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[Serene Assir @SirenaAssir]

"Boys have nothing to do in the kitchen, so I keep my books there," said Nafeesa, who attends a secret school. "If my brother comes to know about this, he will beat me." Check out @AFP's powerful stories on #Afghanistan, a year on from #Taliban takeover

[Serene Assir @SirenaAssir]

Every parent’s worst nightmare

[Rebecca Bailey @BeiJia_B]

It's the day of lovers etc etc... So here's my anti-Valentine piece from the Olympics figure skating. Immensely indebted to @rockerskating for talking to me for it.
https://t.co/r6eTEsZg4v

[Serene Assir @SirenaAssir]

For Shala, a return to female confinement is her biggest fear and now she helps organise the resistance. "I just want to be an example for young women, to show them that I will not give up the fight," she tells @AFP's @RobaHusseini #Afghanistan #women

[Dylan Collins @collinsdyl]

Mired in poverty, dozens of #Lebanese join #jihadsits in #Iraq

Good read by @AFP's @LayalAFP from #Tripoli, where hardship is helping #IS recruitment

📸 @JOSEPHEID1
📽️ Me

https://t.co/Y6yj2wXqxP

[Serene Assir @SirenaAssir]

Harrowing interview with Merline, a woman who fled a violent husband in Cameroon with her toddler in tow, and is now in France seeking asylum. She told @AFP's @tperroteau she wasn't thinking about going to Europe when she left. "I just ran," she said. https://t.co/WUtrewRdVV

[Joe @joedyke]

This really shouldn't need saying but here goes:

Smugglers are a symptom, not a cause.

People don't travel across countries on foot and get on perilous boats because a smuggler suggested it.

If you believe that you have clearly never met anyone that took such journeys.

[Serene Assir @SirenaAssir]

“Being fearless doesn't mean not being afraid, it just means knowing how to handle your fear." Extraordinary interview with #NobelPeacePrize winner Maria Ressa by @AFP’s Manila bureau chief @allijackson28

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

#UPDATES "We do need help on so many fronts, it is so much more difficult and dangerous to be a journalist today," Philippine journalist Maria Ressa tells @AFP, describing her Nobel Peace Prize as "like a shot of adrenalin" https://t.co/SyQwwIi6Wv

[Jean-Marc Mojon @mojoinparis]

We're hiring! ❗❗
@AFP #Beirut is looking for a journalist who writes in English to join its wonderful newsroom

➡️ Candidates should be fluent in Arabic. Reporting experience in Lebanon and Syria is a plus

Check application details here:
https://t.co/5ogZDjAWkT

[Serene Assir @SirenaAssir]

I couldn’t agree more - this podcast blew my mind. Amazing what our colleagues have achieved

[Serene Assir @SirenaAssir]

Read this interview with a brave #trans #Afghan woman who defied the #Taliban to share her testimony https://t.co/Aj0ZElE2v9

[Serene Assir @SirenaAssir]

Extremely powerful story package from @AFP’s @JamesEdgar @MarinePennetier ex-#Afghanistan on terror of being #LGBTQ under #Taliban rule. Proud to work for this news agency, horrified by state of our world https://t.co/ynkNR26b0O

[Serene Assir @SirenaAssir]

Here's your chance to join @AFP, one of the world's top news orgs. We're looking for dynamic journalists to join our desk in Hong Kong. You'd get to work with a star team of journalists across Asia and the Pacific -- from Afghanistan to Fiji. Apply! https://t.co/mVetVYa0qq

[Serene Assir @SirenaAssir]

So after 6 mostly marvellous years in Paris, it’s an enormous privilege for me to join @AFP’s stellar Asia-Pacific team as deputy head of desk. I look forward to working with and learning from all my colleagues, both in Hong Kong and across this vast region. Photo by @MohGhn

[Serene Assir @SirenaAssir]

@AlbionLand1 @guyjackson42 @rdcParisAFP Poco a poco Albion!

[Serene Assir @SirenaAssir]

@guyjackson42 @rdcParisAFP Yess! It’s really happening!

[Serene Assir @SirenaAssir]

@kjalee @patrickgaley Thank you corazon 🥰💜

[Serene Assir @SirenaAssir]

@AskPayPal hi I have received an email from you directing me to what appears to be a suspicious link after I reported the theft of my husband’s phone and Paypal account. Please suggest another way to contact you as I am unable to chat with you using the suspicious link. Thank you

[Serene Assir @SirenaAssir]

@AskPayPal Hi I sent you a DM please contact me urgently as my husband’s phone has been stolen and his accounts compromised. We need to make sure that his account is secured immediately. Thank you