Fantastic graphic from the WSJ. Trump just increased the price of a iPhone by nearly 60 percent. Obviously completely unsustainable so won’t be sustained. An American Liz Truss moment
Jan Vleugels
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Documentary Researcher @VRTnws/@CanvasTV, Belgian public TV | War&Peace, Urbanism, Birds and History | also: Kempenzoon living in #1030 Brussels
Estland, Letland, Litouwen en Polen hebben hun terugtrekking uit het Ottawa-verdrag over antipersoonsmijnen aangekondigd. (📄 @Lithuanian_MoD)
“Van Gent tot Damascus” vanavond op VRT Canvas en te bekijken via VRT MAX. www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20... @vrtnws.be #vrtnwsdoc
"Ik hoop dat hij niet meer leeft, hij zou te veel hebben afgezien": vluchtelingen Salah en Turkieh in Gent keren voor het eerst in 10 jaar naar Syrië terug
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Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.
Trump could start wearing a crown and carrying a sceptre, and people would still be in denial about what's happening.
Trump calls himself “THE KING”
Deze mens gaat de geschiedenisboeken in. Een held. Zijn eerste interview te zien op @aljazeera.com
What a historical moment. Today, the world learned the identity of Caesar, the defector who smuggled 53,275 photos of detainees tortured & killed by the Syrian regime: Farid al-Mathhan, formerly of the Forensic Evidence Dept of the Damascus Military Police. He is originally from Daraa.
Defector who exposed Assad’s brutality calls for Syria sanctions to be lifted
Defector who exposed Assad’s brutality calls for Syria sanctions to be lifted
The former military officer, previously known only as ‘Caesar’, smuggled evidence of thousands of deaths out of the country A former Assad regime military officer who defected with a trove of evidence exposing the torture and killing of thousands has…
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Voor @vrtnws-be.bsky.social reisde ik naar Jerevan, waar ik drie Russische deserteurs sprak die naar Oekraïne werden gestuurd. Uitgebreide, emotionele gesprekken over marteling en verzet. Lees hun verhaal vandaag op VRT. "72 dagen gemarteld, omdat ik bevelen weigerde" www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...
"72 dagen gemarteld, omdat ik bevelen weigerde": 3 Russische deserteurs doen hun verhaal bij VRT NWS
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Een kijkje bij de bakker en de groenteboer in Damascus: “Het regime is weg, de president is gevlucht, dus wie lijdt er onder de sancties? Dat zijn de burgers.” vrtnws.be/p.vPmnnO7RBK3
Inge Vrancken ziet Syriërs hoop krijgen na versoepeling internationale sancties: "Basisproducten waren onbetaalbaar"
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where the world stands on the paris climate agreement, as of today:
Op de eerste avond van het bestand in Gaza trokken gewapende kolonisten brandstichtend door Palestijnse dorpen op de bezette Westelijke Jordaanoever. Het Israëlische leger deed daar deze week invallen en arrestaties, en sloot toegangswegen af. https://buff.ly/4atZAuE
Op de Westelijke Jordaanoever is er geen staakt-het-vuren: kolonisten trokken brandstichtend door Palestijns dorp
Westelijke Jordaanoever: Op de eerste avond van het bestand in Gaza trokken gewapende kolonisten brandstichtend door Palestijnse dorpen op de bezette Westelijke Jordaanoever. Het Israëlische leger…
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“Op plaatsen met veel verkeer zeer hoge stikstofdioxideconcentraties” #Horrible
Slechte luchtkwaliteit de laatste dagen. De uitstoot van luchtvervuilende stoffen wordt slecht verspreid door ongunstige meteo (weinig wind/grondinversie). Dit zorgt voor hoge fijnstof- en op plaatsen met veel verkeer (zeer) hoge stikstofdioxideconcentraties 's ochtends en 's avonds. www.irceline.be
The first flight from Damascus International Airport was a joyful milestone, as the journey took off successfully, reflecting hope and progress for the future of a new Syria 💚
Finland-Estonia power cable hit in latest Baltic Sea incident
Finland-Estonia power cable hit in latest Baltic Sea incident
The Finnish electricity grid’s head of operations said sabotage could not be ruled out An undersea power cable linking Finland and Estonia broke down on Wednesday, Finland’s prime minister said, the latest in a series of incidents involving cables and…
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Fireworks burst beyond my window, their festive clamor scraping old wounds. In Ukraine, carols are drowned by explosions. This photo from Kryvyi Rih shows a Christmas tree under ruins. The world wraps itself in tinsel and cheer. I sit in its shadow, waiting for a miracle.
Een aderlating voor de publieke omroep www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/...
VPRO stopt met Tegenlicht: 'Je gooit iets weg wat niet zomaar terug te krijgen is'
Documentaireprogramma: VPRO's Tegenlicht stopt na volgend jaar. De focus van de VPRO komt meer op geopolitiek en buitenland-journalistiek te liggen, stelt de omroep. “Alsof wij ons niet met geopolitie...
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Here the prisoners wrote their memoirs. Although they were in prison, no one could concentrate on doing anything inside. The prisoners had beautiful hobbies, such as drawing. Look how beautiful and accurate their drawings were! 🥺
Breaking News: Russia’s Channel One, quoting the Kremlin, reports that Bashar al-Assad and his family are in Moscow.
For over 14 years (and some of these things long before), #Syrians were barrel bombed, tortured, displaced, drowning at sea, starving to death. They have lived through horrors that none of us could put into words properly. There is absolutely fear over what next. But this is a moment of release.
One of the members of Assad's forces, after escaping from #Homs, says: "Bashar al-Assad sold us out, #Hezbollah fled and sold us out, #Iran sold us out," then he curses them.
DAMASCUS: Assad's forces, members of the 127th Brigade, have withdrawn from the town of Rankous in Qalamoun, which is very close to Saidnaya Prison. The notorious prison is nicknamed the "Human Slaughterhouse" These are extraordinary moments.
In one way or another, history in the making… I can’t get no sleep
🚨 Syria: US official told Reuters the Assad regime in Damascus could even fall in the coming hours. Consensus building that the dictatorship may not survive through the weekend. Russian soldiers tasked with protecting the dictator are fleeing the country.
"some long-dead people who until now were deemed to have been wrongly convicted will be re-prosecuted under a law that did not exist when their alleged crimes were committed."
"Putin, a former KGB agent, believes that the Soviet era was glorious and wants his subjects to feel inspired by it ... If that means relitigating decades-old cases to justify Stalin’s terror against his own people, he is happy to do it," Leon Aron writes:
"Ik heb de kerk hier altijd weten staan. Toen we kinderen waren, lieten we hier kerstbommetjes ontploffen tussen de voeten van de priester." Libanezen meten de schade op tijdens het staakt-het-vuren. Bekijk de #terzake reportage van @vrancki.bsky.social hier: vrtnws.be/p.mnMb8Vj7aYE