花曇りの空の下、満開に咲き誇ったサクラも、今朝は風に乗ってひらひらと舞い散る様子が見られました。名残り惜しさと共に、季節の進みが感じられます。 どうぞお早目のご来園を心よりお待ちしております。 #小石川後楽園 #サクラ #日本庭園 #文京区

I'm heading to Belgrade for AFP News Agency very soon, so a VJ job in Sydney is open: bit.ly/4i9eGb2! If you know how to shoot, edit and chase a good story, it's one of the best gigs in the world. 👀⬇️ just some of my stories in the region

Unbelievable. Crossing fingers and toes.

Thailand is Praying for a Songkran Miracle A previous sign of life in Zone B of the collapsed State Audit Office was detected around 9 a.m., when a light source appeared to respond to prompts from the rescue team. Using ground-penetrating radar, rescuers located two victims.

This was the most powerful moment I’ve experienced in 40 years of journalism. elpasomatters.org/2025/04/22/vic…

Time to get my 1-year-old to chip in for his costs.

Indonesia's military is leading a push to plant vast tracts of rice and sugar cane for food and energy security. The push risks mass deforestation and rights violations, activists and environmentalists told AFP News Agency: msn.com/en-us/news/wor…

Nguyen Thi Kim's small verdant community in northern Vietnam no longer exists, wiped away in a landslide triggered by Typhoon Yagi's devastating heavy rains last year. ebx.sh/At8vf5

After serving more than 130 million total meals and 26 million loaves of bread over the past 18 months, World Central Kitchen no longer has the supplies to cook meals or bake bread in Gaza. #ChefsForGaza (1/5)

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It turns out that if you don't allow any food to enter a place for two-and-a-half months, people in that place will start to starve. Who knew? nytimes.com/2025/05/13/wor…

What kind of person wants to buy a baby orangutan? Hope this wider investigation tracks down them down and deals with them appropriately (though I don't hold out much hope): france24.com/en/live-news/2…

Peak parent-professional crossover moment explaining carbon credits to son number 1, age 9, as a 'licence to fart'. Meet them where they are 😂

#UPDATE Israeli forces fired warning shots on Wednesday as foreign diplomats visited the occupied West Bank, the military said, apologising for the incident after the Palestinian Authority accused troops of "deliberately" shooting at the delegation ➡️ u.afp.com/ScjZ

brb uncontrollably sobbing

bbc.com/news/articles/… In an interview recorded by AFP news agency, relative Youssef al-Najjar said: "Enough! Have mercy on us! We plead to all countries, the international community, the people, Hamas, and all factions to have mercy on us."

"I'm talking about 4,000 frozen embryos. These are not just numbers, they're people's dreams." bbc.com/news/articles/…

Proud to have played a small part in steering this excellent work by Jack Moore Bagus BT. Saragih and 千葉康由 Yasuyoshi Chiba documenting the cost of our global need for nickel -- disappearing forest and with it a way of life for Indonesia's Hongana Manyawa people.

Astonishing to watch this happen in front of our very eyes. Gaza literally being erased.

A great new initiative to help young birders rediscover lost species! ornis-birding.com/grants An opportunity anyone should jump at if they think they think they can find one of these lost species! I'm particularly fascinated by the Irrawaddy Broadbill (but access 😓)