Europe’s leaders have had enough of Musk’s meddling, but can they stop him? Elon Musk’s invective against major European leaders and his support for right-wing, eurosceptic parties peaked this week, sparking warnings about the US tech billionaire’s intervention in the contine...

Before the new year gets old, tackling resolutions. What better way to start on Bluesky than my first 2025 piece:
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#USEmbassyBaghdad advises US citizens to "depart Iraq immediately". @realDonaldTrump just made life more dangerous for US nationals, US officials, not to mention USA's European allies, some whose nationals are in Iranian jails. With friends like this, who needs enemies? #Iran

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Shocker morning kicking off a dangerous start to 2020. @FRANCE24 is live-blogging the fallout of #QassemSoleimani assassination:#Iran

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An actress, who’s Muslim, disappears in the protest crackdown in #UttarPradesh (UP), #India. So does a friend looking for her at a police station. Two of thousands in UP. Then there's #Kashmir...make this nightmare stop.

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A child of Holocaust survivors traumatized by my latest #India piece. Lists, citizen registrations hit personally. Set me thinking...there are probs w/ the French system, but I agree a state shld have no interest in religious identity.via @FRANCE24

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Watch: Protesters in Delhi stop the police by singing the national anthem. Incredible scenes from #India today.

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Incredible footage. Renowned Indian historian Ram Guha telling reporters he feels sorry for Bangalore police having to follow orders from Delhi & crack down on peaceful, nonviolent protesters…when the 61-yr-old scholar is arrested…

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IndiGo, India's biggest marketshare airline, cancels 19 flights from Delhi due to road traffic disruptions over #IndiansAgainstCAB protesters take to streets, braving a ban on assembly & arrests of hundreds, including prominent historian @Ram_Guha during an interview.

La laïcité (secularism) obviously is a privilege only for #France, says the envoy from the birthplace of human rights. We'll lecture our own minorities, but minorities across the world be damned...#IndiansAgainstCAB

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Covering the beat for Kashmiri journalists means getting beaten by Indian security forces winning hearts & minds in an area that's shut down to the world since, you know, foreigners are plotting to agitate the local populace. All's well in #Kashmir

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Looking forward to @F24Debate tonight at 7.10pm Paris time on #India protests over new citizenship act & its likely fallout with @odalage @saliltripathi @RajatSethi86 & yes, the one & only @FrancoisF24

This reminds me of Sudan's "kadanka power" earlier this year. 2019 has been the year of the protest & it's ending with India joining the ranks in an unprecedented way...

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Extraordinary scenes from across India today. This from the capital:

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Shocking, brutal scenes at Indian campuses. So the policy/orders are to crack down on any dissent against the controversial new citizenship law?

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Police storm campuses, crack down on protests against Indian citizenship lawvia @FRANCE24

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The weekend’s absolute must-read from @NewYorker masterfully weaves the complexity of Modi’s India from press intimidation, judicial failure, violent Islamophobia, fake news & the Hindu supremacist-driven death of Indian democracy:

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Snaking immigration lines at #CDG airport in striking France. Since France's biggest problem are the French, suggest we let the hard-workig immigrants in. Solution!

#G5Sahel is “a coalition of armies that nobody trusts: they’re seen as inefficient and corrupt and benefitting from impunity,” @Hommel19 tells @TomWheeldon1 as he examines France’s “mission impossible” after deaths of French troops in Mali:via @FRANCE24

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Indian ex-army officer’s controversial call for mass rape in #Kashmir led me to check in on Kunan- Poshpora case. Still no justice, right? Pls don’t overlook Kashmiri women in campaign to @endrapeinwar @StandSpeakRise @CelineBardet @USGSRSGPatten

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Video wargames a fitting metaphor for this @FRANCE24 @ARTEen Quark report on 3 Gulf princes. Cyber-attacks, Sandhurst-grad #MBZ mentoring homeboy #MBS & delish details like French FM Le Drian introducing his son to Sheikh Zayed’s son at an arms bazaar...

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‘Absolutely No Mercy’: Leaked Files Expose How China Organized Mass Detentions of Muslims (Published 2019) More than 400 pages of internal Chinese documents provide an unprecedented inside look at the crackdown on ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang region.

The joy of settling down on a Sunday to a nice, big, fat @nytimes investigative report on the hard-to-cover world’s largest incarceration on ethnic & religious grounds. Thanks @austinramzy @ChuBailiang

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Be wary, be very wary. @DisinfoEU uncovers how a “website of a self-proclaimed magazine for the European Parliament” is linked to a network of 265 fake local news sites operating in 65 countries serving Indian influence & disinfo interests:

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India’s Narendra Modi has had a free pass from the west for too long Threats to minority rights and democratic norms are ignored to preserve a comforting illusion

The world's “failure to talk openly about the failings of the Modi model is not cost-free,” notes @gideonrachman @FT, adding, “India’s slide into illiberalism may actually be strengthening the global trend towards authoritarianism.”via @financialtimes

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UN report on Libya accuses Sudan’s Mohamed “Hemedti” Dagalo of violating UN sanctions by deploying 1,000 Sudanese troops to Libya, Reuters reporting. #Libya #Sudan

Israel kills senior Islamic Jihad commander in an airstrike in Gaza just hours before an attack in Damascus targeted the home of another leading Islamic State militant, killing his son in a dramatic escalation in the region.

Dec 6, 1992 and now Nov 9, 2019. It took 27 years for mob justice to become justice:

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The “world’s largest democracy” does not offer dual citizenship, uses every opp to shake down cash for OCI (Overseas Citizenship of #India) cards AND strips it for journos criticizing Modi, effectively denying visas & exiling govt critics. A must-read by @AatishTaseer

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Concerns over ‘foreign interference’ as India-linked Hindu nationalist group targets Labour candidates Campaigners linked to Indian prime minister Modi’s BJP say they’re targeting 48 Labour-Tory marginals, also prompting fears of heightened ethnic tensions.

Here we go, overseas "friends" of India's ruling right-wing BJP openly admit to trying to interfere in #UkElection:

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On the very first VICE News Reports on VICELAND, we bring you an inside look at how Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s henchmen did his bidding, what led to his downfall, and why he was ultimately killed in Idlib, a territory not controlled by ISIS. Look for more VICE News Reports coming soon. Subscribe to VICE News here: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE-News Check out VICE News for more: http://vicenews.com Follow VICE News here: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vicenews Twitter: https://twitter.com/vicenews Tumblr: http://vicenews.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/vicenews More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo Bringing Down Baghdadi I A VICE News Report

Worth watching. Some obvious stuff (scrolled past Martin Indyk's blah-blah) but good reporting, story telling. 1 quibble: ISIS attacks map has nothing in Africa, even tho' post-Baghdadi audio mentions 'central Africa'...Bringing Down Baghdadivia @YouTube

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