#Regional

1/ For more than 5 years now we've been interviewing OpenStreetMap communities small and large over on our blog. Travel is pretty restricted right now so we thought it
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Before Christmas, I bought myself a calendar from @radicalteatowel, who make all kinds of products celebrating aspects of progressive politics and civil rights struggles over the years, including the stories
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Thread! This week I had the best baklava in Gaziantep, Turkey. Thread on the amazing tastiness of baklava, common misconceptions and new baklava trends. 1/ OK, so really only the
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It has been difficult for me to engage w/ largely dismissive criticisms of #Nigeria’s move to close its land borders with #Benin & #Niger to address rampant smuggling and #Benin’s
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Results of the Catalan regional election with over 92% reporting. Separatist parties have 51% of the vote; the map shows their results in each province: https://resultados.elpais.com/elecciones/cataluna.html Comparing the results of
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This thread might be unpopular or difficult.The tweets from this minister strike me as being increasingly illustrative of a simple truth - he is in the corner of the room
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conflict in #Ethiopia escalates horizontally - with two rocket attacks from #Tigray into #Amhara's airports, and unconfirmed reports of three rockets fired into #Eritrea towards Asmara | BBC https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-5494254
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The Tunisian flag. The Tunisian flag resembles the Turkish flag because Tunisia was under Ottoman occupation at the time of developing a flag. At the Battle of Navarin, A Tunisian
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Thread zum heutigen 150. Geburtstag des "Deutschen Reiches", des deutschen Nationalstaats und Vorläufers der Bundesrepublik. Bis 1806 war "deutsch" ein an Sprache, Kultur und an das "Heilige Römische Reich deutsch
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Happy #WorldWetlandsDay! Give it up for Los Angeles' largest and only remaining native wetlands area, the Ballona Wetlands. #Westchester #PlayaDelRey #MarinaDelRey We do have a few restored or re-created #wetlands
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global health policy in 2020 has centered around NPI's (non-pharmaceutical interventions) like distancing, masks, school closuresthese have been sold as a way to stop infection as though this were science.this
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[1] There are nearly infinite conceivable "perfect storms"; atmospheric phenomena that optimally exploit regional geography.Some are obvious: Sandy shoving the Atlantic into NYC; Harvey dropping 60" of rain on a
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Toplines from this week’s @criticalthreats Africa File:https://bit.ly/2Vk0HI7  Egypt’s president ordered preparations for a military intervention in Libya on June 20, opening a new phase in an escalating regional conflict. Egypt’
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In 2011, on assignment for a Hong Kong newspaper, I followed a young artist as she stencilled graffiti that read "Who's Afraid of Ai Weiwei?" What happened next foreshadowed HK's
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Australian #Telehealth reforms during COVID-19 have enabled critical access to sexual and reproductive healthcare.Action is needed to protect telehealth access and secure long term Medicare Benefits Schedule support.#COVID19Aus #THREAD Duri
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It is #HolocaustRemembranceDay today, where we remember that 6 million Jews were killed by Nazi Germany. Most Jews remember this daily, even those born generations later.The Holocaust was one
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