
Lynne O'Donnell
@lynnekodonnell
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🇦🇺 Si vis pacem, para bellum Writer. Journalist. @warstudies [email protected] https://t.co/0PgRcUBwLO
Joined April 2011
"The #Taliban's days are numbered, this is not a sustainable regime." #Afghanistan
edition.cnn.com
Columnist Lynne O’Donnell, who recently returned to Afghanistan, says she was detained and punished for her past reporting. “They’d look at each other and say, ‘She knows her crimes,’ and then they...
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There's a lot of ChatGPT essays being passed off for journalism. Tsk tsk. Yes, ok for CVs, cover letters, basic stuff but not for fact checking or writing "news" articles. Telltale signs abound. There's no replacing #journalism or #editing. All you are doing is undermining truth.
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RT @lynnekodonnell: A man in search of a war. Failed general calls for #Afghanistan's frozen foreign reserves to be used to "finance a camp….
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RT @BenWallace70: Things to remember and to watch for in Washington today. 1. It is assessed by many Military leaders in Nato , UK & US t….
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"Trump called for Zelensky to give up on NATO membership & accept Russia’s control of Crimea, saying he can 'end the war with Russia almost immediately, if he wants'.” #Afghanistan #Ukraine #Surrender
nytimes.com
Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Steve Witkoff, an envoy for President Trump, suggested that a peace deal was still distant.
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"3 Pakistani militant groups TTP, BLA & ISKP are among the world’s 10 deadliest #terrorist organisations, posing a formidable challenge to #Pakistan’s counterterrorism strategy" @zalmayzia on the failure of Islamabad's #Afghanistan policy
dawn.com
Four years on from the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan in August 2021, the optimism surrounding what was being hailed
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RT @AsadAToor: “سچ تو یہ ھیکہ اسٹیبلشمنٹ کے پی ٹی آئی سے جنگ میں سب کچھ لٹا دینے کے بعد اگر نوبت ایک صحافی کے ذریعے معافی مانگنے کی اپیل تک….
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."The most enduring images from Anchorage, it seems, will be its grotesque displays of bonhomie between the dictator and his longtime American admirer".
newyorker.com
Even the puffery-prone President couldn’t alchemize his non-deal with Russia into Trumpian gold.
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RT @AFIntlBrk: متحدان افغان امریکا در معرض مجازات طالبان. کمیته پناهجویان آمریکا در چهارمین سالگرد سقوط کابل، واشنگتن را به ترک متحدان افغا….
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A man in search of a war. Failed general calls for #Afghanistan's frozen foreign reserves to be used to "finance a campaign to create a safe haven for women, minorities & returning refugees". You & whose army?
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The Taliban have annihilated #Afghanistan's once-free media -- a report from Committee to Protect Journalists (how's that working out?)
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For the @UN & @UNAMAnews -- overpaid from the public purse -- doing the right thing really is rocket science.
استفان دوجاریک، سخنگوی دبیرکل سازمان ملل اعلام کرد که پس از چهار سال تسلط طالبان بر افغانستان، نیمی از جمعیت این کشور به کمکهای حیاتی نیاز دارند. آقای دوجاریک با اشاره به محدودیتهای طالبان تاکید کرد که دختران و زنان در افغانستان آسیبپذیراند.
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RT @JournalismPk: Four years under Taliban rule, Afghanistan’s press freedom has been crushed. Independent voices silenced, women erased fr….
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RT @SupportJimmyLai: “Even if he has five years, for example, that’s practically the same as a death sentence. Given his health, given his….
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"The German government effectively suspended a resettlement program for vulnerable Afghans after German Chancellor Friedrich Merz came to power with a vow to drastically curtail the influx of asylum-seekers into the country"
politico.eu
Stranded Afghans deported from Islamabad after Chancellor Merz’s government suspended program meant to protect them from the Taliban.
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RT @gunsnrosesgirl3: Ghost Pitùr is an anonymous artist in Brescia, Italy, who works under the cover of night, cleaning and restoring walls….
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RT @A_Sannikov: It's warmer than usual today in #Alaska, and some fossils have emerged from the permafrost
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RT @jk_rowling: Man fears he won’t be allowed to cheat his way to the Olympics by playing against women. Man says anti-cheat sentiment is b….
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RT @LisaCurtisDC: Raise the Price of Terror for Taliban - Open The Magazine. Read @pforzheimera and @lynnekodonnell on the need to add….
openthemagazine.com
When armed zealots capture a state, they usually at least pretend to soften — a school reopened here, a woman back at work there — just enough to lure international praise. The Taliban hasn’t...
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