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People are not happy with Ivanka's tweet tonight in a silver dress. Here's one response
#noban
#MuslimBan
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With at least 3 officers on him, and another pressing a knee to his head and neck, Muhammad Muhaymin cried out “I can't breathe”. “Please, Allah,” he begged. “Allah? He's not going to help you now,” an officer said, moments before he died in 2017
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@LinaAlhathloul
said in a statement after the verdict:
“My sister is not a terrorist, she is an activist. To be sentenced for her activism for the very reforms that MBS and the Saudi kingdom so proudly tout is the ultimate hypocrisy"
Loujain al-Hathloul's continued imprisonment was likely to be a point of contention in relations between the kingdom and the incoming presidency of Joe Biden, whose inauguration takes place 2 months before what is now expected to be her release
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Israel says there are vibrant markets selling food in the north of Gaza.
This work for NPR by Omar Al-Qataa in northern Gaza shows and reports what that actually looks like and the families struggling to stave off hunger
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Her longtime activism landed
@LoujainHathloul
multiple human rights awards and spreads in magazines like Vanity Fair in a photo shoot next to Meghan Markle, who would later become the Duchess of Sussex. She was also a Nobel Peace Prize nominee.
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First day
@NPR
as Mideast correspondent!
Honored and excited to join the tiny, but mighty Mideast team of
@Rsherlock
&
@DanielEstrin
led by
@larrykaplow
I'll be doing radio, podcasts, writing for the web and social media
Download the NPR One app now! Yalla, now.
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In summary, this Saudi female says: "You can't ask me to wear the abaya and dress conservative to a concert where you're bringing Nicki Minaj and all her vulgarity and her songs about shaking her ass. What the f---"
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American doctors are in Gaza - but their sedatives aren't strong enough for surgeries. People "wait for death":
"I never saw the situation we saw in Gaza... many, many of them are children"
One is a 7 yr old w/ burns on 80% of body
By
@janearraf
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The
@AP
lost an incredible freelance visual journalist in Libya this weekend who was in a patrol that came under fire. His body of work braves the depths of storytelling, like his photo of a love letter washed up with a Syrian woman swallowed by the sea.
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Leading Saudi women's activist referred to terrorism court
The referral of Loujain al-Hathloul’s case to the Specialized Criminal Court is a setback for efforts to push for her swift release and means she faces charges of terrorism and national security.
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The front page of the NYTimes website this morning has a major takeout on the UAE, and specifically Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed and how he's influencing Trump's Mideast policies. By
@ddknyt
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Palestinian Health Minister said the Israeli military fired tear gas at the pediatric ward of a hospital, causing children to choke.
Paramedics were struggling to reach the wounded amid the fighting. At least 9 Palestinians killed today.
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Another study by Georgia State University found that out of 136 terror attacks in the U.S. over a span of 10 years, Muslims committed on average 12.5 percent of the attacks, yet received more than half of the news coverage.
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Saudi source tells me there was no coordination whatsoever between Washington and Gulf Arab allies about Trump’s plan to target Soleimani.
The Saudis are now outright calling for de-escalation, as are the UAE and Qatar
Saudi Arabia + UAE vulnerable to asymmetric counterattacks
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Smotrich threatens to turn several West Bank cities to rubble like Gaza
His role as finance minister means he oversees budgets, like police and army.
His far-right coalition's keeping Netanyahy in power.
He's also a settler and approves land tranfers in West Bank
אני מסיים סיור עם ראשי הרשויות בקו התפר.
המסר שלנו לשכנים מעבר לגדר, בטולכרם, נור א-שאמס, שוויקה וקלקיליה,
אנחנו נהפוך אתכם לעיי חורבות כמו ברצועת עזה אם הטרור שאתם מפעילים על היישובים יימשך. הטרור על אזרחי ישראל חייב להיפסק.
המסר לאזרחי ישראל הוא שאם חלילה תקום מדינה פלסטינית,
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Horrifying images and stories from smuggled phones.
Investigation: African migrants 'left to die' in Saudi Arabia’s hellish Covid detention centres
The Sunday Telegraph was able to geolocate two of the centres, one near Mecca and one in Jizan.
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Indian business ties underpin muted Arab response to Kashmir
My story on how $104 billion in trade ties, millions of laborers, ties with Pakistan and rivalry with Turkey and Iran are impacting Gulf response to
#Kashmir
With
@HTAlhasan
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Muslim women launch campaign today on Twitter in response to
#Trump
comments against Khan's mom
#CanYouHearUsNow
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I have never seen a letter like this before, signed by a range of journalists who are well aware of how explosive this is personally and professionally
“From journalists, to journalists: Why reporting on Palestine has to change.”
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Huge respect goes out to
@hossambahgat
and any journalist trying to investigate and publish their findings in Arabic. If journalism is risky for us writing in English, you only need to imagine the courage and threat it takes on in Arabic
Editor’s Pick: Best Investigative Journalism in Arabic 2018 includes
@hossambahgat
's story on the true ownership of
#Egypt
’s largest importer & reseller of Israeli gas. Majority shareholder is the Egyptian General Intelligence Agency which takes 80% profit
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For Romal Ahmadi, whose three children aged 2-7 years were killed in the US strike, the days are a blur of depression and pain.
“America is a superpower… We are powerless… so we leave it to God to punish them”
By
@Kathygannon
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AP Exclusive: Chinese woman says she was held for 8 days at a Chinese-run secret detention facility in *Dubai* along with at least two Muslim Uyghurs, in what may be the first evidence that China is operating a so-called “black site” beyond its borders
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This is a massive loss for
#Gaza
Motaz videos and witness accounts reached far corners of the world
He's the latest journalist to leave Gaza following Plestia and Wael Dahdouh, and so many others
So,
I had to evacuate for a lot of reasons you all know some of it but not all of it.
Thank you all
Pray for Gaza.
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I wrote a story that’s super underreported, vitally important and little known: US rabbis and Christian evangelicals are seeking stronger recognition of Israel through closer ties with interfaith Muslim figures and Arab leaders.
Here’s how:
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No longer silent, Gulf Arab citizens express anger at Israel and challenge official narratives around normalization
With insights and voices from
@Abdulkhaleq_UAE
@miraalhussein
@bmalsaif
@MadawiDr
@kdiwaniya
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One of the female Saudi activists detained was subjected to kissing, groping and electrocution. Another woman was forced to kiss a male detainee as captors watched. They made threats of rape and murder.
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Guys, I love Cairo. It's unscripted, vibrant, messy and constantly improvising.
With that, here's a sound postcard, brimming with the sound of Ramadan there.
Enjoy!
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A rundown of other
#Saudi
writers who've disappeared
Reporters Without Borders calls for an independent international investigation into the fate of Jamal
#Khashoggi
- who is not the first Saudi journalist to disappear.
#SaudiArabia
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400 elephants
2,000 impalas
70 giraffes
50 buffaloes
50 wildebeest
50 zebras
50 elands
10 lions
10 wild dogs
These are some of the animals being moved 400 miles across Zimbabwe to survive threats of drought and poachers
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Now that the
#RoyalWedding
is over, the ordeal for detained Saudi women driving campaigners has only just begun. They're being branded traitors just weeks before women are allowed to drive on June 24 (from
@AP
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US says this IS NOT the major operation in Rafah they'd warned against without a plan first for civilians
Israel says it IS:
"This is the beginning of our mission to take out the last four Hamas brigades in
#Rafah
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A report out today in a state-sanctioned Saudi paper describes
@monaeltahawy
in a supposed profile as the “licentious activist with red hair” who assisted Saudi runaway Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun: محليات/ناشطة-إباحية-تحتضن-رهف-في-كندا
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Finally, a smart show. Cambridge Muslim scholar
@MoezMasoud
debates and engages philosophers on existential issues
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NYPD releases photos of the Saudi sisters found taped and dead on the Hudson River. Anyone who knows them?
While we continue the expansive investigation into the deaths of sisters Tala & Rotana Farea—whose bodies were found on Oct 24 at the edge of the Hudson River in Manhattan—we urge anyone w/ info to call CrimeStoppers 800-577-TIPS
@NYPDTIPS
Did you know them? Meet them? See them?
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A brother pulls his sister, too weak and emaciated to walk
These are people fleeing tanks and airstrikes on Khan Younis on Monday
More than 70 Palestinians were killed there, two dozen of them children
Israel says it's targeting Hamas infrastructure
Via
@Channel4News
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History textbooks ignore it, and most museums don’t acknowledge it. The reason: Red Summer contradicts the post-World War I-era notion that America was making the world safe for democracy, historians say.
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And here's a detailed profile on each of the 10 arrested
#Saudi
women's rights activists and how some became icons of a wider human rights movement in the kingdom. Know their names because each is accomplished in their own right.
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Nearly a dozen Saudi women’s rights activists seated before a three-judge panel in a Riyadh courtroom Wednesday laid out their defense and spoke of physical and sexual abuse they endured by masked men
story also quotes
@WalidAlhathloul
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AP Photographer
@EbrahimNoroozi1
's work in Afghanistan is simply poetic
The eye of his camera captures and amplifies the humanity of the unseen and unheard
Here's his latest:
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A father, a sister, a son: Beirut blast takes a heavy toll
I teamed up with
@seldeeb
for this humanizing look at three people: Who they were, how they lived, how much they are loved and who they leave behind
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The sons of former President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, Alaa and Gamal Mubarak, held a total of six accounts at various points, including one in 2003 that was worth $196 million
King Abdullah II of Jordan had six accounts, including one with $224 million
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Even from behind bars, she launched hunger strikes to protest imprisonment and joined other activists in telling judges she was tortured and sexually assaulted by masked men during interrogations.
She rejected an offer to rescind the allegations in exchange for early release.
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I'm in government controlled Syria with UAE aid workers. I've had a rare look at life in the villages and towns off dirt roads in the countryside
I spoke with
@arishapiro
about what I saw and heard from people here
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Israeli forces shoot dead 12-year-old Palestinian who set off firework in Jerusalem
"He was fasting and he broke his fast and he went out afterwards and he was playing with the other kids. It is Ramadan, they set off fireworks. They were playing."
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Events at Sudan airbase raise questions:
1- How Egypt got its forces out of airbase
2- Why elite units and jets were there despite intel RSF was encircling
3- Is Egypt being draw in, or already drawn into this conflict
4- Can Sudan avoid proxy battle
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AP:Ukraine nuclear regulator detects higher than usual gamma radiation near Chernobyl plant after
Russian military seizure
Says disturbance of the topsoil from movement of large amount of heavy military equipment in the area released contaminated radioactive dust into the air
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Japan's Abe met Saudi king, crown prince. Security of Persian Gulf is a priority for Japan, which imports nearly 90% of its oil from the Mideast. Japan plans to deploy naval forces, a destroyer and two patrol airplanes to help protect its energy supplies
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NPR women leading the
#Gaza
#Israel
coverage today- anchored from DC by
@NPRMichel
@Rsherlock
on Gaza hospital blast, talks to a doctor
@michelekelemen
from Amman on Biden's visit to Israel
@janearraf
on Arab street
Listen here 👇
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My first
@NPR
hit aired.
Here's how it came together:
- I was set up to excel by editor
@larrykaplow
and NPR sage
@_gregdixon
-
@LeilaFadel
, from pitch to execution, was my North Star
Bonus:
- There's no shortage of fun
- Each step inclusive and centered on public service
NPR’s new Dubai-based correspondent
@ayaelb
discusses Qatar and the World Cup. It’s the first time you get to hear her on the air and I got to do the interview!
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Activists are telling me 8 more people, including 2 dual U.S.-Saudi citizens, detained in new round of Saudi arrests targeting individuals supportive of women’s rights. It marks the first sweep to target individuals perceived as critics of MBS since Khashoggi's killing.
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My latest: Across Gulf countries, workers on the front lines are uniquely almost entirely foreigners, whether in a hospital in Saudi Arabia, an isolation ward in Kuwait or a grocery store in UAE
With
@amnahe
+ Najeeba Hayat on COVID-19 in Kuwait
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This appears to show the convicted pedophile who served time in a Czech prison and was kicked out of the country, who later lobbied White House against Qatar and secured $1 billion in private deals for his efforts, sharing an embrace with
#Saudi
Arabia's crown prince
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NPR reporters in West Bank:
We say we don't want to leave without him. "Can one of our Israeli friends stay here?" we ask. The soldiers refuse, and a gun is raised. It points straight at us –
...
"This is an old thing that we are seeing in a new way... Their aim, is the land"
Israeli soldiers pointed guns at NPR reporters. It detained, questioned + mocked their interviewee, a Palestinian farmer. The farmer was showing NPR his land, which the IDF won't let him access, causing him to lose income he earns from selling olives.
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"Wall Street titans praised the local (Saudi) economy on stage, signed lucrative deals and walked away without committing any of their own capital. Speaks volumes," said a senior banker in the Gulf.
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Starving babies too weak to cry
At least 1 million people in Somalia have been displaced by the driest drought in decades, driven by climate change
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Loujain al-Hathloul's continued imprisonment was likely to be a point of contention in relations between the kingdom and the incoming presidency of Joe Biden, whose inauguration takes place 2 months before what is now expected to be her release
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“The main problem in
#Afghanistan
is not hunger. The main problem is the lack of cash to pay salaries to deliver social services which have existed before,”
@ICRC
President
@PMaurerICRC
told The Associated Press.
Full report here:
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The story of the Nassirs and the toll of 4 wars *is Gaza's story*
A masterful project by
@AP
reporters, photographers, editors, graphics team and much more
@faresakram
@felipedana
@adgeller
@helenwieffering
@MarjorieJMiller
Do take your time with this:
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24 hour curfew in Dubai.
Here’s a video of drones disinfecting city against Covid-19
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Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza:
7703 Palestinians killed in 3 weeks of Israeli bombardment
*At least 3195 children
*At least 1863 women
Communication with
#Gaza
severed since last night
The wounded and trapped under the rubble cannot call paramedics
Palestinian mother holds her little child killed in the lsraeli air attacks on Gaza.
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NPR Scoop:
Israel used U.S.-made bomb in
@UNRWA
school strike in Gaza, killing more than 30 people
This is the same Boeing munition that killed at least 45 people in tents in Rafah
@DanielEstrin
reports experts say bomb was used improperly
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They thought the IS leader tweets in English in a beret and describes himself as 'Arab Spring activist' born in UAE?
I can also suggest a few journalism 101 courses to your social media staff.
@republikaonline
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"This is really deep reporting, deep research and deep analysis that’s scholarly driven but written at a level that everyone can understand,"
@debofficially
." Everybody is invited to this conversation."
By
@philmarcelo
The Emancipator newspaper was established in 1820 to push for the abolition of slavery. Two centuries later, it's being revived in digital form to confront the racism that still stains America.
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Also at
#UNGA
today, Qatar's emir calls bluntly for world leaders not to boycott Taliban and warns if they do there will "polarization and reactions"
My report here:
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"It's a life of incredible suffering" -
@MSF
emergency coordinator after 5 weeks in Gaza's hospitals
@MarieAureP
describes some of what she saw
Have a listen to what she told me about children in
#Gaza
today
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Her siblings
@LinaAlhathloul
@alia_ww
@WalidAlhathloul
explain the latest regarding Loujain al-Hathloul's case, which has drawn international attention to the wider crackdown on rights activists and perceived critics in Saudi Arabia
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My latest: Is it terrorism? Post NZ attack, Muslims see double standard
For too long terror attacks have been depicted as a uniquely Muslim problem, say
@DMogahed
@ColinPClarke
@mehdirhasan
@DawudWalid
@CAIRNational
@ADL
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An Emirati official told AXIOS:
UAE's foreign minister told the PA - in front of Arab ministers and Blinken - that if the Palestinian Authority paid as much attention to its own people as it does to security coordination with Israel the Palestinians will be in better shape
💥Scoop: "Ali Baba and the 40 thieves": Emirati-Palestinian shouting match blew up Blinken meeting. My story on
@axios
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He was at home, minding the couple’s 5 children while April was at work at Healing Hands day spa, when he sent her a text. He had to rush to base.
Then she got another text: “We’re leaving tomorrow.”
By
@StorytellerSBM
@JonathanLDrew
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I wrote for the AP about how Oman's new ruler Sultan Haitham vowed to uphold his predecessor's foreign policy approach, which steered the Arab country through choppy Persian Gulf waters by balancing close relations with both the United States and Iran.
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This, here, is AP at its best.
The writing by
@anthonyted
, the video and the photos are worth every minute of your time today.
Take a ride, literally, with two of AP's best photographers as they show you NYC
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The high-rise building in Gaza where AP’s team of brave journalists worked for 15 years was bombed by Israeli forces within an hour’s notice during the war with Hamas.
AP now notes “Israel’s support for our efforts to rebuild the bureau.”
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Listen to the sounds of life and death in
#Gaza
My latest piece for NPR from Jerusalem with producer Anas Baba in Gaza.
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Good morning from Jeddah
#ArabLeagueSummit
Yeah, usually these things are stuffy and staid. But this year, a regional realign led by Saudi Arabia is shaking things up
Follow here for updates, surprises and analysis 👇🏽
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Israeli-American
@JoelCRosenberg
: Saudi Amb. Princess Reema bint Bandar hosted dinner at her residence in northern Virginia on Monday night for eight Evangelical leaders. We covered a wide range of issues over the course of our three hours together
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I wrote today about how the US pavilion at Expo 2020 in Dubai is being paid for by UAE.
The UAE's sponsorship, estimated at $60M, raises questions, such as why American businesses are not paying directly to participate under the umbrella of the US
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For an uplifting story today, please read about this jobless Filipino woman in Dubai cooking free food for hundreds each day. Her story here:👇👇👇
ONE GOOD THING: A Filipina mother feeds other jobless migrants in Dubai, cooking up a storm and using her children’s wagon to deliver the meals each day in the sweltering heat, with the help of family and friends.
By
@ayaelb
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They risked their lives to tell the story of their country at war, witnessing untold horrors
Their journalism documented the Russian siege, including an attack on a maternity hospital that killed a pregnant woman and her baby before delivery
A team of Ukrainian journalists working for
@AP
will receive the
@ICFJKnight
International Journalism Award for their outstanding work under great stress.
@mstyslav9
,
@EMaloletka
&
@VasilisaUKR
stayed in Mariupol as bombs rained down on the city, showing the 🌍 what was happening
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At the start of his comments at the Riyadh forum, the Saudi crown prince said Khashoggi's killing was " very upsetting", "ugly" and "unjustifiable." But he also said there were many people trying to manipulate the situation to create cracks between Saudi and Turkey.
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No phone calls, no groceries and news dispatches hand-carried out: Kashmir on edge under lockdown
At the Shri Maharaja Hari Singh hospital in Srinagar, doctors told
@AP
on at least 50 people had come in with wounds from pellet guns and rubber bullets
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Good morning from Jeddah
#ArabLeagueSummit
Yeah, usually these things are stuffy and staid. But this year, a regional realign led by Saudi Arabia is shaking things up
Follow here for updates, surprises and analysis 👇🏽
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By the AP’s chief correspondent
@Kathygannon
- who’s been covering this war, not as a steppingstone in her career, but as her career.
Pls read if you have time. My look at Afghanistan after 17 years. After 17 years, many Afghans blame US for unending war (from
@AP
) by
@Kathygannon
@SIGARHQ
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