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Martín Roberts #YNWA #JFT97 🇪🇺 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🚲

@madridcorro.bsky.social

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Best Foreign Correspondent in Spain Prize-winner, roamed the world for @Reuters. @nytimes.com acclaimed translator. Anglo-Spaniard in Madrid. Cyclist. Replies≠endorsements. Premio al Mejor Corresponsal Extranjero en España, traductor literario, ciclista.

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Martín Roberts #YNWA #JFT97 🇪🇺 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🚲 @madridcorro.bsky.social · 8h

I found his four-part history of the Spanish Civil War a good read and indeed, his sources are extensive and meticulous, IMHO.

Martín Roberts #YNWA #JFT97 🇪🇺 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🚲 @madridcorro.bsky.social · 14h

Visto #Maspalomas un drama conmovedor con factura excelente, si bien un poco lento a veces pero con todo una de las pelis del año. @cinesrenoir.bsky.social
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Maspalomas - Trailer final

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Martín Roberts #YNWA #JFT97 🇪🇺 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🚲 @madridcorro.bsky.social · 14h

Visto #LaCena y me he partido. Comedia histórica, negra e ingeniosa con un reparto estupendo. @acontracorrientefilms.com #CinesVerdi youtu.be/x_rRg-TB2f4?...

LA CENA - Tráiler Oficial

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Martín Roberts #YNWA #JFT97 🇪🇺 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🚲 @madridcorro.bsky.social · 1d

Been there, it really IS awe-inspiring and on the Camino del Cid, too.

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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 1d

We remain fully behind North Macedonia on its EU path.

You can count on us.

The next and only step before the opening of the negotiations is clear.

You need to make the agreed constitutional change.

The ball is in your court. The EU is ready.

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Martín Roberts #YNWA #JFT97 🇪🇺 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🚲 @madridcorro.bsky.social · 1d

Unlikely it may be but if you don't ask, you don't get.

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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

A famous graphic, now updated, compares locomotion in the animal kingdom

The Most Efficient Traveler Isn’t a Bird or a Fish—It’s You on a Bike

A famous graphic, now updated, compares locomotion in the animal kingdom

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 1d

When crypto crashes again (and it will), public money will clean up private greed – again.

Prof Richard Murphy has seen this movie before.

Cryptocurrency: lawlessness disguised as liberty

Cryptocurrency is sold as radical innovation and financial liberation. In reality, it’s an old familiar story: fraud

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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Martín Roberts #YNWA #JFT97 🇪🇺 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🚲 @madridcorro.bsky.social · 1d

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Exclusive: Assad government secretly moved mass grave to cover up killings, Reuters investigation finds

From 2019 to 2021, Syria’s authoritarian government carried out a secret operation to move tens of thousands of bodies from the exposed Qutayfah mass grave to a hidden site in the desert east of Damascus. The goal of the clandestine reburial was to hide evidence of atrocities as Bashar Assad tried to regain international standing

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Martín Roberts #YNWA #JFT97 🇪🇺 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🚲 @madridcorro.bsky.social · 2d

I can tell you A2 is required for migrants to acquire Spanish nationality but AFAIK there is no language requirement for residing or working here.

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 3d

Thanks to Peter Rowe and @fife4europe.bsky.social

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 3d

13 October 1920 | Polish woman Janina Bednarska was born in Będzin.

In #Auschwitz from 1 July 1942.
No. 8129
She perished in the camp on 20 January 1943.
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Women at Auschwitz

Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/2022_kobiety_en/
Podcast: https://youtu.be/ijTxtbNlJO8

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Martín Roberts #YNWA #JFT97 🇪🇺 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🚲 @madridcorro.bsky.social · 3d

I prefer the apatriarchal Spanish term "próceres".

Martín Roberts #YNWA #JFT97 🇪🇺 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🚲 @madridcorro.bsky.social · 3d

The least surprising news I've read all day, but chilling nonetheless.

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 4d

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Peter Ricketts @lordrickettsp.bsky.social · 4d

Couldn’t resist this one!

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Martín Roberts #YNWA #JFT97 🇪🇺 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🚲 @madridcorro.bsky.social · 4d

RIP.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4d

Never forget this: The forces rigging our economy, undermining our democracy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up. Cynicism is how they win. Stay clear-eyed and ready for the fight ahead.

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Martín Roberts #YNWA #JFT97 🇪🇺 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🚲 @madridcorro.bsky.social · 4d

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 4d

12 October 1906 | Czech Jewish woman, Helena Hoenigová, was born in Prague.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from Theresienstadt ghetto on 6 September 1943. Registered in the camp. She did not survive.
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Women at Auschwitz

Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/2022_kobiety_en/

Vintage black and white portrait of a woman, featuring a smiling individual in a light-colored shirt and a polka dot tie.

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Martín Roberts #YNWA #JFT97 🇪🇺 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🚲 @madridcorro.bsky.social · 4d

RIP

Martín Roberts #YNWA #JFT97 🇪🇺 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🚲 @madridcorro.bsky.social · 5d

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Martín Roberts #YNWA #JFT97 🇪🇺 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🚲 @madridcorro.bsky.social · 5d

3. Interestingly enough, the first question was whether she didn't feel overwhelmed by the expectations placed on her, to which she replied that, no, because she was devoted to the cause of education.

Martín Roberts #YNWA #JFT97 🇪🇺 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🚲 @madridcorro.bsky.social · 5d

1. At Reuters we NEVER mentioned apparel, male or female.
2. It just so happens I transcribed and translated an interview with Malala conducted by a renowned Spanish journalist back in 2013. A simple head shot accompanied the article, no more.

Martín Roberts #YNWA #JFT97 🇪🇺 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🚲 @madridcorro.bsky.social · 5d

He is also, sadly, too rich to know or care about anything except sheer greed.

Martín Roberts #YNWA #JFT97 🇪🇺 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🚲 @madridcorro.bsky.social · 5d

A bit disappointed this was treated as a fashion shoot: just look at the photo captions.

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