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They gave it everything ❤️ Bianca Andreescu and Kayla Cross battled hard across both days of the Billie Jean King Cup Qualifiers but Kazakhstan edges out a tough win. Read more about Day 2 👉 bit.ly/4sYHKIC
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June #Hydrology highlights from #CopernicusClimate. Last month was: 💧 wetter than average over Iceland, central and most of south-western Europe; 💧 drier than average over Ireland, most of the UK, Fennoscandia and southern Italy. For more 👉climate.copernicus.eu/precip…
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The West Bank & the Gaza Strip: There are 2 completely separate situations, one is Gaza and one is the West Bank, the people claiming “apartheid” kind of have a point in that an Arab who lives in the West Bank isn’t an Israeli citizen & can’t vote in the elections & get state services etc (they have that from the PA), but the Jews who live there DO get it. So originally Israel as part of going towards a “2 state solution” gave back Gaza in 2005, right away the Arabs came and burnt all the greenhouses (they grew some of the best vegetables & produce in the world there) & other such stuff that was there including the underground water system etc Hamas won a close election in Gaza in 2007, the basically drove out Abbas’s Fatah party & turned it from a somewhat functioning society to a 3rd world hell hole. As for Israel once they got thru own land they started shooting rockets at Israel & every few years Israel had to bomb them and sometimes even go in by foot. There has been a blockade on Gaza since Hamas took over because they would smuggle weapons & such in, everything that goes in has to be checked etc. A while back the UN was sending them enormous amounts of building materials & nothing was really being built, but in 2014 they found out that Hamas built this extensive underground tunnel network with all those materials The best source for a lot of this info overall in this thread is “the prime ministers” by Yehuda Avner who was there in person and as the English speechwriter for 5 different prime ministers (it was VERY needed then as a new country)
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Trudeau Diversified Canada’s Economy Like No One Before washingtonpost.com/business/…
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🇨🇦 tennis fans are holding their breath while waiting on news of the extent of Bianca Andreescu’s injury. I spoke with her agent this afternoon. After a late night being assessed, they were meeting with a doctor this afternoon & will release a statement once results are shared.
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This is a dystopia.
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❗Russian border guard tells Russian passport-holder at Moscow Sheremetyevo airport that he won't be able to leave from tomorrow and from September 29th "there will be the law of war and no one will be allowed to leave any more." 👉Chris is a well-known and long-term Moscow expat
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A history teacher of 40 years explains the difference between conservatives and liberals in the simplest way he knows how
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Ukrainian Air Force had a busy night. In the south, they did 10 attacks: 3 by helicopters and 7 by jets. Enormous damage for Russians there, enormous. That was, I'd say, the Iliad-style drama performed in the southern skies and now you can hear the Russian moarning everywhere.
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"I was watching the war...and thinking, 'Someone needs to do something.' And then when the children's hospital at Mariupol got shelled, I realized "someone" is me." Foreigners fighting for Ukraine told us about their reasons for volunteering for battle.
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Something you should look for is the faces of the Ukrainian troops. Mariupol is surrounded and besieged. The appearance of these marines- glee and joy - this is like watching a Viking berserkergang live & in the 21st Century. I expected to see this. Long🧵 1/
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Stop the slaughter of common dolphins by the fishing industry in EU waters - Sign the Petition! chng.it/rG2yVDB8 via @UKChange
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THREAD I can't handle a narrative "Putin is bad, but Yeltsin and Gorbatchov were good!" It is wrong, amoral, and typical West. Gorbatchov was a cold-blood Soviet henchman. He sent tanks against peaceful protestors in Vilnius and Riga. He smashed sculls of Georgians with shovels.
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There are some lines you don’t cross.
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