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Front covers of The Washington Post + El Universal featuring our collaborative Lighthouse Reports investigation Over a year, we collected & analyzed data on drowning deaths along Texas' stretch of the US/Mexico border on the Rio Grande 1/

Frankly, I feel ashamed publishing this report on a subject journalists have ethically damaged by exploiting detainees for dramatic shots. I hope our ARTE piece this evening reflects balance, preserving the dignity of those tortured without pushing them into more pain.

Hospitals are posting photos of the bodies they have so families can find their loved ones. So much heartbreak. For most families, the answers they have been yearning for never came.

I've seen this in person! So many people out doing this. x.com/RazanIRL/statu…

Die Zeugenschaft über die horrende Folter und den Tod in den Gefängnissen des Assad-Regimes werden vor allem die Angehörigen, aber auch die Weltgemeinschaft noch lange beschäftigen. Auch die EU wird sich mit Fragen der Verantwortung beim Thema #Pushbacks etwa konfrontiert sehen:

Why a rhetoric of a constant "shock-campaign" matters: "The push by some (right-wing) militia groups to help Donald #Trump reflects how one of his signature policy proposals mirrors ideas that once existed solely on the fringes of American politics." nytimes.com/2024/12/11/us/…

Ärzte ohne Grenzen stellt den Betrieb des Rettungsschiffes #GeoBarents ein. Seit 2021 rettete das Schiff über 12.000 Menschen aus Seenot. "Die italienische Gesetzgebung hat es unmöglich gemacht, die Arbeit wie bisher fortzusetzen," schreibt MSF.

Critiquing foreign press is & has always been absolutely legitimate: Syrian journalists kept working & dying through the darkest hours of the war, in one of the deadliest countries for media workers. They should very much be at the forefront of international reporting today.

This is really big:

“I’m a big fan of the blues not because they are sad, they’re not, but because they give us a rhythm to keep moving.” theatlantic.com/books/archive/…

Für die Debatten über die syrischen Geflüchteten in Deutschland helfen ein paar Fakten, hier kompakt zusammengestellt vom Mediendienst Integration. Danke dafür.

Abdul Karim Mustafa, working as Health Promotion Officer with MSF in northwest Syria says, people are not returning to their homes, as they are destroyed:

Israel has normalized the bombing of humanitarian zones in Gaza. Places where it told people they would be safe. haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

It's been two weeks since the Assad regime fell, and in Syria, the scale and pace of the change has been dizzying. Here's a thread of some of our The Washington Post coverage: 🧵

"Meanwhile the father of a two-week-old Palestinian girl has told the BBC how his baby daughter froze to death in a tent in Gaza - the third child in a week to die in similar conditions." x.com/BBCWorld/statu…

„Was die CDU jetzt verspricht, ist nichts anderes als Remigration“, sagt Beckamp auf der Bühne (…). Schon wieder eine wichtige Recherche von #correctiv correctiv.org/aktuelles/neue…

Eines der berührendsten Interviews, die ich je gelesen habe. Wie man die Hölle überlebt. Weshalb ein Christ und Pazifist zur Waffe greift. Was in der Ukraine auf dem Spiel steht. Und weshalb es falsch ist, sie zu einem "Frieden" um jeden Preis zu drängen. zeit.de/2025/01/maksym…

"The witnesses, who included two people from Syria, two from Egypt and two from Sudan, said five women and three children were among those who fell overboard. They said the sea was rough and the winds strong. The seventh survivor was an eight-year-old boy from Syria."

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