweets, 5 min read

🔴Poland has sealed part of its border with Belarus.

Polish prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki warned that the attempted crossing of thousands of migrants posed a threat to the "security of the entire EU"
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🇧🇾Belarus has responded by warning Poland against escalating tensions on the border, saying Warsaw's treatment of migrants would be a "litmus test" of its commitment to international norms
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➡️After being spotted massing on the Polish-Belarusian border on Monday and trying to break through barbed wire, around 4,000 migrants camped out on the Belarus side in freezing overnight temperatures
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@CampbellMacD

🔴 "Alexander Lukashenko is ruthlessly weaponising migrants - just as he promised"

Read the latest analysis from @CampbellMacD ⬇️
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🇧🇾Alexander Lukashenko has warned that "nuclear superpower" Russia could be dragged into the escalating border crisis with Brussels

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🔴 President Lukashenko’s intervention came after he was accused by the European Commission of acting like a “gangster” by using migrants as political pawns

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🔴Alexander Lukashenko said he would no longer prevent migrants and drugs from entering Europe back in June.

Travel agents are offering Iraqis and Syrians package trips to Belarus with advertisements implying they can travel on to seek work in Europe

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🇷🇺Amid the mounting border crisis, Russia has publicly called on the EU to pay Belarus to shoulder the burden for thousands of migrants waiting on the bloc’s external border

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🇵🇱A spokesman for Poland's special services said estimates showed there could be up to 12,000 migrants in Belarus waiting to be sent to the border

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@RolandOliphant

📱As you approach Poland’s border with Belarus, a message flashes up.

“The Polish border is sealed. BLR authorities told you lies. Go back to Minsk! Don’t take any pills from Belarusian soldiers.”

Read the latest dispatch from @RolandOliphant ⬇️
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🚨 The United States has warned European allies that Russia could be intending to invade Ukraine in a repeat of the 2014 annexation of Crimea

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🇺🇸 US officials warned Moscow against making a "serious mistake" amid its buildup of troops along the Ukrainian border, shared intelligence on the Russian movements with allies, and briefed them on the possibility of a military operation

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🔴 Tony Blinken, the US secretary of state, said: "We don’t have clarity into Moscow’s intentions, but we do know its playbook.

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🔴 In October 1981, a man took his last short breaths at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London.

Doctors noted his cause of death as a rare form of pneumonia.

But for 40 years neither he, nor the disease that truly killed him, have been publicly named

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🔴For all this time, the 49-year-old has remained a medical mystery, referred to simply as ‘Patient Zero’.

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🔴When the PM first sent us all home from the office 18 months ago, it was only ever meant to last 3 weeks.

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What is the true cost of working from home?

❓A recent survey reports what percentage of UK workers want to make remote working a permanent change?
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🇨🇳China has pushed ahead with manufacturing electric vehicles and dominates the global market – but can it last forever?

@sophia_yan visited China's electric car capital, Liuzhou, where rush hour is almost silent

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📈About one third of the cars sold in China’s Liuzhou are electric, a figure that’s only growing.

That’s more than five times the rest of China, making Liuzhou a leader in the world’s largest EV market
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This is the product of a long campaign by the Chinese state.

⛽️China has pushed new energy vehicles to cut pollution and traffic.

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🔴 More than 22 million children missed their measles vaccine during the pandemic, the biggest rise in two decades

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📈After decades of progress measles cases were already on the rise before Covid-19 for several years.

This was due to poor global vaccination rates linked to hesitancy, weak health systems and a lack of access to the jab
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In 2020, 60,700 are estimated to have died

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