Some sound suggestions here on how to better map Myanmar's conflict, but the bigger problem is how it's framed as a conventional war, with clear 'front lines' and sharply demarcated territory. The country's asymmetric conflict is hard to render in 2-D.
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🔺 EXCLUSIVE: One of the most senior special forces officers in the British Army broke ranks and reported to police that SAS soldiers under his command committed war crimes by murdering prisoners in Afghanistan thetimes.co.uk/article/sas-mu…

Rarely have I seen Mukul Kesavan express his anger so clearly in print. But the current Western line on Palestine and Gaza has done this to him, as it has to many others.

🗞️Friends, some news: On World Press Freedom Day, excited to share that I'm starting The Plank—a new magazine to help our readers become better citizens.

Here is our manifesto/pitch call: theplank.co/pitch-call

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2 weeks ago, we reported on a deadly strike in Gaza. The harrowing image of children's bodies splayed around a foosball table impossible to forget.
A CNN analysis of evidence recovered and documented at the scene of the strike now points to the likely cause: a precision-guided…

Average autowala bhaiya from Delhi who eats 100 Galgotia graduates for breakfast.

On its official Instagram account, the BJP repeats the divisive Islamophobic misinformation from Prime Minister Modi’s April 21st speech in Banswara, Rajasthan despite being in the midst of responding to a notice from the Election Commission asking them to explain these comments.

Stunning documentary from #BBCEye on the disappearance and killing of 16-year-old Nika Shakharami by Iranian security forces. We investigated her final hours in this 2022 report: edition.cnn.com/2022/10/27/mid…

New: Bellingcat and Scripps News followed one IDF battalion’s movements across Gaza, geolocating their social posts to highlight IDF involvement in systematic destruction of Palestinian land and livelihoods: bellingcat.com/news/2024/04/2…

'White House officials warned Modi govt this month The Post was close to publishing an investigation that would reveal new details about the case (assassination plot on US soil). It did so without notifying The Post.' Greg Miller Gerry Shih Ellen Nakashima
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Exclusive🧵:

Egyptian authorities are conducting mass deportations of thousands of Sudanese refugees fleeing a war zone and one of the world’s worst humanitarian emergencies.

The New Humanitarian and the Refugees Platform in Egypt (Refugees Platform in Egypt - منصة اللاجئين في مصر) have been investigating the…

we mapped tents in Rafah by applying machine learning to high resolution satellite imagery from Planet. we also show damaged buildings from analysis done by corey scher and Jamon Van Den Hoek. 🛰️

read here 🎁: bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-…

a small thread with some model specifics 🧵

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Exclusive: New evidence challenges the Pentagon’s account of a horrific attack as the US withdrew from Afghanistan

'Women work for 8 hours in homes, for which no govt pays them'.
Rahul Gandhi is probably the first Indian politician to talk about unpaid labour of women in households. Obviously, TV media won't cover this.

Incredibly grim footage from the widespread recent burnings in Buthidaung (ဘူးသီးတောင်), Myanmar's Rakhine State. According to FIRMS fire data, the severity of these fires were between April 13 and 16. Source: t.me/aainfodesk/864

Promising growth, overlook the other stuff— US chamber and many in DC said the same about China 1996-2016. Then DC came to a realization and had a change of heart.

(And JPM settled for $264M with the DoJ for hiring children of CCP officials in exchange for business)

We were also told my election accreditation would not come through because of an Indian Ministry directive. We left on day one of voting in the national election in what Modi calls 'the mother of democracy”.

Hear more on our podcast Looking for Modi: open.spotify.com/episode/2Dltjf…

Excellent investigation from Dake Kang and Maria Cheng

Violation of multiple criminal laws on hate speech by the Prime Minister. Also election law. Where is the Election Commission of India ??

What does Rahul Gandhi want? What is his plan to defeat the BJP's vision of India?

Turns out it isn't to be prime minister itself. He has told his colleagues he has 'one foot in and one foot out of the party,' as I found out earlier this year. [1]

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