Before the new year gets old, tackling resolutions. What better way to start on Bluesky than my first 2025 piece: www.france24.com/en/europe/20...

#USEmbassyBaghdad advises US citizens to "depart Iraq immediately". @realDonaldTrump just made life more dangerous for US nationals, US officials, not to mention USA's European allies, some whose nationals are in Iranian jails. With friends like this, who needs enemies? #Iran x.com/USEmbBaghdad/s…

Shocker morning kicking off a dangerous start to 2020. @FRANCE24 is live-blogging the fallout of #QassemSoleimani assassination:#Iran f24.my/60Mj.T

An actress, who’s Muslim, disappears in the protest crackdown in #UttarPradesh (UP), #India. So does a friend looking for her at a police station. Two of thousands in UP. Then there's #Kashmir...make this nightmare stop. washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pac…

A child of Holocaust survivors traumatized by my latest #India piece. Lists, citizen registrations hit personally. Set me thinking...there are probs w/ the French system, but I agree a state shld have no interest in religious identity.via @FRANCE24 f24.my/5ytc.T

Watch: Protesters in Delhi stop the police by singing the national anthem. Incredible scenes from #India today. x.com/nehadixit123/s…

Incredible footage. Renowned Indian historian Ram Guha telling reporters he feels sorry for Bangalore police having to follow orders from Delhi & crack down on peaceful, nonviolent protesters…when the 61-yr-old scholar is arrested… x.com/ndtvvideos/sta…

IndiGo, India's biggest marketshare airline, cancels 19 flights from Delhi due to road traffic disruptions over #IndiansAgainstCAB protesters take to streets, braving a ban on assembly & arrests of hundreds, including prominent historian @Ram_Guha during an interview.

La laïcité (secularism) obviously is a privilege only for #France, says the envoy from the birthplace of human rights. We'll lecture our own minorities, but minorities across the world be damned...#IndiansAgainstCAB thehindu.com/news/national/…

Covering the beat for Kashmiri journalists means getting beaten by Indian security forces winning hearts & minds in an area that's shut down to the world since, you know, foreigners are plotting to agitate the local populace. All's well in #Kashmir x.com/AakashHassan/s…

Looking forward to @F24Debate tonight at 7.10pm Paris time on #India protests over new citizenship act & its likely fallout with @odalage @saliltripathi @RajatSethi86 & yes, the one & only @FrancoisF24

This reminds me of Sudan's "kadanka power" earlier this year. 2019 has been the year of the protest & it's ending with India joining the ranks in an unprecedented way... x.com/SuparnaChaudhr…

Extraordinary scenes from across India today. This from the capital: x.com/betwasharma/st…

Shocking, brutal scenes at Indian campuses. So the policy/orders are to crack down on any dissent against the controversial new citizenship law? france24.com/en/20191215-po…

Police storm campuses, crack down on protests against Indian citizenship lawvia @FRANCE24 f24.my/5wwa.T

The weekend’s absolute must-read from @NewYorker masterfully weaves the complexity of Modi’s India from press intimidation, judicial failure, violent Islamophobia, fake news & the Hindu supremacist-driven death of Indian democracy: newyorker.com/magazine/2019/…

Snaking immigration lines at #CDG airport in striking France. Since France's biggest problem are the French, suggest we let the hard-workig immigrants in. Solution!

#G5Sahel is “a coalition of armies that nobody trusts: they’re seen as inefficient and corrupt and benefitting from impunity,” @Hommel19 tells @TomWheeldon1 as he examines France’s “mission impossible” after deaths of French troops in Mali:via @FRANCE24 f24.my/5sqc.T

Indian ex-army officer’s controversial call for mass rape in #Kashmir led me to check in on Kunan- Poshpora case. Still no justice, right? Pls don’t overlook Kashmiri women in campaign to @endrapeinwar @StandSpeakRise @CelineBardet @USGSRSGPatten thediplomat.com/2018/02/all-th…

Video wargames a fitting metaphor for this @FRANCE24 @ARTEen Quark report on 3 Gulf princes. Cyber-attacks, Sandhurst-grad #MBZ mentoring homeboy #MBS & delish details like French FM Le Drian introducing his son to Sheikh Zayed’s son at an arms bazaar... france24.com/en/middle-east…

The joy of settling down on a Sunday to a nice, big, fat @nytimes investigative report on the hard-to-cover world’s largest incarceration on ethnic & religious grounds. Thanks @austinramzy @ChuBailiang nytimes.com/interactive/20…

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Be wary, be very wary. @DisinfoEU uncovers how a “website of a self-proclaimed magazine for the European Parliament” is linked to a network of 265 fake local news sites operating in 65 countries serving Indian influence & disinfo interests: disinfo.eu/2019/11/13/unc…

The world's “failure to talk openly about the failings of the Modi model is not cost-free,” notes @gideonrachman @FT, adding, “India’s slide into illiberalism may actually be strengthening the global trend towards authoritarianism.”via @financialtimes ft.com/content/a4fe19…

UN report on Libya accuses Sudan’s Mohamed “Hemedti” Dagalo of violating UN sanctions by deploying 1,000 Sudanese troops to Libya, Reuters reporting. #Libya #Sudan

Israel kills senior Islamic Jihad commander in an airstrike in Gaza just hours before an attack in Damascus targeted the home of another leading Islamic State militant, killing his son in a dramatic escalation in the region.

Dec 6, 1992 and now Nov 9, 2019. It took 27 years for mob justice to become justice: scroll.in/article/943153…

The “world’s largest democracy” does not offer dual citizenship, uses every opp to shake down cash for OCI (Overseas Citizenship of #India) cards AND strips it for journos criticizing Modi, effectively denying visas & exiling govt critics. A must-read by @AatishTaseer x.com/TIME/status/11…

Here we go, overseas "friends" of India's ruling right-wing BJP openly admit to trying to interfere in #UkElection: opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocra…

Worth watching. Some obvious stuff (scrolled past Martin Indyk's blah-blah) but good reporting, story telling. 1 quibble: ISIS attacks map has nothing in Africa, even tho' post-Baghdadi audio mentions 'central Africa'...Bringing Down Baghdadivia @YouTube youtu.be/Fz_B4SvS48o

Hey, this @CrisisGroup explainer on #US-IranTensions -- & how to get out of it -- is good... The U.S. and Iran: Maximum Pressure, Maximum Perilvia @YouTube youtu.be/36QQ4vPWBIU

Why the Battle of Algiers resonates in Kashmir middleeasteye.net/opinion/battle…

BREAKING: Lebanese PM Saad Hariri says he will submit his resignation. "I have reached a dead end today," said Hariri calling on all Lebanese to come together to protect civil peace. #lebanonprotest

So Trump thanks Russia for Baghdadi op, but Russian Defense Ministry says they had no idea, denies US airstrikes in Idlib. Meanwhile Syrian Kurds, who were telling anyone who would listen since Raqqa fall that Baghdadi was in Idlib, but got measly thanks for “certain support”.

Interesting that Baghdadi’s compound was a few miles from the Turkish border, but the US military op took off from military base near Erbil, not Incirlik. Reminds me of Pakistan not being informed of OBL raid for fear of scuppering the op. #Baghdadi

RIP Stephen Cohen, a man I interviewed for my 1st South Asia security reports after the 1990s nuclear tests -- & kept seeking for the next few decades. Utterly kind, always accessible to journalists on deadline, patient w/ his explanations, a fantastic analyst & a generous man x.com/NarangVipin/st…

My profile of a terror chief: On Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's rise from football-obsessed student and "low level" prisoner in US detention in Iraq to a terrifying self-styled caliphvia @FRANCE24 @F24Debate f24.my/5hyU.T

Trump thanks Russia, Turkey, Syria, Iraq & “I also want to thank Syrian Kurds for certain support they were able to give us” on a “very, very dangerous mission”.

Details of US raid from Trump: Baghdadi’s compound had been cleared before operation, 11 children moved out unharmed. Baghdadi fled into a tunnel w/ 3 of his kids. At end of tunnel, as US dogs chased him, Baghdadi killed himself in suicide blast. Operation lasted 2 hours.

BREAKING: “Abu Bakr al –Baghdadi is dead,” announces US President Trump, carefully pronouncing the nom de guerre of “world’s number 1 terrorist leader”.

And now “Everyone Says They Were In on #Baghdadi Op” time: Turkish defense ministry says, prior to US op in Idlib, there was “info exchange & coordination” b/w US & Turkis militaries. #Turkey

SDF commander statement on “successful operation” a “result of joint intelligence work” with US set to be a feeder for #Trump “major statement” later today, likely on #Baghdadi bumped off reports. US intel officials must be bracing for the crowing after abandoning our partners.

Erdogan’s propaganda armies seem to be targeting European media, now more than ever. Has this happened to US media orgs? Is there a strategy here? #Turkey x.com/sarahemclaugh/…

My piece on a #Syrian #Kurdish boy, severely burned during the Turkish offensive, arriving from Iraqi Kurdistan to France for treatment. A chemical weapons expert suspects white phosphorus, which Turkey denies:via @FRANCE24 @abdullahawez @RaviSinghKA f24.my/5gpB.T

And the latest from @amnesty : x.com/amnesty/status…

Here's the summary of the #Turkey Turkey sanctions bill that Congress is pursuing despite Thursday's US-Turkey "ceasefire" deal: x.com/LindseyGrahamS…

Lessons on the Middle East from the man who missed the Kurds at Normandy... x.com/MSNBC/status/1…

On a week that began w/ one leader (#Erdogan) crushing hopes peace & ended with a #Nobel recognition of another leader (#AbiyAhmed) who’s done much for peace in his country, region, continent w/ @FrancoisF24 @LTwerly @evogora3...via @FRANCE24 france24.com/en/debate/2019…

Congratulations #AbiyAhmed, congratulations #Ethiopia, congratulations #Africa. This is good news at the end of a terrible week for peace. #NobelPeacePrize bbc.com/news/world-afr…

Trump & Erdogan seem to have common cause after all: bashing, blackmailing, bullying & undermining Europe. x.com/TRTWorldNow/st…