What a historical moment.
Today, the world learned the identity of Caesar, the defector who smuggled 53,275 photos of detainees tortured & killed by the Syrian regime: Farid al-Mathhan, formerly of the Forensic Evidence Dept of the Damascus Military Police. He's from Daraa.
🇬🇪Occupied Georgia. Let’s talk about Abkhazia, an occupied part of Georgia. This small, Black Sea coastal territory has been at the center of historical conflicts, ethnic tensions, and geopolitical struggles.
🧵Here is the background and why this week’s unrest matters so much
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This woman voted in Moldova’s election on Sunday, then asked a surprised election monitor where she gets paid. So I decided to ask what she’d been promised…
The authorities believe Russia has been channeling-in money to buy votes: that Moscow has not ‘let go’ of #Moldova
Things are getting more dramatic in Moldova's EU referendum by the minute. Currently, the "yes" vote has scraped ahead -- by 79 votes. Out of 1.5mn cast. A few thousand still to be counted, all from polling stations located outside of the country.
Drone footage of today's rally for Georgia's European future 🇬🇪🇪🇺
This Saturday Georgia holds parliamentary elections which will determine the country's fate and whether it continues on its Western democratic course.
🇰🇵🇰🇷SEOUL (@CNN) — North Korea says it found a crashed South Korean military drone in Pyongyang. DPRK state media just published this picture today… DPRK’s defense ministry says another ROK military drone incursion would prompt “a declaration of war.”
North Korea becoming a co-combatant in the largest land war in Europe since World War II seems like a front-page news story to me, but maybe I'm wrong...
Russian sabotage and violence, cyber and electronic interference, and subversion are not limited to border countries like Estonia.
Russia has perpetrated attacks across the EU and NATO and clearly considers itself at war with the West.
"A total of 1442 attacks on Ukraine’s health care system have been documented since February 24, 2022,
742 attacks damaged or destroyed hospitals and clinics,
210 health workers have been killed"
Last week’s brutal attack by Russia on Okhmatdyt National Children’s Hospital in Kyiv was the latest example of civilian infrastructure being targeted in Ukraine, a clear violation of international human rights and humanitarian law.
https://t.co/Gx0pF5XCNc
Laureaten Belfius #Persprijzen "TV & Video (NL)": Inge Vrancken, Rudi Vranckx, Jan Vleugels, Jochen Verstraete en Mark Devisscher met "Syrië, de giftige oorlog" (VRT NWS, Canvas)
Proficiat @vrancki@RudiVranckx@jvleugels, Jochen Verstraete, Mark Devisscher, @vrtnws en @canvastv!
Inge Vrancken en Rudi Vranckx zijn als enige Vlaamse journalisten genomineerd voor de De Loep 2022, de Vlaams-Nederlandse prijs voor onderzoeksjournalistiek. Proficiat met deze loepzuivere nominatie, collega's! @vrtnws@vrancki@RudiVranckx