"It's a race against time" In just over 10 days of war, almost 1 million in #Lebanon are displaced Many fled for a second time in just over a year & at times took days to find shelter And this time they worry they'll never return @apnews.com apnews.com/article/leba...

War has already displaced nearly a million Lebanese, and aid groups warn of a humanitarian crisis

Hundreds of thousands of people in Lebanon have fled their homes since Israel issued mass evacuation orders and ramped up its airstrikes on the militant group Hezbollah.

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Israel dropped clusters of leaflets across Beirut. One called on Lebanon to disarm Hezbollah. The other resembled a newspaper front-page called "The New Reality" which they said has reached Beirut after "great success" in Gaza.

Israeli military orders immediate evacuations in southern Lebanon as strikes on Beirut intensify with @bmroue.bsky.social for @apnews.com apnews.com/article/leba...

Israeli military orders immediate evacuations in southern Lebanon as strikes on Beirut intensify

Israel has ordered residents of dozens of villages in southern Lebanon to evacuate as airstrikes around Beirut intensify and Hezbollah reports more attacks.

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Heavely deserved! Second Pulitzer for amazing investigations of American role in Afghanistan tragedy for Matt Aikins and other brilliant colleagues

The New York Times@nytimes.com · last yr.

Azam Ahmed, Christina Goldbaum and Matthieu Aikins won the Pulitzer for explanatory reporting for showing how the U.S. sowed the seeds of its own demise long before the war in Afghanistan ended. Read their Pulitzer-winning stories here: nyti.ms/3Sm0O2N

A visual analysis shows the U.S. likely bombed a migrant detention center in Yemen on April 28. At least three U.S.-made GBU-39 bombs at the site of the attack, which killed 68 African migrants, according to the Houthis, a militant group that controls northern Yemen.

Video: Visual Analysis Shows U.S. Likely Bombed Yemen Migrant Detention Center

Videos and photos reveal remnants of at least three U.S.-made GBU-39 bombs at the site of an April 28 attack. The strike killed 68 African migrants, according to the Houthis, a militant group that con...

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Regardless of anything else about the Wisconsin race, it's just a relief to learn that money can't always buy elections

#Serbia: @amnesty.org's revelations show evidence of the abuse of advanced #Pegasus #spyware to target two journalists from investigative media platform BIRN. We strongly condemn these new attacks, which pose a serious threat to journalistic privacy, source protection and media freedom.

Serbia: Spyware attacks on BIRN journalists further deepen press freedom crisis

The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) along with partner organisations of the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) today raise further alarm about ...

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About historical protest in Belgrade 15th of March against corruption @crta.bsky.social

When your country ends up in Snyder's tweet

Timothy Snyder@timothysnyder.bsky.social · 2y ago

About 1/6 of the total population of Serbia protested government malfeasance today. In the US that would be more than fifty million people.

#Voices2025: 15 minutes of silence for the 15 people killed in the tragic incident of Novi Sad. "One word, One fight, Academic Solidarity". Support to the journalists students, and the press being targeted for their reporting. #Croatia #Pressfreedom

Brilliant move by our friends at the Kyiv Independent — this is exactly how to handle baseless claims that aren’t even worth a full debunking. kyivindependent.com/who-started-...

Who started the war in Ukraine?

U.S. President Donald Trump claimed on Feb. 18 that Ukraine "should have never started" the war.

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"A Swedish court on Tuesday sentenced a 52-year-old woman to 12 years in prison on genocide charges, in the country's first court case over crimes by the Islamic State group against the Yazidi minority." www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Swedish woman jailed for keeping Yazidi slaves in Syria

A Swedish court on Tuesday sentenced a 52-year-old woman to 12 years in prison on genocide charges, in the country's first court case over crimes by the Islamic State group against the Yazidi minority...

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🚨Lebanon for the first time since May 2022 has both a president & full-fledged government. PM Nawaf Salam’s gov has inherited a mess: - post-war reconstruction in the south - bringing security across all borders - crucial reforms to fix banks, electricity, and economy

Disappointing news today from Croatia regarding our 2021 @lhreports.bsky.social et. al. Masked Men investigation: The State Attorney's Office concluded (3+ years later) that there is no reasonable suspicion that the officers "tortured migrants or treated them cruelly" www.index.hr/vijesti/clan...

DORH o snimkama na kojima policajci s fantomkama tuku migrante: Nema kaznenog djela

ŽUPANIJSKO državno odvjetništvo u Karlovcu zaključilo je nakon dovršetka izvida kako nema osnovane sumnje da su policajci mučili migrante ili okrutno postupali prema njima.

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Koliko ćeš nedostajati....

Eric Gordy@ericgordy.bsky.social · 2y ago

In addition to being a person of prodigious knowledge, humour, and passion, he was also one of the first people to review my first book. vreme.com/kultura/teof...

Blokada Mosta slobode u Novom Sadu

Dok čekamo Oskara, razgovor sa Nebojšom Slijepcevicem www.bbc.com/serbian/arti...

'Čovjek koji nije mogao šutjeti', film o prošlosti u sadašnjosti - BBC News na srpskom

Prva nominacija za Oskara u istoriji Hrvatske priča je o penzionisanom oficiru JNA, Tomi Buzovu koji se usprotivio odvođenju muslimana iz voza u Štrpcima 1993. godine i to platio životom.

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ICJ president Nawaf Salam is Lebanon’s new prime minister. He received the majority of votes, with 84 out of 128 MPs endorsing him over incumbent premier Najib Mikati, who received 9. Hezbollah’s bloc abstained. Salam flies in to Beirut from the Hague tomorrow.

Emily Bell - Trump, Musk and Zuckerberg have declared war on facts and truth. The pushback must start now www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump, Musk and Zuckerberg have declared war on facts and truth. The pushback must start now | Emily Bell

There is a narrow window. Public media and fair reporting must be supported: the rules must be upheld, says writer and academic Emily Bell

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♥️

Kareem Chehayeb@chehayebk.bsky.social · 2y ago

Overheard while walking at the Al-Hamadiyah souk in old Damascus, Syria: “I heard they finally elected a president in Lebanon.”

Dani žalosti posle Titove smrti, SKC, novi talas, Vlada Divljan, Milan Mladenović, Jelena Šantić, 9. mart, Ne računajte na nas na Trgu 1992, Crni flor, Makavejev... Prve fotografije koje će vam izroniti iz sećanja na ove reči biće dela Goranke Matić.

Jimmy Carter was the first US president to make human rights a central part of foreign policy, and that was because he listened to Patricia Derian, who pretty much invented US human rights policy. If he had done nothing else in his life this would still be reason to admire him.

Have a listen to this extraordinary interview with @orwaajjoub.bsky.social who has incredible insight into HTS.

Arthur Snell@snellarthur.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨🚨You *really* won't want to miss this.🚨🚨@orwaajjoub.bsky.social is one of a tiny number of people worldwide who actually knows what's going on inside HTS. He spoke to me for this incredible episode of Behind the Lines. shows.acast.com/behind-the-l...

Assad's henchmen and women have disappeared. Where have they gone? apnews.com/article/bash...

Who was in ousted Syrian President Assad's inner circle and where are they now?

After insurgents toppled Syrian President Bashar Assad this month, many senior officials and members of his dreaded intelligence and security services appear to have melted away.

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“Hours before he escaped for Moscow, Assad assured a meeting of about 30 army and security chiefs at the defence ministry on Saturday that Russian military support was on its way and urged ground forces to hold out.“ Great reporting here. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Assad's final hours in Syria: Deception, despair and flight

Bashar al-Assad confided in almost no one about his plans to flee Syria as his reign collapsed. Instead, aides, officials and even relatives were deceived or kept in the dark, more than a dozen people with knowledge of the events told Reuters.

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This is heart breaking

Qusay Noor@qusaynoor.net · 2y ago

The prisoners created this painting and the writings on the walls. It's incredibly painful to see. #Syria

Millions today across Syria are celebrating the downfall of a system that has ruled the people with an Iron fist for decades. Hama - Assy square now demonstrating an end to that bloody era.

"Journalism schools need to find more ways to collaborate across disciplines in 2025 to expand the skill set journalism students learn beyond reporting and storytelling," @brizzyc.bsky.social writes.

The darkness that democracy dies in is here

"This election was decided in no small part by voters who believed a number of false things about the candidates and the country. The Fourth Estate has failed."

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Sitting outside a Shawarma place in the heart of Damascus, surrounded by revolutionary flags, as Abdelbasset al-Sarout’s rendition of Janna plays on a speaker. A scene that would be incomprehensible two weeks ago

IMPORTANT: Kurdish Admin in North East Syria has ordered all government buildings in SDF controlled areas to raise the Syrian revolution flag. “The flag embodies the hopes of the Syrian people for freedom, dignity and national unity” - statement