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Hope. In a bit of dark times..

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Hope. There is strength in that word. Tonight, many people in Gaza are hoping. And in Israel - think how much the families have thought about those who were captured, and the hope they now have.

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@crisisgroup.org just published a new report on #Syria 🇸🇾, ft. a 360-degree view of how Assad's fall will reshape relations, from Türkiye to Iran to the U.S. and more. One of the entries focuses on the UN Security Council. A quick 🧵 on what we said. 👇 www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east-...

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china’s population…one of the more important charts you’ll see.

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God wept.

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"As Hemingway once wrote of bankruptcy, the collapse of autocratic regimes tends to happen gradually and then suddenly—slowly, and then all at once." www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

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november numbers are in: 2024 will officially be the hottest year on record and first which global temperatures exceed 1.5 degrees celsius of warming

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. #booksky #bookchallenge 20/20 Last book is also the last I read on the list. A book that made me love reading, running and the mountains even more.(The Lovers /La felicità del Lupo)

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Hunger and malnutrition have increased across Sudan since 2023, when the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces began battling for control reut.rs/3ZFzQaI 1/5

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Leder i Eyde-klyngen: Det vil ta tiår før vi eventuelt kan utvinne mineraler fra havbunnen. Det er også forbundet med stor miljørisiko. Gjenvinning av materialer i dagen kan vi starte opp raskt. #KampenOmDyphavet www.altinget.no/klima/artikk...

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The future is uncertain. But the past was hell.

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All the first- and second-order consequences of Syria, the death and displacement, the way it warped the politics of countries near and far, in the end all just to buy a few more years for a regime that collapsed anyway under the weight of its own brutality and incompetence

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Hadi al-Bahra, the head of Syria's main overseas opposition group, calls for an 18-month transition period: six months to draft a new constitution (with a referendum on it), and then elections for whatever political system it spells out. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

This is one of the most interesting reads on localsation in the sector for a while. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2024...

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. #booksky #bookchallenge 19/20 A book about the Viking settlement in Greenland - so far away, yet a stirringly alive book about nature, love and life. A fabulous book.

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Homs City is under full rebel control. The remaining regime positions in the east and south will likely fall the next hours, the latest tomorrow.

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. #booksky #bookchallenge 18/20 First book I read after my paternal grandfather died. He had another favorite by Hamsun (Victoria), but I will never forget reading this. Or him.

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Ok, Twitter still seems to have more and faster updates on #Syria then here on Bluesky, and although this is already 1 day old, it is very interesting. Talking about fast: Who knows how it will look in 1 day from now.. x.com/charles_list...

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

what should you take away from south korea's flirtation with martial law? it will remain a democracy thanks to the strength of its institutions

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NEWS: Today we take a graphics-driven, deep dive into the failures that led to famine at Zamzam IDP camp. www.reuters.com/graphics/FAM...

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

This @reuters.com report on famine in the Zamzam camp in Sudan is harrowingly brilliant journalism. Full of admiration for @mcneill.bsky.social @marianozafra.bsky.social @lenamasri.bsky.social and their colleagues - www.reuters.com/graphics/FAM...

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I dag tenkjer eg på alle kvinnene som kjem til å døy i barsel som sannsynleg konsekvens av dette forbodet. Det gjer så vondt. Det er så uforsvarlig. news.un.org/en/story/202...

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. #booksky #bookchallenge 17/20 The last book my maternal grandfather read. Love the fact that he read a funny book as one of the last things he did. He loved it. It made him laugh.

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. #booksky #bookchallenge 16/20 A small book about the evil in the world, and about having the courage of realizing what you know.

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. #booksky #bookchallenge 15/20 I remember listening to this on audiobook, read by the author, while traveling. The most powerful audiobook experience I’ve ever had - what a journey.

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. #booksky #bookchallenge 14/20 A book about a man who wanders into nature, stays in a simple hut, and just stay, slowly, to watch the spring thaw and summer arrive in the mountains

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This is huge. The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries 👇 www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/e...

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. #booksky #bookchallenge 13/20 A book about a man and a life that was different than I thought. More brutal, yet less simplistic. A unique man and reading experience.

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. #booksky #bookchallenge 12/20 Read it while I lived on a beach on the Andaman Islands alone for three weeks. How can I ever forget. Felt like I was living in the book while reading.

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Bluesky is winning because both twitter and threads have gone out of their way to make their platforms inhospitable to reputable journalists and news. @kattenbarge.bsky.social reports: www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...

submitted 99 days ago • 790 comments

Til å bli i godt humør av!

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. #booksky #bookchallenge 11/20 First book by my best friend, about his mother who has ME - and what he had learned about it. I certainly learned much about ME, him and life.

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. #booksky #bookchallenge 10/20 A very special, deeply personal, yet scientific book on climate change and the future we all face.

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Om ikke vi bestrider dette vedtaket nå, godtar vi at politikerne kan bryte lovverket og styre i blinde, og det vil sette en ny og farlig presedens for hvordan Norge forvalter sine naturressurser. www.nrk.no/norge/rettss...

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. #booksky 9/20 Red Sorghum - An intense book. Although it has touches of magical realism, it makes the Japanese invasion of China feel intimately real.

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. #booksky 8/20 Thor Heryerdahl’s first book. Before he was famous for Kon-Tiki. Traveled to the Pacific w his fiancée to live in nature. Lesson: you can’t buy a ticket to paradise.

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Kommentar: Hva var det vi fikk se på Dagsrevyen dagen etter opptøyene i Amsterdam i forbindelse med kampen mellom Ajax og Maccabi Tel Aviv? Propaganda for et land som begår folkemord. Og hvis man påpeker det i et intervju med NRK, hva skjer da? josimar.no/artikler/pro...

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Datter Sara (11) har skrevet i avisa sammen med Mia og Eiril fra Kolbotn om lønnsforskjeller mellom kvinner og menn i fotball ⚽ Les gjerne: www.oavis.no/caroline-gra...

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. #booksky 7/20

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