Margherita Stancati 🌸

@margheritamvs

Wall Street Journal foreign correspondent Reporting on Southern Europe, the Middle East and beyond.

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Margherita Stancati 🌸@margheritamvs · Jul 1

“without American aid, between 2.1 million and 3.9 million more excess deaths would have occurred” nytimes.com/2025/06/29/opi… via @NYTOpinion

margheritamvs's tweet card. The end of the federal agency gives us a final lesson about the importance of telling the stories of humanitarian aid.

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Sara Wahedi@SaraWahedi · Jul 19

A video from today’s mass arrests of women in Kabul. A woman yells at a Taliban fighter: “You took our schools. Our lives! What more do you want? How much worse can you make this hell for us?” Her voice echoes what millions of Afghan women are living.

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Margherita Stancati 🌸@margheritamvs · Jul 9

Amazing reporting by @jmalsin, @bcsolomon on #Saydnaya, Syria's death factory. “They gathered 600 people and killed them in three days, about 200 each night." wsj.com/world/middle-e…

margheritamvs's tweet card. Under the Assad regime, Saydnaya prison became a mass-killing machine; ‘a symbol of shame for the whole world.’

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Sudarsan Raghavan@raghavanreports · Jun 28

Life in Iran After the Strikes: Executions, Arrests and Paranoia Security forces hunt for moles, give residents tips on how to spot spies, and morality police target women, as Iran regime reasserts control through fear. w/ @margheritamvs @SuneEngel wsj.com/world/middle-e…

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keachhagey@keachhagey · Jun 18

Pope Leo is making the potential threat of AI to humanity a signature issue—challenging a tech sector that has spent years trying to cultivate the Vatican as an ally w/ @margheritamvs @drewhenshaw @EmilyGlazer wsj.com/tech/ai/pope-l… via @WSJ

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Margherita Stancati 🌸@margheritamvs · May 21

When he was in his 20s Robert Prevost took a strict vow of poverty, promising to turn over all his goods to the Order of St. Augustine (see photo) Read about Pope Leo XIV’s US tax status here wsj.com/personal-finan… by @Saunderswsj

margheritamvs's tweet image. When he was in his 20s Robert Prevost took a strict vow of poverty, promising to turn over all his goods to the Order of St. Augustine (see photo) Read about Pope Leo XIV’s US tax status here wsj.com/personal-finan… by @Saunderswsj

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Margherita Stancati 🌸@margheritamvs · May 20

Nearly $100 million-worth of lifesaving food paid for by US tax payers are moldering in USAID warehouses because of aid cuts. To put that in perspective: that's enough food to feed over 1 million people for 3 months. reuters.com/world/us-aid-c… via @jessdonati

margheritamvs's tweet card. These food rations could feed over a million people for three months, or the entire population of Gaza for a month and a half, according to a Reuters analysis.

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drew hinshaw@drewhinshaw · May 10

Prevost was sat beneath Michelangelo’s Last Judgement, his head buried in his hands as his name echoed in the Sistine Chapel. It was Thursday morning and the election was shifting his way. Our inside story on how he won–with me & @margheritamvs/@iglovett wsj.com/world/europe/p…

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Margherita Stancati 🌸@margheritamvs · May 10

“Bob, this could be proposed to you,” Cardinal Tobin told him. “I hope you will think about it.” Our behind-the-scenes account of Pope Leo XIV’s election. ⁦with ⁦@SMeichtry⁩ ⁦@iglovett⁩ ⁦@MMQWalker⁩ ⁦@drewhinshaw⁩ wsj.com/world/europe/p…

margheritamvs's tweet card. Cardinal Prevost overtook the favorite, Italian Cardinal Parolin, during a historic conclave.

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Margherita Stancati 🌸@margheritamvs · May 8

“La pace sia con tutti voi” may peace be with you all - the very first words of the first American pope, Leone XIV

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Margherita Stancati 🌸@margheritamvs · Apr 26

A sea of mourners filled St. Peter’s Square to pay their final respects to Pope Francis who, with his informality and outspokenness, made the Catholic Church more open, sometimes rankling world leaders and fellow clergymen—many of whom attended his funeral wsj.com/world/europe/p…

margheritamvs's tweet card. Royalty and political leaders, including President Trump, attend the Mass in St. Peter’s Square.

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Margherita Stancati 🌸@margheritamvs · Apr 16

Where I talk about an emerging space race, satellites and Ukraine. Can Eutelsat really compete with Stalink? podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/wsj…

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Margherita Stancati 🌸@margheritamvs · Mar 13

In conventional combat Russia would struggle against Europe. @DanMichaelsWSJ looks at how European forces stack up against Russia's. wsj.com/world/europe/e… via @WSJ

margheritamvs's tweet card. Europe would pack a strong punch if it were forced to defend itself against Russia without the U.S., American military brass and officials who have served across the Atlantic say.

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Yaroslav Trofimov@yarotrof · Feb 27

A stunning, sad commentary on the state of America that a maestro NYT war correspondent @rodnordland who beat the odds of survival on a deadly brain cancer and wrote a brilliant book on his battle is so ruined by the cost of treatment that he needs donations to get food on the…

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Bradley Hope@bradleyhope · Feb 6

🚨 BREAKING: Trump's DOJ just killed its elite anti-corruption unit, our sources say. The Kleptocracy Initiative - famous for seizing Russian oligarchs' yachts and prosecuting the $4.5B 1MDB fraud - was quietly disbanded last night.

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Margherita Stancati 🌸@margheritamvs · Dec 8

Syrian state TV airs video saying President Bashar Assad has been overthrown and all jail detainees freed بيان رقم واحد من داخل مبنى الإذاعة والتلفزيون السوري في سوريا الحرة alikhbaria.net

SSaad Abedine@SaadAbedine · Dec 8

"Long live Syria", the Syrian rebels read statement # 1 after the fall of Bashar Assad, said they released all political prisoners & that Damascus gas been FREED from the ousted Assad Baathist regime “ Long live Syria, free and proud for all Syrians of all sects. Statement…

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Tom Wright@TomWrightAsia · Nov 11

This guy, Mark Lombardi, was a famous artist who believed a hidden network of powerful individuals ruled the world. But he’d die before he could prove it. 1/

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Paul Beckett@paul4thepress · Aug 1

Evan Gershkovich, Alsu Kurmasheva, Paul Whelan. Free. Amazing. #IStandWithEvan

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Margherita Stancati 🌸@margheritamvs · Aug 1

Best news of the year —> WSJ Reporter Evan Gershkovich Is Free wsj.com/world/russia/e…

margheritamvs's tweet card. Russia freed wrongly convicted Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich as part of a major prisoner swap. The reporter and more than a dozen others jailed by the Kremlin were exchanged for...

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benoit faucon@benoitfaucon · May 26, 2024

Cradle of Love: Nine-year-old Mohammed Shaheen lost his family in Gaza in December. From that day his uncle set to work to get him out and find him a new home in Denmark ⁦@benoitfaucon⁩ ⁦@margheritamvs⁩ wsj.com/world/middle-e…

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