David Malingha

Senior Editor, Europe, Middle East & Africa News Desk at Bloomberg. **Deeds here mine. [email protected]

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1:59:30 on the board. Historic. Congratulations, Sebastian Sawe! https://t.co/LZcYz8yEAq via @BBCSport

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A moment we thought we would never see 🤯

Sabastian Sawe has become the first person to run a marathon in under two hours in race conditions.

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BREAKING VIDEO: Kenya’s Sabastian Sawe becomes the first person ever to win a regular marathon in under two hours, setting a new world record at the London Marathon in 1:59:30!

Kenyans invented running™

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Italians see property investments as safe and markets as unreliable. Data shows that's wrong — and it's costing the country billions, @Alemrome reports @business -- many would relate. Link for gift article: https://t.co/YIlJ8J6QHC

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BIG TAKE | The targeted attacks and killing of Iran's leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, shatters a half-century of US foreign policy @PeterMartin_PCM @EMPosts @business https://t.co/EKSuX6s3jZ

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IRAN | The UAE and Qatar are privately lobbying allies to help them persuade Trump to reach for an off-ramp that would keep US military operations against Iran short, sources say. @alexwickham exclusively reports https://t.co/vqyTC6ug1W

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The ‘Last King of Scotland’ still haunts Museveni, Uganda’s 40-year rulers, says this review of new book by Mahmood Mamdani. https://t.co/Xu8AZpkv48

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REVIEW | After 40 years in power, Uganda's Yoweri Museveni has secured a new term in office. A new book by Mahmood Mamdani argues he’s damaging the country just like 1970s dictator Idi Amin. Here's my dispatch: https://t.co/ktoSd39oJa @adamblenford @bpolitics

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03/01/26: GEOPOLITICAL MOMENT: US Strikes Venezuela and Captures Maduro - Bloomberg https://t.co/UAbaWuQ37M

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DEALS | Diageo agrees to a $2.3 billion deal to sell its majority stake in East African Breweries to Asahi @herbling https://t.co/XPZlJHmnl4

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OBITUARY | A big tree has fallen in Africa
@eombok @BloombergAfrica https://t.co/ZH90JVRl0s

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WEALTH | Cristiano Ronaldo is now a billionaire --
@halmeida5 @dylansloan_ @business https://t.co/vMZARDyJY6

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FIRST | Kenya converted its railway loans from dollars to Chinese yuan, saving $215 million a year and potentially setting a precedent, @herbling reports https://t.co/f5iPe0rrP0 @BloombergAfrica

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Bloomberg News reporting sheds new light into the relationship between disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and prominent UK politician Peter Mandelson https://t.co/KY53NrE726 via @business

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WEEKEND READ | ''No, it’s not over,'' Tidjane Thiam, the former Credit Suisse CEO now barred from running for president in Ivory Coast, talks about blocked ambitions, prejudice and why he won’t give up. https://t.co/dhaxzCd2qf via @business @MishalHusain

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Jane Street’s Rob Granieri says he was duped into funding AK-47s for a South Sudan coup plot, @avabmorrison @sridinats report @business https://t.co/Gav1iCKuxQ

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Trump’s decision to bomb Iran in a first US direct military action on Tehran in decades, has pushed the Middle East into uncharted territory and raised geopolitical risk in a world already facing uncertainty over his trade war @RamseyAlRikabi @business https://t.co/hTfNnlCOEP

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ISRAEL STRIKES IRAN | Israel launched airstrikes on Iran, in a major escalation in the standoff over Tehran’s atomic program that risks sparking a new war in the Middle East https://t.co/SwHZZd2ld9

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Taiwan's lifers hold >90% of their >$700b foreign assets in USD. When the dollar is strong, the model works well. But it puts them at risk of a longterm USD decline as the appeal of US exceptionalism wanes @ChienHuaWan1 @hwang61 @betty_hou_1108 @business https://t.co/ZMHNSBvZjo

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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, a Kenyan novelist best known for his books critiquing the hardships of post-colonial Africa, has died. He was 87. https://t.co/2mp2YgFICi