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Dave Clark
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News reporter, AFP
Immigrant: France
Emigrant: UK
Migrant: Kosovo, Nigeria, Iraq, US, Belgium
Jupilation ensues
February 2, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Usually it gets annoying when there's a big weird American story dominating the chat on here for days, but at least this one has side plots for other countries to follow
February 2, 2026 at 12:54 PM
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At least 200 are feared dead in a landslide that struck a militia-held mine in DR Congo. The mine produces 15 to 30 percent of the world's supply of coltan, a key component in the production of electronics such as laptops and mobile phones.
u.afp.com/S2qW
February 1, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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There are if you're French. "Pingouin" is in fact how we name auks, birds the Northern hemisphere. What the rest of the world calls "penguins" translates to "Manchot".

I know you think that's wrong. I'm willing to let that one go if people agree that what Anglos call "Pineapple" is really "Ananas".
January 30, 2026 at 12:51 PM
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The Dutch decided that the solution to political instability (three failed governments in five years) is a government with mostly the same parties but without a majority in parliament.
January 30, 2026 at 1:19 PM
LLMs are when the response to "Draw me a map" is "Sure. I'll give it a go. I've heard of maps. Shapes, colours and words, right?".
AGI will be when the machine says "I can't, but don't you have one on your phone already?"
Co-pilot expands Yorkshire to pretty much the whole of the Danelore with a new capital of Manchesto. It has merged the river Ouse with the other river Ouse. We now have the Yokhire Dales. Lancashire had been replaced with Nothern Ireland!

21/n
January 27, 2026 at 1:22 PM
You know he was on the telly over here before this week?
Americans are more or less inured to Donald Trump’s incoherent ramblings and political theatre. After his speech in Davos, stunned Europeans are inclined to call his behavior what it is: out of control.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me/IOTmJO
It’s Time to Talk About Donald Trump’s Logorrhea
How many polite ways are there to ask whether the President of the United States is losing it?
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
January 23, 2026 at 7:43 AM
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#BREAKING NATO chief tells AFP still 'lot of work to be done' for Greenland deal
January 21, 2026 at 10:18 PM
Trump's right about one thing.
The North Sea is a great energy resource

(Pic taken from IJmuiden to North Shields ferry)
January 21, 2026 at 8:40 PM
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🇺🇸🇩🇰🇬🇱⚖️🇪🇺 Denmark should start negotiating the sale of Greenland with Trump, draw it out to 2028, and then, at the last moment, request the CJEU to examine the deal.
January 21, 2026 at 2:38 PM
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January 21, 2026 at 2:39 PM
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not saying Trump isn't entirely with-it but he has just claimed that the current row is over control of "Iceland"
January 21, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Trump tells Davos that without US "they'd all be speaking German".
I know it doesn't sound like it, but they are speaking German
January 21, 2026 at 2:02 PM
January 21, 2026 at 1:59 PM
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January 21, 2026 at 12:46 PM
There are Americans on here posting advice to Europeans on what we should do to oppose or contain the president they elected twice, and on the economic, political or security costs we should be prepared to pay to succeed where their constitution and institutions failed.
Dicks
January 20, 2026 at 10:50 PM
Per Trump, Putin thanked him for settling Armenia-Azerbaijan "because that's his territory"
January 20, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Share a bird pic you took
January 20, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Great live feed focus chat from the guys setting up the camera behind and above the White House podium. I vote f2.8, focus 6.3 feet. It's wide angle, should have enough depth of field
January 20, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Mauritius joins the chat
January 20, 2026 at 3:59 PM
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Kemi Badenoch tells the BBC's Matt Chorley that if she were prime minister, Donald Trump would simply not be like this.
January 20, 2026 at 1:25 PM
Could probably get Ryanair quite cheap on paper, then you're still 50 miles from head office and there's a handling fee if you want the planes, routes and crews as well
January 20, 2026 at 3:28 PM
January 18, 2026 at 10:23 PM