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Recovered from cancer by listening to Bruce and E street band to help my road back . A workplace rep for @walesunitereps .These are my views and my views only

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Katja Hoyer
@hoyer_katOct 24
My Dortmund programme is out on the BBC World Service today: Germany's Rust Belt Revival. "Another fascinating dispatch from Germany by academic and author Katja Hoyer," says the Telegraph. Live on the radio today and tomorrow or available online here 👇 bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct9kk…
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The clocks go back at 2am #clocksgoback
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The Babiš govt advanced a bill scrapping TV and radio licence fee at 4:36am as protesters chanted outside. The opposition warns of Orbán-style illiberal democracy. The govt says it’s fulfilling an election promise. The two are not mutually exclusive. basedinbohemia.com/p/what-cz…
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Protest outside Czech parliament tonight, as the government plans to push through legislation to end the license fee system for public broadcasters, hobbling them financially and, critics say, increasing likelihood of political interference. #pressfreedom
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24 October 1945. Norwegian Prime Minister and Nazi collaborator, Vidkun Quisling (aged 58), was executed after being found guilty of high treason against the Norwegian state. The word “quisling” became a byword for “collaborator” or “traitor” in several languages.
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60 years on: The Aberfan disaster through the eyes of those who survived #wales bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr9d…

60 years on: The Aberfan disaster through the eyes of those who survived

It is 60 years since one of Wales' darkest days, when a mining community changed forever.

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17 October 1997. Remains of communist revolutionary Ernesto (“Che”) Guevara were laid to rest in Cuba as part of a huge memorial, 30 years after his execution in Bolivia.
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A portrait of Erich Honecker hangs above a Robotron computer in a former nuclear bunker near Suhl.
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14 October 1906. Hannah Arendt was born in Linden, Hanover, Germany. She’s best known for her theory of Totalitarianism which suggested the regimes of Hitler and Stalin were broadly similar and for her study of the trial of Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann, The Banality of Evil.
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Polish ambassador joins WW2 plaque unveiling in Checkendon #Poland bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6qx…

Polish ambassador joins WW2 plaque unveiling in Checkendon

The Polish ambassador said the "hospitality and solidarity" shown here needed to be remembered today.

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As he is now being blamed for Australia's bush fires, I write in defence of Captain Cook in the Telegraph... telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10…

In defence of Captain Cook

The Royal Navy’s greatest explorer does not deserve to be blamed for ills in modern Australia, nearly 250 years after his death

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Sadly this move by US President Donald Trump with lengthy the War in the Ukraine thus endangering the whole of Europe Trump's shock Russia deal highlights mounting pressure to curb fuel prices bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5ly…

Trump's shock Russia deal highlights mounting pressure to curb fuel prices

The US president hopes to ease his party's pain before next month's midterm elections, writes the BBC's North America correspondent.

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I dlatego jest Instytut Pileckiego w NY. Mam nadzieję, że go zaproszą na lekcje poglądową historii. @ThePileckiInst
IllimarLepikvonWirén
@iLepikVonWirenOct 3
Sometimes I’m not sure whether Tucker Carlson is actually a Sacha Baron Cohen character.
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Chemistry Nobel awarded for solving mystery of life's asymmetry bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6ly…

Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to Kagan and Soai

The prize was given to the French and Japanese scientists for solving the mystery of life's asymmetry.

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7 October 1949. Communist German Democratic Republic (East Germany) was established. The government designated East Berlin as its capital while the city remained sharply divided. To stop citizens fleeing to the West, the regime erected the Berlin Wall in August 1961.
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Jim Steele retweeted
Steve Rosenberg
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20 years ago today Anna Politkovskaya, one of Russia’s most prominent investigative journalists, was murdered. I found no mention of the anniversary in today's Russian newspapers. #ReadingRussia
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Jim Steele retweeted
Katja Hoyer
@hoyer_katOct 7
In Germany, the former spy chief August Hanning has been arrested on suspicion of espionage, treason and obtaining classified information for a foreign power. It's described as "the biggest German spy scandal in recent history." Perfectly timed, Chris and I talked about another huge German spy scandal on Reichs and Republics last week: the Guillaume Affair. Listen/watch on all platforms.
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Czech Radio's US correspondent @janacigler interviewed former President @BillClinton at some length about his old friend Václav Havel, and their whole conversation can be listened to and read here. ⬇️ @CRozhlas @Radiozurnal1 english.radio.cz/bill-clinto…

Bill Clinton: "I only wish Havel were around today"

Among those paying tribute to Václav Havel on the 90th anniversary of his birth has been former American President Bill Clinton, who spoke to Czech Radio’s Jana Ciglerová.

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5 October 1936. 200 unemployed men from the north-eastern town of Jarrow marched 300 miles to London. They wanted Parliament and people in the south to understand the plight of the unemployed and to take action to remedy it.
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Jim Steele retweeted
Katja Hoyer
@hoyer_katOct 1
Day 1 of our WEIMAR tour with @WeAreTripsmiths: Stopped in the central German city of Dessau just now to see the Bauhaus School building. Launched in Weimar in 1919, the Bauhaus was defunded there. It moved to Dessau in 1925. Today this building is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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