NEW: The civilians of Kherson have become the target of an experiment without precedent in modern European warfare: a concerted Russian campaign to empty a city by stalking its residents with drones.
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The killer machines, sometimes by the swarm, hover above homes, buzz into buildings and chase people down streets in their cars, riding bikes or simply on foot. Targets are not soldiers or tanks, but civilian life.
Nov 27, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
🚨 EXC: Thousands of mosques in China have been altered or destroyed as Beijing’s suppression of Islam spreads to almost every region of the country.
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Satellite-based analysis of 2,312 mosques once featuring Islamic architecture shows that three-quarters have been modified or destroyed since 2018.
New: This is the story of how a luxury development in Antakya became an earthquake death trap — and a symbol of the rot in Turkey’s construction system.
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The development was supposed to become a “a corner of paradise”, helping to turn the outskirts of Antakya into a gleaming metropolis. Yet 12 years on the Rönesans, a hulking iPhone shaped building with 249 flats, has collapsed into a heap of rubble.
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Irpin has become a byword for the $105.5bn in infrastructural damage caused by Putin’s war. As many as 8,651 buildings in Irpin — half the total in the city — have been damaged by fighting.
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The story centres around brilliant on the ground reporting from @JohnReedwrites, who spoke to agricultural workers like Mykola Gordiychuk, who had a farm in the path of Russian forces. He told us that “if you don’t plant in time, you lose a year.”
Feb 15, 2022 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
New with @ChrisGiles_: FT analysis shows the UK will be under far less pressure to raise taxes in the coming years to pay for the costs of the country’s ageing population because of falling birth rates, declining life expectancy and rising immigration. 1/4 ft.com/content/700206…
The changing demographic trends mean the government will have to find just £13bn in extra taxation to fund public services each year by the end of the decade, or 0.4% of national income, instead of the £69bn implied by previous estimates - a shift felt through the decades. 2/4
