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Zarka Radoja
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Journo, el periodista, world wonderer. BBC senior journalist based in Belgrade, co-author of radio show about traveling Antropošestvije @radioaparat. Migration, human rights, war crimes & post war consequences. Dancing through darkness.
Heavely deserved! Second Pulitzer for amazing investigations of American role in Afghanistan tragedy for Matt Aikins and other brilliant colleagues
Azam Ahmed, Christina Goldbaum and Matthieu Aikins won the Pulitzer for explanatory reporting for showing how the U.S. sowed the seeds of its own demise long before the war in Afghanistan ended.

Read their Pulitzer-winning stories here: nyti.ms/3Sm0O2N
May 6, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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A visual analysis shows the U.S. likely bombed a migrant detention center in Yemen on April 28. At least three U.S.-made GBU-39 bombs at the site of the attack, which killed 68 African migrants, according to the Houthis, a militant group that controls northern Yemen.
Video: Visual Analysis Shows U.S. Likely Bombed Yemen Migrant Detention Center
Videos and photos reveal remnants of at least three U.S.-made GBU-39 bombs at the site of an April 28 attack. The strike killed 68 African migrants, according to the Houthis, a militant group that con...
www.nytimes.com
May 3, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Regardless of anything else about the Wisconsin race, it's just a relief to learn that money can't always buy elections
April 2, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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#Serbia: @amnesty.org's revelations show evidence of the abuse of advanced #Pegasus #spyware to target two journalists from investigative media platform BIRN. We strongly condemn these new attacks, which pose a serious threat to journalistic privacy, source protection and media freedom.
Serbia: Spyware attacks on BIRN journalists further deepen press freedom crisis
The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) along with partner organisations of the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) today raise further alarm about ...
europeanjournalists.org
March 28, 2025 at 12:19 PM
About historical protest in Belgrade 15th of March against corruption @crta.bsky.social
March 16, 2025 at 12:33 PM
When your country ends up in Snyder's tweet
About 1/6 of the total population of Serbia protested government malfeasance today. In the US that would be more than fifty million people.
March 16, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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#Voices2025: 15 minutes of silence for the 15 people killed in the tragic incident of Novi Sad. "One word, One fight, Academic Solidarity".
Support to the journalists students, and the press being targeted for their reporting.
#Croatia #Pressfreedom
February 28, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Brilliant move by our friends at the Kyiv Independent — this is exactly how to handle baseless claims that aren’t even worth a full debunking.

kyivindependent.com/who-started-...
Who started the war in Ukraine?
U.S. President Donald Trump claimed on Feb. 18 that Ukraine "should have never started" the war.
kyivindependent.com
February 19, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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"A Swedish court on Tuesday sentenced a 52-year-old woman to 12 years in prison on genocide charges, in the country's first court case over crimes by the Islamic State group against the Yazidi minority."
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
Swedish woman jailed for keeping Yazidi slaves in Syria
A Swedish court on Tuesday sentenced a 52-year-old woman to 12 years in prison on genocide charges, in the country's first court case over crimes by the Islamic State group against the Yazidi minority...
www.france24.com
February 12, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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🚨Lebanon for the first time since May 2022 has both a president & full-fledged government.

PM Nawaf Salam’s gov has inherited a mess:
- post-war reconstruction in the south
- bringing security across all borders
- crucial reforms to fix banks, electricity, and economy
February 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Disappointing news today from Croatia regarding our 2021
@lhreports.bsky.social et. al. Masked Men investigation:

The State Attorney's Office concluded (3+ years later) that there is no reasonable suspicion that the officers "tortured migrants or treated them cruelly"

www.index.hr/vijesti/clan...
DORH o snimkama na kojima policajci s fantomkama tuku migrante: Nema kaznenog djela
ŽUPANIJSKO državno odvjetništvo u Karlovcu zaključilo je nakon dovršetka izvida kako nema osnovane sumnje da su policajci mučili migrante ili okrutno postupali prema njima.
www.index.hr
February 5, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Koliko ćeš nedostajati....
In addition to being a person of prodigious knowledge, humour, and passion, he was also one of the first people to review my first book. vreme.com/kultura/teof...
Teofil Pančić (1965-2025) - Vreme
Preminuo je kolumnista "Vremena" Teofil Pančić
vreme.com
February 4, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Blokada Mosta slobode u Novom Sadu
February 2, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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ICJ president Nawaf Salam is Lebanon’s new prime minister.

He received the majority of votes, with 84 out of 128 MPs endorsing him over incumbent premier Najib Mikati, who received 9.

Hezbollah’s bloc abstained.

Salam flies in to Beirut from the Hague tomorrow.
January 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Emily Bell - Trump, Musk and Zuckerberg have declared war on facts and truth. The pushback must start now www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump, Musk and Zuckerberg have declared war on facts and truth. The pushback must start now | Emily Bell
There is a narrow window. Public media and fair reporting must be supported: the rules must be upheld, says writer and academic Emily Bell
www.theguardian.com
January 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM
♥️
Overheard while walking at the Al-Hamadiyah souk in old Damascus, Syria:

“I heard they finally elected a president in Lebanon.”
January 9, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Dani žalosti posle Titove smrti,
SKC,
novi talas,
Vlada Divljan,
Milan Mladenović,
Jelena Šantić,
9. mart,
Ne računajte na nas na Trgu 1992,
Crni flor,
Makavejev...

Prve fotografije koje će vam izroniti iz sećanja na ove reči biće dela Goranke Matić.
January 5, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Jimmy Carter was the first US president to make human rights a central part of foreign policy, and that was because he listened to Patricia Derian, who pretty much invented US human rights policy.
If he had done nothing else in his life this would still be reason to admire him.
December 29, 2024 at 9:25 PM
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Have a listen to this extraordinary interview with @orwaajjoub.bsky.social who has incredible insight into HTS.
🚨🚨You *really* won't want to miss this.🚨🚨@orwaajjoub.bsky.social is one of a tiny number of people worldwide who actually knows what's going on inside HTS. He spoke to me for this incredible episode of Behind the Lines.
shows.acast.com/behind-the-l...
Inside HTS: what does Al-Jolani want and how will they rule? | Behind The Lines with Arthur Snell
with Orwa Ajjoub
shows.acast.com
December 17, 2024 at 7:43 AM
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“Hours before he escaped for Moscow, Assad assured a meeting of about 30 army and security chiefs at the defence ministry on Saturday that Russian military support was on its way and urged ground forces to hold out.“ Great reporting here.
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Assad's final hours in Syria: Deception, despair and flight
Bashar al-Assad confided in almost no one about his plans to flee Syria as his reign collapsed. Instead, aides, officials and even relatives were deceived or kept in the dark, more than a dozen people with knowledge of the events told Reuters.
www.reuters.com
December 13, 2024 at 6:04 PM
This is heart breaking
The prisoners created this painting and the writings on the walls. It's incredibly painful to see. #Syria
December 13, 2024 at 5:03 PM
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Millions today across Syria are celebrating the downfall of a system that has ruled the people with an Iron fist for decades.

Hama - Assy square now demonstrating an end to that bloody era.
December 13, 2024 at 3:00 PM
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"Journalism schools need to find more ways to collaborate across disciplines in 2025 to expand the skill set journalism students learn beyond reporting and storytelling," @brizzyc.bsky.social writes.
The darkness that democracy dies in is here
"This election was decided in no small part by voters who believed a number of false things about the candidates and the country. The Fourth Estate has failed."
buff.ly
December 13, 2024 at 12:30 AM