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Ruchi Kumar روچی کمار रूची कुमार

Ruchi Kumar روچی کمار रूची कुमार

@RuchiKumar

Award-winning Journalist #Afghanistan #India #Ukraine. @iwmf @PRBdata @unfoundation @jcogt1 fellow. Words in @Guardian @NPR others Earlier: @dna @TimesofIndia

Istanbul, Bombay, Kyiv, Kabul Katılım Ağustos 2008
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Priyom.org@priyom_org·
Word is, China was providing Cuba with tech support for shortwave TXs, but they got in some beef and China pulled out; then RHC TXs's state just crumbled until they all broke down. HM01 was from their Bejucal TX, but if they managed to bring one RHC TX back then maybe HM01 too!
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Priyom.org@priyom_org·
Radio Havana Cuba heard back on the air! Could HM01 reappear soon too? RHC heard Tuesday night on 6000kHz from their Titan Quivican TX site. HM01/RHC (same facilities) had been off the air since last August/November, after all TX sites simply broke down due to lack of maintenance
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Seth Lazar@sethlazar·
It's been a bit since I've written about the ethics of war. But something struck me today. The principle of distinction requires you to aim at military targets, and to do *a lot* of work to determine that something is a military target. The principle of proportionality says that civilian harm is permissible if it's necessary and proportionate to the military advantage achieved. It kicks in *only* once you've established that a target is a lawful military objective. For example: suppose that I had an AI tool that was selecting targets, and I knew with high confidence that 5% of those targets would in fact be civilian. I *don't* think that IHL would treat this as a matter of applying the principle of proportionality, but rather would treat it as a matter of distinction. TLDR: If you know ahead of time that your method of target selection will unavoidably and predictably yield a non-trivial false-positive rate, then it's in breach of the principle of distinction, irrespective of whether the deaths caused by attacking some specific civilian target are proportionate to the broader goals of the operation.
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Bahar | بهار
Bahar | بهار@BGhandehari·
According to the wife of a political prisoner in Iran’s Evin Prison, authorities have told prisoners that prisoners held on financial charges will be transferred to Greater Tehran Prison and political prisoners and foreign nationals will be transferred to Qom Prison.
nasimb@Nasimamb

الان به زندانیهای #زندان_اوین گفتند که زندانیهای مالی رو قراره ببرن به #زندان_تهران_بزرگ و #زندانیان_سیاسی و اتباع سایر کشورها رو قراره به #زندان_قم ببرن. لطفا تا میتونید اطلاع رسانی کنید.

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Ruchi Kumar روچی کمار रूची कुमार
Communities are also adapting their lives to the war; think underground schools and hospitals (story on that soon!). Theres a lot of dignity and grace in how Ukrainian respond to the violence around them. But this shouldn’t be normal for anyone.
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I am not active on Twitter anymore, but I felt like this needed to be shared here too. From my recent trip to #Ukraine. A Shahed drone carries as much payload as a carbomb. Now imagine 100s of these, along with other missiles, exploding over heavily populated cities almost daily
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Najibullah Sadid 🇦🇫
Najibullah Sadid 🇦🇫@NajibSadid·
@HelenaMalikyar Dust-storms are regional & require regional & long-term efforts to mitigate ( afforestation, soil/sand stabilization). Absence of international funding is a big challenge but if we mobilize people to take the lead, we can still improve the condition.
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Najibullah Sadid 🇦🇫
Najibullah Sadid 🇦🇫@NajibSadid·
A massive dust storm has swept through northern #Afghanistan as droughts persist for the fourth consecutive year. These storms carry large amounts of salt particles from Central Asian deserts into the fertile #AmuDarya plain, impacting human health & agricultural productivity.
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Najibullah Sadid 🇦🇫@NajibSadid

Another dust-stormy day in north & south-west wind corridors of #Afghanistan. Droughts in central Asia & Afg have led to more frequent & severe dust-storms impacting health, environment & agriculture.👇Imagery by @NASAEarth shows dust plume advancing from north-west into Afg.

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Jason Dinh is just trying his best
in India's sugarcane capital, thousands of women farmworkers have been forced into hysterectomies—and now climate change is making things worse. critical reporting from @RuchiKumar about heat risk, forced labor, and the dark underbelly of agriculture atmos.earth/the-forced-ste…
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