Fantastic graphic from the WSJ. Trump just increased the price of a iPhone by nearly 60 percent. Obviously completely unsustainable so won’t be sustained. An American Liz Truss moment
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Estland, Letland, Litouwen en Polen hebben hun terugtrekking uit het Ottawa-verdrag over antipersoonsmijnen aangekondigd. (📄 @Lithuanian_MoD)
“Van Gent tot Damascus” vanavond op VRT Canvas en te bekijken via VRT MAX.
www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20... @vrtnws.be #vrtnwsdoc
Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance.
Democracy requires your courage.
Trump could start wearing a crown and carrying a sceptre, and people would still be in denial about what's happening.
Deze mens gaat de geschiedenisboeken in. Een held. Zijn eerste interview te zien op @aljazeera.com
Voor @vrtnws-be.bsky.social reisde ik naar Jerevan, waar ik drie Russische deserteurs sprak die naar Oekraïne werden gestuurd. Uitgebreide, emotionele gesprekken over marteling en verzet. Lees hun verhaal vandaag op VRT.
"72 dagen gemarteld, omdat ik bevelen weigerde"
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Benieuwd hoe snel de Syriërs iets gaan voelen van dat ‘politieke akkoord’. De mensen zijn in elk geval hoopvol, zag @vrancki.bsky.social in Damascus.
www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...
Een kijkje bij de bakker en de groenteboer in Damascus: “Het regime is weg, de president is gevlucht, dus wie lijdt er onder de sancties? Dat zijn de burgers.”
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where the world stands on the paris climate agreement, as of today:
Op de eerste avond van het bestand in Gaza trokken gewapende kolonisten brandstichtend door Palestijnse dorpen op de bezette Westelijke Jordaanoever. Het Israëlische leger deed daar deze week invallen en arrestaties, en sloot toegangswegen af.
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Kyiv this morning
Metingen door @irceline.bsky.social
“Op plaatsen met veel verkeer zeer hoge stikstofdioxideconcentraties”
#Horrible
The first flight from Damascus International Airport was a joyful milestone, as the journey took off successfully, reflecting hope and progress for the future of a new Syria 💚
Fireworks burst beyond my window, their festive clamor scraping old wounds. In Ukraine, carols are drowned by explosions. This photo from Kryvyi Rih shows a Christmas tree under ruins. The world wraps itself in tinsel and cheer. I sit in its shadow, waiting for a miracle.
Kijktip!
Here the prisoners wrote their memoirs.
Although they were in prison, no one could concentrate on doing anything inside. The prisoners had beautiful hobbies, such as drawing. Look how beautiful and accurate their drawings were! 🥺
Breaking News: Russia’s Channel One, quoting the Kremlin, reports that Bashar al-Assad and his family are in Moscow.
For over 14 years (and some of these things long before), #Syrians were barrel bombed, tortured, displaced, drowning at sea, starving to death. They have lived through horrors that none of us could put into words properly. There is absolutely fear over what next. But this is a moment of release.
One of the members of Assad's forces, after escaping from #Homs, says: "Bashar al-Assad sold us out, #Hezbollah fled and sold us out, #Iran sold us out," then he curses them.
DAMASCUS: Assad's forces, members of the 127th Brigade, have withdrawn from the town of Rankous in Qalamoun, which is very close to Saidnaya Prison.
The notorious prison is nicknamed the "Human Slaughterhouse"
These are extraordinary moments.
Syria TV reporting that regime forces have withdrawn from Douma
In one way or another, history in the making…
I can’t get no sleep