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Before the new year gets old, tackling resolutions. What better way to start on Bluesky than my first 2025 piece:
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Europe’s leaders have had enough of Musk’s meddling, but can they stop him?
Elon Musk’s invective against major European leaders and his support for right-wing, eurosceptic parties peaked this week, sparking warnings about the US tech billionaire’s intervention in the contine...
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January 13, 2025 at 10:53 AM
#USEmbassyBaghdad advises US citizens to "depart Iraq immediately". @realDonaldTrump just made life more dangerous for US nationals, US officials, not to mention USA's European allies, some whose nationals are in Iranian jails. With friends like this, who needs enemies? #Iran

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January 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Shocker morning kicking off a dangerous start to 2020. @FRANCE24 is live-blogging the fallout of #QassemSoleimani assassination:#Iran

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US to deploy at least 3,000 more troops amid fears of unrest after Soleimani's death
Tens of thousands of Iranians took to the streets of Tehran on Friday to protest against the killing of a top Iranian commander, Qassem Soleimani, who Washington says was planning an "imminent" attack…
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January 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
An actress, who’s Muslim, disappears in the protest crackdown in #UttarPradesh (UP), #India. So does a friend looking for her at a police station. Two of thousands in UP. Then there's #Kashmir...make this nightmare stop.

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India’s Muslims and activists face mass arrests, beatings amid unrest over citizenship law
Reports of police brutality emerge as authorities try to crush opposition to Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist legislation.
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January 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
A child of Holocaust survivors traumatized by my latest #India piece. Lists, citizen registrations hit personally. Set me thinking...there are probs w/ the French system, but I agree a state shld have no interest in religious identity.via @FRANCE24

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The best of times, the worst of times for India’s Modi
The year began with an electoral landslide for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, but is ending in an unprecedented display of opposition against his divisive policies. But police crackdowns and an…
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January 14, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Watch: Protesters in Delhi stop the police by singing the national anthem. Incredible scenes from #India today.

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January 14, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Incredible footage. Renowned Indian historian Ram Guha telling reporters he feels sorry for Bangalore police having to follow orders from Delhi & crack down on peaceful, nonviolent protesters…when the 61-yr-old scholar is arrested…

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January 14, 2025 at 1:59 PM
IndiGo, India's biggest marketshare airline, cancels 19 flights from Delhi due to road traffic disruptions over #IndiansAgainstCAB protesters take to streets, braving a ban on assembly & arrests of hundreds, including prominent historian @Ram_Guha during an interview.
January 14, 2025 at 1:59 PM
La laïcité (secularism) obviously is a privilege only for #France, says the envoy from the birthplace of human rights. We'll lecture our own minorities, but minorities across the world be damned...#IndiansAgainstCAB

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CAB, NRC are internal issues: French envoy
‘We respect India’s democratic system’
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January 14, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Covering the beat for Kashmiri journalists means getting beaten by Indian security forces winning hearts & minds in an area that's shut down to the world since, you know, foreigners are plotting to agitate the local populace. All's well in #Kashmir

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January 14, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Looking forward to @F24Debate tonight at 7.10pm Paris time on #India protests over new citizenship act & its likely fallout with @odalage @saliltripathi @RajatSethi86 & yes, the one & only @FrancoisF24
January 14, 2025 at 1:59 PM
This reminds me of Sudan's "kadanka power" earlier this year. 2019 has been the year of the protest & it's ending with India joining the ranks in an unprecedented way...

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January 14, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Extraordinary scenes from across India today. This from the capital:

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January 14, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Shocking, brutal scenes at Indian campuses. So the policy/orders are to crack down on any dissent against the controversial new citizenship law?

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Police storm campuses, crack down on protests against Indian citizenship law
Thousands of university students flooded the streets of India’s capital on Monday, while a southern state government led a march and demonstrators held a silent protest in the northeast to protest a…
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January 14, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Police storm campuses, crack down on protests against Indian citizenship lawvia @FRANCE24

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Police storm campuses, crack down on protests against Indian citizenship law
Thousands of university students flooded the streets of India’s capital on Monday, while a southern state government led a march and demonstrators held a silent protest in the northeast to protest a…
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January 14, 2025 at 1:59 PM
The weekend’s absolute must-read from @NewYorker masterfully weaves the complexity of Modi’s India from press intimidation, judicial failure, violent Islamophobia, fake news & the Hindu supremacist-driven death of Indian democracy:

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Blood and Soil in Narendra Modi’s India
The Prime Minister’s Hindu-nationalist government has cast two hundred million Muslims as internal enemies.
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January 14, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Snaking immigration lines at #CDG airport in striking France. Since France's biggest problem are the French, suggest we let the hard-workig immigrants in. Solution!
January 14, 2025 at 1:59 PM
#G5Sahel is “a coalition of armies that nobody trusts: they’re seen as inefficient and corrupt and benefitting from impunity,” @Hommel19 tells @TomWheeldon1 as he examines France’s “mission impossible” after deaths of French troops in Mali:via @FRANCE24

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Mission impossible for France in the Sahel?
The death of 13 French soldiers in a helicopter accident in Mali on November 25 has underlined the challenges France's armed forces face in the Sahel, amid intensifying insurgent attacks and doubts about…
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January 14, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Indian ex-army officer’s controversial call for mass rape in #Kashmir led me to check in on Kunan- Poshpora case. Still no justice, right? Pls don’t overlook Kashmiri women in campaign to @endrapeinwar @StandSpeakRise @CelineBardet @USGSRSGPatten

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All These Years Later, Do Not Forget the Kunan-Poshpora Mass Rapes
The Indian Army’s violence against Kashmiri women must be etched in the history books.
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January 14, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Video wargames a fitting metaphor for this @FRANCE24 @ARTEen Quark report on 3 Gulf princes. Cyber-attacks, Sandhurst-grad #MBZ mentoring homeboy #MBS & delish details like French FM Le Drian introducing his son to Sheikh Zayed’s son at an arms bazaar...

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January 14, 2025 at 1:58 PM
The joy of settling down on a Sunday to a nice, big, fat @nytimes investigative report on the hard-to-cover world’s largest incarceration on ethnic & religious grounds. Thanks @austinramzy @ChuBailiang

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‘Absolutely No Mercy’: Leaked Files Expose How China Organized Mass Detentions of Muslims (Published 2019)
More than 400 pages of internal Chinese documents provide an unprecedented inside look at the crackdown on ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang region.
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January 14, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Be wary, be very wary. @DisinfoEU uncovers how a “website of a self-proclaimed magazine for the European Parliament” is linked to a network of 265 fake local news sites operating in 65 countries serving Indian influence & disinfo interests:

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January 14, 2025 at 1:58 PM
The world's “failure to talk openly about the failings of the Modi model is not cost-free,” notes @gideonrachman @FT, adding, “India’s slide into illiberalism may actually be strengthening the global trend towards authoritarianism.”via @financialtimes

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India’s Narendra Modi has had a free pass from the west for too long
Threats to minority rights and democratic norms are ignored to preserve a comforting illusion
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January 14, 2025 at 1:58 PM
UN report on Libya accuses Sudan’s Mohamed “Hemedti” Dagalo of violating UN sanctions by deploying 1,000 Sudanese troops to Libya, Reuters reporting. #Libya #Sudan
January 14, 2025 at 1:58 PM