And this, ladies and gentlemen, is all you need to know —-> Drinking tea may be linked to lower risk of death, study suggests
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Virginia M. Moncrieff
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Humanitarian worker: accountability to refugees. Currently Ukraine response. Tea drinker. Bunnies supporter. Gooner girl.
Joined February 2009
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This is great --> 'Pre-bunking' shows promise in fight against misinformation #commisaid phys.org/news/2022-08-p via
This is a really good primer ---- don't ignore!
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Key events in the war in northern Ethiopia reuters.com/world/africa/k
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Something worth looking at on Downing Street
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Here's @Number10cat posing with Ukrainian Independence Day decorations (which is on the 24th) showing solidarity with 
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#Syria denies holding #American journalist and former U.S. #Marine Austin Tice allarab.news/syria-denies-h
Seriously, if anyone can prove that #Qantas is not the most shit airline ever, I'll eat my hat. Alan Joyce has a lot to answer for.
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Never ending. Poor, poor Afghanistan.
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Deadly blast in Afghanistan rips through crowded Kabul mosque bbc.in/3K1cmn8
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“Many people have lost their sense of safety, their ability to express themselves. They’ve lost their voice — any feeling that they could be part of building a country that looks the way they want it to.”
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Sacrilege! Treason! Arrest the miscreants! ——>>> Mural of Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis painted over with advert
An extraordinary story----》》》》 Muslim Killings in Albuquerque Stir Sectarian Ghosts
you see now, we had to stop him from swearing himself in as Australian of the Year for 2022
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“It has been a year that the Taliban regime shut the doors of schools on us”, says a student from Afghanistan.
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US Restores Backchannels With Syria Over Missing American Journalist
The Syrian government denies that it detained Austin Tice, who has been missing for 10 years after being kidnapped in Syria
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@DecampDave #Syria #AustinTice
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Well, this makes me and about 3 million others feel just great. -----... Romania Gives Moldova Million Pills Against Nuclear Radioactivity
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This is unmatched courage,in the face of unmatched cowardice.The silence of the international community about the persistent civic resistance of Afg women has been unmatched too I must say.Can EU,US&UN envoys tell us how has their engagement with the Taliban helped these women?
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Taliban Rewind the Clock: ‘A Woman Is a Helpless and Powerless Creature’
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Ten years later: Austin Tice's family seeks answers about his disappearance washex.am/3C0WYVV
President Joe Biden said Wednesday the U.S. is certain that the Syrian government is holding American journalist Austin Tice, who went missing in the war-torn country a decade ago.
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American journalist Austin Tice has spent a decade in captivity in Syria. I am committed to bringing home all U.S. hostages and wrongful detainees abroad and will continue to pursue the release of Austin and other U.S. hostages in Syria.
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BBC News - Austin Tice: US says reporter missing since 2012 held in Syria #FreeAustinTice
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Raymond Briggs: The Snowman illustrator dies at 88 ——>>> oh dear. How I loved his gentle, beautiful books.
still one of the funniest videos on the internet
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Inside a TV news station determined to report facts in the Taliban's Afghanistan :
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Zionism is incompatible with Judaism. The point of fasting today because of destructions and losses and trauma our ancestors suffered is to PREVENT us from doing the same to others. Instead the "Jewish" state uses the day to destroy and steal and traumatize Palestinians.
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10 year-old Haneen Abu Qaida has become the sixteenth child to be killed across Israel's 72 hour killing spree in Gaza.
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43 people were killed by Israel in Gaza, including 15 children and four women, and more than 300 were injured.
15 kids. Born into a brutal blockade. Their lives defined by wars, bombardment, trauma, fear, poverty, isolation, and dehumanization by the rest of the world.
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Love these reads----》》 How the C.I.A. Tracked the Leader of Al Qaeda
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This is good analysis---》》 Zawahiri appeared on his balcony. The CIA was watching — and ready to kill him.
For the Taliban, a New Era of Isolation Has Arrived
Today’s speech from #Garma by marks a momentous occasion in our nation’s history. The draft referendum question & amendment is the culmination of comprehensive work led by the & Uluru Dialogue since the #UluruStatement was first issued #auspol
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“The #Myanmar junta’s execution of four men was an act of utter cruelty. These executions, including of activist Ko Jimmy and opposition lawmaker Phyo Zeya Thaw, followed grossly unjust and politically motivated military trials" said today. #WhatsHappeninginMyanmar #Burma
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The junta's execution of 4 pro-democracy activists in #Burma is a grievous violation of intl. law, enabled by a culture of impunity
The junta's impunity has been emboldened by lack of action from ASEAN & intl. community
#Myanmar needs stronger #sanctions & accountability NOW!
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