An anti-slavery campaigner from Northern Ireland has returned his OBE over the government's Rwanda scheme bbc.in/3xPv6E0

Whether there was a large 🇮🇱 attack or not isn’t particularly relevant - important is that 🇮🇷 is playing down the reports. Key now is to break the dangerous cycle of escalation.

A good example of misinformation in real time. This is just a basic map of known Iranian nuclear facilities -- there is no suggestion, none, that all these places have been struck today.

I think most people on here just repeat videos/news from the same three-five IRGC/KH/AAH-run Telegram channels. That's a lot of real OSINT people, the fake OSINT types, and actual analysts. In a way, it's a messaging win for Iran. They've centralized the sources.

Can anyone be confident that Israel and Iran share the similar perceptions of proportionality and escalation here? Seems to be some very dangerous politics at play in both countries -- are Bibi, Israeli public, the IDF + IC on the same page? The IRGC and Khamenei?

I wouldn't fancy being on this Dubai-Moscow flight flightradar24.com/SBI3774/34d5d7…

Kind of baffling to watch Australian police lament (rampant) misinformation about the Sydney church stabbing, tell people to listen only to information from police and then to provide next to no information.

BREAKING: US vetoes Security Council resolution on Palestine's UN membership bid.

12 votes in favor, 1 vote against, 2 abstained.

Great to welcome 🇦🇷 Defence Minister @LuisPetri to #NATO HQ.
 
#Argentina plays an important role in Latin America, and I welcome today’s request to explore becoming a NATO partner.

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Northern Ireland has plenty of real problems, no need to invent imaginary one — unless, of course, your political survival depends on radicalising and dividing people. This game is has been going on too long, long past boring.

TikTok’s Origin Story: Court Files Show Role of GOP Megadonor Jeff Yass - huge scoop by ⁦Mara Hvistendahl⁩ ⁦Lauren Hirsch⁩ nytimes.com/2024/04/18/bus…

'You are my son': stabbed Sydney bishop forgives attacker AFP News Agency scmp.com/news/asia/aust…

Solomons' PM contender vows to abolish China security pact AFP News Agency barrons.com/news/solomons-…

NATO and Taiwan – what would a conflict actually mean for the Alliance?
James Lee* looked at it for us.

See latest NDC latest publication:

ndc.nato.int/news/news.php?…

#Research #Engagement

*Assistant Research Fellow, Institute European & American Studies, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

I tell AFP News Agency that UN SRSG Bathily's departure comes at an undeniable inflection point whereby the veneer of stability that prevailed in #Libya over the past couple of years is vanishing.

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US reimposes oil sanctions on Venezuela as hopes for a fair presidential election fades (from The Associated Press) By ⁦The Associated Pressjoshgoodman⁩ & ⁦Regina Garcia Cano⁩ apnews.com/article/17589a…

The definition of win-win.

UNRWA staff detained by Israel said they had been 'beaten, threatened, stripped, humiliated and abused.' 'During interrogations, they were pressured to say that UNRWA had affiliations with Hamas and that its staff members took part in the Oct. 7 attack.' nytimes.com/2024/04/17/wor…

Oh for the days when these wines were easy to find and affordable. T’Voetpad c2013 was fantastic.

The Great Barrier Reed is dying at a clip. Can Australia and the world make it great again? AFP News Agency
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