Barbara Šurk

Journalist @AP in France. Mediterranean. Balkans. Previously AP Middle East & Gulf correspondent and @PoliticoEurope news editor.

[pengovsky @pengovsky]

Zadnja iteracija vojne v Iranu traja že 14 dni, konca pa niti pod razno ni na vidiku. V #MetinČaj S13E14 sva z @DC43 zato povabila @BarbaraSurk, ki ta del sveta pozna kot lasten žep. Dobra in dolga epizoda. #IranWar https://t.co/JCz4B5jGRS

[Kelly Grotke (kgrotke.bsky.social) @kgrotke2]

This part of Mazen's story - that Dutch authorities treated his advocacy as "vacations" (not "proper" work), which contributed to a situation in which he was eventually evicted - is beyond shameful, it is complicit. W/o this pressure, he might have lived to see a free Syria.

[Lisa Hajjar @lisahajjar]

Today, in a landmark verdict, a jury found government contractor CACI liable for the torture of Iraqi men at Abu Ghraib in 2003-04 and ordered it to pay each of the three plaintiffs $3 million in compensatory damages and $11 million in punitive damages.

https://t.co/P0Vgnc17gR

[Dylan Collins @collinsdyl]

Beirut is blanketed in smoke this morning after yet another overnight Israeli strike on the city

[Barbara Šurk @BarbaraSurk]

“Normally people used to come here to watch a movie. Today we are all at the theater and the movie is being played outside,” Istanbouli said of the ongoing war that has reached Beirut’s famous Hamra street and the city’s oldest cinema. ⁦@bmroue⁩ https://t.co/cHr6vp0ndh

[Maha Yahya @mahamyahya]

Horrific scenes coming out of #Nabatiyeh today. The municipality in the Ottoman Serrail pulverized, the municipal council & crisis cell killed in #Israeli airstrikes this morning. No words …

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

"I thought those fighting hard for peace in Gaza would deserve it."

Toshiyuki Mimaki, the Japanese anti-nuclear campaigner whose group, Nihon Hidankyo, won the Nobel Peace Prize, says he was surprised they won the award instead of people working to stop Israel’s war on Gaza.

[Bassem Mroue باسم مروه @bmroue]

#US will send an air defense battery and American troops to #Israel to bolster defenses against #Iran ⁦@lbaldor⁩ (from @AP) https://t.co/NhYz91rZYa

[Barbara Šurk @BarbaraSurk]

Everyone is afraid, but, “Still, they will not flee. They will not make the mistake again,” said Jomana Elkhalili. Nowhere in Gaza is safe, she said, referring to southern Gaza, where most of the population is huddled in dismal tent camps w Israeli airstrikes hitting shelters.

[Barbara Šurk @BarbaraSurk]

Netanyahu mulls plan to empty northern Gaza of civilians and cut off aid to 100.000s. https://t.co/10I5Zguceg

[Metina lista @metinalista]

NOVO! Vabimo na #MetinČaj 284: @BarbaraSurk – Kje smo leto dni po napadu Hamasa na Izrael

https://t.co/YgcylnxKRC

Ob prvi obletnici napada Hamasa na Izrael se pogovarjamo o tem, kje smo danes: kdo je varnejši, kakšno vlogo igrajo velesile, kakšna so ozadja tega spopada in kako daleč segajo njegove korenine.

Razpravljamo tudi o tem, kaj počne Evropska unija, ali lahko pričakujemo spremembe po ameriških volitvah in kakšna je odgovornost palestinskih voditeljev. Barbara nam zaupa tudi več o svojem najnovejšem projektu – knjigi esejev iz Palestine. Klepetali smo skoraj dve uri.

[New Caledonia News @NewCaledonia123]

France has a new government. Can it solve the #NewCaledonia crisis after months of deadly unrest?

@AP @BarbaraSurk

https://t.co/SbS3MN9qaO

[Barbara Šurk @BarbaraSurk]

France has a new government. Can it solve the New Caledonia crisis after months of deadly unrest that stemmed from Macron’s attempt to amended French constitution and change voting lists in the Pacific territory at the expense of Indigenous Kanak people. https://t.co/RGDv1KUUOt

[Barbara Šurk @BarbaraSurk]

He has lost track of how many eye operations he has performed in multiple hospitals, surviving on two hours of sleep before starting on the next operation. He has managed to save some patients’ sight. many will never see again after tech devises exploded https://t.co/sKWuc5iEmR

[Barbara Šurk @BarbaraSurk]

Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury who dedicated much of his writings to the Palestinian cause and taught at universities around the world, making him one of Lebanon’s most prominent intellectuals, has died. He was 76. https://t.co/s5NYRct8l9

[Barbara Šurk @BarbaraSurk]

The IOC repeatedly declared her and Lin qualified to participate in the Olympics, and it has decried the murky testing standards and untransparent governance of the IBA, which was banished entirely from the Olympics last year in an unprecedented punishment for a governing body.

[Barbara Šurk @BarbaraSurk]

“Because after the media frenzy and after the victory, there was a mix of joy and at the same time, I was greatly affected, because honestly, it wasn’t an easy thing to go through at all. It was something that harms human dignity.” https://t.co/EhNhtxulOh

[Barbara Šurk @BarbaraSurk]

Kaylia Nemour of Algeria by way of France soars to gold in thrilling uneven bars final at Paris Olympics. https://t.co/PLonoRBPYe

[Barbara Šurk @BarbaraSurk]

@AdisaBusuladzic It is by my AP colleagues  Alanis Thames and Megan Janetsky dear @AdisaBusuladzic

[Barbara Šurk @BarbaraSurk]

She was overcome with emotion after it was over. She sat down for a moment after she was declared the winner. She then got up, bent down in the center of the ring and pretended to scribble on the mat. She pumped her fists and wiped tears from her face. https://t.co/yceDV9FifA