Emily Lewis
@EmCLew
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Language nerd 🌍 and journalist @BBCWorldService 🎙️ Before: @AP @skynews and @lorienttoday in Lebanon 🇱🇧
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Joined September 2017
Inside the lucrative industry of online 'auditors' targeting migrant hotels in the UK Viral content creators across the UK are cashing in on protests targeting migrants and asylum hotels. Who are these so-called hotel 'auditors' and what are their true motivations as right-wing
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Lebanese village mourns children and father killed in Israeli strike https://t.co/AdwUAqdgVQ
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A village in southern Lebanon has buried five people, including three children and their father, killed in an Israeli strike over the weekend.
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A Rape Case Highlights Sexual Violence in Syria After a young Alawite woman was attacked by men in security uniforms, the state’s failure to protect its people is becoming ever clearer. Kamal Shahin reports for @newlinesmag.
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After a young Alawite woman was attacked by men in security uniforms, the state’s failure to protect its people is becoming ever clearer
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One of Lebanon’s most celebrated composers & musicians Ziad Rahbani - as well as the son & curator of the musical legacy of his legendary mother Fairouz - has died at the age of 69 - his music remains an essential part of the soundtrack of life in Lebanon #زياد_رحباني
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A joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC News and Reuters
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Gaza aid contractor tells BBC he saw colleagues fire on hungry Palestinians
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The Israel- and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has strongly denied the allegation.
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Striking headline "We’re Just Human Incubators to Them" - The Cut https://t.co/qIvfPqZSI0
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Doctors have delivered Adriana Smith’s baby after keeping her alive on a ventilator for months due to Georgia’s abortion ban.
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Official photo from the Trump-Sharaa meeting. Imagine going back in time to 2010 and trying to explain this to someone. Surreal
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A Syrian man known as by his alias, The Gravedigger, publicly revealed his identity on Sunday at the Arab Conference at Harvard.
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The Syrians being swallowed up by Israel’s new frontline
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The IDF is using excavators, tanks and bombs to take territory from neighbours and remake its borders
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#Syria's dwindling #Jewish community can visit one of the world's oldest #synagogues again. Syria was once home to one of the largest Jewish communities in the world. Only nine Syrian #Jews remain in #Damascus
https://t.co/VvZ1tsUH3R
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True scale of Assad’s slaughter revealed at Syrian mass grave
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“The sorrow I never allowed myself to feel, the instinct to turn and look back…. seemed to be ebbing away. But it all shattered on December 8, when my sobs echoed in millions of homes of those who had become forlorn refugees around the world” By Asser https://t.co/56KoF2cjty”
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Exiled journalist Asser Khattab on what the news from Syria means to its diaspora
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Much of Syrian composer @MalekJandali's music is inspired by the protest chants of the 2011 uprising. Today, he hopes the fall of Assad can create a "symphony of peace" A real privilege to produce this interview with @BBCTimFranks. Listen here from 39:30 https://t.co/eKg6X3QEmW
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"I keep reaching, myself, to find the words, and they fail me. Nothing seems to capture the moment. I wrestle with the recesses of my mind for the words, and then I see a photo of a detainee and I break down and start over." by @kshaheen
https://t.co/5zPAdNS7Au
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In the end, Bashar al-Assad had nothing to say to the country he bludgeoned and bled, but what matters now is that his ‘forever’ rule is over
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A Russian disinformation operation has created over 300 fake videos impersonating more than 50 major news organisations this year. Ahead of the US election, the operation is attempting to sow division, claim the vote will be rigged and depict the US as a country near collapse.
The FBI has warned of two fake videos circulating online aimed at casting doubt around the US presidential election. These videos are v likely part of a wider Russian campaign @Shayan86 and I’ve been tracking for a long time 🧵
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BBC Africa Eye investigates the "silent exodus" from France of those fed up with racism and discrimination. Watch more on YouTube https://t.co/Nuc592IDD1
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A custom-made battery, an undetectable detonating substance & a fabricated online history. How Israel's bulky pagers fooled Hezbollah:
reuters.com
An invisible detonator and wafer-thin plastic explosives turned batteries into bombs
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