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A 40-year-old goalkeeper nobody had heard of three weeks ago just moved the U.S. State Department.
Here's how football is quietly doing what diplomacy often can't. ⚽️⚽️⚽️🧵
@RepJeffries@marcorubio@Vozinha1@EliteSportGK Here's 2 every team in this tournament, and 2 the next unknown name about 2 become a household one. May the World Cup keep finding people like Vozinha — proof that greatness doesn't ask where u r from, only whether u showed up. Anything is possible. ⚽@vozinha1@FIFAcom
A 40-year-old goalkeeper nobody had heard of three weeks ago just moved the U.S. State Department.
Here's how football is quietly doing what diplomacy often can't. ⚽️⚽️⚽️🧵
@RepJeffries@marcorubio@Vozinha1@EliteSportGK Sport doesn't replace policy. But it keeps reminding the people who make policy that there are real families on the other side of every bureaucratic line.
A virus boarded a cruise ship in the South Atlantic.
13 countries mobilised. 42-day quarantine. 3 deaths.
The lab that identified it was in Johannesburg.
Meanwhile: 695 confirmed dead from Ebola in DRC
and Uganda. One story trended. One didn't.
The full story 🧵
@NICD_SA@AfricaCDC@ECDC_EU@WHO
The World Cup starts today.
Quick public health note:
For the next 39 days, symptoms may include elevated heart rate, sleep deprivation, irrational optimism, and shouting at televisions.
There is no cure. I checked. ⚽😅 #WorldCup2026
June 11, 2010: South Africa vs Mexico opens the first World Cup on African soil. Vuvuzelas. Tshabalala. That goal.
June 11, 2026: Mexico vs South Africa opens the World Cup again — same fixture, 16 years later, at the Azteca.
Some things are just written. 🇿🇦🇲🇽 #FIFAWorldCup
@ChirauMel@edmnangagwa Extending a presidential term 2 “finish projects” confuses “leadership” wt “longevity”. National progress depends on strong institutions, not indefinite incumbency. Even leaders of trillion‑dollar economies deliver within 4‑year terms—accountability drives results, not extra yrs
@ChirauMel@edmnangagwa The precedent is dangerous! Next will be CAB4 extending the definition of each term to 10 years , then CAB5 amending definition of the term to 15 years …CAB 6 …and so forth; all under the cover of saying we are not removing “term limits”! Where does it end?
The UN Secretary-General @antonioguterres just released a landmark HIV/AIDS report 2 days ago.
Almost nobody is talking about it.
Here’s what’s in it — and why it matters to every person living with or affected by HIV in Africa and beyond. 🧵
🔬 @MedExplained101@UNAIDS @WinnieByanyi @UN@CDCGlobal@PEPFAR@GlobalFund
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🚨🚨🚨BREAKING NEWS!!!🚨🚨🚨
Court strikes down USCIS policies that froze 39 countries immigration cases. The #USCISpause left people in “indeterminate legal limbo” solely due to birthplace. Judge: this violates immigration law and basic rule of law principles.