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Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Wednesday Mar 29 - 4:09am
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Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Tuesday Mar 28 - 12:55pm
RT @_elfaro_: 🇸🇻 #efActualidad | El Alto Comisionado de Naciones Unidas para los Derechos Humanos manifiesta preocupación por “las medidas severas” que las autoridades en El Salvador han implementado durante el Régimen de Excepción que lleva un año vigente. https://t.co/tf9cyaZjay

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Sunday Mar 26 - 6:01pm
RT @BarakRavid: BREAKING: Israeli consul general in New York @asafzamir announced his resignation tonight after Netanyahu fires Minister of Defense Galant. “I can no longer continue representing this government”, he said

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Sunday Mar 26 - 5:10pm
Examples of democratic politicians choosing their needs over the nation’s seldom get clearer than this. https://t.co/2A5JUjrcgE

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Sunday Mar 26 - 5:01pm
RT @AmichaiStein1: Protests in Central Tel Aviv https://t.co/yveHG9ctgr

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Thursday Mar 23 - 7:49pm
RT @business: BREAKING: Credit Suisse and UBS are among the banks under scrutiny in a US Justice Department probe into whether financial professionals helped Russian oligarchs evade sanctions, according to people familiar with the matter https://t.co/CvzUZ747uI https://t.co/l242GS8b10

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Tuesday Mar 21 - 11:55pm
I suppose being very generous its what the Kazaks used to call a 'multivector foreign policy'. But 'fill your boots' seems more accurate. https://t.co/ucP5MCpKuQ

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Monday Mar 20 - 9:52pm
@JeromeTaylor Yardbird?

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Monday Mar 20 - 5:46pm
@ianbirrell “Sources and methods”

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Monday Mar 20 - 5:40pm
The White House briefing room is strange beast. Lots of honest journos like Zeke trying to wring answers out of the administration, but also — and particularly when the cameras are on — a fair few charlatans, grifters and attention seekers. https://t.co/vAXBjFs7pf

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Sunday Mar 19 - 9:20pm
@steveholland1 Hahah, closed press?

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Friday Mar 17 - 7:56pm
Schools’ Cup Final. A St Patrick’s Day tradition in Northern Ireland. https://t.co/ZxFRaon5JE

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Friday Mar 17 - 7:54pm
RT @Carra23: 🏏🥵 @StuartBroad8 👏🏻 https://t.co/cS5qzA0mtD

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Friday Mar 17 - 1:53am
RT @TheBaseLeg: Qantas warns its pilots of VHF interference by stations claiming to represent the PLA in the South China Sea and WESTPAC, along with GPS jamming suspected to be coming from warships off NW Australia This almost certainly affects other commercial operators besides Qantas https://t.co/D7NoPb8hxu

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Thursday Mar 16 - 11:23pm
Peak Sydney. https://t.co/j7zXYm33F0

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Thursday Mar 16 - 7:55pm
Aussie 'pretty cooked' after smashing surfing record https://t.co/9NjwcFK5c0

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Thursday Mar 16 - 3:33pm
Happy St Patrick’s Day from Maroubra! https://t.co/kTAXHYSAsq

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Thursday Mar 16 - 2:20pm
@Kevinliptakcnn I’m so sorry.

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Wednesday Mar 15 - 5:02pm
RT @DougJBalloon: Give a kid a fish, and he'll be hungry tomorrow. Teach him to grift, and he'll eat for a lifetime. https://t.co/k2P7BykTC7

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Wednesday Mar 15 - 4:32pm
RT @Steven_Swinford: Breaking: OBR says that real living standards are still expected to fall by a cumulative 5.7% in 2022-23 and 2023-24 It’s better than previous forecasts but will still be the largest fall in living standards since records began in 1956-57

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Wednesday Mar 15 - 10:22am
RT @_RichardHall: Some background: Elon Musk has previously blamed "full-on communism" in elite schools as the reason his teenage daughter no longer talks to him. From the FT: https://t.co/Z9Yult5d58 https://t.co/lFod1JdR06

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Wednesday Mar 15 - 12:24am
RT @gavafox: Pakistan Ex-PM Khan Defies Arrest As Supporters Clash With Police" ... AFP's @Kaneezfatima in Lahore" https://t.co/dOZCEfx4D8 via @BarronsOnline

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Tuesday Mar 14 - 4:19pm
In short, Russia probably fucked up. https://t.co/hIZYUZdvNL

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Tuesday Mar 14 - 2:27am
RT @business: JUST IN: Credit Suisse says it finds “material weaknesses” in its reporting procedures for the financial years 2022 and 2021 https://t.co/uBdXCTRuVr

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Tuesday Mar 14 - 2:17am
@RalphHohls hahaha

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Tuesday Mar 14 - 2:15am
@RalphHohls to the clubhouse for a beer?

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Monday Mar 13 - 8:33pm
RT @NoahShachtman: 21 South Carolina GOP lawmakers propose death penalty for women who have abortions https://t.co/rtdj65kUBy

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Monday Mar 13 - 6:10pm
@jcartillier @AFP YEATS INCOMING!!!

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Monday Mar 13 - 5:46pm
Another monumental thing about AUKUS… since Gallipoli and through Korean War etc a central pillar of Australian national identity has been decoupling from UK military (and looking to Washington instead) This subs deal reverses that 100-year trend vis-a-vis London. https://t.co/NQvidQlkAQ

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Monday Mar 13 - 5:36pm
Interesting to see if this call happens before or after Xi goes to Moscow (where Putin is likely to push for Chinese arms transfers to help faltering Ukraine war effort) https://t.co/L3pTWmQaCj

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Monday Mar 13 - 4:39pm
You can be sure Moscow and Beijing are already thinking about ways to undercut public support and drum up regional opposition.

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Monday Mar 13 - 4:36pm
AUKUS subs are a huge deal, giving Australia the ability to launch missile strikes or counter strikes against almost any adversary. A huge deterrent for China (for example). But will need support of WH, Congress + Aus PMs over decades. Tough to sustain. https://t.co/3XjDaq1wFl

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Monday Mar 13 - 12:50am
RT @Malcolmsquotes: Let's set fire to tears!

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Sunday Mar 12 - 10:24pm
RT @MrMichaelSpicer: Half of British television always starts like this. https://t.co/CsQdKid4oo

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Sunday Mar 12 - 9:25pm
RT @d_foubert: How the Romans perceived the symptoms of their decadence. 🧵 1/8

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Friday Mar 10 - 3:08am
China's foreign ministry when asked about the comments: "The smears and accusations against China in them do not accord with the facts. China absolutely does not accept them." https://t.co/7XT1SscBTA

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Friday Mar 10 - 2:56am
RT @AFP: #BREAKING China says rejects 'smears' by Micronesia president https://t.co/xfAedNKhij

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Friday Mar 10 - 1:36am
He also claims that he a other ministers had to change their phone numbers because of "incessant" calls from China's ambassador trying to persuade them to accept Chinese COVID-19 vaccines.

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Friday Mar 10 - 1:36am
"To be clear: I have had direct threats against my personal safety from PRC officials acting in an official capacity"

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Friday Mar 10 - 1:36am
He also claimed to have been personally followed by "two Chinese men" while attending a meeting in Fiji last July, one of whom was identified as an embassy official and "PLA intelligence officer".

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Friday Mar 10 - 1:36am
Among the eye-opening allegations, David Panuelo claims his own cabinet colleagues transmitted recordings of bilateral meetings directly to China.

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Friday Mar 10 - 1:36am
Astonishing letter from the President of Micronesia to lawmakers accusing China of bribery, harassment, espionage and "political warfare"...

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Thursday Mar 9 - 10:11pm
RT @OliverHotham: A real nail biter of a vote this one… https://t.co/2LQdNRR5PZ

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Thursday Mar 9 - 8:02pm
@ChadTheFourth @nytimes I'm not sure to be honest. Could be significant. I have no doubt there is fire there, not sure if enough smoke to prosecute. Worth noting DAs in that part of the world have been known to overreach.

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Thursday Mar 9 - 7:16pm
Drunk shoppers spent an estimated $14 billion last year https://t.co/T69W9PYQd3

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Thursday Mar 9 - 5:54pm
RT @JoeBrolly1993: Brexit is costing the UK economy £100 billion a year spanning everything from business investment to the ability of companies to hire workers. An analysis by Bloomberg 3 years post Brexit paints a very bleak picture of the damage caused. https://t.co/Gm66KfCdNN

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Thursday Mar 9 - 5:05pm
RT @AP: BREAKING: A former Fox executive was convicted in federal court of paying tens of millions of dollars in bribes to nab broadcasting rights to the World Cup and other top soccer matches. A second ex-executive was acquitted. https://t.co/Ttly76gKd0

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Thursday Mar 9 - 6:31am
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Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Wednesday Mar 8 - 9:24pm
@AFP You'd think after 20+ years I'd know how to spell 'reporter'. Many thanks for getting the word out

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Wednesday Mar 8 - 9:23pm
Interested in becoming a foreign correspondent? @AFP is hiring a reporter in Sydney. Looking for a great locally based reporter keen to embark on a career around the world.

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Wednesday Mar 8 - 9:21pm
Interested in becoming a foreign correspondent? @AFP is hiring a reporter in Sydney. Looking for a great locally based report keen to embark on a career around the world. https://t.co/SgBs6iQEsF

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Wednesday Mar 8 - 4:20pm
On the day SecDef is meeting Sisi and agreed to have the meeting closed so press couldn’t ask both questions. Banner day for the Pentagon. https://t.co/NNVITD4APz

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Wednesday Mar 8 - 9:02am
@HannahAlOthman @Sonic_Screwup Hahaha. This is amazing.

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Wednesday Mar 8 - 1:56am
RT @amleeson: @TomohiroOsaki And featuring an interview with the artist via an animated cat avatar👏👏 Love it! https://t.co/8yHe2D0NCE

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Tuesday Mar 7 - 3:51pm
With UK public services atrophied+ living standards in free fall, the govt wants to dodge electoral annihilation by talking about foreigners. But campaigning sounds like effort, so they just copied a policy + slogan wholesale from Australia (where it didn’t work either) . https://t.co/lMz1wYtNAk

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Thursday Mar 2 - 9:54pm
RT @AFP: #BREAKING Cambodia opposition leader jailed 27 years for treason: court https://t.co/V8LdQE0cCU

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Thursday Mar 2 - 8:39pm
RT @natfukue: The Paris Opera Ballet named Hannah O'Neill and Marc Moreau as their two new star dancers. O'Neill, a New Zealander with a Japanese mother, is the one of a handful of foreigners to reach the highest "etoile" status at the company. https://t.co/vflPhwfXsb @AFP #オニール八菜 https://t.co/REM9OgstB4

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Thursday Mar 2 - 6:24pm
@sstummeafp @OKnox @RangerDraper It's compulsory many places in Sydney. Baffling.

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Wednesday Mar 1 - 9:16pm
@StephenMcDonell Thanks!

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Wednesday Mar 1 - 9:00pm
@StephenMcDonell I've heard people say that Chinese media started repeating the Russia narrative (Russia provoked, NATO expansionism etc etc) only from around January? Doesn't seem to tally with what I was seeing before that, but I don't speak Chinese.

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Wednesday Mar 1 - 8:23pm
RT @dwilliamsafp: We are looking for a reporter to join AFP's Sydney bureau. Please let friends/colleagues know if you think they may be interested. https://t.co/U6d8CTHD4L

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Wednesday Mar 1 - 7:55pm
RT @spectatorindex: BREAKING: Reuters reports the US is sounding out allies about imposing new sanctions on China if it provides military support to Russia

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Wednesday Mar 1 - 4:28am
RT @GavinBarwell: Editor's note: throughout her period as leader of the Conservative Party, Margaret Thatcher supported UK membership of the EEC. She played a pivotal role in the creation of the single market, and strongly criticised Labour's plans for Brexit in 1983 https://t.co/L5ypW61YBd

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Wednesday Mar 1 - 2:48am
@ImSaraNeill Hahaha

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Wednesday Mar 1 - 2:46am
@ImSaraNeill Fennel, celeriac, turmeric or galangal (can't tell from the photo, the former looks more orange).

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Wednesday Mar 1 - 2:23am
RT @SethGJones: More Russian soldiers have died in Ukraine than in all Russian wars COMBINED since World War II, including Chechnya & Afghanistan. The avg rate of Russian soldiers killed per month is at least 25x more than Chechnya & 35x than Afghanistan. See our report: https://t.co/wRbd9jaGDk https://t.co/5McxX3mbKw

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Wednesday Mar 1 - 1:31am
C'mon @dougmillsnyt @evanvucci @ name names https://t.co/cKxdh1WXly

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Tuesday Feb 28 - 5:45am
RT @acatherwoodnews: ‘Northern Ireland has this very special position it has access to the U.K market, access to the E.U market which makes it an incredibly attractive place to invest for businesses’ says Brexiteer Rishi Sunak on @BBCR4Today with no apparent sense of irony.

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Tuesday Feb 28 - 5:44am
RT @JavierBlas: As oil traders gather in London for the annual International Energy Week (previously, International Petroleum Week), this research paper looking into the smoke and mirrors of the Russian oil sanctions is a MUST READ: Link: https://t.co/uJ81oE0QMv #OOTT #Russia https://t.co/ukbPwtfMSf

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Tuesday Feb 28 - 12:26am
My @AFP colleague @juliazappei speaks to legendary Austrian alpinist Peter Habeler -- who with Reinhold Messner -- was the first to scale Everest properly, without supplemental oxygen. https://t.co/29pLc7rfV8.

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Monday Feb 27 - 11:45pm
RT @AFP: New Zealand beat England by just one run in a second-Test thriller on Tuesday to draw the series in the most dramatic fashion in Wellington. The hosts became only the fourth team to win a Test after being asked to follow on https://t.co/fM8LxIO9Lk https://t.co/D3b2fKiABf

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Monday Feb 27 - 10:52pm
We're creating two jobs in @AFP's Sydney bureau -- a staff photographer and a (text) correspondent. If you're interested in a career that takes you around the world, and are a great shooter or scribbler, step this way https://t.co/8R2irGrcp9 cc @WIM_Aus

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Monday Feb 27 - 10:17pm
AFP is looking for a staff photographer based in Sydney https://t.co/n5k4UX2lO0 @womenphotograph

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Monday Feb 27 - 10:09pm
RT @MichaelVaughan: Incredible game of cricket .. The greatest format shining once again .. #NZvENG

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Monday Feb 27 - 10:08pm
#ALERT @AFP (Wellington) New Zealand beat England by one run to square series

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Monday Feb 27 - 10:06pm
RT @WisdenCricket: James. Anderson. #NZvENG https://t.co/WRRWhZvcdK

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Monday Feb 27 - 8:19pm
RT @AndrewBeatty: AFP is recruiting a correspondent (text) to join our growing team in Sydney. It's a fun job, and a great starting point for postings around the world. Get in touch! https://t.co/cG6srb5NnN https://t.co/SgBs6iQEsF

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Monday Feb 27 - 2:53pm
@AlonPinkas They are nicer than a lot of humans!

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Monday Feb 27 - 2:50pm
AFP is recruiting a correspondent (text) to join our growing team in Sydney. It's a fun job, and a great starting point for postings around the world. Get in touch! https://t.co/cG6srb5NnN https://t.co/SgBs6iQEsF

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Monday Feb 27 - 2:46pm
RT @ACGeoEcon: The monthly volume of the ruble-yuan spot market increased 9000% from December 2022 to January 2023. Our team talks about Russia’s yuanization for ‘By the Numbers’ in our video series “Guide to the Global Economy” 🌏 https://t.co/jQifRZer8q

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Saturday Feb 25 - 9:23pm
RT @keithedwards: The message Jimmy Carter left in Voyager 1, the most distant human-made object from Earth, is breathtaking. https://t.co/MNJn7MHHBZ

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Thursday Feb 23 - 10:58am
This isn’t complicated. Editing a good writer while they are alive is fraught, doing it while they are dead is vandalism. If you don’t like what they wrote, read something else. https://t.co/5PsXlIN9LC

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Thursday Feb 23 - 1:34am
RT @mrsahuquillo: El presidente español, Pedro Sánchez, está en Kyiv, coincidiendo con el aniversario de la guerra imperialista lanzada por Rusia en Ucrania España, que enviará tanques Leopard, tendrá un papel clave este año en la UE (a la que Ucrania aspira a adherirse) como presidente de turno https://t.co/MncqmuE05T

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Thursday Feb 23 - 1:24am
AFP is recruiting a correspondent (text) to join our growing team in Sydney. It's a fun job, and a great starting point for postings around the world. Get in touch!

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Wednesday Feb 22 - 10:13pm
RT @obretix: @mr_gh0stly by cruising along the balloon's path on Google Earth from Montana to Missouri at an altitude of ~30km looking north and spot the two river valleys (Mississippi and Illinois river) in the background

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Wednesday Feb 22 - 9:21pm
@evanvucci Solid innings Vuch.

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Wednesday Feb 22 - 8:11pm
@Morgszy Yep. Fun fact, Katusuya (the weapons not the song) were known as Stalin's Organ by German troops.

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Wednesday Feb 22 - 8:08pm
For English speakers interested in this very consequential story from Mexico @carlosbravoreg and @BrazilBrian discussed it at length on the @AmerQuarterly podcast. https://t.co/MlBsNGSrHN https://t.co/ZfRAqAlag6

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Wednesday Feb 22 - 3:40pm
The iconography at this rally and the aesthetic of the remix somehow perfectly encapsulate Russia’s journey from communism to fascism. No more folksy accordions and state choirs, it’s all just joyless militarism. https://t.co/RNVUe1jE3k

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Tuesday Feb 21 - 9:52pm
RT @veryvickyxu: Australian spy chief told to go soft on China, "Individuals in business, academia and the bureaucracy have told me ASIO should ease up its operational responses to avoid upsetting foreign regimes." Which regime are these individuals so afraid of upsetting? Of course - China https://t.co/mZgVeB85nl

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Tuesday Feb 21 - 7:31pm
RT @Z_Everson: New: Mike Pompeo’s PAC spent $42,000 on books the day his memoir was published. It became a bestseller. me for @Forbes 1/ https://t.co/94ztqkenj6

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Tuesday Feb 21 - 6:54pm
I never subscribed to the idea that the Republican Party transformed under Trump. It was already on this trajectory by the time of the Tea Party protests in 2009. But every once in a while the change is still startling. https://t.co/k4cIIm2o1n

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Tuesday Feb 21 - 4:57am
RT @AFP: #BREAKING Italian PM Meloni arrives in Kyiv: spokesman https://t.co/uDLivPBDGP

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Tuesday Feb 21 - 4:34am
One striking similarity between Putin and Trump's public appearances -- the audience looks big but features a very familiar cast of characters.

Andrew Beatty
1 year ago: Tuesday Feb 21 - 2:40am
As the piece says, this is no surprise except in the specifics. In 2017 Lukashenka was so worried that Russian ZAPAD exercises were cover for a potential military takeover that he alerted OSCE. Russia now has thousands of troops in Belarus, you think they will home? https://t.co/nBpl4RzG16