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Tom Ball retweeted
1 Dec 2025
🔺INVESTIGATION: The jihadi mastermind who fled MI5 to bring Isis back from the dead | ✍️ @tomfball
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Tom Ball retweeted
30 Jul 2025
Not here much but popping by to tell you that I have a new documentary!
I went to meet a secretive new community, who teach children an ‘alternative’ curriculum. Some people claim they are running… a conspiracy school.
We Are Not a Conspiracy School is out now on @BBCSounds.
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Some recent pieces from Ukraine. In @thetimes today a dispatch from Kharkiv where soldiers are pioneering AI drone technology. The future looks dystopic. “For the unlucky bastards in the trenches life is already hell. But it’s about to get a lot worse." thetimes.com/world/russia-uk…
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An interview with @oleksiireznikov who said that the war will carry on as long as Putin remains in the Kremlin. His comments reflect a growing resignation among many to a prolonged conflict, a stark reversal from hopes Trump could bring about peace.
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And an interview with @poroshenko who accused Zelensky of “authoritarianism” after the government sanctioned him this year. “Why is he doing this? Because he hates me on a biological, chemical level. And, frankly speaking, I also do not like Zelensky.”
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Tom Ball retweeted
8 Jul 2025
On today’s #Worldin10 podcast, As Donald Trump says he’s talking with Vladimir Putin, what has been going on in Ukraine? The Times’ @tomfball unpacks record-breaking drone attacks, nightly bombardments, and Russia’s symbolic victories in Luhansk.
Listen ⬇️
pod.fo/e/2f5219
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Tom Ball retweeted
10 May 2025
A modest block of social housing in south London has an unlikely tenant – the first lady of Sierra Leone.
Our story for @thetimes reveals how Fatima Jabbe-Bio continues to rent her council flat seven years into her husband’s presidency.
(Link at end of 🧵)
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Tom Ball retweeted
9 Mar 2025
The murder of Sunday Times foreign correspondent David Holden in Cairo in 1977 remained unsolved for decades. Then editor Harold Evans called it “the most profound mystery” of his career. Today, in a special report on @thetimes, we reveal the truth at last thetimes.com/article/c82d28d…
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Tom Ball retweeted
8 Feb 2025
An anti-corruption commission in Bangladesh is looking into Tulip’s Territory, which belongs to the former Treasury minister’s family
My joint byline with @tomfball search.app/g4cqFJEdMTrjiASk6
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In Sudzha there is a house on the hill known as Little Monaco. Until last August it was home to 150 FSB officers. When Ukrainian soldiers accessed the flats they found a trove of information about the lives and activities of these officers.
In @thetimes
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Tom Ball retweeted
7 Jan 2025
"These girls are being exploited all over again. Politicians jumping on the bandwagon after years of silence is 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘧𝘶𝘭."
Andrew Norfolk, who exposed the grooming gang scandal in 2011, condemns the reuse of the abuse for political gain.
@maitlis | @lewis_goodall
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Tom Ball retweeted
6 Jan 2025
‘I know the horror of Russian captivity — it drives me to help others ’
The Angels are a crack military unit who rescue Ukrainians trapped behind enemy lines. The men behind the missions tells The Times how they do it | ✍️ @tomfball reports from Odesa
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Tom Ball retweeted
1 Jan 2025
Ukrainians dropped their New Year champagne as drone sirens rang out.
The air raid warning came seconds into 2025 in war-town Karkiv, where the festive lights were lit for the first time since the Russian invasion | ✍️ @tomfball reports from Kharkiv ⬇️
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