Zeina Karam

AP's deputy news director for Europe. Previously AP's news director for Lebanon 🇱🇧 Syria 🇸🇾 Iraq 🇮🇶

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

My wife and I woke up in fear at 6 a.m. Loud explosions outside, and our bedroom lit up like it was noon. Ballistic missiles - we knew it immediately. We survived that instant, I thought, hugging my wife, but the next one could come in a second kill us /

[Zeina Karam @zkaram]

What Russia’s suspension of grain deal could mean.

https://t.co/lu0kM8flgN

[Zeina Karam @zkaram]

The missiles flew fast and low to the ground and sounded like bombs exploding.

“It was scary, actually,” said a 28 year old on his way to work. “I raised my head and it was flying there, you could see this cruise missile." #Kyiv

https://t.co/ijbeHFzkjz

[Zeina Karam @zkaram]

UK's Conservative government is under fire for ‘wretched’ migrant center conditions.

Another processing center hosting 3,000 people was hit with gasoline bombs Sunday by an attacker who then killed himself.

https://t.co/wa8lxakLXB

[The Associated Press @AP]

The Kremlin on Wednesday kept the door open for talks on a possible swap involving jailed U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner but reiterated that any such discussions must be kept strictly confidential. https://t.co/Tl46Qu4cHp

[The Associated Press @AP]

Gas crunch eases in Europe — but the respite might not last https://t.co/ceLyaF0Kk7

[The Associated Press @AP]

An @AP/@frontlinepbs investigation finds the trail of violence during the invasion of Ukraine was not random. It was perpetrated within the command structures of the Russian military, and in the Kyiv suburbs it led to one of Putin's top generals. https://t.co/ceRF4jwI8j

[Zeina Karam @zkaram]

Russia’s chaotic draft leaves some out in cold, without
proper training or gear.
https://t.co/QsEZhtZ0Et

[The Associated Press @AP]

Two photos taken exactly seven weeks apart capture the ceremonial rites of the monarch meeting the British prime-minister-in-waiting.

Between them, much elapsed, throwing a nation into mourning and then into an acute, turbulent economic crisis. https://t.co/n4qNXLqB8M

[Sarah El Deeb @seldeeb]

#WHO "disturbed" by abuse in #Syria reported by @AP @mylcheng. Still, Magtymova remains in her position and continues to draw a director-level salary. https://t.co/AoueI3xQUL

[Zeina Karam @zkaram]

#Ukrainian club urges #FIFA to remove #Iran from World Cup over alleged military support for Russia.
https://t.co/CdSS7brM9l

[Zeina Karam @zkaram]

A Spanish man who was documenting his ambitious journey by foot from Madrid to Doha for the 2022 FIFA World Cup has not been heard from since crossing into #Iran three weeks ago, according to his family.

https://t.co/MQBiZet2h4

[Zeina Karam @zkaram]

What's a dirty bomb and how dangerous is it?

https://t.co/yrqI1fUg5t

[Zeina Karam @zkaram]

Rishi Sunak to become Britain's next prime minister (from @AP)

The former Treasury chief will be Britain’s first leader of color, and faces the task of stabilizing the party and country at a time of economic and political turbulence. https://t.co/LTD0PgXZTb

[Bassem Mroue باسم مروه @bmroue]

General who led #Syrian bombing is new face of #Russian war (from @AP) https://t.co/ZxIb6QuMA8

[Zeina Karam @zkaram]

Magtymova declined to respond to questions about the allegations, saying that she was “prohibited” from sharing information “due to (her) obligations as a WHO staff member.” She described the accusations as “defamatory.”

[Zeina Karam @zkaram]

WHO #Syria boss accused of corruption, fraud, abuse, AP investigation finds (from @AP) by ⁦@mylcheng⁩ ⁦@seldeeb⁩ https://t.co/V87Qe9SAS2

[Zeina Karam @zkaram]

More than 100 confidential documents and other materials obtained by @Ap show WHO officials told investigators that Dr. Akjemal Magtymova, engaged in abusive behavior, pressured WHO staff to sign contracts with Syrian government politicians and misspent WHO and donor funds.

[Zeina Karam @zkaram]

In December 2020, in the midst of the pandemic, she tasked the more than 100 WHO personnel in the country with learning a flash mob dance, asking officials to film themselves performing the choreographed steps for a U.N. party, according to videos and messages seen by the AP.

[Zeina Karam @zkaram]

Financial documents show Magtymova once threw a party costing more than $10,000 -- a gathering held mostly to honor her own achievements at WHO’s expense, staffers say, at a time when the country was struggling to obtain coronavirus vaccines.