Julian Rake

Position: Asia Editor, TV
I am a twenty year veteran of Reuters - mainly as a TV journalist producing coverage for our global video service. I started with Reuters in New York and have since been assigned to posts in London, Brussels, Nairobi, Singapore and Jerusalem. I have now moved back to Singapore as Asia Regional Editor for Reuters TV.

Articles

FEATURE-Tragedy stalks Gaza family January 27, 06:21pm EST 

By Julian Rake ABED RABBO, Gaza Strip, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Standing on the ruins of his family home, 75-year-old Majdi al-Athamna waves an unexploded landmine in the direction of a camera crew. Alarmed, they urge him to put it down. "Don't worry -- ...  Full Article 

Blog Posts

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To send or not to send...

I very respectfully would suggest to him that they make the kinds of judgments...about how much they feel they can commit at this moment in the relative weight of what we need to do in Pakistan versus what we need to do in Afghanistan, versus what we need to do potentially with Iran, with North Korea with you know other, you know other challenges in the world, balance all of that and then specifically define what, that what, what is it that would have the most impact on advancing our efforts in Afghanistan.  Full Article | Comments [4] 

Walls and balls

Last week we posted about the fifth anniversary of the International Court of Justice ruling on the separation barrier Israel is building in and around the West Bank. We mentioned how, despite it being ...  Full Article | Comments [7] 

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Aziz Dweik interview

  Aziz Dweik was the speaker of the Hamas-led Palestinian parliament until his arrest and imprisonment by Israel 3 years ago. He was one of dozens of Hamas lawmakers rounded up across the occupied West ...  Full Article