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Alistair Bunkall
@AliBunkallSKY
Sky News foreign correspondent | Podcast: ‘Off The Record’ available on Spotify and iTunes
London
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    Alistair Bunkall
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    Sep 19, 2023
    Do follow me on Instagram though, if you want explainers/videos/news/pictures from the Middle East. For example: instagram.com/reel/CwS1zEJo8…
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    Alistair Bunkall
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    Sep 19, 2023
    I’ve already noticed less engagement with my tweets in recent months (although maybe that’s just me being uninteresting) but don’t think most people will both to pay subscription fees.
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    Alistair Bunkall
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    May 23, 2020
    I gather all Ministers were asked to tweet support for Cummings today. One Minister, who didn’t, texted me: “a piece of you dies every time you see a friend or colleague tweet their support, after they’ve given you an entirely different view of Cummings in private”
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    Alistair Bunkall
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    Nov 26, 2021
    The first victim of Wednesday’s tragic incident in The Channel has been named tonight as Mariam Nouri Hamadameen, a 21 year old Kurdish from northern Iraq.
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    Alistair Bunkall
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    Apr 3, 2019
    Video has emerged of soldiers on a shooting range in Kabul firing at a target of Jeremy Corbyn. MOD confirms it as legit:
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    Alistair Bunkall
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    Apr 26, 2024
    Beautician in Jerusalem to my wife today, as she had nails done: “better to kill them (Palestinians) as babies now before they grow up to become terrorists”
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    Alistair Bunkall
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    Apr 5, 2020
    Open this photo. Extraordinary global respect the Queen commands. When she speaks, the world listens. Every US news network aired it. Via @PhilippeCorbe
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    Alistair Bunkall
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    Sep 4, 2019
    Jess Phillips impassioned tonight, on last night’s expulsion of Tory MPs.
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    Alistair Bunkall
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    Apr 16, 2020
    Five weeks away from my wife. Just called for daily FaceTime chat: “Do you mind if we speak another time? Ocado are just about to release new delivery slots.”
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    Alistair Bunkall
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    Nov 10, 2018
    Often overlooked, 1.5 million soldiers from pre-partition India fought in WW1. 74,000 were killed and 11 Victoria Crosses awarded.
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    Alistair Bunkall
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    Oct 12, 2018
    The Russian Ambassador to the UK accused Bellingcat of being an arm of the “British deep state”. This is the moment I challenged him to prove that:
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    Alistair Bunkall
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    May 23, 2020
    Some of the supportive tweets by senior Cabinet Ministers before @PippaCrerar’s latest revelation that Cummings paid a SECOND visit to County Durham:
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    Alistair Bunkall
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    Apr 19, 2025
    “Israeli forces have now dropped more explosives in Gaza than fell on London, Dresden, and Hamburg combined during the Second World War” says @NewYorker
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    The New Yorker
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    Apr 18, 2025
    Clayton Dalton asked paramedics in Gaza what was hardest about their work. Responding to an airstrike and discovering that it’s your own family, one said. Recovering the bodies of children, said another. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/87xWYa
    A quote from a paramedic in Gaza: “It is strange that the world has allowed this to happen to us.”
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    Alistair Bunkall
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    Feb 25, 2022
    UKRAINE: fear amongst western officials now is that Russia will start bombing Ukrainians indiscriminately and even with thermobaric weapons, if their progress continues to be impeded.
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    Alistair Bunkall
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    Mar 1, 2022
    GENEVA: Western diplomats walk-out en masse from a virtual speech made by Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov
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