Mark Stone

Jimmy Carter was the compassionate, honourable, peacemaker America needed The 39th president lasted just one term, but lived a life of 100 years with a legacy of peacemaking built long after he left the Oval Office.

He was asked once to explain the magic of his life-long bond to his wife Rosslyn

"Never go to bed angry… always make peace”

In life, as in marriage, it was the defining principle of a determined peacemaker.

🇺🇸’s 39th president - the @SkyNews obituary

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How the lives of the few child amputees allowed to leave Gaza are being rebuilt elsewhere Sky News' US correspondent Mark Stone has followed the stories of some of the few Palestinians who have left Gaza for medical care.

To find safety from Gaza, you need first to become the victim of a catastrophic injury and then be lucky enough to be identified, selected and extracted.

That’s one of the many brutal truths from this long war.

This is Rahaf’s story 👇

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📸 by Sky News DC cameraman, Michael Herd… 💥

“I do not write to scold anyone; I write because fear is infectious. Let it spread, and it will paralyze us all. The only antidote is courage. And that’s infectious, too.”
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WHY THE NEWS MEDIA IS UNDER THREAT BREXIT, TRUMP, AND A MOMENT OF TRUTH FOR JOURNALISM

“The more people are driven deep into their own echo chambers, the less likely they are to tolerate other perspectives in traditional news coverage.”

Really interesting thoughts from my old editor @peterlowejourno

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As we enter uncertain times, who's in charge in the US right now? We are in a uniquely vulnerable time as the transition between American presidencies takes place - and comes as fears grow in Europe about whether Russia is preparing for a wider conflict in the years...

Who’s running America right now?

America is in an uneasy political vacuum and regional powers are manoeuvring to influence events and change facts on the ground ahead of January 20th.

Read more here 👇

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Joe Biden's overdue trip to Africa in final weeks of his presidency shows how out of touch the US is there This is the first time a sitting US president has visited sub-Saharan Africa in close to a decade.

Sky’s Africa correspondent‬⁩ on how Biden’s Africa trip shows how misguided and out of touch he and his White House is news.sky.com/story/joe-bi...

Declaration of martial law awakens ghosts South Koreans thought were laid to rest Yoon Suk Yeol miscalculated when he thought nostalgia for authoritarianism would resonate with at least some MPs

Strange to watch this drama unfold at close quarters. A remarkable few hours in South Korean politics but the democratic system seems to have held. Never take democracy for granted.

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South Korea's president says he will lift martial law after order sparks fury South Korea's president declares martial law across the country in a surprise address, accusing the opposition of controlling the parliament and sympathising with North Korea. The country's parliament...

America is in the midst of a strange, unnerving vacuum right now. And into it, some curious geo-political maneuvers 👇 news.sky.com/story/south-...

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Great opportunity to join Sky News as a live blogger - working on all the biggest stories to large audiences. Fast-paced, demanding, but really rewarding, and it's a really, really nice team: sky.talent-community.com/projects/liv...

The media should challenge the state – not seek its approval Britain must not risk its fragile news ecosystem, it is a cultural jewel which projects good values

The future of news and news regulation in Britain and how not to ‘screw it up’ by Sky News boss David Rhodes www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

Five things to expect from White House meeting between Joe Biden and Donald Trump On this historic occasion, expect the coldest handshake in American history. As much as this meeting is wrapped up in the politeness of protocol, it has hard politics at its heart.

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At a Ukraine Maternity Clinic, Deaths From an Airstrike Shatter a Community It was one horrific day of the war in Ukraine when a missile fell on the Adonis clinic in Kyiv.

It was a horrific day of the war in Ukraine when a Russian missile hit a clinic in Kyiv that specialized in maternity care. This is the story of that clinic and its workers, pieced together through interviews with survivors and family members, text messages, photos and security-camera videos.

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