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Tom Ball

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Journalist @thetimes
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Scientology are unhappy about an article we published revealing that the church has been signing up children as young as 13 to work on “staff”.

Here’s the article:
thetimes.com/uk/religion/ar…

Readers can make up their own minds about where the “scandal” lies.
www.thetimes.com Revealed: how Scientology recruits children as ‘staff’ Home-schooled teenagers as young as 13 are ‘volunteering’ for little money at a British branch of the church. One girl’s role involved giving massages
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The Times claims the highest standards of journalism. The evidence says the exact opposite. Read it here: bit.ly/TheTimesFdm @thetimes @tomfball @gallaghereditor @sebmann1 @matt_dathan
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For the past year Abdulqadir Mumin has evaded capture, eking out a nomadic existence in the mountains of Cal Miskaad. I went to Puntland to join the Somali forces who are hunting for the man believed to be Isis's global leader and fighting his army of acolytes.
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Some recent pieces from Ukraine. In @thetimes today a dispatch from Kharkiv where soldiers are pioneering AI drone technology. The future looks dystopic. “For the unlucky bastards in the trenches life is already hell. But it’s about to get a lot worse." thetimes.com/world/russia-u…
www.thetimes.com Why Ukraine’s newest weapons offer a glimpse of the future of war The conflict is speeding the development of self-guiding drone technology, bringing closer the day that robots become capable of choosing and attacking targets themselves
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In Sudzha there is a house on the hill known as Little Monaco. Until last August it was home to 150 FSB officers. When Ukrainian soldiers accessed the flats they found a trove of information about the lives and activities of these officers.

In @thetimes

thetimes.com/world/russia-u…
www.thetimes.com The FSB town where officers lived in luxury… and fled in haste Documents discovered by Ukrainian forces who took the Kursk town of Sudzha offer a rare glimpse into the lives of Russian spies