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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Islamic State looks to Africa to rebuild following Middle East defeats
feature Alliances with local militants offer lifeline after collapse of self-declared caliphate
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Ethiopia: massacre in Tigray fuels genocide fears
In Depth Almost 200 civilians killed by Ethiopia and Eritrean military forces in latest human rights abuse in region
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The Iran nuclear deal: can Joe Biden salvage it?
feature US joins EU Vienna talks as president seeks to deliver on key campaign pledge
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Rape and misogyny claims trigger moment of reckoning for Australian politics
In Depth String of lawmakers hit by allegations amid renewed surge of #MeToo anger
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Clinical trials begin for low-cost Covid vaccine made in chicken eggs
Speed Read Easy-to-produce jab hailed as potential pandemic ‘game-changer’
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Why Chile’s rapid vaccine rollout has failed to prevent Covid surge
feature Lockdown measures reimposed as coronavirus cases hit record high despite world-leading inoculation campaign
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Why Jair Bolsonaro is being deserted by military top brass
In Depth Brazilian president is battling for political survival amid surging Covid death toll
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Suez Canal blockage investigators shine spotlight on Ever Given crew
feature Billions of dollars at stake as experts try to explain who or what is to blame for the cargo ship’s grounding
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Cuba poised to become coronavirus vaccine powerhouse
In Depth The communist nation aims to be ‘pharmacist’ to other US enemies after developing multiple Covid jabs
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‘Double mutant’ Covid variant threatens to overwhelm India
In Depth Hopes of herd immunity extinguished as wave of new strain sweeps across the country
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How the world reported Myanmar’s ‘day of shame’ after more than 100 protestors killed
feature Children among the dead in ‘bloodiest’ crackdown since military coup
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Slovak PM resigns amid government feud over Russian vaccine purchase
Speed Read EU’s Covid jabs crisis claims first major political scalp
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Quiz of The Week: 20 - 26 March
Puzzles and Quizzes Have you been paying attention to The Week’s news?
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Tory rebels plotting ‘million-to-one chance’ plan to block vaccine passports
Under the Radar Hospitality bosses label plans for jab proof ‘absurd’ and ‘unfair’
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Does a small Islamist party hold the power to unlock Israel election?
feature Two-state solution party could determine Benjamin Netanyahu’s fate
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What is the plan for unblocking the Suez Canal?
In Depth International trade hit as freight vessel becomes wedged across vital shipping route
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America’s bloodiest state votes to ban the death penalty
Speed Read Virginia has executed more than 1,300 people in its 400-year history
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Alexei Navalny: inside the plan to free Vladimir Putin’s ‘greatest enemy’
In Depth Anti-Kremlin activists promise mass protest ahead of national election
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US health officials question AstraZeneca vaccine trial data
feature Independent monitors says the pharma giant may have used ‘out-of-date information’
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The threat posed by spread of new coronavirus variants in Europe
feature Fresh lockdown measures imposed across continent as mutant Covid strains cause spike in infections
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Will world-beating vaccine rollout save Benjamin Netanyahu from election defeat?
feature Israelis casting votes for fourth time in two years
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Joe Biden facing first major test amid migrant border surge
In Depth Republicans and Democrats await president’s opening move on illegal immigration
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Trust in Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine collapsing across Europe, poll reveals
Speed Read More than half of people in France, Germany and Spain believe jab is unsafe
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Queen ‘to hire diversity tsar’ for minority representation push at Palace
Under the Radar Palace seeking ‘independent views” on how to better represent ethnic minorities, disabled people and LGBTQ+ communities
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