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@EliotHiggins

Founder of Bellingcat. Working on podcasts, books, and other surprises.

Back and forth to The Netherlands
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    38 minutes ago

    Podcast from last night's Amanpour featuring myself and talking about the work of

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    12 minutes ago

    Update: Frontline’s oil tanker Front Altair is still afloat in the Gulf of Oman, a spokesman for the firm says, denying an earlier report by the Iranian news agency IRNA.

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    1 hour ago

    As voting begins, Sky's final public tally - with 236 of 313 MPs declared Boris Johnson83 Michael Gove32 Jeremy Hunt35 Sajid Javid19 Dominic Raab24 Matt Hancock16 Esther McVey6 Rory Stewart8 Mark Harper8 Andrea Leadsom5

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  4. 14 minutes ago

    His full article can be found here

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    As pointed out in his recent article on this, the way in which the author of the leaked report was described by the The Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media is at odds with what the OPCW reports his role was.

    Here the relevant sections reg Henderson report. As many of us have explained, the input was considered but forwarded to IIT because it dealt with attribution. Its underlying analysis was contradicted by three separat…
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    18 minutes ago

    It is clear that Damascus is failing to meet its obligations under the CWC.

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    23 minutes ago

    This has been an unnecessarily tedious exercise. It would be helpful for the OPCW to be more transparent about its inner workings (without endangering staff). In the meantime, those who put great stock into the Henderson report should lean on Damascus to cooperate with the IIT.

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    Here the relevant sections reg Henderson report. As many of us have explained, the input was considered but forwarded to IIT because it dealt with attribution. Its underlying analysis was contradicted by three separate independent ballistic assessments and thus rightly dismissed.

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    31 minutes ago

    OPCW releases Director-General statement to state parties, discussing recent dispute with Damascus over IIT as well as the leaked engineering report:

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    34 minutes ago

    Again the silence on this from Labour and Corbyn supporters is quite deafening

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    2 hours ago

    Facebook on front page of today. Zuck told Congress first he knew about Cambridge Analytica was Guardian’s story. But share price sank yesterday as reports of emails surface that tell another story...

    uh oh, Facebook.
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    40 minutes ago

    Not only geopolitical but huge ecological disaster unfolds in the Gulf of Oman near Hormuz Strait with, at least one, leaking tanker on fire

    Front Altair attack: Salvage vessel E-TWO at Front Altair now. Standing off at the moment, reporting large hole just above the waterline, cargo coming out and on fire. via …
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    48 minutes ago

    NEW INVESTIGATION: At least 10 cities have formally asked ’s campaign to pay public safety costs associated with his rallies. The Trump campaign has paid none of them.

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    44 minutes ago

    : One of the damaged tankers, Front Altair, has sunk in Gulf of Oman, according to IRNA

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    46 minutes ago

    Timeline of Gulf escalation May 12: Attack on 4 ships off coast of May 14: Attack on Saudi pipeline June 12 : Houthi attack on Saudi Abha airport June 12: Fire on Iranian gas platform in Gulf June 13: 2 tankers reportedly attacked in Gulf of Oman Via

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    45 minutes ago

    Projects like this are useful for to reflect on and potentially engage with when developing SP's capacity on chem safety+security. Transnational distribution of chem supply chains requires a transational approach: challenging esp as we often focus on individual state action

    We are working on a new project: , a platform to track along the
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    57 minutes ago

    Images of damaged tanker FRONT ALTAIR via

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    1 hour ago

    Earlier this morning, two , & Courageous, were reportedly torpedoed off the coast of . Watch their final movements before the reported in this past track video and learn more here:

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    2 hours ago

    Damning

    Sajid Javid was invited to the Chinese state visit banquet in 2015. So why not the Trump one? His current job higher up pecking order than his old one
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    2 hours ago

    (Background: Defence sec. Penny Mordaunt and Environment sec. Michael Gove both got invites. But not the Home sec. who called out Trump’s retweets of Britain First)

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