Drew Ambrose
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Drew Ambrose
@drewambrose.bsky.social
Investigative Journalist, News Doco maker and International correspondent , Programmes Unit, Al Jazeera English
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Our @ajiunit.com investigation into Myanmar’s civil war is online. It exposes abuses on the battlefield and beyond aje.io/junta
Exposing the hidden horrors on Myanmar’s battlefields I Al Jazeera Investigations
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Using never-before-seen videos, rare testimonies and leaked military files, Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit exposes abuses and battlefield weaknesses in the civil war raging across Myanmar. Watch: aje.io/junta #MyanmarExposed
November 8, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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"Myanmar: War with the Junta" is the first documentary from #MyanmarExposed, an @ajiunit.com reporting project investigating abuses and battlefield dynamics in the Myanmar civil war. Al Jazeera's Ali Fowle discusses the film's significance in understanding the conflict.

Watch now: aje.io/junta
November 10, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Australian state of Victoria has passed landmark legislation to establish the nation's first treaty with indigenous peoples in a historic step towards justice, truth & self-determination. New from @hrw.org www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...
Australia Adopts First Treaty with Indigenous Peoples
The Australian state of Victoria on October 30 passed landmark legislation to establish the nation’s first treaty with First Nations people.
www.hrw.org
November 10, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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How the BBC kowtowed to Boris Johnson. Amazing that, even though we now know what a corrupt, mendacious, useless Prime Minister Johnson was, the BBC are kowtowing to him again
November 9, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Our @ajiunit.com investigation into Myanmar’s civil war is online. It exposes abuses on the battlefield and beyond aje.io/junta
Exposing the hidden horrors on Myanmar’s battlefields I Al Jazeera Investigations
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
aje.io
November 9, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Among the roughly 1,350 workers laid off at the U.S. State Department last week were senior analysts in the bureau of intelligence, including people who specialize in Russia and Ukraine, according to several current and former U.S. officials.
State Dept. Layoffs Hit Russia and Ukraine Analysts
A former senior U.S. official said it was “shortsighted” to consolidate the department’s well-respected intelligence arm.
trib.al
July 16, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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On its 25th anniversary, the Myall Creek Memorial stands as a quiet rebuke to the national silence surrounding Australia’s Frontier Wars.

Myall Creek Memorial marks 25 years amid ongoing silence on Frontier Wars
~ Dr John Jiggens
Myall Creek Memorial marks 25 years amid ongoing silence on Frontier Wars
On its 25th anniversary, the Myall Creek Memorial stands as a quiet rebuke to the national silence surrounding Australia’s Frontier Wars.
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July 16, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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India's Indira IVF Hospital files for IPO via confidential route reut.rs/45d3Hcv
India's Indira IVF Hospital files for IPO via confidential route
Indian fertility services provider Indira IVF Hospital IDII.NS has filed draft papers confidentially with the country's markets regulator, a newspaper advertisement showed on Wednesday.
reut.rs
July 16, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Life inside Iraq’s ‘Forbidden Zone’

https://www.europesays.com/2037816/

Simona Foltyn BBC World Service Reporting fromIraqi Kurdistan Phil Caller For generations Sherwen Sergeli and his family have…
Life inside Iraq's 'Forbidden Zone' - EUROPE SAYS
BBC World Service
www.europesays.com
April 30, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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Another brave ‘bridge man’ in China is forcibly disappeared. Chinese authorities detained 27-year-old Mei Shilin (梅世林) who put up three pro-democracy banners on an overpass in Chengdu. His current situation & whereabouts are unknown. @hrw.org's @yalkun.bsky.social www.hrw.org/news/2025/04...
Another ‘Bridge Man’ in China Forcibly Disappeared
On April 15, Mei Shilin put up three banners on an overpass outside Chengdu’s Chadianzi Metro Station in China’s southwestern Sichuan province. The authorities reportedly detained Mei soon afterward. ...
www.hrw.org
May 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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RFK Jr. wants fluoride out of drinking water. Oregon shows what’s coming. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/...
RFK Jr. wants fluoride out of drinking water. Oregon shows what’s coming.
Fluoride is added to water to strengthen teeth and reduce cavities, but communities are abandoning the practice because of health concerns.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2024 at 2:21 PM
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Before global leaders take the problem of plastic pollution into their hands this month, Japanese manicurist Naomi Arimoto is putting it into her fingernails reut.rs/3Oi9Uf1
Japanese manicurist takes on plastic pollution, one nail at a time
Before global leaders take the problem of plastic pollution into their hands this month, Japanese manicurist Naomi Arimoto is putting it into her fingernails.
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November 20, 2024 at 4:14 AM
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Whoa, Pickleball. Easy.

Block or charge?
November 18, 2024 at 4:57 AM
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“We’re seeing the ‘Philippinization’ of America,” says the Filipina journalist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa. What could happen in America has already occurred in the Philippines. But people should “hold the line” and “stay committed to [their] values” www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtST...
'Hold the line': Nobel laureate says Americans should learn from the Philippines’ experience
YouTube video by MSNBC
www.youtube.com
November 17, 2024 at 11:05 AM
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Make America Healthy Again lasted less than a Scaramucci
November 17, 2024 at 5:56 PM
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I feel like—ten years into the Trump era—journalists should have better language for what is happening that goes beyond verbs like shocking, upending, overturning, frustrating...

Every educated person understands Donald Trump is at war with the United States itself.

He's doing violence to America.
Trump Signals a ‘Seismic Shift,’ Shocking the Washington Establishment
The president-elect’s early transition moves amount to a generational test of a system as he seeks to rewrite the balance of power and install lieutenants to blow up key parts of government.
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2024 at 3:31 AM
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Stop with the "echo chamber" junk.

I don't need to be called a Jewish or gay slur for the 50th time to understand there are lots of MAGA out there and they vote.

I want a place where I can exchange empathy and ideas of how to drag us out of this mess. X ain't it.
www.ft.com/content/6596...
With Bluesky, the social media echo chamber is back in vogue
The great migration from Elon Musk’s X has seen users, especially progressives, retreat into one particular silo
www.ft.com
November 18, 2024 at 2:43 AM
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it would be so funny if this is how his presidency ended. months before his term ends, he just walks into the rainforest and is never seen again
Joe Biden becomes the first sitting US President to visit the Amazon Rainforest.
November 17, 2024 at 10:29 PM
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I have firsthand information that US consul general to #HongKong Gregory May offered himself to be interviewed by the South Morning Post - and was flatly rejected. Real arrogance is allowing your Canada-based opinionista to take shots at a diplomatic representative and refusing a right of reply.
November 18, 2024 at 12:00 AM
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#BREAKINGNEWS: Former radio host Alan Jones has been arrested amid a NSW police investigation into allegations of indecent assaults. www.theguardian.com/p/xxvjgf?CMP...
Alan Jones arrested amid NSW police investigation into alleged indecent assaults
Police say the former Sydney radio host was arrested by specialist detectives. He has previously denied all allegations against him
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2024 at 9:47 PM