Jodi-Ann Quarrie (Yoo Need More Jodi)
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International 🇯🇲 #HumanRights & #ClimateChange Attorney • @UN Fellow • @CIDH - Romuló Gallegos Fellow • Journalist/Radio Host - @MorningAgenda • @ManUtd • #F1
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Joined April 2013
Why did I become a human rights lawyer, and an international human rights lawyer in particular? Here is my lore!
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China tightened export controls for critical rare-earth metals on Thursday, ahead of an expected meeting between President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump later this month. We look at why the new controls matter and who they will affect https://t.co/HnToue0fHJ
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Everyday this week I heard lightning n thunder and sometime a little rain. Today, not 1 sound. Not 1 drop
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SOUTHCOM oversees US military activity in Latin America and the Caribbean. “Toward” is incredibly broad language. Which countries (apart from T&T who announced it at UNGA 80) are part of this new Joint Task Force? Especially, which Caribbean/CARICOM countries? #ZoneOfPeace
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If you take President-elect Trump’s repeated attempts to acquire Greenland seriously you’ll start to consider that the fossil fuels, minerals, and rare earths we need to power our modern and future electronics are readily found there, and China and Australia are already digging.
Trump is absolutely serious about buying Greenland, with one of the main reasons being rare earths for the (so-called) green transition. I wrote about Trump‘s 2019 propertisation of Greenland (open access) here: https://t.co/rZFWAhxsA2
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The reports of rain today were greatly exaggerated.
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“Whatever happens, I can derive some benefit from it.” — Epictetus
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She touches the ball four times without it hitting the ground.
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🇯🇵 Japan's ruling coalition has collapsed as junior partner Komeito quit the alliance, putting in peril Sanae Takaichi's bid to become the country's first woman prime minister. ➡️ https://t.co/QCR099tFBD
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The jokes be jokes-ing.
BREAKING: Sébastien Lecornu reappointed Prime Minister of France
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😑 You doing too much now, T&T. Too much now.
Homeland Security Minister Roger Alexander sends a bag of air to Opposition Chief Whip Marvin Gonzales outside Parliament, Red House, Port of Spain on October 10. - Video by Joey Bartlett
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Now 11 years as a lawyer person! Blessed be the name of the Lord.
4 years as a lawyer person. Blessed be the name of the Lord. - Call to the Bar of Barbados 2014
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Burkina Faso's military government has refused to take in deportees from the US as Washington suspended issuing visas in the West African nation. https://t.co/VkC5fCCqCV
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This #WorldMentalHealthDay, we’re calling for stronger support for young people everywhere. They deserve access to services that are available, inclusive & tailored to their needs, especially in times of crisis. Let’s make mental health a priority. #WMHD2025
#OnMyMind
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Reading romance novels. All my SAT words were in them.
What boosted your English Vocabulary?
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Burkina Faso refuses to take deportees as US stops issuing visas
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The West African nation's foreign minister asks if the decision led to the US suspending issuing visas.
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🇺🇸 The White House has lashed out at the Norwegian Nobel Committee after it awarded the peace prize to Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado and overlooked US President Donald Trump. ➡️ https://t.co/qxuxhVhX3C
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BREAKING: Trump says China is becoming very hostile, threatening export controls to hold the world ‘captive.’
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China is really returning blow for blow to the US now, they don't let up. They just imposed today "special port charges" against U.S. vessels, since the U.S. did the same ( https://t.co/Z7yoWVHWSW) It comes after the unprecedented list of export controls that China imposed on
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Beijing’s countermeasures seen as further complicating shipping routes connecting US and China, but the number of affected vessels could be small.
🇨🇳🇺🇸CHINA'S MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT: STARTING OCTOBER 14, 2025, SPECIAL PORT CHARGES WILL BE IMPOSED ON VESSELS OWNED BY U.S. COMPANIES, ORGANIZATIONS, OR INDIVIDUALS. SPECIAL PORT CHARGES TO BE LEVIED ON VESSELS OPERATED BY U.S. ENTITIES, VESSELS OWNED OR OPERATED BY ENTITIES WITH
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