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[Karin April @KarinApril2]

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Subjects include history, psychology, biology, physics, philosophy & others.

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[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. He has devoted his life to the study of mixture and plurality, and "in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures."

[Jeremy Konyndyk @JeremyKonyndyk]

The closure of @USAID by 20-something DOGE bros (who probably thought "screwworm" was a hilarious joke) will haunt us for years to come.

[Candida Jones 🇪🇺 @candidaj]

A story about Jon Snow..
We got my Dad's terrible diagnosis thirty years ago while I was working with Jon. We didn't know each other well then but when Jon caught me crying at work, he asked me what was wrong and he listened and was kind. Then...

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: A federal judge said the Trump administration must restart applications for asylum and other immigration processing. https://t.co/J6qdEVUSM9

[eNCA @eNCA]

[BREAKING] Ratings agency Fitch has upgraded South Africa’s long-term foreign and local currency credit ratings from 'BB-' to ‘BB’ with a stable outlook. This is the first upgrade from the ratings agency in nearly 21 years. Tune in to #eNCA, channel #DStv403.

[Alzheimer's Society @alzheimerssoc]

Veteran news anchor Jon Snow has shared that he’s living with dementia, speaking publicly for the first time to raise awareness of a condition affecting around 1 million people across the UK.

Jon and his wife, neurologist Dr Precious Lunga, are supporting Alzheimer’s Society @alzheimerssoc and shared the story of Jon’s diagnosis in @DailyMail as part of our Defeating Dementia campaign with the newspaper.

https://t.co/Sy08OWXmms

We’ve partnered with Jon, in association with @Channel4, on a powerful new documentary airing on 20 June. Jon Snow: A Last Big Story looks at how he’s navigating life with dementia, and how, when we all come together, we can change the story.

Thank you to Jon and Precious for their courage and openness to bring much-needed attention to dementia 💙

@jonsnowC4

Photo credit: Cynthia R Matonhodze

[SA Reserve Bank @SAReserveBank]

[ICYMI] The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) hosted the inaugural Tito Mboweni Memorial Lecture, honouring the legacy of Governor No. 8.

Former President of the Deutsche Bundesbank Professor Axel A Weber delivered the lecture, titled: 'Reducing global macroeconomic imbalances: Current challenges and potential policy responses’

The event, which took place on the sidelines of the Group of 30 meetings in Cape Town, was attended by Singapore President Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Former President Kgalema Motlanthe, Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana, Singapore’s High Commissioner to South Africa, Zainal Arif Mantaha.

Watch the full lecture here: https://t.co/ugqqdkkLZ0

#TitoMboweniMemorialLecture26 hashtag #TMMLecture26

[Catholic Sat @CatholicSat]

Being late to his audience with the German Catholic Student Association this morning, Pope Leo XIV jokes in English that the German are very punctual before adding in perfect German “Ich bin ein Ausländer”; ‘I am a foreigner’ 😂

[The Rest Is Politics @RestIsPolitics]

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨

Join @campbellclaret and @RoryStewartUK as they discuss Pope Leo's encyclical on Artificial Intelligence. Do they agree that AI could help build the next Tower of Babel?

Plus: Tony Blair's essay on the Labour Party, featuring some agreeable disagreement from Alastair.

Link in the replies 👇

[Declan Walsh @declanwalsh]

How gold is driving the spread of Ebola.
Photos by @ArletteBashizi
https://t.co/t1LvOfOgXM

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

NEW: Ten days ago, Pope Leo XIV demanded guardrails on artificial intelligence.

Major shifts in Trump’s AI policy have followed.

Last night, the pope’s new ambassador stood before Washington’s AI industry and said their entire future must be built on human dignity.

The Leo revolution is just beginning. https://t.co/PcXn5Wmke3

[Wits Centre for Journalism @Journ_SA]

APPLY: Journalists in Africa looking to collaborate on cross-border investigations with journalists or news outlets in Europe are eligible for a @journalismfund environmental investigative journalism grant.

📅 Deadline: 6 August.
Details: https://t.co/D0DEfneLkk

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

ICE should have to report every death or injury that occurs in proximity to its custody. Full stop. https://t.co/cD0N3Whw2E

[Reuters Africa @ReutersAfrica]

A plan by U.S.-listed Equinix to build two data centres in Cape Town should not be approved without full disclosure of its water, power and environmental impact, a formal objection lodged with city planners and seen by Reuters showed. https://t.co/VRWHN9spin

[Paul Graham @PMGeducator]

Mavuso Msimang launches his book in conversation with his daughter Sisonke @LoveBooksJozi

[Ferial Haffajee @ferialhaffajee]

Comment: We should hang our heads in shame.
Here are the countries repatriating citizens from SA during anti-foreigner protests https://t.co/gtwQoBoy3y

[History ZAR @HistorySAZAR]

Miriam Makeba celebrates first visit to Cape Town after exile, c 1992. Credit: Steve Gordon

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

Colm Flynn is one of the best young journalists in the world covering the Catholic Church.

I encourage all of you to follow him and check out his remarkable work.

[Colm Flynn @colmflynnire]

Montse was my direct boss for the past four years and green-lit my documentaries from places including Iraq, Mongolia, South Sudan, Papua New Guinea, Algeria, Lebanon, and Turkey. Under Montse, we covered everything from the reopening of Notre Dame in Paris to scandals at the Vatican Bank, produced long-form interviews for both online and TV, and so much more. I will miss her at EWTN, but I think this is a fantastic appointment!

[RSAJudiciary @OCJ_RSA]

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