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Covering Central & Eastern Europe for The Wall Street Journal. Used to do this in West Africa. Drew.Hinshaw@dowjones.com

Joined January 2010

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  1. Nuclear engineer who advised most presidents since Eisenhower: "Sooner or later the odds are going to get us.”

  2. Thousands of French soldiers are fighting–as we speak–to bring laicité to the Sahara. Meanwhile, in France:

  3. “I have a wheelchair: I’ll put a goddamn gun on it and go fight Putin personally if America won’t.”

  4. More than 100 years after a genocide of the Herero people in Namibia, Germany is acknowledging its role.

  5. You've got to squint to make out the Berlin Wall here...

  6. "More people earn a paycheck... from than from any other private employer except for Walmart and McDonald's"

  7. The day the Americans came to town: The Boy, the Ambassador and the Deadly Encounter on the Road, via

  8. The WSJ has done some fantastic reporting on the opioid crisis. Here's their latest:

  9. "The U.S. is putting sanctions on the generals... if you want Kabila to pay attention, target the financiers.”

  10. "Another venture even tried to launch a rat into space on a rocket." Incredible reporting here.

  11. Starting today, self-driving cars hit the streets of San Francisco. via

  12. First-ever customer delivery is in the books. 13 min—click to delivery. Check out the video:

  13. After a long day in , no resolution, just the slow stagger of failing diplomacy. Our wrap-up: via

  14. As the battle for Aleppo reached its final stage, residents posted desperate goodbye messages

  15. The future of hedge funds is thousands of data scientists, running double-blind algos, being paid in bitcoin

  16. Our sources in Eastern Europe are very less than thrilled about the Tillerson pick: via

  17. "Everything was deemed bullshit." Google really struggling with this drone thing.

  18. I have covered many African elections. I have a pretty good idea how western election observers would respond to this in, say, Kinshasa.

  19. VOA Hausa is about to get really, really weird.

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