Josie Ensor
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US Correspondent @TheTimes . Previous postings in Beirut, San Fran and London with @Telegraph . Recipient of Marie Colvin Award. Associate Fellow at @ICSR_Centre
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I wrote a final goodbye. I sign out today after 5 years in Beirut with an impossibly heavy heart as Syria faces its greatest tragedy yet. It's hard thing for journalist to acknowledge, looking back on a body of work, to realise it has had so little impact
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Ballot boxes dancing to Missy Elliot is how Philadelphia is doing right now
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Reuters sketch of Steve Bannon appearing handcuffed in court in Manhattan today.
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Wow: "I was asked to lie about Hunter Biden, admits Ukrainian businessman. Hares Youssef claims he was promised a US visa and legal immunity in return for information that would damage Joe Biden’s presidential campaign
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Rushdie’s agent, Andrew Wylie, sent an update on his condition to NYT, saying Rushdie was on a ventilator and could not speak. “The news is not good," he said. "Salman will likely lose one eye; the nerves in his arm were severed; and his liver was stabbed and damaged."
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Mike Pence is the head of the Coronavirus task force. This is his event in a retirement village today when numbers in Florida are rising
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Here is Eugene Goodman. On the left escorting Kamala Harris up the stairs of the Capitol. On the right, defending it from an insurrectionist mob
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At a Mike Pence rally in The Villages, Florida. I’d say about a quarter of people here are wearing masks. People have pushed their socially distanced chairs together. The Villages is America’s largest retirement village, aka the most vulnerable to Covid-19
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I asked Secret Service guy if there was an upper limit to the event. His response “you’d think so, but no”
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According to sources I’ve spoken to Shamima Begum was not “just a housewife” during her time with ISIS as she made out, she was in fact working with Hisba, or the “morality police” repressing local Syrian women
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Unprecedented. For the first time, Twitter deletes Trump's tweets
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Coalition official tells me after Turkish bombing near US base Mashtenour hill: “They know we are there, we told them our position. There’s no other target in the area. They’re trying to drive us out. If Turkey can get us to leave so they can seige Kobane, it’s all over.”
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New photograph also shows Ghislaine Maxwell sitting in the Throne Room at Buckingham Palace with Kevin Spacey 2/
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You literally cannot make it up. Putin reportedly sending mercenaries from the Wagner Group - named after Hitler's favourite composer - to
#Ukraine
on a mission to kill its Jewish president and "deNazify" the country
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I’ve walked out the paddock because this is becoming a potential superspreader event in a retirement village. I’m not worried about me, I’m worried about them
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I live in constant fear I’m going to like put a comma in the wrong place in a story one day, get sued and lose my job. Others …. not so much
Tucker Carlson casually says Dr Fauci "created" Covid (Dr Fauci did not create Covid)
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Tulsi 👏 Gabbard👏is 👏not 👏anti-war, 👏she 👏visited 👏Assad 👏in 👏Damascus 👏after 👏he 👏gassed 👏his 👏own 👏people
This early it’s all about being allowed to debate. I’ve made personal contributions because I appreciate Andrew’s focus on the coming displacement of work due to AI and automation, and Tulsi’s strong anti-war stance. I believe their voices are important to surface in the debates.
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Went with Iraqi Golden Division today to newly liberated Christian town Bartella. Church bells ring again after two years under ISIS
#mosul
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Trump campaign's director of communications says 3,000 turned out for Pence's speech in the end. I have a feeling this won't be last we here about this event
#Covid19
#Florida
#TheVillages
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Trump is holding a packed indoor campaign presentation today in Florida entitled "Protecting America's Seniors". Celine Dion's Titanic is playing.
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There’s also no shade at Mike Pence’s rally and it’s a super hot Florida summer afternoon
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I guess you slept through the Syrian one. Doctors were sending minute-by-minute updates from the basements of hospitals being bombed by Russia. Ordinary Syrians were doing pieces to camera published right here on this site
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One retiree just joked to her similarly aged friend: “there goes social distancing.” The few who are wearing masks are pulling them down to speak to each other and eat ice cream.
#PenceRally
#TheVillages
#Florida
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** Israel is not providing vaccines to Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank or the Gaza Strip **
Israel has vaccinated 11% of its population, including 41% of people over the age of 60.
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Omg. My old neighbour just pointed out that the Google Street View of my old address has an image of me in what appears to be frantic filing mode on the stoop 10 minutes before paper deadline after I got locked out.
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It's strange because Corbyn never found time to speak or tweet about the untold misery Soleimani inflicted on civilians in rebel-held Syria and the hundreds of dead protesters in Iraq, which he still seems unable to even acknowledge
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At court in Ayia Napa. British teen who claimed she was raped by up to 12 Israelis has herself just been found guilty of "public mischief" after being accused of making it up. Decision raises concerns over Cyprus' attitude towards victims of sex assault
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"This woman was not only raped by those 12 men, but raped by the state, by society and by the media here," one protester said outside court. "It's like Cyprus is 100 years behind, it's hard to believe we're fighting this in 2019 in an EU country"
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This video makes your heart stop if you know the geography of Beirut. It was taken just outside Electricite du Liban on the city's busiest street for bars and restaurants. A five minute walk from the port.
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It seems almost every one of the witnesses and claimants Rudy Giuliani manages to rustle up have criminal pasts - or something major to gain - from collaborating 3/
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My understanding from speaking to local sources in northern Syria is that this decision was made by Trump without advance warning to Kurds or even US coalition forces on the ground. They found out the way the rest of us found out 1/
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In the interests of transparency, it's worth noting that Savannah Guthrie’s husband is the PR consultant for Johnny Depp legal team
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@SavannahGuthrie
: "The 1st Amendment... doesn't protect lies that amount to defamation."
Amber Heard: "...It's a freedom to speak truth to power."
SG: "But 'truth' is the word... And that was the issue."
AH: "And that's all I spoke. I spoke it to power, and I paid the price."
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The Trump campaign put socially distanced chairs out for this rally but I can’t even see them now
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Hares Youssef, a Syrian who had his US visa revoked, was an adviser to former Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko, He claims he was asked to invent links between Hunter Biden and a business deal with one of his former associates that had gone wrong 2/
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China's Jack Ma has just offered a donation of half a million
#coronavirus
testing kits to the US, which appears to be struggling to provide its own right now
Through a donation of 500,000 testing kits and 1 million masks, we join hands with Americans in these difficult times.
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This has huge implications: NATO ally deliberately bombing, or targeting near, NATO ally
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Video of foreign journalists leaving Syria after deal struck between SDF and Assad. For journalists blacklisted by the Syrian government, this basically spells the end of reporting on the ground.
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I asked people at the rally if they were worried about COVID. One 70-year-old (in a face shield but no mask) told me: "I’m not worried about me, but I’m worried about other people here because obese people get it. I don’t hang around with overweight people so I’ll be fine”
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Children of Russian officials and oligarchs have been posting messages like these over social media. Here, the daughters of Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov and Chelsea FC owner and billionaire Roman Abramovich
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Britney Spears: “I have an IUD in my body right now that won’t let me have a baby and my conservators won’t let me go to the doctor to take it out. I feel ganged up on. I feel bullied and I feel left out and alone.”
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“A senior Pentagon official said shelling was so heavy that the U.S. personnel considered firing back in self-defense.”
via
@NatashaBertrand
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Every year in my job covering Syria, I told myself that at least the next one couldn't possibly be worse than the last. But each year seemed to outdo itself. A JustPaste here: 2/
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Trump is showing symptoms of the novel coronavirus, but mild ones, including cold-like symptoms. At a fundraiser at his golf club at Bedminster, New Jersey last night, one attendee said the president came in contact with about 100 people & seemed lethargic
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Also Waters: "White Helmets are terrorists and Assad's victims are crisis actors."
On Uyghurs: *silence*
You'll forgive me if I don't have time for this selective solidarity
“Hey Gaza, my heart is with you. My heart goes out to you all. I bleed for you. Let’s put an end to this. Ceasefire, now!” -
@RogerWaters
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Golden Division solider holds up Christian calendar dated 2014, when Isis took the town of Bartella. Liberated yesterday.
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The Telegraph hearing Prince Andrew on the hook for a figure north of £10million in his settlement with Virginia Giuffre
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Protesters from the Network Against Violence Against Women sat in court with gags over their mouths showing an image of stitched-up lips. As the defendant walked out of court in a blindfold to hide her identity, they shouted: "We are with you. We know. We believe you" 2/
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10 Yazidi women have seen their ISIS captors on the streets of Germany. Merkel had offered refuge to the world’s most vulnerable but her open-door policy would see her country inadvertently end up offering refuge to their abusers too.
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Sounds like a "double tap" attack, one of most cynical of Russian military tactics. Moscow often used this against White Helmets in Syria - bombing the same place again after rescuers and civilians gathered at the scene, maximising casualties. So tragic, thoughts with her family
💔Another journalist killed covering Russia’s war in
#Ukraine
. The Insider’s Oksana Baulina, a Russian reporter, was killed by her country’s own forces when they hit a target in Kyiv for the second time after reporters got to the scene. Russia’s well-known Syrian tactics
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Remembering this day seven years ago when more than 1,400 Syrians died in a regime chemical attack in
#Ghouta
. The people found to be responsible are still in power. There is no international mechanism in place to stop this happening again. There is no reason to think it won't.
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Father in this picture, Abdulhadim, who lost his wife & twins, is now very sick himself in hospital from chemical exposure. Praying for him
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Anyone surprised was not paying attention to Syria. Russia turned the war in Assad's favour when it entered in 2015. They used huge disinformation campaigns, mercenaries on the ground, air strikes from the sky - bombing schools and hospitals daily - as the UN looked on, toothless
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CNN reporting that Chris Christie has checked himself into hospital as a precaution after testing positive for coronavirus today. Christie, 58, has asthma (previously suffering serious attacks), is morbidly obese and male, which puts him at much greater risk
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Trump says "exploding trees" are responsible for unprecedented wildfires engulfing the west coast as he lands in Sacramento
#California
#Oregon
#Washington
"They can explode" -- Trump's attempt to explain how poor forest management leads to wildfires is totally beyond parody
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This is the answer given by Ghislaine Maxwell in 2016 testimony when she was asked whether she was or had been in a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. "There were times when I would have liked to think of myself as his girlfriend"
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A rare piece of good news from Lebanon. It seems Amine al-Zahid was rescued from the sea earlier today after going missing for nearly 30 hours. He was blown into the water by the force of Tuesday's blast. Lord knows how he survived, but he did via
@JFXM
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From a journalist who has covered both - please don't do this
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Lebanon's PM Hassan Diab says: "I promise you that this catastrophe will not pass without accountability. Those responsible will pay the price. Facts about this dangerous warehouse that has been there since 2014 will be announced and I will not preempt the investigations"
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Eric Trump and Rudy Giuliani held a press conference in Philadelphia yesterday, making accusations they couldn't back up and then left without taking questions.
@lindseyhilsum
wasn't having any of it.
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According to the FinCEN Files, Youssef also had ties to Maher al-Assad, a senior and much-feared Syrian general who is the brother of President Bashar 4/
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It is not exaggeration to say whole neighbourhoods have been hit by blast in Beirut. Buildings destroyed, glass shattered. Beirut is a tiny, compact and very densely-populated city which is nestled around the port. Reports from Red Cross of 100s injured. Bracing for death toll
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Eugene Goodman, who fended off an insurrectionist mob alone at the US Capitol, named the Acting Deputy House Sergeant at Arms and will escort Kamala Harris up the stairs later today!
NEW: Eugene Goodman, the Capitol Police officer who put himself in harms way while defending the building from a violent mob, has been named the Acting Deputy House Sergeant at Arms.
Goodman will escort Vice President-elect Kamala Harris up the stairs of the Capitol today.
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For those not aware, Wagner mercenaries (which are both better trained and more disposable to Putin than Russia's own army) have done some pretty horrific things in Syria and beyond
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“Our team at Four Seasons would have proudly hosted any presidential candidate’s campaign at our business. We strongly believe in America and in democracy.”
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Lebanon is an actual environmental disaster right now. Toxic waste is being dumped by developers. Landfill sites almost full. Mediterranean has become unswimmable. Raw sewage visible from Google maps. No clean drinking water. But sure, take the subway in NYC to help the planet.
Lebanese Minister of environment H.E. Fadi Jreissati arriving to NY to attend
#UNGA74
by train instead of flying to contribute to saving the environment. Let us all choose the less harmful way to our planet. The biggest journey starts with one small step!
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The background information on the throne photo is a lot to unpack, involving Bill Clinton, Kevin Spacey, a tour of Buckingham Palace arranged by Prince Andrew, Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's private jet and a Labour Party conference in 2002 4/
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“This is a debate between two visions,” says Mike Pence. “Say no to socialised medicine and taxpayer-funded abortions”
#Florida
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Father tries to protect his wife and baby before they succumb to chemicals in the basement of a home in Douma, Eastern Ghouta. The image that shames us all
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So SDF and Iraq shared intel with US on position of ISIS leader Baghdadi - 3.5 miles from border with Turkey. And SDF shared intel with US on the position of ISIS spox Muhajir - just outside Turkish Euphrates Shield city of Jarablus. Doesn't look *great* for Turkey, have to say
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British appear to have developed some sort of giant bomb, attached to a rocket. via
@DangerGuerrero
#IStandWithAhmed
http://t.co/cdRvqgUXcj
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"The Associated Press office is the only place in Gaza City I feel somewhat safe," Fares wrote yesterday. Today the building was levelled
While our lush citrus grove might offer some breathing space from the congestion and difficulties of city life, it’s no refuge. Read my story here from
@AP
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“Ghislaine always talks about what a true friend (Prince Andrew) is. She doesn’t see any reason to speak about him to the authorities,” Laura Goldman, one of Maxwell's closest friends tells
@CamillaTominey
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Amal Clooney has launched a lawsuit on behalf of five Yazidi women against the most senior female member of the Islamic State in a bid to get justice that has so far eluded the minority. It's the first of its kind in the US
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🚨Assad's forces opened fire on elderly women as they packed up their belongings & tried to flee fighting, radio comms shared w/
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reveal. Govt regularly accused of deliberately targeting civilians, but rarely is there ever such clear evidence 1/
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More from Britney Spears via our reporter
@iododds
: "In California, the only similar thing to this is called sex trafficking, making anyone work against their will, taking all their possessions away credit card, cash, phone, passport"
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Are people actually paying Matt Gaetz just to leave hate mail on his Venmo? It is a unique fundraising strategy
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No Muslim countries speaking out against China’s internment camps at the UN Human Rights Council today
Countries speaking against China’s internment camps in Xinjiang:
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and UK
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There are no universities left standing in Gaza
I get a strange inkling that all these Columbia and UCLA students running around yelling “Free Palestine” would not be jumping at the opportunity to do a semester abroad in Gaza.
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Reaction on street to news of Lebanese prime minister Saad Hariri’s resignation after nearly two weeks of protests
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Goldman *claims* Ghislaine Maxwell and Prince Andrew had a fling, and that she would more likely "sell out" others, such as Bill Clinton, before the Duke 3/
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I covered the offensives in Iraq and Syria embedded with both country's armies, but yes, please do continue mansplaining warfare from NYC to me Scott
@Josiensor
Do you know anything at all about warfare? Combat operations in an urban environment? Compare and contrast SAA/Russian tactics with those used by the USMC in Fallujah, or US/Iraq in Mosul. “Storming” defended urban areas with unsupported infantry is suicide.
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Russell Crowe (!!) just donated to help rebuild destroyed Beirut restaurant Le Chef, in memory of Anthony Bourdain. Bourdain fell in love with Lebanon, and Le Chef, during his trips. The fundraiser is almost at target. Yallah!
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Ghislaine Maxwell, asked about what her salary was at the time she stopped working for Epstein, says: "It was under $500,000 and I did it out of thoughtfulness and consideration for somebody who was in trouble (after his mother died). I'd remember if was over one million"
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Just spoken to a senior Iraqi official who says they arrested one of Baghdadi's wives, his nephew & Baghdad's courier's wife in September. In interviews the latter gave up information on the leader's whereabouts and the coordinates in Idlib. "He wasn't very mobile" official said
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The only reason I get so angry about this is you can’t help thinking we wouldn’t be where we are today if people had paid attention. The apathy for Syria enabled and emboldened Putin
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Kurds say they were acting in good faith working with US on security mechanism but now feel Turkey was just working on reconnaissance the whole time (joint patrols, flights over Rojava, pulling back from the border etc). This has left them incredibly weak as assault looms 2/
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Lebanon needs more than our solidarity, it desperately *desperately* needs help now. Its economy has collapsed, it's in political deadlock and its hospitals were barely functioning before this. Hundreds of wounded are being turned away. There's not enough blood to treat the rest
My thoughts and prayers are with those affected by the devastating explosion in
#Beirut
today. The UK 🇬🇧 stands in solidarity with the people of Lebanon 🇱🇧 and is ready to offer help and support including to those British nationals impacted.
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Journalists, Nasrallah says, are not fair game for Soleimani revenge
Nasrallah: “I want to be very clear, we don’t mean the American people. All across the region there are American citizens-- traders, journalists, engineers, and doctors. They cannot be touched… any harm to U.S. civilians will only serve Trump’s agenda.”
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In his upcoming book A Promised Land, Obama traces the source of mainstream racism in the GOP to Sarah Palin’s elevation in 2008: “Through Palin, it seemed as if the dark spirits that had long been lurking were finding their way to center stage"
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