#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
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.
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
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…
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
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
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...
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:
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
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
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...
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
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:
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
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
