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During the siege of Leningrad, botanists in charge of an irreplaceable seed collection had to protect it from fire, rodents – and hunger https://t.co/GdcsBFqcff

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4. Can a mass shooter demand a good death? The strange case that tested the limits of justice, by @gilestremlett https://t.co/gVuekXJcYV

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A short thread of our long reads on assisted dying:

1. Death on demand: has euthanasia gone too far? by Christopher de Bellaigue https://t.co/mXf3WB5u6F

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3. ‘My death is not my own’: the limits of legal euthanasia https://t.co/6JWczmWAMw

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this makes for painful reading--but it should be read. thank you to Longreads for continuing to provide such important essays, articles, memoirs.

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The inspiring scientists who saved the world’s first seed bank, by @SimonParkin https://t.co/GdcsBFpEpH

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On 13 November 2015, 130 people were murdered in Paris by Islamist extremists. Six years later, the trial began.

Emmanuel Carrère attended court every day to try to understand the killers and hear from those whose lives had been irrevocably changed https://t.co/2as5hiIhWU

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Emmanuel Carrère inside the Paris attacks trial: 'A man stood up and said: "Stop it. What are you doing?" One of the killers shot him'
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Inside the Paris attacks trial, by Emmanuel Carrère

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From our archive:

The terror of living under siege as a child, by @ZarlashtH

https://t.co/2AWYvRQSkO

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Over the past 20 years, the symbol of remembrance for the war dead has become increasingly ubiquitous – and a culture of poppy policing has grown with it https://t.co/w2OiVPde0H

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Has poppymania gone too far? by @samirashackle

https://t.co/w2OiVPde0H

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The most read piece from our archive over the past week:

How to move a country: Fiji’s radical plan to escape rising sea levels, by @MsKateLyons
https://t.co/PpdHHpOUzP

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My longread on ‘The Mountain’ - Palestinian journalist Wael Al Dahdouh, and the killings of Palestinian journalists and their families in Gaza.

https://t.co/zUyeVK5KFE

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Canada's deputy foreign minister has publicly accused India's home minister Amit Shah of being behind a recent series of plots to murder Sikh separatists on Canadian soil.

Who is Amit Shah? Read this definitive profile to find out https://t.co/C737KxgMXQ

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After his wife and two of his children were killed in Gaza, Al Jazeera journalist Wael al-Dahdouh became famous around the world for his decision to keep reporting. But this was just the start of his heartbreaking journey https://t.co/D69Ftwj3Gu

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"I couldn’t cry over my children like everyone else": the tragedy of Palestinian journalist Wael al-Dahdouh, by @NesrineMalik

https://t.co/D69Ftwj3Gu