Global affairs correspondent for @guardian in Washington DC. Ex-Moscow via London. Здесь нам не тут. Write me: Andrew.Roth@theguardian.com Signal: andrewroth.38
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5 Feb 2025
I dug in to Musk's dismantling of USAid because it shows his playbook for capturing the whole federal government. What surprised me was his direct involvement in the operation. For example, he demanded suspension of 57 career officers by phone last Monday. theguardian.com/us-news/2025…
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Jun 11
NEW YORK CITY, YOU LISTEN TO ME. IF YOU'RE NEAR A CONVENIENCE STORE RIGHT NOW, ANY TYPE OF 24-HOUR STORE, GO INTO THE STORE RIGHT NOW AND PUT YOUR HAND IN THE CASH REGISTER FOR NO REASON.
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Jun 3
NEW: A Guardian review of thousands of DOJ-released Epstein records found that Ben Black— now the Senate-confirmed head of the $205bn @DFCgov — once invested in the same company as Epstein and maintained social ties with him for years afterward.
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Apr 26
Viktor Orbán heads to the US in June, where family members already live, while loyalists seek MAGA think-tank jobs and visas after the election defeat. Meanwhile, oligarchs & cronies are shifting wealth abroad, largely to the Middle East. @floragaramvolgy
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Mar 18
The strange case of Ilya Remeslo, a staunch pro-Kremlin activist who abruptly turned on Putin overnight, now calling for his resignation and prosecution "This man has destroyed everything he could lay his hands on,”Remeslo told me this morning theguardian.com/world/2026/m…
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Mar 17
EXCL: UK national security adviser Jonathan Powell attended final talks between US and Iran - and judged Tehran's offer on its nuclear programme was significant enough to prevent rush to war @patrickwintour & @julianborger reveal
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Mar 14
An objectively wild career move and one I couldn’t be happier with or prouder of. The world needs more local reporters more than it needs more national ones and even if I go back to national reporting one day, I’ll be a much better reporter for this experience.
I was wondering why this guy disappeared from politics Twitter. Voluntarily going from NBC political reporter to editor of a regional newspaper covering a population of roughly 150k people seems like a wild career move, but if it makes you and your loved ones happy, go for it.
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Mar 9
Reporter: You just suggested that Iran somehow got its hands on a Tomahawk and bombed its own elementary school on the first day of the war.
Why are you the only person saying this?
Trump: Because I just don’t know enough about it.
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Mar 7
TRUMP tells me an unconditional surrender by Iran would mean “It's where they cry uncle or when they can't fight any long longer and there's nobody around to cry uncle — that could happen too”
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Mar 5
our latest on these US/Israeli plans to mobilise Kurds in the north of Iraq vs Iran.
There's currently less to this than meets the eye, i think
a quieter night in Jerusalem, tho alarms this morning.
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Mar 4
Former US special ops @WesJBryant says the US strike on an Iranian warship is illegal. The boat was hit while returning from a training in India.
“By targeting it, is Trump saying that all of Iran’s government and military poses an imminent threat?”
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Mar 4
Israel flagged Hezbollah threat before launching air attacks, leaked memo shows Great get by @JGedeon1 theguardian.com/world/2026/m…
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Feb 28
NEW: Trump launched attacks against Iran as part of a joint operation with Israel after they developed intelligence that they could simultaneously target the country’s leadership, according to two people familiar with the matter
The Israelis had been tracking the movements of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, and determined there was a window of opportunity to launch attacks as they convened
The thinking behind decapitating the Iranian regime was a belief that while the Iranian revolutionary guard might be deeply loyal to Khamenei, in the event of his death they would not back any of his successors to the same extent
Inside Trump’s thinking w @Andrew__Roth theguardian.com/us-news/2026…
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Feb 27
New: Marco Rubio told ambassadors in the Middle East to stop making comments that could inflame tensions and undermine Trump’s pressure on Iran for a nuclear deal, per a cable seen internally as a rebuke of Mike Huckabee @guardian SCOOP theguardian.com/us-news/2026…
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Feb 23
The great Charlotte Higgins writes on the great Julia Kochetova and her photography of the war in Ukraine @yeah_kochetova @chiggi theguardian.com/artanddesign…
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Feb 23
New: Trump’s decision on Iran airstrikes will hinge in part on the judgment of Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, about whether Tehran is stalling over a nuclear deal @guardian SCOOP theguardian.com/us-news/2026…
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Feb 20
Definitive account here from my superb colleague @shaunwalker7
Feb 20
I've been working on this for ages in various countries: the story of the intelligence buildup to Putin's 2022 invasion. How did the US and Britain find out so much, and why were Europe and Ukraine sceptical.
It's a long one:
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Feb 19
Trump's administration is planning a contract to build a giant military base in Gaza. An exclusive with @catebrown12 theguardian.com/us-news/2026…
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Feb 6
RT @Marthareports: Overshadowed by the (devastating) news yesterday about @washingtonpost layoffs - the @ajc is laying off 15% of its staff…
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Francesca has been delivering brave and nuanced reporting from Russia for the past 3 years. It was a difficult decision to go back in and she has managed the risks to deliver brilliant work. The Post’s loss (along with all their fantastic intl correspondents) will be others’ gain
Have been too shattered to write this but for the sake of clarity — I have also been laid off by the Post. I was one of the few journalists still working inside Russia. My last story went on the front page and featured rare testimonies from wounded soldiers criticizing the war.
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Feb 4
In a move that would have seemed unimaginable a few years ago, the Post is closing their bureau in Ukraine, I’ve heard.
That’s on top of shredding their coverage of the Middle East…
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