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Freelance journalist/researcher with a passion for the struggle for democracy, human rights & wildlife preservation. Reporting on wars, uprisings & conservation

Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Joined January 2013
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9 months
It is time again for an update of my 'Situation in the World' map. This map includes all wars, as well as (geo)political, social, and separatist conflicts. military alliances, border fences & more as of August 2023. Larger file can be downloaded here:
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@ThomasVLinge
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2 years
If you're gonna listen to any speech about #Ukraine 🇺🇦, let it be this one. The Kenya ambassador to the UNSC perfectly explains how people across Africa understand Ukraine, and what the Kremlin's acts of aggression mean in our post-colonial world.
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When you and the gang are out reporting on one of the biggest massacres in modern day Europe, but someone sees a cute cat.
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Dear Americans, while you were busy these past years living your lives people across the world were fighting against the same kind of state violence you're experiencing now and far worse. Listen to their stories & their advice on how to deal with, survive, & overcome these times
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#Ukraine 🇺🇦: anti-war protesters fill the streets in #Moscow tonight, showing many people in #Russia 🇷🇺 reject the #Kremlin 's aggression
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Seriously! What the hell is this? Whatever you think of #Catalonia I think we can all agree that this kind of violence is completely unprovoked and unjustified
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Your story is not unique, in fact it has been played out countless times before in countries you probably wouldn't even be able to find on a map. Learn from other movements in the world. Let their experiences educate you and help you put your own struggle in perspective
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#Ukraine 🇺🇦: the Ukrainian mufti Said Ismagilov has taken off his religious clothing and put on a uniform as he has joined the defense forces of Ukraine.
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#Ukraine 🇺🇦: somewhere near #Kyiv a Ukrainian MiG-29 (low-flying) is taking on a Russian Su-35.
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2 years
Absolutely shocking footage of a Russian warplanes firing missiles into a residential area in #Ukraine 🇺🇦. A child screams in terror.
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6 years
The World Press Photo of the year is this photo by Ronaldo Schemidt of a Venezuelan protestors who caught fire after the fuel tank of a police motorcycle blew up. In a way it's a metaphor for the whole situation in #Venezuela 🇻🇪
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One of the biggest PR achievements of the Houthis is that they fooled the international left in believing that a religious faction of feudalist warlords is actually part of the global struggle for progressive values.
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"We are teetering on dictatorship" @donlemon on CNN following Trump's speech.
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4 years
Dozens of not hundreds are injured all over the center of #Beirut .
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#Ukraine 🇺🇦: anti-war protests are growing tonight in #StPetersburg (🇷🇺).
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2 years
Very concerning news. Marianna, the pregnant girl from #Mariupol , turns out to be one of the refugees that has been taken to #Russia in violation of the evacuation agreement. There they put her in front of a camera and have her say there was no aerial attack on the hospital.
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#Belarus just got its very own "tank man"
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#Iran : incredible footage from the city of #Mahabad where riot police are cheered on by the people as they refuse to crack down on anti-regime protests.
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3 years
Saigon 1975 Kabul 2021
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Keep the Georgian people in your thoughts tonight as they continue to fight for their democratic and European future. 🇬🇪🇪🇺
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4 years
Fun fact: this picture is exactly 10 years old today. Little did any of them know
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WTF... This is what people in #Guatemala 🇬🇹 saw after the Fuego volcano erupted less than an hour ago. Deaths have already been reported.
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#Ukraine 🇺🇦: miraculously the driver appeared to he unharmed. Bystanders are doing their best to free him.
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Finland right now as it watches the Russian military collapse in Ukraine.
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After 2000 years the Armenian society of Nagorno-Karabakh is coming to an end.
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3 years
At 0:10 in the video you can see the woman in red drop to the ground as she was trying to take cover from the water cannon. She is reportedly in critical condition with a bullet in the head. #Myanmar
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#Ukraine 🇺🇦: small-scale protests have erupted in #Russia 🇷🇺. In #Yekaterinburg several dozen people chant "no to war"
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Never forget the #TiananmenSquareMassacre of 31 years ago. It was a day on which the Chinese military was send in to "restore order" following massive pro-democracy protests. Bodies and bikes lay crushed in the streets around the square, run over by armoured vehicles
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#Belarus : #Lukashenko has just lost control of the town of Lida (pop. 100.000). The town's entire police force appears to have joined the protests
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2 years
Let's all take a moment and laugh at this map.
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4 years
Jesus! An armoured vehicle of the #HongKong police tries to break into the Poly University gets literally bombarded with molotov cocktails
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BREAKING: #Armenia 🇦🇲 and #Azerbaijan 🇦🇿 have agreed to sign a formal peace deal which includes an official delimitation of the border by the end of the year.
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#Ukraine 🇺🇦: anti-war protest breaking out in #StPetersburg tonight. Small rallies are taking place in several cities across #Russia 🇷🇺.
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#Ukraine 🇺🇦: airbase of #Melitopol now reported to be under fire by the Russian invasion force.
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#Ukraine 🇺🇦: people are rallying in #Tyumen (central #Russia 🇷🇺) to protest the war. Police are busy arresting everyone before it takes off.
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Painted in #Idlib ( #Syria ) inspired from #Khartoum ( #Sudan )
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#Ukraine 🇺🇦: this missile failed to explode as it was fired at #Kharkiv . What's telling is that this missile is in the middle of a neighborhood, not a single military target around. Shows you the disregard to civilian life by the #Kremlin .
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The only thing that is probably more despicable than bombing a clininc full of pregnant women is kidnapping a woman together with her newborn at gunpoint, and making her appear in your hostage video.
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Probably one of the most interesting pictures of the Russian "elections" comes from the Central African Republic, where Wagner mercenaries line up outside the 🇷🇺 embassy in Bangui, faces covered and everything, to vote.
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#Ukraine 🇺🇦: hundreds of people also marching against war in #NizhnyNovgorod (western #Russia 🇷🇺) tonight.
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If you're driving through Amsterdam and you see this apartment, then you just passed by my home. 🇺🇦🇦🇲
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The total destruction of the #Beirut port will have devastating consequences for years to come. 80% of #Lebanon 's grain supply came through this port into the country. The entire country is depended on this port for import
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"Putin, withdraw your troops!" From the streets of #Russia 🇷🇺 tonight.
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#Belarus : unbelievable footage from #Minsk tonight. Protesters are fighting back against the police. Belarusians have had enough of the #Lukashenko dictatorship
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#Ukraine 🇺🇦 BREAKING: president #Zelensky confirms Russian invasion forces try to breach to #Kyiv through the #Chernobyl Exclusion zone, any indiscriminate shelling in this area could be disastrous for all of #Europe .
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When gas masks are not widely available in the stores you have to make due with what you got. From #Sudan 🇸🇩 today.
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#Ukraine 🇺🇦: thousands out in #Tbilisi ( #Georgia 🇬🇪) to protest against the #Kremlin 's invasion
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#Sudan 🇸🇩: a women's revolution
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#HongKong : students inside besieged #PolyU calling for help
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I just came back a trip around the resistance territories of southern Karenni state (Myanmar). During my time I went to the frontlines, visited IDP camps in the jungles, stayed the night at an abandoned junta base, met resistance fighters, refugees and community leaders. 🧵:
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#Ukraine 🇺🇦: weapons being distributed among defense units in #Kyiv as locals prepare to defend the capital from the Russian invasion
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#HongKong : CUHK students relaxing on campus after a relatively calm day. Through the chaos and violence we'd often forget these are just children
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#Ukraine 🇺🇦: at least two soldiers belonging to the Russian invasion force have been captured by Ukrainian soldiers around #Kharkiv . It's photos like this that could make Russians back home question the war.
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#Ukraine 🇺🇦: looks like the Russian invasion forces suffered some substantial losses as they entered the city of #Sumy
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The more I think about it the more it disgusts me. It's no coincidence Marianna was one of the refugees taken to Russia, they had soldiers at the checkpoints scouting for her. She was a target from the moment her pictures went around the world.
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#Ukraine 🇺🇦: very first video of a Ukrainian Bayraktar TB2 drone taking out an entire convoy of the Russian invasion force. Recorded in #Kherson .
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#Ukraine 🇺🇦: reports that a Russian military convoy was ambushed close to Hlukhiv in the #Sumy region. ukrainian soldiers targeted the vehicles with javelin missiles, inflicting some heavy damage.
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Situation in #HongKong is becoming uglier by the day. Footage from several minutes ago shows a police motorcycle deliberately ramming protesters in the streets
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Strong indication from this Fox News report that the IDF is moving guns around in order to "proof" that Hamas was using al-Shifa hospital. IDF video claims that "minutes ago" they found a single gun behind the MRI machine, same spot in the FOX report: two guns were added.
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PREVIEW: Inside Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital. We were shown weapons in the radiology building. We were not shown any tunnels. The raid is ongoing at this hour. Hundreds of Palestinians are still inside. I questioned the IDF about criticism over the operation. More airs tomorrow.
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I can honestly say that in my ten years of following wars & atrocities on social media, I have never seen as many images of death and mutilated children on a daily bases, as I have these past two weeks. Gaza is nothing short of a slaughterhouse.
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#Ukraine 🇺🇦: according to Telegram sources the Ukrainian government has established a Russian volunteer battalion, similar to the Belarusian battalions, made up of Russian nationals wishing to fight the #Kremlin . The battalion has received Ukrainian uniforms with the ⚪🔵⚪ flag
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Karabakh has fallen. No one will stay to live at the mercy of the Baku madman.
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#Ukraine 🇺🇦: Russian strike on the town of Ukrainka, just south of #Kyiv . The invasion forces is launching attacks all around the capital.
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#Ukraine 🇺🇦: more Russian losses in the #Kharkiv region.
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It took nine months of siege, a short war, and the ethnic cleansing of 120K Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh. But the US Senate has finally voted to suspend American military aid to the regime of Azerbaijan.
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#Ukraine 🇺🇦: in #StPetersburg ( #Russia 🇷🇺) it apparently takes six policemen to arrest a single peace activist.
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There are 4 years between these two photos, in that time we have only grown more indifferent to the plight of refugees
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#Moldova 🇲🇩 BREAKING: an attack took place on #Chisinau airport. A Russian citizen who was denied entry into the country is reported to have grabbed the gun of a border guard and killed two people with it. He is now under arrest.
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Absolutely massive protest taking place today in #Belgrade as people reject the fraudulent election results, calling for a new vote in #Serbia 🇷🇸
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Proglas.
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According to the official exit poll this is only 6,8% of #Belarus . It's fair to say we just witnessed the most shameless case of electoral fraud in the modern history of #Europe
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And for those wondering if she is telling the truth, she is not. Kremlin propaganda is brutal but very inconsistent. They have her touch on all conspiracy theories surrounding thr hospital at ones, making the entire story totally illogical.
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#Catalonia : MASSIVE protest in the regional capital #Barcelona for freedom of the Catalan leaders
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#Kharkiv 's Freedom Square, before and after. #Ukraine 🇺🇦
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#Ukraine 🇺🇦: people in occupied Nova Kakhovka ( #Kherson ) have restored the Ukrainian flag over the town.
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It's been six months since protests started in #HongKong and today an estimated 800.000 again took to the streets, calling on the government to meet their demands. The pro-democracy movement of Hong Kong is showing no signs of slowing down
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The Belarusian Revolution of 2020
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It looks like the Ukrainian military in Kharkiv has set its sight on the strategic railroad town of Kupyansk. This is how the brave people of Kupyansk resisted the Russian invasion force, when it came to occupy the town in March.
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Left: #Cairo 🇪🇬 2011 Right: #Khartoum 🇸🇩 2019
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Whoever has done this, the breaking of the Nova Kachovka dam has grave consequences for both 🇺🇦 and 🇷🇺. Over a dozen towns on both sides of the #Dnipro , including the city of #Kherson will now be flooded. #Crimea meanwhile just lost its most important irrigation canal.
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#Ukraine 🇺🇦: another drone video of the massive flooding as a consequence to the Nova Kachovka dam destruction. Many towns, including the city of #Kherson are located downstream from here.
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Look at the bravery of this woman! She stands there, defiantly, waving the European flag. She will not move as the water cannon hits her again and again. Other join her, and they stand there together. They will not allow #Georgia 🇬🇪 to turn into a dictatorship.
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Day five of anti-regime protests in #Iran . It's getting crazy.
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Scenes of apocalyptic destruction in #Gaza . Literally not a single building has remained untouched.
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#Ukraine 🇺🇦: Russian attack helicopter has been downed over Vyshhorod (north of #Kyiv ). Pilot can be seen with his parachute left of the smoke.
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#Belarus : the streets of #Minsk tonight. Is this a normal sight when a president supposedly wins 80% of the votes?
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#Sudan 🇸🇩 and #Algeria 🇩🇿: making history in 2019
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Anti-government protests are spreading and growing across #Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 tonight. Protests initially started in #Zhanaozen over a rise in fuel prices but are now taking place in several cities, including the former capital #Almaty . #zhanaozen2022
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04/06/1989, 24 years ago the people of China rose up against dictatorship and were massacred because of it. Never forget the countless victims who paid the ultimate price for a free China, and with it a free Asia, and a democratic world.
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#Ukraine 🇺🇦: Molotov cocktails prepared for the battle of #Kyiv .
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-the hospital was used as a base by Ukrainian soldiers -yet they probably bombed it themselves -but it's okay, the attack wasn't big, therefore the AP pictures are dramatized propaganda.
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She is able to admit there was an explosion om the maternity hospital, but remains very vague on what it could have been, leaving room for the interpretation the Ukrainians bombed it themselves, a lie pro-Kremlin actors have pushed from the very start.
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Small update: other sources are stating Marianna is not in Russia but in separatist-occupied Donetsk, which in principal is just as much a violation. The evacuation deal was for refugees form Mariupol to be allowed to go to Ukrainian-held territory, not to Russia or DNR/LNR.
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#Ukraine 🇺🇦 BREAKING: president-elect @Tsihanouskaya has announced the formation of a transitional government for #Belarus , in response to #Lukashenko 's complicity in the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Hopefully democratic governments will rush to recognize her administration.
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Lukashenka committed treason – he made our country a participant in the invasion of Ukraine. So I declared myself as the national leader of Belarus to protect the sovereignty & independence of our country, represent it in security negotiations & crisis management in the region.
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#HongKong : thousands gathered in Tamar Park in Admiralty tonight to commemorate 22 year old (Alex) Chow Tsz-lok who passed away earlier this week. Chow died from injuries he got when a fell an entire floor down while reportedly being chased by police
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#Ukraine 🇺🇦: love in time of war.
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#Venezuela 🇻🇪: footage from #Barquisimeto ( #Lara state) shows riot police leaving the scene after refusing to crack down on the massive anti- #Maduro rally in the city. Protesters are cheering and kissing the policemen to show their gratitude. #2Feb #VenezuelaEnLaCalle
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#Ukraine 🇺🇦: Belarusian volunteers are participating in the defense of #Kyiv . #Lukashenko has made the territory of #Belarus complicit in the invasion, but Belarusians are making it clear they oppose the #Kremlin .
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Iraqis are amazing people that deserve so much better than this, Iraq deserves better than this. Thoughts are with the Iraqi people who once again face a war completely out of their control.
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#Belarus : the streets of #Minsk are not slowing down. The capital is in open revolt tonight
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People of #HongKony are starting the #NewYear the way they know best: with a massive protest march
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