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Thinking of Paraskeviya tonight, who is seeing Mariupol’s #Azovstal steel plant being battered and decimated by Russian forces, while her daughter is still inside. Her story of love and loss—with @MaddieAraujo & Alessandro Gentile. #Mariupol cnn.com/videos/world/2022/05…
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Polish FM: “The EU has spent double what the U.S. has spent on helping Ukraine. We are often suspected, in the U.S., including in Congress, of being free riders. Well, on this one, we have done the right thing. We now need 🇺🇸 to do what the President has promised”
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“I think it's fair to say I've never seen anything like this, & I never expected in my life I would see such an appalling situation.”
Dr. Nick Maynard, who led an EMT at the Al-Aqsa Hospital says the situation has been “beyond any doubt the worst thing” he’s ever seen.
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Brazil's Pres @jairbolsonaro says @domphillips & @tuyu_bruno we’re on “an adventure that is not recommended." Journalism is not an adventure. They were reporting on the Bolsonaro’s disastrous environmental policies & the impact on the Indigenous communities. #CadeBrunoeDom
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“It gives me no joy to have to be critical of Pres Biden, he happens to be a close personal friend…but sometimes you have to speak truth to power. It’s not just Israel that is losing into support, it’s America too by being too close to a govt that is not leading well.” 👇🏻
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🇵🇱 @radeksikorski “The Pres of the US went to Kyiv in wartime & assured Ukraine that the US will do ‘whatever it takes’. That ‘whatever it takes’ surely includes antimissiles artillery…to defend Ukrainian cities. If it doesn’t, the US credibility will be at stake.”
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“These Western powers that have provided the arms have their fingers all over the crime scene”, tells me @NRC_Egeland , who has written a letter to Foreign Mins of Israel’s allies to “remind them of their failure to prevent repeated grave violations of Intl Humanitarian law”.
With indiscriminate killings in Gaza every day, I have written this letter to Foreign Ministers of Israel’s key Western allies to remind them of their failure to prevent repeated grave violations of Intl Humanitarian Law & demand action to prevent further loss of civilian life
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“Netanyahu has learnt over the last 7 months, maybe over the last 7 decades that he can cross every red line. The U.S., Uk, Europe, the rest of world, UN, ICJ, ICC, Secy Council—name it, he doesn’t care. Simply because he won’t get the serious consequences”—tells me @hzomlot
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“Right now, it seems like any path people take here it leads to death. If it’s not the bombs & the strikes, we’re seeing families burning alive in their tents”, tells me @UNWateridge live in Gaza
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This👇is beyond cruel and incompetent. My heart breaks for these children and their parents.
Parents Of 545 Children Separated At U.S.-Mexico Border Still Can't Be Found npr.org/2020/10/21/926031426…
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“It’s a major escalation in the war. What we're seeing is an axis of countries…all of them assisting Russia in this war effort. So it tells you that it's no longer regional, it's no longer just European. It’s a global conflict”
@GLandsbergis on NK troops in Russia
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Fmr 🌍 chess champion @Kasparov63 tells me “Putin hopes to out-suffer #Ukraine” but “this is not a Ukrainian war, this is our war. Because, God forbid #Putin succeeds, he will never be stopped”. “A Ukrainian victory will impact freedom all over the🌎 from N.Korea to Venezuela.”
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“I would say to the Biden Administration, don’t provide arms to the killings of thousands of children, not a few children, thousands of children, every hour,” tells me the Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council @NRC_Egeland 👇🏻
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Had the opportunity to sit down with @jguaido today. He told me there’s no hope for dialogue with #Maduro & accuses him of creating a mob-like structure within #Venezuela. We discussed this, blood gold, the growing humanitarian crisis and much more. Intv on @cnni
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“I think we cannot understand the #Qatar #WorldCup2022 without the Russian one… I think Russia got away with it and I think Qatar is now getting the correct level of scrutiny that Russia didn’t get” tells me @Okwonga, the co-host of "stadio: a football podcast".
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Turkish presidential spox @ikalin1 outlined the “two levels” at work in the war in Ukraine. “One is what is happening on the Ukrainian level on Ukrainian lands. The other level is geopolitical muscling”. The priorities according to Kalin below 👇🏻
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“While the leaders of the free world are gathering here in Washington, Putin is killing children in Kyiv, & the best thing to do right now is to send a message back…to allow Ukrainians to use the weapons that they’re being given deeper in Russia” tells me @GLandsbergis
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Irish Taoiseach @MichealMartinTD “there is something untenable & unacceptable about the fact that a permanent member of the Sec Council has essentially undermined the most fundamental principles of the U.N. Charter & been the aggressor here.” Calls current structure “outdated”
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Gracias a todos 🇲🇽 por vuestras mensajes de apoyo y bromas brillantes🌋 #Popocatepetl. He estado practicando pero me voy a quedar con El Popo, just in case! Pero sí, es difícil!
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Speaking to me tonight, @EnricoLetta says of the populist Brothers of Italy party leader vying for premiership at the Sept election 🇮🇹 “they are always against any policy at the European level for a more integrated Europe. We need Europe with 🇫🇷, 🇩🇪, 🇪🇸 not with Hungary & Poland”
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The UN Special Rapporteur on Occupied Palestinian Territories, @FranceskAlbs tells me that the European Union's words of condemnation following remarks made by Israel's far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich in France are not enough. 1/2
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Before rejoining the grain deal, 🇹🇷 President @RTErdogan’s spokesperson @ikalin1 tells me that President Putin wanted written guarantees that Ukraine will not use the humanitarian corridor for military purposes. #ukraine #GrainDeal #turkey
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“I promised myself that I would never get to the point of saying ‘we can’t describe this’. Today, I just wish that I could have captured the number of mum’s who greeted me in tears because they’re running out of ways to protect their children from starvation &bombs” @1james_elder
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One of #Brazil 's newspaper is offering a free @neymarjr mask. Today, every Brazilian will be him! #CNNWorldCup
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As North Korean troops are deployed to Russia, @GLandsbergis tells me “it’s worth revisiting” President Macron’s idea—proposed earlier this year—of European boots on the ground in Ukraine.
“I’m really hopeful that this idea is still on the table”.
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Mary Robinson, Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights & Chair of @TheElders urges the U.S. “to urgently review its military assistance to Israel & put in place conditions for any future provision”. If this doesn’t happen, she tells me “then the USA owns the problem”.
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“I’m anti-war & I cannot agree with the idea that a military intervention would mean stability or the democratic recovery of Venezuela.
This is not the time to keep escalating. I think it’s time to open the doors to a face-to-face negotiation between Trump & Maduro”—-@hcapriles
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“I don’t think we need to complicate too much whether or not we’re witnessing war crimes. Ukraine is the largest crime scene in the world today”, tells me the former US Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes David Scheffer. #ukrainewar #Russia
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The International Committee of the Red Cross @ICRC tells CNN it is working with the United Nations in an ongoing operation to move people put of #Mariupol and the besieged #Azovstal steel plant. #UkraineWar
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Argentinian Pres @alferdez “Today we are a better society” as #Argentina makes history as the largest country in Latin America to legalise abortion. #argentina
El aborto seguro, legal y gratuito es ley.
A ello me comprometí que fuera en los días de campaña electoral.
Hoy somos una sociedad mejor que amplía derechos a las mujeres y garantiza la salud pública.
Recuperar el valor de la palabra empeñada. Compromiso de la política.
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Ecuadorian Presidential candidate & fmr. VP @ottosonnenh tells me “There’s a lot of influence of drug dealers & drug traffickers in different institutions in the country; in the judiciary branch & even some influence in the police force, and in local governments”. #EcuadorDeLuto
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Venezuela’s @jguaido is on an European tour to ask for the support of EU & US leaders to cut the funding of #Maduro & “illegal groups” loyal to him. He told me the sale of #Venezuelan “blood gold” is funding Maduro’s regime, illegal paramilitary groups & terrorist organizations
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The Armenian Ambassador to the UK has called on the “international community to take a role” in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Amb @VaruzhanN tells me that the ethnic Armenians in the disputed territory have “been subjected to total & inhumane blockade for more than nine months.”
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Lithuanian Foreign Minister @GLandsbergis tells me tonight that “Until Ukraine has won, nobody is safe”. He added “If Ukraine is unable to win, if Putin can claim victory, then it spells problems, it spells a new geopolitical reality for everybody, not just for Ukraine.”
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We won a #newsemmy & I still cant quite believe it! Thank you to @TheLeadCNN with @jaketapper & to my dogged producer @VascoCNN & my incredibly hardworking team in 🇬🇧 & in 🇻🇪. Mil gracias al pueblo Venezuelano por vuestro cariño y tiempo, y por confiarme con vuestras palabras.
The #NewsEmmy Award in Business, Consumer or Economic Report goes to...
The Lead with Jake Tapper │ @jaketapper @TheLeadCNN @CNN
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“The failure to cease this moment & bring about a ceasefire…is a failure of leadership. He [Pres Biden] has not been very effective because he has not withheld arms” tells me Mary Robinson, Fmr. Irish President, Fmr. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights & Chair @TheElders
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Now it feels real! 🏆 Thank you @newsemmys for the recognition. I will continue to highlight the humanitarian and economic crisis in Venezuela and those responsible for it. Huge thanks to @jaketapper & the entire team @TheLeadCNN
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Kosovo PM tells me tonight he will not surrender the country to a “fascist militia”.
I asked @albinkurti whether he planned to heed calls to withdraw Kosovar police officers from the country’s northern municipalities & he told me: “We have to have rule of law. 1/4
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The Mayor of #Mariupol Vadym Boichenko tells @jimsciutto that “according to our estimates we have about 20.000 civilian deaths in Mariupol, and we are witnessing the enemy trying to hide their crimes in mass graves.” #ukrainewar
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As the Presidential campaign gets underway in #Brazil, in what is expected to be one of the most divisive in the country’s history, @camposmello tells me “I have no doubt we have a slow motion coup going on…he’s [Bolsonaro] not going to accept the results” #BolsonarovsLula
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@leopoldolopez says he’s been liberated by Venezuelan military “at the order of President Guaido”. Asks for all to mobilise and adds “this is the hour to conquer freedom. Strength & Faith”
Venezuela: ha iniciado la fase definitiva para el cese de la usurpación, la Operación Libertad. He sido liberado por militares a la orden de la Constitución y del Presidente Guaidó. Estoy en la Base La Carlota. Todos a movilizarnos. Es hora de conquistar la Libertad. Fuerza y Fe
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Israel has “definitely” breached international humanitarian law in Gaza, tells me Slovenia’s Foreign Minister @tfajon
The FM says she believes the world has “failed on tests of humanity”, adding “there’s no second chance to save Gaza”. The FM called for a ceasefire.
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“I have questions: What fact is President Trump operating on? Because we haven’t seen any fact to support the statement that Putin wants peace. You see, if Ukraine stops fighting, there will be no more Ukraine. If Russia stops fighting, there will be no more war”-@kiraincongress
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“This is Russia at play” European Parliament Pres @RobertaMetsola tells me that’s “it’s no coincidence” that tensions between Azerbaijan & Armenia in the Nagorno-Karabakh region escalated as world leaders gathered in NY. Pres Metsola called it “a one-sided attack”. 👇🏻
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“There are at least a couple of actors behind the scenes who are heavily invested that this (Hamas) conflict is prolonged as much as possible.”
Lithuania’s FM @GLandsbergis says Russia “is profiting” from conflict—“distracting us from Ukraine works perfectly.”
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Pres #Zelensky has told G7 leaders that he wants the war in Ukraine to end by the end of 2022, according to a source familiar with his remarks. Zelensky called for a major push to end the war before the winter sets in several months, the source said. #UkraineWar
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As we reach the six-month mark of the war in #Ukraine @jensstoltenberg tells me “we need to prepare for the long haul. We also have to remember that the price we are paying is a price that we can measure in money. The price Ukrainians are paying is a price measured in lives.”
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Israeli Fin Min Bezalel Smotrich called for the Palestinian town of #Huwara “to be erased”. @NRC_Egeland gives me his reax: “What I heard was an ugly face of an ugly, lethal, terrible, unjustifiable occupation. This is mafia style politicians who have come to power in #Israel.”
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“In Portugal, it is forbidden to smoke tobacco outside a school or a hospital. It is forbidden to advertise ice cream & sugar candies. And yet, it’s allowed for [people] to be there, injecting drugs,” said Rui Moreira, Porto’s mayor. “We’ve normalized it.” washingtonpost.com/world/202…
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Brazilian Senator @randolfeap says an independent commission of the Senate will be created to investigate the disappearance of Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips. #CadeBrunoeDom
URGENTE! O nosso requerimento foi aprovado e agora o Senado criará uma Comissão Externa para investigar caso de Dom Phillips e Bruno Pereira. A comissão também irá investigar outros casos de violência na Amazônia. Pedimos urgência (máx. 24h) na indicação dos membros da comissão!
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“We’ve seen several acts of harassment by Russia” tells me Finland’s FM @elinavaltonen
“We have seen an increased amount of cyberattacks, and in recent weeks, Russia has been mobilising their country’s citizens towards our border to seek asylum.”
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As the #Taliban extend their repressive rule over the women of #Afghanistan, @Fawziakoofi77 tells me “the world is failing the women of Afghanistan.” “They are being deprived of all basic fundamental rights…and their existence is being questioned. They have become invisible”.
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Ukraine’s Deputy PM @IrynaVereshchuk on #Mariupol “More than 100 people have been evacuated & the evacuation continues. All this happened thanks to the control of the Presof Ukraine, @antonioguterres, & the Intl. Committee of the Red Cross, for which we are very, very grateful."
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A fascinating discussion with the talented @drexlerjorge on the rise of Latin music, the appeal of regaetton & the importance of “singing the Uruguayan dictatorship out my bones”. Intv coming soon 📺
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As Georgians take to the streets of #Tbilisi for a second night to protest the foreign agents bill, Georgia’s President @Zourabichvili_S tells me “Georgia is not the next [target], but the ongoing victim of Russia’s aggression, of Russia’s imperialism”. #TbilisiProtest
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Hundreds of retired Israeli security officials have written a letter urging President Trump to end the war in Gaza.
Tonight, I spoke to one of the signatories of that letter — Ami Ayalon, the former head of Shin Bet: “this is not a just war.”
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“Russia’s tactics have always been salami tactics—to cut piece by piece, in terms of territory, geographically or strategically… That’s why a position of strength & negotiations through strength are extremely important,” tells me @AndrisSpruds , Latvia’s Minister of Defence
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Pres Biden says “it’s always better to meet face-to-face”, but as @Billbrowder tells me “Putin is the only person walking away with a win from this thing. If we wanted to express our displeasure with the things Putin is doing, we didn’t need to do it with all this pomp and glory”
"The only thing that Vladimir Putin understands" is "power and consequences," when it comes to foreign policy, says CEO of Hermitage Capital Management @BillBrowder. The Biden-Putin summit was "the wrong thing to do" for the U.S. and "hard consequences" are needed instead.
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Fans throwing rocks at police in Buenos Aires. Police now using water canons to control and push back the crowds! #CNNWorldCup
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For several days now we’ve been at the Colombia-Venezuela border, listening to stories of why so many Venezuelans make the journey next door. This was the hardest one to hear—listen to Señor Sanchez. Heartbreaking! With 🎥@joseCNN & 🎞 @NGallonCNN
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I speak to @MOISESBARBOZA about the heartbreaking reality on the ground & hear from @MiguelNicolelis who tells me “Brazil is an open air laboratory for the virus to evolve” cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video…
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The evacuation of civilians from #Azovstal steel plant in #Mariupol has started according to Pres #Zelensky. Finally, a breakthrough for those who have been holed up inside for two months.
Розпочалася евакуація цивільних з Азовсталі. Перша група приблизно зі 100 осіб уже прямує на підконтрольну територію. Завтра зустрічатимемо їх у Запоріжжі. Дякую нашій команді! Нині вони, разом з представниками #ООН, працюють над евакуацією решти цивільних із території заводу.
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The 9th vote is now underway for the speaker of the House. On the show Tonight @LarrySabato says “If he [McCarthy] somehow wins, he’s going to be the weakest speaker in modern times, maybe ever. He has simply no power left. He’s given away the store”
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Russian journo for TV Rain @katyakotrikadze tells me what’s making the news bulletins today in Russia “they’re liberating the cities & towns of Ukraine. They are showing people who are thanking the Russian army. They are not talking about the 3 month baby [killed in Odessa today]
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A hostage at Kosher store tells CNN affiliate he hid with fellow hostages in shop fridge for 5 hours! #ParisAttacks
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“We have to take away the illusion that, if somehow [the West] stopped helping Ukraine, the war will go away. The war will not go away.”
Latvia’s FM @krisjaniskarins : “We’re at a difficult juncture, we have to realise collectively that we have to help Ukraine stop Russia.”
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@FranceskAlbs says she’s always been "disappointed" by US policies on the matter & says UN Security Council is "paralyzed" by the US veto. “There is a schism, a sort of disconnect between what the UN as a general assembly recognizes as wrong & what it has the capacity to do.”
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Poland’s Minister of Climate and Environment @moskwa_anna tells me “it’s an honour to be an unfriendly country and be nominated by #Putin on this list”. #russiangas #ukrainewar
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“They [US admin] are treating him [Benny Gantz] as if he’s a Prime Minister in the making, in the hope that this will seriously upset & rile Mr. Netanyahu”—@AlonPinkas on how Bibi, “through hubris & rudeness”, has turned “Israel from an ally to a high-maintenance, ongoing crisis”
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#Kazakhstan’s Pres says he had ordered his security forces to “open fire to kill without warning”. In a televised speech, #Tokayev called those protesting “bandits, criminals & murderers”. @NdosSantosCNN tells me “this is the type of autocratic talk that will be raising eyebrows”
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Lithuanian PM @IngridaSimonyte tells me that Russia suspending its participation in the New START nuclear arms reduction treaty is Moscow's "trick to increase pressure." On allies hesitating, she tells me: “How can you push back Russia’s military if you do not have heavy weapons”
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Estonia's FM @UrmasReinsalu urged Ukraine's allies to "not be frightened" by the warnings from Russian Ambassador to the US of crossing “red lines” by providing arms to #Kyiv: “What more can happen? The genocide is taking place." #RussiaUkraineWar #estonia #NATO #G7
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As PM Netanyahu reportedly seeks the “full conquest of Gaza”, Martin Griffiths, Former UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief tells me:
“This is an astonishing public declaration of criminality. It’s a call for a criminal act”.
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"Pope Francis was amazing in so many ways. And I think that his greatest strength was to be able to tell the truth. He spoke the truth about refugees and migrants, about the need to help them as human beings,” tells me @FilippoGrandi
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The @UN says that $54 bn are needed to meet the basic needs of the world’s most vulnerable, but the UN doesn’t expect to raise even half of that. @UNReliefChief tells me “how do you choose between a school & a clinic, how do you choose between food & nutritional support”.
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“This cannot be the last convoy. It just can’t. There’s too many lives at stake here” tells me @WFPChief as 20 aid trucks crossed from Egypt to Gaza. Before the conflict, an average of 450 trucks were arriving in Gaza daily.
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In this exclusive interview, @UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador @priyankachopra tells me: "I knew this trip would hit me differently because of the fact that I have recently become a mum." #Ukraine
"The resilience of mothers and their undying, unconditional need to nurture and protect their children has really shaken me."
@UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador @priyankachopra speaks exclusively to @isacnn about meeting Ukrainian children and families seeking refuge in Poland.
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“Let’s be clear. The existential fundamental threat to all of us is the threat from the outside. It is Russia first of all; aggressive , revisionist dictatorship which invades other countries &has complete disregard for human lives & international norms,” tells me @AndrisSpruds
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“We saw a lot of strikes over the last 24 hrs in downtown Rafah which is a couple of miles to the west of the declared evacuation zone, so bombardments going way beyond the evacuation zone…people are fearful, helpless & living in the most humiliating & degrading conditions” 👇🏻
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#BREAKING: The US says it carried out a "successful" anti-terrorism raid in Northwest #Syria. The #Pentagon statement confirms there were no US casualties - the target is unknown. But @JomanaCNN tells me rescue group The White Helmets report 13 people died, including 6 children.
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Eritrean troops are operating with total impunity in Ethiopia's war-torn northern #Tigray region, killing, raping, and blocking humanitarian aid to starving populations. Powerful reporting from @nimaelbagir @ArvanitidisCNN & @elizamackintosh & Alex Platt
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The West has hit back at #Putin with sanctions but many believe they don’t go far enough. @annastewart looks at what else the U.S. & Europe may have up their sleeves. She tells me they're yet to play their trump card: disconnecting #Russia from #SWIFT. #UkraineRussiaCrisis
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“My own staff, my own colleague Abeer has been eating animal feed, and horrifyingly, the food that they were eating which is food for horse and donkeys is now running out, and they’re now eating bird seed”, tells me @melanie_ward @MedicalAidPal
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Whoever wins the #MegaMillionsJackpot consider sharing a slice of the pie for this noble cause from #Chicago resident Andrew Tart speaking to @OmarJimenez 👇🏻
I asked this Chicago resident Andrew Tart what he would do if he won the $1.28 BILLION Mega Millions jackpot. He gave maybe the best answer I've heard yet. @IsaCNN
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It has been 4 yrs since 5 Americans & a U.S. resident were called to Venezuela for a meeting, only to be arrested & convicted of corruption. An investigation by @VascoCNN @TimListerCNN & me has found that the men, known as the #CITGO6, were tricked & convicted on bogus charges
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“Finally” tells me @NRC_Egeland reacting to the U.S. decision to pause a shipment of bombs to Israel “How on earth could the US, our closest ally in NATO, provide indiscriminate 2.000 pound bombs to an indiscriminate military campaign in a place filled with women & children?”
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Environmental activists have taken Brazilian President #JairBolsonaro to the Intl. Criminal Court for crimes against humanity, for his "ruthless" & "widespread attack on the Amazon, its dependants, and its defenders”.
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My colleague @alexthomasCNN didn't like my Argentinian hat! What do you think? #CNNWorldCup
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The violent scenes we’re seeing in Brasilia today were feared & predicted by many.
As the Presidential campaign gets underway in #Brazil, in what is expected to be one of the most divisive in the country’s history, @camposmello tells me “I have no doubt we have a slow motion coup going on…he’s [Bolsonaro] not going to accept the results” #BolsonarovsLula
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Outside the apartment where nurse with #Ebola lives, protesters fight to keep Excalibur the dog alive. #Excalibur
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