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Talek Harris @TalekHarris

Gulf and Yemen bureau chief for AFP news agency. Views my own, or borrowed

Joined November 2009
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Everyone was wondering if Trump meant to say Iran instead of Oman. He didn't
Department of State
@StateDept
May 27
PRESIDENT TRUMP: The Strait is going to be open to everybody. It’s international waters. We’ll watch over it, but nobody’s going to control it. Oman will behave like everybody else or we’ll have to blow them up. They understand that.
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Today we bid a farewell to Boutique Office 12, Knowledge Village, AFP's home in Dubai for 23 years. Next up: an expanded Middle East hub in Media City linkedin.com/feed/update/urn…

Today we bid a nostalgic farewell to Boutique Office 12, Knowledge Village, AFP's home in Dubai for...

Today we bid a nostalgic farewell to Boutique Office 12, Knowledge Village, AFP's home in Dubai for 23 years. When we arrived in 2003, we were the first tenants in the development, the Palm Dubai was...

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Saudi's PIF finally pulls the plug on LIV #golf. Spokesperson to AFP: 'The substantial investment required by LIV Golf over a longer term is no longer consistent with the current phase of PIF’s investment strategy.'
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A mural depicting the Hormuz crisis in Tehran, part of an excellent series by @AttaKenare @AFPphoto #IranWar‌
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Gulf countries move to counter low-flying drones as #Iran shifts tactics
The National
@TheNationalNews
Mar 13
Ukraine-tested Shahed interceptors offered to Gulf states as Iran threat grows thenationalnews.com/news/men…
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Qatar shoots down 2 Iranian fighter jets and the Gulf really feels like a region on the brink now #Iran
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محمد الغيثي | Al Ghaithi
@AlGhiithi
Jan 7
وصلت بمعية الزملاء من عدن الى مدينة الرياض، وفي اجواء إيجابية سنبدأ سلسلة لقاءات للتهيئة لحوار جنوبي-جنوبي برعاية الاشقاء في المملكة العربية السعودية.
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The US has approached Yemen's government about joining the international stabilisation force in Gaza, sources tell @AFP 's Sahar Al-Attar and @Haithamtabei english.alarabiya.net/News/m…

US asked Yemen to join international Gaza force: Yemeni officials

The United States has approached Yemen about joining an international force to be deployed in Gaza

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Hamas official to AFP: "The proposed weapons handover is out of the question and not negotiable." #Gaza #Hamas #Israel #ceasefireingaza
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Red Sea attacks are suddenly back. Cargo ship Eternity, damaged and stranded, under fire from suspected Huthi rebels since Monday, UKMTO says #Yemen
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Short attention spans, short memories: Pep Guardiola and the age of football amnesia nytimes.com/athletic/6454546…

Pep Guardiola and the age of football amnesia

Is the abundance of games and competitions affecting our ability to remember what actually happened?

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RT @HamidRezaAz: A scenario for Iran’s response: 🔹Trump says Iran’s Fordow facility is gone. Other nuclear sites have been hit. Therefore,…
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Thomas Juneau
@thomasjuneau
22 Jun 2025
Morality is not what will drive events (whatever you think is morally right). The balance of power will. And the balance of power is now heavily skewed against Iran.
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Yasmine Farouk ياسمين فاروق@YasFarouk
22 Jun 2025
👇 1 point of view I heard from a political scientist in the region: If the US comes in, it will be one strike, Fordo destroyed, the regime doesn’t capitulate, nuclear problem temporarily solved, as opposed to Israel’s goal of toppling z Islamic Republic &Trump can claim victory
Mohammad Ali Shabani
@mashabani
22 Jun 2025
BIG: High-ranking Iranian source tells @amwajmedia that Trump team gave advance notice of bombings of nuclear sites and insisted they're intended as "one-off". Signs of Trump seeking repeat of Jan 2020 (Soleimani killing=>symbolic Iranian retaliation). amwaj.media/en/media-monitor…
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Arab News
@arabnews
28 May 2025
Replying to @DXBMediaOffice @MBCGroup
#VoxPops: Media leaders react to Arab News announcing it's fully AI produced podcast. Here's what @TalekHarris, @AFP Gulf & Yemen Bureau Chief said | arab.news/jgxxu
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‘Talking’s done’ - Usyk and Fury faced off for a marathon 11 minutes as things got real in Riyadh sports.ndtv.com/boxing/11-mi… #FuryUsykII
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After low-key open training session, Fury promises ‘a lot of hurt’ in Usyk rematch #FuryvUsyk
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Judging from today's briefing, #Hamas future in Qatar is hanging in the balance. FM spox says their negotiators aren't in Doha but wouldn't say if they were told to leave. Wasn't clear if they can come and go. Office 'doesn't have any function' but not permanently closed
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We are hiring. Seeking dynamic, ambitious, flexible team players to join our reporting staff in Dubai. We need one Arabic writer and one English writer - DM me if interested, trained news journalists only please
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Hamas official says Islamist movement, boosted by 'new generations', has 'high ability' to keep fighting Israel. @rania_sanjar exclusive for @AFP france24.com/en/live-news/20…

Hamas official says group has 'high ability' to continue Gaza war despite losses

A senior Hamas official told AFP on Sunday that the Palestinian Islamist movement had ample resources to continue fighting Israel despite losses sustained over more than 11 months of war in Gaza.

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