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Lauren Frayer

@lfrayer

@NPR's London correspondent. Past lives in Mumbai, Madrid, Lisbon, Cairo, Baghdad, Jerusalem & DC. Apasionada por fútbol. Cricket convert. PB&J connoisseur.

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🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨
The Associated Press is looking for an editor focused on audiences and engagement. It’s a 7-month position (June 1 to Dec 31) and perfect for a recent college grad, or a journalist between jobs.
-- Annual pay: $52K to $83K

Interested?
careers.ap.org/job/Newsperson…

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Sunak faces calls to halt arms exports as UK asks: Did UK weapons kill UK aid workers in Gaza?

'The only way to stop weapons from killing people, while a ceasefire is negotiated, is to stop the weapons supply,' Mary Lawlor UN Special Rapporteur HRDs told NPR's Fatima Al-Kassab.

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'If she had lived, there would have been so many more photos.' Read more by Jacqueline Larma & Enric Martí Folgosa and spend some time with Anja Niedringhaus’ incredible photos: apnews.com/article/photos…

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Sunak faces calls to halt arms exports as UK asks: Did UK weapons kill UK aid workers in Gaza?

'The only way to stop weapons from killing people, while a ceasefire is negotiated, is to stop the weapons supply,' Mary Lawlor UN Special Rapporteur HRDs told NPR's Fatima Al-Kassab.

npr.org/2024/04/04/124…

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Congratulations to all the NPR and Member station teams who won this year!!!
Lauren Frayer Camila Domonoske Juana Summers Mary Louise Kelly Katia Riddle & teams!
As always: absolutely terrific and impactful work!
Read more about NPR & public radio wins here-->
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My producer Fatima Al-Kassab & I won a Gracie! For our report about a little-known WWII battle in northern England over racial segregation in the US Army. Congrats to fellow winners All Things Considered Mary Louise Kelly Fatma Tanis for their Iran coverage!

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Such vivid characters, and some of the most poignant & personal words yet from Rana Ayyub: 'I felt I was part of a family that had traveled from the world over to come together to assert their faith at one of its most trying times. I felt I belonged.'

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Joe Biden loves Ireland. But as Una Mullally explains, the US president's ancestral homeland no longer loves him back. The reason? Gaza. 'Biden, as the leader of Israel’s closest ally & chief military supplier, was seen to be enabling the devastation.'
nytimes.com/2024/03/27/opi…

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'Covering British politics during this period has been like trying to remember, and explain, a very convoluted and ultimately boring dream. If you really concentrate, you can recall a lot of the details, but that doesn’t lead you closer to any meaning.'

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Great job alert! We're hiring a finance correspondent at NPR. If you have awesome reporting chops, love to tell a good story, and interested in holding power accountable, this is the right job for you. This is the last week to apply bit.ly/NPRCorresponde…

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Tomorrow, the High Court in London will publish its decision on whether Julian Assange is allowed to appeal his extradition to the USA, where he faces espionage charges. The judgement will be published here sometime after 6:30am ET Tuesday: judiciary.uk/judgments/

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MADRID, March 22 - Spain has agreed with the leaders of Ireland, Malta and Slovenia to take the first steps towards recognizing a Palestinian state, PM Pedro Sanchez said on Friday.

Here's an explanation of how this came to be, at least for Ireland:

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Listen to
Israeli government spokesperson calls hunger in Gaza 'a myth'

Listen to this conversation between Steve Inskeep & Daniel Estrin on how the Israeli public views starvation in Gaza

One school teacher says: 'They did it to themselves'

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In Ireland, that translates into some of the highest public support for Palestinians. (Even more than some majority-Muslim countries, according to historical polling data.)
From Lauren Frayer and Fatima Al-Kassab

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'There is a direct historic correlation. A lot of the brutality of the British Empire was practiced on Ireland first' The Blindboy Podcast tells NPR

Why Ireland is one of the most pro-Palestinian nations in the world, with Lauren Frayer

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