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Naveed

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Security Policy Analyst. Journalist. Academic. Thomas Jefferson Fellow [Globalization] 2000 [. . . in the trenches . . .]

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Naveed @naveed360.bsky.social · Dec 10

#Syria's bloody endgame

By Naveed Ahmad - July 29, 2012 -

“The regime hates its people more than its declared enemy #Israel,” Mohammad Ramiz told this correspondent during an unauthorized visit to the #Idlib city.

#Assad

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I Quit Smoking 🚭 📚 🐕 @iquitcigs.bsky.social · 7d

Looking Good Stowe, Vermont 🍁

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Conflicts @conflicts.bsky.social · 2d

A Ukrainian drone strike damaged a refinery cooling tower in Tyumen, 🇷🇺 — 2,000 km from Ukraine. This is reportedly the longest-range UAV attack to date. (Dnipro OSINT)

https://www.europesays.com/2478384/

A Ukrainian drone strike damaged a refinery cooling tower in Tyumen, 🇷🇺 — 2,000 km from …

A Ukrainian drone strike damaged a refinery cooling tower in Tyumen, 🇷🇺 — 2,000 km from Ukraine. This is reportedly the longest-range UAV attack to date. (Dnipro OSINT) - EUROPE SAYS

A Ukrainian drone strike damaged a refinery cooling tower in Tyumen, 🇷🇺 — 2,000 km from Ukraine. This is reportedly the longest-range UAV attack to date.

www.europesays.com

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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 2d

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Manchester Review @manchesterreview.bsky.social · 2d

Best British Short Stories 2025, edited by Nicholas Royle, reviewed by Paul Anthony Knowles and Sam Cassells

www.themanchesterreview.co.uk?p=13063

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An Orange Back Ground, with Bold White Writing, giving the books title and editor.

Naveed @naveed360.bsky.social · 2d

The International Criminal Court or the Committee to Protect Journalists could be choices that would irk Trump, as his administration has imposed sanctions on the ICC, and has moved to restrict the work of journalists covering the White House and the Pentagon.

Naveed @naveed360.bsky.social · 2d

A European diplomat also pointed to Trump recently renaming the defence ministry the Department of War. Him winning the peace prize “would send out a strange signal.” “But we all live in Trump’s world now. This Nobel discussion only highlights that.” www.ft.com/content/df53...

Donald Trump looms large over Nobel Peace Prize

US president pressures Norwegian government and independent committee to select him on Friday

Naveed @naveed360.bsky.social · 4d

How can I save my little boy
From Oppenheimer's deadly toy?
There is no monopoly of common sense
On either side of the political fence

~ Sting

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India's new threats and Pakistan's response

YouTube video by STH English

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Naveed @naveed360.bsky.social · 4d

Earlier Trump surprised Bibi with the news that the US had been holding indirect talks with Iran, then embarrassed him by reminding him that Israel was propped up by billions of dollars in aid.“The rule of thumb is Trump’s interests come first,” said Michael Oren, ex-Israeli diplomat.

Naveed @naveed360.bsky.social · 4d

“Trump himself had guaranteed [to the Arabs] that Israel would not start the war again,” the person said. This pledge was verified by a second person familiar with conversations between the White House and Arab officials.

Naveed @naveed360.bsky.social · 4d

For instance, Netanyahu and his negotiators had sought one major concession — an opportunity to return to fighting if Israel decided Hamas had broken some clause of the agreement. The team was told, in no uncertain terms, “to stop looking for loopholes”.

Naveed @naveed360.bsky.social · 4d

When Netanyahu and his team tried watering down some elements of what became Trump’s 20-point peace plan, a Qatari technical team sat not far away in the White House, said a person familiar with the events. “It was impossible to change more than a few words here and there."

Naveed @naveed360.bsky.social · 4d

The strike on Qatar “actually opened the door for all of this,” said a former US official. The strike was humiliating for Trump, but “it allowed him to say, ‘you guys fucked up, and I’m bailing you out here, and I’m done'.”

Naveed @naveed360.bsky.social · 4d

Trump had met with released hostages, knew some by name, and followed their recovery from months in captivity — a personal connection far surpassing that of Netanyahu. Trump’s envoy, Steve Witkoff, texts regularly with the hostages' families. www.ft.com/content/6a62...

How Trump cornered Netanyahu into signing up for peace

Israel’s prime minister has encountered the first US president he cannot easily outmanoeuvre

Naveed @naveed360.bsky.social · 4d

Bangladesh has revived a project with China to develop the strategic Teesta river area near the border with India and has allowed China to modernise and expand its second-largest shipping hub, the Mongla port. It's also been in discussions with Beijing to acquire J-10 jets.

Naveed @naveed360.bsky.social · 4d

Ishaq Dar, Pakistan’s foreign minister, told reporters in August that Sri Lanka might also join the entente. “Against the backdrop of sweeping global change, the south Asia and Indian Ocean regions are undergoing a structural realignment,” Chinese scholar Liu Zongyi wrote in GT.

Naveed @naveed360.bsky.social · 4d

In June, hackles were raised in New Delhi after Beijing hosted an “inaugural” trilateral meeting between Bangladesh, China and Pakistan in Kunming, China, at which they agreed to co-operate on everything from investment to infrastructure and to set up a joint working group.

Naveed @naveed360.bsky.social · 4d

In Bangladesh, Beijing’s charm offensive has gained momentum since Hasina, a staunch India ally, was brought down by student protests last year. Chinese diplomats have built close relations with Yunus, her replacement, whose first state visit was to meet Xi in Beijing in March.

Naveed @naveed360.bsky.social · 4d

India only has good ties with three smaller ones — Sri Lanka, the Maldives and Bhutan. But China has a presence in both Sri Lanka and the Maldives and it has been encroaching on Bhutan’s borders.
www.ft.com/content/4e51...

China’s charm offensive in India’s backyard

Beijing’s new diplomatic forays in south Asia have stoked New Delhi fears of being ‘encircled’

Naveed @naveed360.bsky.social · 4d

Beijing officials have held 22 high-profile meetings this year with counterparts from Pakistan — on track to match last year’s 30. Among the smaller countries around India, Beijing has conducted at least 6 high-profile meetings with Nepali officials and at least 5 in Sri Lanka.

Naveed @naveed360.bsky.social · 4d

FT research shows Chinese officials have held at least seven high-profile meetings with Bangladeshi politicians in the 14 months since the interim government of Muhammad Yunus, a former social finance entrepreneur, took office.

Naveed @naveed360.bsky.social · 4d

"In this environment, we come to books more and more via platforms: celebrity book clubs, TikTok, Amazon."

Naveed @naveed360.bsky.social · 4d

"What was the terrain? I still regard reading through such a filter, but now the ecosystem has been altered—scarred by the isolating subdivisions of social media, flooded with distracting videos and clickbait." www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...

The Writing-Advice Book That Teaches Us How to Read

In a world of dwindling reviews, the author Lydia Davis’s new work charts a more serendipitous path to reading.

www.theatlantic.com

Naveed @naveed360.bsky.social · 4d

"When I was a kid—reading wildly, indiscriminately—I thought of literature as an unmapped territory, which meant that reading was a form of active exploration, in which we consciously engage, making forays and taking risks. What were the parameters of this landscape?"

Naveed @naveed360.bsky.social · 4d

Though the visit was only meant to last 72 hours, it went on for five days. “Five days! Five endless days! It hurt so much,” Danièle Klein exclaimed when she took the stand on Jan. 23 as a plaintiff in Sarkozy’s trial.

A brilliant piece @newlinesmag.bsky.social

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A Plane Crashed in the Desert. Thirty-Five Years Later, It Would Help Take Down Nicolas Sarkozy

The French presidential hopeful used clemency for the perpetrators of the UTA 772 bombing to secure campaign funding from Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi

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Naveed @naveed360.bsky.social · 5d

Vladivostok — like San Francisco, at the tip of a peninsula — expanded toward the north. New tramlines, theaters, cinemas and a funicular were built. But Khrushchev’s aims conflicted with tight security as HQ of the Pacific Fleet. It was closed to foreigners, and even Soviets.