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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations Maria Corina Machado for being named Nobel Peace Prize laureate 2026! A great achievement for Venezuela #Nobel

🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 3d

Paddle boarding #SUP down the Regent's Canal to Limehouse Basin - formerly Regent's Canal Dock - and up the Cut to the Lee Navigation. Discovered the middle pound of the Hertford Union Canal drained

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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 3d

Kudos to @chicago.suntimes.com photographers & editor Ashlee Rezin for impressive coverage of resistance to militarised behaviour of masked officers

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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 6d

UN @unhcr.org Filippo Grandi tells governments that US deportation practices violate the law while lamenting loss of contributions to support global displacement needs - www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

UN refugee agency chief suggests that US deportation practices violate the law

The head of the U.N. refugee agency has suggested that President Donald Trump’s America has carried out deportation practices that violate international law

www.washingtonpost.com

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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 4d

Somali-Led Cartels Are Fueling Kenya’s Real Estate Boom With Minnesota Fraud Money from American 🇺🇸 social welfare programs - Kenya Insights - kenyainsights.com/a-pattern-em...

A Pattern Emerges: How Somali-Led Cartels Are Fueling Kenya’s Real Estate Boom With American Fraud Money

Real estate agents in Nairobi’s upmarket estates—Kilimani, Kileleshwa, Lavington, and even Karen report a surge in cash purchases by Somali-Kenyan buyers over the past five years.

kenyainsights.com

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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 6d

UN @unhcr.org Filippo Grandi tells governments that US deportation practices violate the law while lamenting loss of contributions to support global displacement needs - www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

UN refugee agency chief suggests that US deportation practices violate the law

The head of the U.N. refugee agency has suggested that President Donald Trump’s America has carried out deportation practices that violate international law

www.washingtonpost.com

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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 6d

C'est si beau!

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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 6d

Another belated #BigPaddleCleanUp below Lock 8 along the Regents Canal & Hertford Union today.🙏

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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 11d

Opening tonight in Three Rooms, Walthamstow, Usaydh Agha, Irina Prentice, & Kate Brooks "Reality Check" exhibition of paintings, sculpture, & photography

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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 13d

A belated #BigPaddleCleanup with @paddleuk.bsky.social along the Hertford Union and Regents canals

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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 13d

Hvala vama! Divno!

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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 14d

A brilliant day out from Southend-on-Sea on the world's only surviving ocean-going paddle steamer, the Waverley, paddling up the River Thames, passing Gravesend, and under Tower Bridge

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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 14d

The clipper Stad Amsterdam leaving London's Docklands this evening

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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 16d

Cuts to humanitarian aid budgets by UK FCDO, USA & other donors mean hospitals lack vital medicines + fuel for generator's , leading yo higher mortality rates in pregnancy by @katlay.bsky.social - www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Kat Lay (@katlay.bsky.social)

Journalist - global health correspondent at The Guardian ([email protected])

katlay.bsky.social

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Kriszta Satori @fulelo.bsky.social · 15d

#BBCNews - Police break up ring trafficking Kenyans to fight for Russia in Ukraine
www.bbc.com/news/article...
#UkraineWar

Kenyan police break up ring trafficking people to Russia to fight in Ukraine

Recruitment materials, travel documents, and job offer letters were seized during the raid.

www.bbc.com

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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 16d

Cuts to humanitarian aid budgets by UK FCDO, USA & other donors mean hospitals lack vital medicines + fuel for generator's , leading yo higher mortality rates in pregnancy by @katlay.bsky.social - www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Kat Lay (@katlay.bsky.social)

Journalist - global health correspondent at The Guardian ([email protected])

katlay.bsky.social

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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 17d

HM King Abdullah II of @jordanfirst.bsky.social Jordan delivered a prescient address before the UN General Assembly this week calling out decades of abuses faced by Palestinian civilians. His measured words should be listened to by everyone - www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jXp...

🇯🇴 Jordan - King Addresses United Nations General Debate, 80th Session | #UNGA

YouTube video by United Nations

www.youtube.com

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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 16d

Humanitarian aid cuts by EU and USA have left asylum seeking women and children on the streets in Athens, 🇬🇷 www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

They fled war and sexual violence and found a safe space in Athens. Then the aid cuts hit

Thirty women and their children found themselves out on the streets when their shelter closed. It was a direct result of US and European governments slashing their aid budgets

www.theguardian.com

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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 17d

HM King Abdullah II of @jordanfirst.bsky.social Jordan delivered a prescient address before the UN General Assembly this week calling out decades of abuses faced by Palestinian civilians. His measured words should be listened to by everyone - www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jXp...

🇯🇴 Jordan - King Addresses United Nations General Debate, 80th Session | #UNGA

YouTube video by United Nations

www.youtube.com

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Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 19d

✅ Here’s the alternative crude supply route from Croatia to Hungary and Slovakia: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · Sep 13

As Ethiopia bans the import of petrol & diesel vehicles, consumers and transport companies examine options to go electric as power grid adapts -- www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Powering up: how Ethiopia is becoming an unlikely leader in the electric vehicle revolution

A country plagued by power cuts has become the first to ban imports of petrol and diesel cars, as a new dam brings hopes of cheap green energy

www.theguardian.com

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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 20d

As USA reportedly weighs sanctions on entire International Criminal Court ICC, body pays staff in advance -- www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Exclusive: US could hit entire International Criminal Court with sanctions soon

The United States is considering imposing sanctions as soon as this week against the entire International Criminal Court, putting the court's day-to-day operations in jeopardy in retaliation for investigations of suspected Israeli war crimes.

www.reuters.com

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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 26d

The only fisher permitted within 25 meters of a canal lock are creatures like this Blue Heron, deep within the Limehouse Basin lock onto the Thames

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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 26d

The only fisher permitted within 25 meters of a canal lock are creatures like this Blue Heron, deep within the Limehouse Basin lock onto the Thames

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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · Sep 13

As Ethiopia bans the import of petrol & diesel vehicles, consumers and transport companies examine options to go electric as power grid adapts -- www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Powering up: how Ethiopia is becoming an unlikely leader in the electric vehicle revolution

A country plagued by power cuts has become the first to ban imports of petrol and diesel cars, as a new dam brings hopes of cheap green energy

www.theguardian.com

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