benwedeman

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لا يزال على قيد الحياة و لله الحمد edition.cnn.com/profiles/ben-w

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The person being dehumanized in this video is not the soldier.

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Lawrence Wright

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Feb 13

I never had a source assaulted in front of me until today when an Israeli soldier who stopped my interview did this with a Palestinian peace activist Issa Amro in Hebron. I can't stop thinking how dehumanizing the occupation is on the young soldiers charged with enforcing it.

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The number Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank has surpassed half a million and is set to surge under the ultranationalist government, a pro-settler report says. Palestinians and much of the international community view settlements as illegitimate.

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Israeli settler population in West Bank surpasses 500K

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's West Bank settler population now makes up more than half a million people, a pro-settler group said Thursday, crossing a major threshold. Settler leaders predicted even...

US State Department spokesperson Vedant Patel refused to directly answer a question posed by journalist Said Arikat during a State Department press briefing on 26 January on whether he considers Palestinians in the West Bank to be living under military occupation by Israel.

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Amen

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Sir Humphrey

@pinstripedline

Jan 27

382 jobs lost, 85yrs of history written off, and 8 million listeners abandoned to save just £28m - less than 0.5% of BBC licence fee, or less than 0.001% of HMG spending. It makes a mockery of 'global Britain' when we need World Service more than ever. middleeasteye.net/news/bbc-arabi

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Karim Safieddine - كريم صفي الدين

@safieddine00

Jan 26

Lebanese regime response to protesters calling for a basic investigation of an explosion which killed over 200 people and destroyed the country's main port amid an economic crisis. This is how surreal the scene is.

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In the midst of all of what's happening with the port blast investigation, Lebanon's Justice Minister has decided to sue

@megaphone_news

. This is an attack on freedom of press!

١- "سلاحنا كان أحلامنا" وأحلام #٢٥_يناير التي نعرفها، أرادت الخير لمصر. وهى لن تسقط بالتقادم. كل سنة وانتم طيبين

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Our latest report on Russian mercenary group Wagner PMC fighting in Ukraine. With ⁦

@TimListerCNN

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Deadly and disposable: Wagner's brutal tactics in Ukraine revealed by intelligence report | CNN

Wagner Group fighters have become the disposable infantry of the Russian offensive in eastern Ukraine, but a Ukrainian military intelligence document obtained by CNN sets out how effective they have...

Watch: Senior international correspondent

@bencnn

speaks with volunteers who are helping evacuate communities on the front lines in Ukraine.

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Watch: Russian shelling goes off as Ukrainians evacuate community | CNN

CNN's Ben Wedeman speaks with volunteers who are helping evacuate communities on the front lines in Ukraine.

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During the Weimar Republic hyperinflation in 1923, people used to immediately order two beers at a cafe, even though the second one would have gotten a bit warm, since prices would increase by the time they ordered the second beer. #Lebanoninflation

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Christian Mischler

@Chris_Mischler

Jan 20

Ordered my 1st coffee at 10.30am, the 2nd one at 1pm. The Lebanese Lira lost value during that time, resulting in two different charges (the coffee price is pegged to USD) #Lebanon #inflation

Back from battle in Bakhmut, Ukrainian soldiers tell

@bencnn

that Russian troops had convicts with no protective gear on the front line.

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Heavy fighting continues in and around the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut.

@bencnn

and his team met with Ukrainian soldiers on the front lines of this fight and hears their harrowing stories of combat.

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The memorial may have been removed, it still exists in our digital Echoes from Lebanon exhibition. The victims must not be forgotten artsandpolitics.me/Lebanon/

benwedeman

@bencnn

Jan 19

Shame.

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Matt Kynaston

@MattKynaston

Jan 19

An iconic memorial, murals by @1bradyblack commemorating the victims of the #BeirutBlast is removed in central Beirut.

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شاهد ما قاله سكان باخموت في أوكرانيا لـ

@bencnn

عن الصعوبات التي يواجهونها في حياتهم اليومية، وما يفعله الجنود داخل المدينة استعدادا لتقدم الروس

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شاهد لحظة تلقي جنود أوكرانيين أوامر بفتح النار على قوات روسية

يتحدث مذيع CNN، بن ويديمان، مع سكان مدينة باخموت في أوكرانيا، عن الصعوبات التي يواجهونها في حياتهم اليومية، مثل نقص المياه الجارية والكهرباء، وسط القصف الروسي المستمر.

Egypt's emergency court has sentenced around two dozen children to prison terms of between 5-15 years stemming from 2019 protests in Suez. Locking up children for long prison terms is yet another sad milestone in Egypt's human rights crisis washingtonpost.com/world/egypt-ha

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Amnesty International

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Over 2 years later, no one has been held to account for the Beirut port explosion.

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Ghina Bou Chacra | غنى

@GhinaBouChacra

Jan 12

They just stood there, desperately holding photos of their loved ones and pleading for overdue justice. Justice that has been obstructed in every way possible for over 2 years… #JuticeforBeirut #BeirutBlast

“Hundreds of

affiliates called on Harvard

@Kennedy_School

Dean Douglas W. Elmendorf to resign following accusations that he denied former Human Rights Watch

@hrw

Executive Director

@KenRoth

a fellowship over his criticism of Israel” thecrimson.com/article/2023/1 via

@JawadAdra

thecrimson.com

Hundreds Call for Resignation of Harvard Kennedy School Dean Accused of Blocking Fellowship Over...

Hundreds Call for Resignation of Harvard Kennedy School Dean Accused of Blocking Fellowship Over Israel Criticism | News | The Harvard Crimson

Fighting is still raging in Soledar, a salt mining town in eastern Ukraine, despite Russian claims that it has gained control of the region

@bencnn

speaks to Ukrainians living on the frontlines of this battlefield. Live updates: cnn.it/3iyipq6

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Fighting is still raging in Soledar, eastern Ukraine, despite Russian claims it has gained control of the town. Should Russian troops capture the town, it would offer Putin a symbolic win after a string of defeats.

@bencnn

has the report:

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Watch: CNN speaks to Ukrainians living on frontlines of Soledar battle | CNN

Fighting is still raging in Soledar, a salt mining town in eastern Ukraine, despite Russian claims that it has gained control of the region. Should Russian troops capture the town, it would mark...

"المدافع لم تتوقف".. أوكرانيون يقضون "الكريسماس" تحت القصف رغم إعلان روسيا وقف إطلاق النار cnn.it/3GPT7wQ

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أوكرانيون يقضون "الكريسماس" تحت القصف رغم إعلان روسيا وقف إطلاق النار

احتفل أوكرانيون بـ"الكريسماس" (عيد الميلاد) الأرثوذكسي في ظل ظروف الحرب المستمرة، حيث لم تتوقف المدافع والهجمات، رغم إعلان روسيا عن قرار بوقف إطلاق النار من جانبها.

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Action on Armed Violence

@AOAV

Jan 9

Her job is not just to hand out pensions: It’s to remind the people in #Siversk they haven’t been forgotten. “I think we’re the only one connection between them and the rest of the world”

'We're the one connection': The postal workers risking their lives to get pensions to Ukraine's...

Blasts echo through the battered streets of Siversk, in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region, as elderly residents venture out to collect vital pension payments brought by a mobile unit of Ukrposhta, the...

"I want this war to end," a 9-year-old from Bakhmut, Ukraine tells

@bencnn

on Orthodox Christmas eve over the weekend. Many of the city's residents spent a somber festive period inside bomb shelters, hiding away from ongoing Russian shelling.

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Number 13: Talked to a woman who believes Dr. Fauci is being held in Guantanamo Bay. Big if true.

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Mohanad Hage Ali ~ مهند الحاج علي

@MohanadHageAli

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“People say, ‘Go back to Palestine.’ I say, ‘Send us back,’” said Therese Semaan. Very interesting reporting on this camp by

@sewella

for the

@AP

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Identity is complex for Lebanon's Christian Palestinian camp

DBAYEH, Lebanon (AP) — Tucked away in the hills north of Beirut below a Maronite monastery, Lebanon’s only remaining Christian-majority Palestinian camp gives few outward clues to its identity....

#Breaking: Facebook shuts down the page of Palestinian newspaper Al-Quds without explanation, which had 10 million followers. Founded in 1967,

@alqudsnewspaper

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Al Jazeera files case at International Criminal Court over killing of journalist Shireen Abu Aqla

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Shireen Abu Aqla: Al Jazeera files case at ICC over journalist's killing

The network says it has evidence that Shireen Abu Aqla was shot by an Israeli soldier "deliberately".

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Al Jazeera Media Network will today submit the case of Shireen Abu Akleh’s killing by Israeli Occupation Forces to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague.

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Al Jazeera refers Israeli Occupation Forces to the International Criminal Court (ICC) | Al Jazeera...

The Hague -December 6, 2022 Al Jazeera Media Network will today submit the case of Shireen Abu Akleh’s killing by Israeli Occupation Forces to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague.

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On 4 December, the Israeli authorities plan to deport French-Palestinian human rights defender #SalahHammouri. Salah's Jerusalem residency status has already been revoked. His deportation would constitute a war crime.

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Why? Remains the question … and how would that end?

The owner of Juhaina company for dairy products and canned juices, why does he stay at Egyptian prisons? #FreeThemAll

@mariamthabet

@mrslooo

@Nadiaglory

Mozn Hassan مزن حسن and 2 others

When would they come? the story of Safwan thabet's #FreeThemAll

@kalnaga

@mariamthabet

@Ahmed_Aboulela

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افرجوا عن صفوان و سيف ثابت Release Thabet and 3 others

Russian villagers upset after realizing looted washing machine needs electricity and running water

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Today, Safwan Thabet marks two years behind bars. The 76-year-old CEO of Egypt's Juhayna Food Industries has been held for 730 days in conditions akin to torture, because he refused to give up his company to the state. Safwan must be released. #FreeJuhayna #TwoYearsTooLong

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A team of archaeologists in Italy have dredged up stunning artifacts from an ancient hot spring in the Tuscan Hills.

@bencnn

reports. Watch:

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'Never seen a find like this': Scientist marvels at immaculately preserved artifacts - CNN Video

A team of archaeologists in Italy have dredged up stunning, well-preserved bronze statues, more than six thousand coins and other unique artifacts from an ancient hot spring in the Tuscan Hills....

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Alaa Abd el-Fattah was jailed for “'spreading false news' by sharing a single Facebook post about a prisoner who died in custody...His real guilt...was to assert that the Egyptian people should determine their own future and live free from state violence."

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Inside the campaign at COP27 to free Egypt’s most famous political prisoner

What happened when Sanaa Seif tried to shame the authorities into releasing her brother?

A young lawyer arrested since March This is #Egypt #FreeThemAll #FreeYousef

WATCH: "This is the first time I didn't update the British Embassy: I've lost faith in them" Following the family's 1st visit to see Alaa after he became suicidal & nearly died in custody in #COP27, Alaa's sister

@Sana2

says she's lost faith in the British Government #FreeAlaa

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