Joe Evans
Joe Evans is the world news editor at TheWeek.co.uk. He joined the team in 2019 and held roles including deputy news editor and acting news editor before moving into his current position in early 2021. He is a regular panellist on The Week Unwrapped podcast, discussing politics and foreign affairs.
Before joining The Week, he worked as a freelance journalist covering the UK and Ireland for German newspapers and magazines. A series of features on Brexit and the Irish border got him nominated for the Hostwriter Prize in 2019. Prior to settling down in London, he lived and worked in Cambodia, where he ran communications for a non-governmental organisation and worked as a journalist covering Southeast Asia. He has a master’s degree in journalism from City, University of London, and before that studied English Literature at the University of Manchester.
Latest articles by Joe Evans
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Central Europe engulfed by Covid cases after dodging first wave
In Depth Czech Republic tops EU infection rates as neighbouring nations also set daily case records
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Face masks may not protect against coronavirus in rain, say WHO and PHE
Speed Read Health authorities say coverings must be changed more regularly in wet and damp weather
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WHO aid workers offered ‘jobs for sex’ during DRC Ebola outbreak
Speed Read More than 50 women allege abuse by men who said they were international aid providers
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to star in ‘fly-on-the-wall’ Netflix reality show
Speed Read Former minister accuses couple of ‘exploiting’ royal links with big-bucks deal
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Gold medal for bravery awarded to Magawa the bomb-sniffing rat
Speed Read The hero rodent has helped landmine charity to root out deadly explosive devices in Cambodia
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‘Witnesses colluded’ against army major who faced eight probes into Iraqi’s drowning, judge says
Speed Read Robert Campbell was investigated for 17 years over the death of teenager Said Shabram
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Covid case at EU meeting forces ministers and top officials into quarantine
Speed Read Bloc’s trade chief and German economic minister are among those now self-isolating
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Barbados plan to drop Queen as head of state ‘driven by Chinese interference’, MP claims
Speed Read Tom Tugendhat says the Caribbean island risks swapping a ‘symbolic’ leader for a ‘real emperor in Beijing’
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Allow ‘controlled spread’ of coronavirus among under-60s, Swedish expert to tell Ireland
Speed Read Nordic nation’s ex-chief epidemiologist to warn against holding out for Covid vaccine
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Covid-flu co-infection increases risk of death by 600%, study finds
Speed Read Experts urge Brits to get influenza jab to avoid ‘serious outcomes’
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UK can avoid lockdowns by ‘outsmarting’ Covid, says top German virologist
Speed Read Leading expert calls for end to ‘alarmism’ as death rates fall despite spikes in infections
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Suspected Covid cases ‘three times higher’ than official figures at pandemic peak
Speed Read New study also says BAME adults twice as likely to become infected than white counterparts
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Everything we know about the Birmingham stabbing spree
Speed Read Man arrested on suspicion of murder and seven counts of attempted murder
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Royal officials to ‘scrutinise’ Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s $150m Netflix deal
Speed Read Duke and Duchess of Sussex have inked agreement to produce documentaries and films for the streaming service
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Vladimir Putin prepares security force to put down Belarus election protests
Speed Read Russian president confirms he is ready to send support to bolster Alexander Lukashenko’s rule
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Britain home to the ‘unhappiest teenagers in Europe’ - but why?
Speed Read Charity says ‘modern life’ and ‘exam pressure’ is driving down life satisfaction
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Poland refuse to sign off German ambassador over father’s Nazi links
Speed Read German officials suspect dispute is ‘politically motivated’ following fraught election campaign
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Hospital admissions ‘inflated’ at height of UK coronavirus outbreak
Speed Read Expert says unreliable figures are ‘clouding our judgment’ about state of pandemic
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Beirut chemical blast: did officials know the risks of an explosion?
In Depth Sources claim inspectors warned six months ago that fertiliser could ‘blow up all of Beirut’
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Dubai Airport deploys sniffer dogs to detect coronavirus carriers
In Depth Passengers arriving in UAE are first in world to undergo ‘Covid K9’ checks
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Prince Andrew ‘used Spitting Image puppet of himself’ to assault Virginia Roberts Giuffre
Speed Read Court documents show that the Duke is accused of groping two of Jeffrey Epstein ‘sex slaves’ with the latex doll
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Father of Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘secret’ UK girlfriend says he knew she dated the paedophile
Speed Read Shelley Anne Lewis is said to have travelled regularly on late billionaire’s infamous ‘Lolita Express’ private jet
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Who is set to make money from the Oxford coronavirus vaccine?
In Depth Layers of private investors in line to profit from university’s Covid drug
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‘Squid teeth’ could be used by US army for ‘self-repairing’ robots
Speed Read Military scientists hope cephalopods could also be the secret to building ‘self-fixing’ uniforms
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