🗣✏️Investigators had been watching Phantom Secure for some time. Police in different countries had been finding repurposed phones in stash houses and on suspects. But, by the time the devices were seized, they had been wiped clean and rendered useless.
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🔊 The 1840s were a revolutionary decade. France and Italy had been rocked by revolution; Queen Victoria and Prince Albert feared that Britain might be next.
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@Eurozine@hanskundnani@GreenEUJournal "Russia is being constructed as a civilizational ‘other’ against which Europe defines itself."
🫤I would say it is really the other way around. Then again views on this might vary across Europe but that isn't discussed in the interview.
@ecfr Maybe to reinforce democratic mechanisms and minimise gridlock you could give the EU Parliament the capacity to overturn country vetoes and also more oversight powers / responsibilities.
1. The Director Will See You Now
The People vs J Edgar Hoover 🔊 podcast
The story of the ascent to power of the man who made presidents wait. With Emily Maitlis.
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Episode Two: The Bankrupt
"When 19 year-old John Francis’s shop went bust, he impulsively bought a pistol and fired at the Queen. Convinced that he would strike again, Victoria let herself be the bait.
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"The ideals of the military dictatorship in Brazil flowed through the promotion of art as diplomacy. Brazil built bridges with African countries [as part of] its political strategy to reinforce the country’s supposed racial democracy."
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This is the version meant for the general public but there is also a full report, which I will publish later. It might be interesting to compare the use of language and style of the two pieces.
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🔊 the origins of fandom, the toxicity of stan culture and online harassment and how we’ve trained politicians to be performers first
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The legal framework surrounding the crime of aggression has evolved over the years, with the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) now confirming a crucial definition and criminalization of aggression."
https://t.co/jj8tM54CjX
The first to attack the Queen was 18 year-old Edward Oxford. One day in June 1840 he walked to Buckingham Palace, took a duelling pistol from his pocket and fired at Victoria in her carriage. She was just 21 years old and pregnant with her first child.
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China is becoming more assertive. Taiwan is developing its own national identity and consolidating its democracy. The relationship between China and the US is becoming more confrontational and raising the stakes around Taiwan.
https://t.co/68g97EKMAy
🔊 podcast
Just a few years ago it was one of the most peaceful countries in Latin America. But last week drug gangs stormed a live TV broadcast and unleashed a wave of terror. Tom Phillips reports
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podcast 📢Cognitive neuroscientist Charan Ranganath, author of Why We Remember, explains how memory shapes our daily existence – and how to get the most out of it
https://t.co/73l7nm6YBE