‘It’s not the end’ — Kyiv Independent staff on what they’d tell themselves right before Russia’s invasion – Kyiv Independent

  1. ‘It’s not the end’ — Kyiv Independent staff on what they’d tell themselves right before Russia's invasion  Kyiv Independent
  2. When War Comes To Your Home  Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
  3. Three years into the full-scale invasion, RSF brings complaint to ICC for Russia’s deportation of Ukrainian journalists  Reporters sans frontières
  4. Ukraine: MFRR partners stand with journalists, 3 years since start of full-scale invasion  International Press Institute
  5. Three years into the war, media look to Ukraine’s future  DW (English)
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Ukraine: Where Do We Go From Here? – Center for European Policy Analysis

  1. Ukraine: Where Do We Go From Here?  Center for European Policy Analysis
  2. Putin’s Ukraine: The End of War and the Price of Russian Occupation  Foreign Affairs Magazine
  3. A flawed peace deal would not end the war in Ukraine  Al Jazeera English
  4. After three years of war in Ukraine, a Trump-backed ‘Russian peace’ would spell disaster | Trudy Rubin  The Philadelphia Inquirer
  5. Three years of war in Ukraine: Ask our world affairs editor anything  The Independent
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Syria Has Its Biggest Trading Partner Back—but Not the U.S. – The Wall Street Journal

  1. Syria Has Its Biggest Trading Partner Back—but Not the U.S.  The Wall Street Journal
  2. EU suspends sanctions against Syria including on energy, banking  Reuters
  3. Western sanctions are holding Syria back from rebuilding, locals say  NPR
  4. Syria: EU suspends restrictive measures on key economic sectors  consilium.europa.eu
  5. EU suspends select Syria sanctions to encourage democratic development  Al Jazeera English
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IDF attacks rocket launcher in Gaza that fired rocket towards Israel – The Jerusalem Post

  1. IDF attacks rocket launcher in Gaza that fired rocket towards Israel  The Jerusalem Post
  2. Israeli commuter who averted bus bombing: ‘I was a messenger of God’  JNS.org
  3. Shin Bet Arrests Two Israelis Suspected of Involvement in Tel Aviv Suburbs Bus Bombs  Haaretz
  4. Karhi claims coalition to begin A-G ouster in coming weeks  The Jerusalem Post
  5. Katz in West Bank: ‘We will hunt down and eliminate’ anybody involved in terror  The Times of Israel
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After Germany’s Election, the Left Can Hope Again – Jacobin magazine

  1. After Germany’s Election, the Left Can Hope Again  Jacobin magazine
  2. How TikTok Helped Germany’s Left to a Surprise Election Showing  The New York Times
  3. Resurgence of Germany’s Left exposes fragmented, polarised electorate  Reuters
  4. In these dark times of racially charged election campaigns, the German left offers a flicker of hope | Fatma Aydemir  The Guardian
  5. Who is Heidi Reichinnek, the hard-left ‘Queen of TikTok’ shaking up German politics before election?  Firstpost
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Musk’s ‘Doge’ claim about USAid funds for India sets off political firestorm

Apparently baseless claim that $21m was given to help voter turnout seized on by Trump and Modi government

Elon Musk’s “department of government efficiency” has been accused of setting off a political firestorm in India after it claimed that the US government had been sending millions of dollars to support the Indian elections.

In a list published on Musk’s social media platform X last week, Doge, a special group that Donald Trump created, claimed that a $21m grant distributed by USAid – the US agency for international development – to help “voter turnout in India” had been cancelled, as part of the president’s sweeping cuts to foreign aid.

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