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London, Paris and la guerre des chiffres

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It's all been a bit quiet around here. I might have taken a close look at the Dieudonné row, with the added dimension of Nicolas Anelka's goalscoring gesture, or the Hollande-Trierweiler-Gayet triangle and the double, triple and quadruple standards we've seen. But since I was not writing about either professionally, both passed me by in terms of Salut! Here's a look at the current war of numbers between London and Paris ...

The exploding safe that killed the Palestinian ambassador to Prague

If only to keep the good ship Salut! afloat in troubled waters - by which I mean only that I have had no time to update the site - here is my latest piece for The National, Abu Dhabi ...

From Ramallah to Prague, officials moved swiftly to dismiss suggestions that the New Year’s death of the Palestinian ambassador to the Czech Republic was anything sinister.

But as the diplomat’s daughter cast doubt on explanations that her father died in a bizarre accident, the manner of his death – reportedly caused by an old embassy safe exploding – recalled murky days of special operations blamed on Israeli agents in European cities and beyond.