and other restrictions on Afghan women's employment had on the emergency response to Afghanistan's devastating August 31st earthquake. Read the article by @ruchikumar.com here: www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/... [2/2] #GenderSky #WomeninSTEM

#JournoRequest Looking for a contact for Keith Cressman at the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation. His FAO email ID doesn't work, so any alternative contact would be very useful. Thank you!

On July 9, Dr Borys Todurov received a call from a colleague informing him that a donor heart had become available Dr Todurov had a 12-year-old patient who needed one urgently. But to get it, Dr Todurov had to risk his own life, as Kyiv was under intense Russian attack. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Paul Heslop, Head of UNDP’s Mine Action in Ukraine, says over 1 million mines have been laid. “We are witnessing a level of complexity and scale that we have simply never seen before.” - he noted. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

“A few days ago, there were 40 Shahed drones over us. They can drop mines now, so even if nothing explodes right away, there’s always a chance something will go off later,” How Ukraine became one of the most heavily mined countries in the world www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

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“Russian officials have themselves dismissed these warnings, pointing out that similar threats from Mr. Trump in the past have yielded no action. They have continued to mount attacks on Kyiv and other major cities.” www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

At home, in school and in hospital: how hundreds of Ukrainian children are dying in russian attacks by Ruchi Kumar, in Kyiv With nearly 3,000 children injured or killed since the start of the war, experts call for bombing of civilian areas to be treated as a war crime

Four-year-old Mark Ifiemenko is one of the most cheerful kids you’ll meet, with bright smile and an infectious laughter. If it weren’t for scars on his face, it would be hard to tell that the young boy has lived through immense tragedy in his short life. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

This is what a healthy democratic society looks like!

So I realise when writing my drafts, I often start with the last paragraph and move from there to the lede which is usually last thing I write. And before I file, I read through and move paragraphs to create a better flow, and that process feels almost mathematical. Anyone else weird like that?

#Talibro @yaldahakim.bsky.social handles it with much poise

In Ukraine, I kept saying “tessekurler” to everyone I met and now back in Istanbul, I keep saying “dyakuyu”. Help! Same with evet and da/tak. Also throwing in haan every once in a while, staying true to my roots even in this language porridge 💪🏽

Just got done with transcribing first of the many interviews from #Ukraine... at 8000 words! 🫠

This morning, multiple women and newborns were evacuated after a Russian drone strike damaged the maternity hospital in Kharkiv.

A Shahed drone carries as much payload as a car bomb. Now imagine 100s of these car bombs, along with other missiles, exploding over heavily populated cities almost daily. This is the everyday reality of Ukrainians; living under shadow of death every night and picking up pieces every morning.

From my table at a lovely cafe in #Kyiv I saw this beautiful couple getting their wedding photos taken. Just 12 hours before, my flatmate and I had run across this same street towards the metro looking for cover as Ukrainian defense forces repelled #Russian drones and missiles above us. (July 6)

Some sights around #Kyiv on July 6 (after spending a night in the metro!)

Some snippets from a surreal, frustrating night in #Kyiv on #July4. Its awful that this is increasingly becoming normal for Ukrainians (although last night was supposedly the worst in a very long time) and it was so surreal to see how quickly everyone snapped back to normalcy the next morning.

BREAKING NEWS: The Pentagon is halting some promised munitions to Ukraine, citing worries that U.S. weapons stockpiles have fallen too low.

And some more. With love, from #Kyiv

Some #Kyiv sights 💕

Made it back to beautiful #Kyiv #OnAssignment

When Ukrainian forces liberated Natalia’s city, her children were in a camp and ended up on the other side of the frontline. And Russians refuse to return them. "You cannot even imagine my emotions.. my children are all I have," she told me @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

‘Basically impossible to get them back’: russia’s mass abduction of Ukrainian children is a war crime, say experts As territories shift and divide families, desperate parents are travelling to russia to find their children, many of whom have been moved into military camps or orphanages

The integration of autonomy into weapon systems is extremely fast paced....“The Ukraine war has triggered the drive for regulation … and besides also at a micro level," www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

My latest is a piece for the @thepersistent.bsky.social about India's reluctance to criminalise marital rape www.thepersistent.com/india-marita...

💔 A couple stands before the shattered remains of their apartment building. Their son is still buried beneath the rubble.

A quick reminder about the targets in this war: russian drones destroyed a warehouse with 100+ tonnes of humanitarian aid in Zaporizhzhia. Ukrainian drones hit Nevinnomyssk Azot — one of russia’s largest chemical plants.

A followup on my previous investigation from last year about sugarcane workers in India being forced/ coerced into getting hysterectomies. 100s of woman in one cane producing district were agreeing to surgery, say activists, in order to keep working long hours www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Ukraine followed up long-range attacks on Russian airfields by striking a factory producing key electrical components for its Shahed drones and other precision weaponry in Cheboksary 1,000 kilometers away. www.kyivpost.com/post/54204

🇷🇺 The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that, in accordance with agreements made in Istanbul, repatriation trains carrying the first batch of Ukrainian soldiers’ bodies have begun moving to the exchange site today. Russia is ready to return over 6,000 bodies.

Ukrainian rescuers in Kyiv bow their heads in honor of a fallen friend and colleague — killed during last night’s Russian drone and missile attack on the capital. In total, three emergency workers lost their lives when Russian strikes hit the sleeping city. They were on duty, saving civilian lives.

Why did IOM think it was okay to use blue and navy as distinct identifiers for their datasets? 🥲 I’m not colourblind, but reading this report has been a very confusing experience 😅

Wrote for an Indian publication after a very very long time; and glad its a piece about Ukraine.. some excerpts below: www.thehindu.com/news/interna...

I’m at the Ukraine Russia talks in Istanbul. Expected to be short considering recent developments (Ukrainian operations that took out best 40 Russian aircraft!)

This man, who has human rights lawyer in his Twitter biog!, is hoping that Israel attacks the flotilla & hurts (kills?) my Zeteo colleague, & legendary activist, Greta Thunberg. To call this tweet disgusting & violent would be an understatement. But they keep telling on themselves:

#Ukraine destroys $7 billion russian aircraft fleet without warning White House Ukraine damages 40 russian bombers with truck-smuggled AI drones, hitting 34% of strategic aircraft. euromaidanpress.com/2025/06/01/u...

Massive drone attack hits Moscow region overnight — targets include major Russian drone factory, Kronstadt plant. The attack disrupted flights at several Moscow airports, forcing cancellations and delays for hours.

Truly horrific night for Kyiv

I translated it for you. The post of a Ukrainian woman during the night attack on Kyiv. ‘Today, for the first time, my children were so afraid of the drones that they started praying (although this is not practised in our family) and crying. War and children are something unrealistically painful 😭’

Pope Leo XIV has proposed to host peace talks between Ukraine and Russia at the Vatican.

Meanwhile, Indian FM welcoming condemnation over terrorist attack in Pahalgam from the Taliban, a group that has conducted terror attacks on Indian interests in Afghanistan, from a UN-sanctioned person no less. www.opensanctions.org/entities/Q60...

⚡️ Russian fighter jet 'violated NATO territory' after Estonia tried to detain 'shadow fleet' tanker. "Russia is ready to protect the 'shadow fleet'... the situation is really serious," Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna said on May 15.

Ukrainian President Zelenskyy just arrived in Ankara for talks; the first of its kind in three years. Putin has remained absent, but a Russia has sent a delegation.

Zelensky is already on his way to Turkey, Reuters reports, citing a Ukrainian official.

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Orders for satellite images of Pahalgam appeared on Maxar portal in June 2024, months after Maxar partnered with Pakistan-based geospatial firm linked to federal crimes in US. An order was placed 10days before the attack,and 2more after. No orders have been placed since. theprint.in/defence/paha...

Zelensky is coming to Türkiye to meet Putin. “We expect a complete and lasting ceasefire starting tomorrow to provide the necessary foundation for diplomacy. I will PERSONALLY wait for Putin in Türkiye on Thursday.”

This is possibly the point where we need to assess how to move forward in the Indian media landscape. Although not surprising, the way some of the big broadcast media behaved during a time of crisis has put lives at risk.