Alexandra Byers (@alexandra_byers) 's Twitter Profile
Alexandra Byers

@alexandra_byers

@AJEnglish | ex @CBCNews reporter | previously Toronto, Kampala, Whitehorse

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linkhttp://www.alexandrabyers.com calendar_today25-08-2011 18:42:54

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Meaghan (@meaghaneld) 's Twitter Profile Photo

One of my favourite kids was on the news tonight in Toronto and I have officially died. I’m dead. The name plate alone. Gold.

Emily Fishbein (@emilyfishbein11) 's Twitter Profile Photo

THREAD For the past 2 months I have been working with The Guardian's Rights and Freedom project on this Reporting #Myanmar series. It seeks to highlight diverse and underrepresented voices from across the country. I will be posting the pieces to this thread theguardian.com/global-develop…

THREAD For the past 2 months I have been working with <a href="/guardian/">The Guardian</a>'s Rights and Freedom project on this Reporting #Myanmar series. It seeks to highlight diverse and underrepresented voices from across the country. I will be posting the pieces to this thread 
theguardian.com/global-develop…
Colin Baker (@airlockben) 's Twitter Profile Photo

#astrophotographers are seeing amazing things from their backyards. The podcast version of the story is up. ⁦Stacey 🌻⁩ ⁦@leftyastro⁩ ⁦Loran Hughes 🪐 Westwood Astro 🔭⁩ ⁦@JP_Metsavainio⁩ and #AjithEverester ⁦AstroBin.com⁩. ⁦Al Jazeera English⁩ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aj-…

Al Jazeera English (@ajenglish) 's Twitter Profile Photo

natacha butler An Al Jazeera team was able to enter the devastated city of Kharkiv in Ukraine after Russia announced a pause in fighting to allow people to leave. Reporter Charles Stratford was shocked by what he saw ⤵️

Gregg Carlstrom (@glcarlstrom) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Researchers from B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم found the spot where this clip was filmed: 300 meters away and with no line of sight to the place where Shireen was killed. Unless Palestinian bullets can turn corners and climb stairs, this video has nothing to do with her death x.com/btselem/status…

Simon Robson (@simonjrobson) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Audible gasps and cries in the newsroom as Israeli riot police beat mourners so heavily they dropped Shireen Abu Akleh’s coffin. Unbelievable.

Harry Fawcett (@harryjfawcett) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This brought me to tears, finally. Demeaned and harassed even in her coffin. One of the starkest demonstrations I've seen of the denial of Palestinian dignity under occupation.

Barak Ravid (@barakravid) 's Twitter Profile Photo

BREAKING: U.S. officials conveyed to the Israeli government a protest about the actions of the Israeli police during the funeral of Shireen Abu Akleh, U.S. & Israeli sources tell me. The sources said there is anger and frustration among Biden administration official over this

Simon Robson (@simonjrobson) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“Others are punished with up to a decade in prison for not using their devices enough, with well over a hundred instances of ‘phone has run out of credit’ being listed as a sign that the user is trying to evade the constant digital surveillance.” bbc.co.uk/news/extra/85q…

Nilesh Christopher (@nilchristopher) 's Twitter Profile Photo

In May, I traveled to Sri Lanka to meet WatchDog — a small group of factcheckers countering state propaganda & unpacking the truth of the ongoing crisis using public data & open-source research Meet Sri Lanka's answer to Bellingcat — for Rest of World restofworld.org/2022/meet-the-…

The New York Times (@nytimes) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The Congo River has become a highway for sprawling fleets of logs. Crews live aboard rafts for a sliver of profit from the dismantling of the Congo Basin rainforest, which is vital as a defense against climate change. nyti.ms/3HvuynB

The Congo River has become a highway for sprawling fleets of logs. Crews live aboard rafts for a sliver of profit from the dismantling of the Congo Basin rainforest, which is vital as a defense against climate change. nyti.ms/3HvuynB