Salman Shaikh
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Husband and father of two. Founder — The Shaikh Group, peacemaker and activist. Lived and worked in Gaza, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Qatar.
Kensington, London
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It is important that
#UNRWA
is investigating Israel’s allegations against its staff.
In the mid 2000s, I was involved in an investigation into UNRWA when Israel alleged that it’s ambulances were being used to transport rockets.
We found no such evidence. The Israelis knew it
UNRWA lifesaving assistance is about to end following countries decisions to cut their funding to the Agency.
Our humanitarian operation, on which 2 million people depend as a lifeline in Gaza, is collapsing. I am shocked such decisions are taken based on alleged behavior of a
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Prince Harry speaks for me.
We can’t allow our rancid tabloid foreign and non-dom owned press to continue to debase, manipulate and blackmail our institutions and our country.
They must pay the penalty.
I look forward to
@mrjamesob
on
@LBC
taking this up today.
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Important discussion with
@mrjamesob
@LBC
.
As someone who has been working in conflict situations for the past 25 years, I make my views clear below.
This is an important moment for all of us to do so.
Mrs. Braverman has got the British people and British values wrong.
We are a fair, law-abiding, truthful and compassionate people.
She and Jenrick are speaking more like Rwandan génocidaires.
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This revolution will be covered (even if it’s not the main media) by smart-phones. Amazing.
#Sudan
#SkollWF
Tens of thousands gathering tonight in front of Sudan's military headquarters in Khartoum. A massive display of people-power, lit by smart-phone, accompanied by chants for revolution: "the people want to overthrow the regime"...
#SudanProtests
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This is outrageous. It is a broken promise, which is dangerous and undermines our national security.
This is outrageous. Boris Johnson has BROKEN yet another election promise and at
#PMQs
today treated the public & Parliament with utter contempt by refusing to acknowledge it.
Will BBC1 report this on tonight’s six o’clock news? Where is the outrage?
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Who gave this migrant a European work visa?
EXCLUSIVE: Steve Bannon is moving to Europe to set up a right-wing foundation to hijack politics
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For the past 30 years, Kensington has shaped my family. It has supported me in my work fighting for peace across the globe and taught me the power of community. We need to unite to truly transform our society, and that's why I'm standing to be the next Labour MP for Kensington.
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I condemn in the strongest terms the vile, anti-semitic email circulated yesterday criticising a fellow candidate in
#Kensington
. I call upon all candidates to do the same, including the candidate that the email sought to support. We need to end this divisive politics.
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New video from
#Idlib
as Regime/Russians bomb it with banned phosphorous incendiary bombs. Please watch.
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President Biden has been on the phone numerous times negotiating humanitarian entry with Netanyahu; there is David Satterfield a good and senior US diplomat who is the U.S. Humanitarian Envoy for Gaza aid; Samanatha Power, the Administrator for USAID has just been in Israel.
Yet
Biden is expected to announce that the US will airdrop humanitarian aid and supplies into Gaza, according to people familiar with the plans
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Mrs. Braverman has got the British people and British values wrong.
We are a fair, law-abiding, truthful and compassionate people.
She and Jenrick are speaking more like Rwandan génocidaires.
#KayBurley
- Robert Jenrick said people fleeing from Sudan threaten to cannibalize the UK's compassion... he essentially called migrants subhuman?
Suella Braverman - People coming here illegally are breaking our laws
KB - Better to stay in Sudan with the warlords
#BBCBreakfast
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Sometimes it’s wise to look back.
I was the Special Assistant for the UN Middle East Peace Envoy, Terje Rod-Larsen at that time.
We very much appreciated the wise and blunt words of former officials such as Brzezinski and James Baker III.
This was not Brzezinski’s first
Watch this from Brzezinski. If it looks like a different America it’s because it was a different America. What a fall
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This decision is an absolute disgrace. Spiteful.
#WhiteHelmets
#Oscars2017
After 3days at airport, not allowed to travel to
#oscars2017
- had US visa - but passport not accepted. Sad, but important work to do here.
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I don’t usually post these kinds of pictures but something terrible has happened at
#AlShifa
. Even as Hamas fighters and leaders were caught or killed, there is the question of proportionality and the Israeli army’s adherence to international law.
Some would point to these
I want everyone to watch this video and keep watching and repeat it over and over. These body parts you see are of HUMANS, humans like you and me. They are the bodies of children run over by the Israeli tanks at Alshifa HOSPITAL!!!
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I am so very sad to hear this. We, the world, have lost a true hero.
Rest In Peace Congressman Cummings. You will be sorely missed.
#elijacummings
#US
#Congress
Cummings: “Mr. President, you’re now 70-something, I’m 60-something. Very soon you and I will be dancing with the angels. The thing that you and I need to do is figure out what we can do — what present can we bring to generations unborn?”
Via
@baltimoresun
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Shut up.
#Assad
and his cohorts said its either me or chaos. Daesh is that chaos. He knows that. He's an accomplice.
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The damage is done. There was no compelling evidence provided by the Israeli government.
It was, as we suspected, an ideologically driven exercise, which diverted from the ICJ ruling.
There must be accountability.
#UNRWA
1st the
@EU_Commission
, now Canada resumes funding to
@UNRWA
. Other donors are seeing through the fake news from
@Israel
@IDF
@MarkRegev
@UNWatch
, trumpeted by
@nytimes
@PatrickKingsley
But starvation has taken hold in
#Gaza
& they must be held to account
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This is a significant development and a warning. The U.S. is sanctioning an IDF unit. There is a lack of confidence that Israeli law can reign in such violations of international humanitarian law.
🚨Scoop: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected to announce within days sanctions against the Israel Defense Forces "Netzah Yehuda" battalion for human rights violations in the occupied West Bank. My story on
@axios
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I think that is called corruption.
Competent and the right kind of government which can deliver to its citizens is grossly underrated by many.
It's what the
#UK
needs today. Lives depend on it.
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Hearing reports that Syrian regime aircraft have attacked this convoy a few minutes ago.
If confirmed, this is SERIOUS.
Few days back a
#TSK
small convey visited the town of Al-Eis, but what make things interesting is that Regime and pro Iran forces targeted the town after the Turkish personal left, but till now it’s not 100% confirmed that TSK will settle down in the town
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An extraordinary family that produced an extraordinary man in an extraordinary country. These could be my parents.
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No coup can overcome a split military and security forces AND the overwhelming number of people against it.Find hard to see coup succeeding.
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Regrettably, I have not made the next stage to be Labour’s Parliamentary candidate for Kensington.
Thank you to all who have supported me.
I am committed to ensuring Labour wins Kensington and to bringing in a Labour government at the next General Election.
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So proud to say my French,Parisienne, Christian wife is on streets of Paris tonight protesting.She speaks for her British,Pak,Muslim husband
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I have been engaged in Israel/Palestinian/Arab peacemaking for nearly twenty-five years.
@Freedland
invoking Amos Oz is a very good point to start peace efforts again …. And not give up.
Johnathan Freedland as effective and powerful as ever.
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This is an extremely difficult situation. Brings v bad memories.
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This is distressing. My wife, Anna, and I would regularly pray at the Catholic Church in
#Gaza
.
Statement by the Latin Patriarchate in Jerusalem on the shooting and killing of two women in the Catholic church in Gaza. When will this end? Enough.
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Back from US meetings in DC. I've seen US-Russia deal. It's Aleppo first. Long on details. There is no enforcement. Few give it any chance.
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After THIS moment, there will be those on Both sides (US, Iran and the Region) who would:
1. Want to Escalate;
And those who would
2. Want to Talk.
Let us do what we can to empower the Talkers and find a way.
#Soleimani
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Good.
Israeli officials confirm they turned on the water supply to the southern Gaza strip. It happens after strong U.S. pressure in the last 48 hours
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This is an extremely rare, explicit invocation of Article 99 of the UN Charter by the current Secretary-General.
The last time it was invoked, I believe, was in 1989 in relation to Lebanon.
@antonioguterres
is explicitly stating that the situation in Israel and Gaza constitutes
NEW: In Letter to
#UNSC
,
@antonioguterres
invokes article 99 of the
#UN
Charter to bring the situation in
#Gaza
to the attention of the council. He warns that he expects public order to completely break down soon due to ongoing Israeli bombardment leading to desperate conditions
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Voices in Damascus telling me public presence of Russian military quite visible. Officers Club full of Russian officers located next to MOD.
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Good op-ed. The tv show that may just be coming to a end.
“Trump has finally lost control of his narrative. Voters are ready to see him canceled.”
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I am old enough to remember when Norman Tebitt in 1981, as a
@Conservatives
Minister for Employment, told us to get on our bikes to look for work.
The man in this BBC story did just that & started his own business. Now he has been left high and dry by a Conservative government.
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RIP Archbishop Desmond Tutu. You have returned to the One.
You inspired us in the fight against the evil of Apartheid. You implored us to go higher in the quest for Peace and Justice.
#SouthAfrica
has lost a giant. But we are not lost.
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Wow - just Wow.
This statement from the Senate Chair of the Foreign Relations Committee responding to the statement from the US President.
I never thought I’d see the day a White House would moonlight as a public relations firm for the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia.
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This is nuts (only in Arabic right now) from the Saudi Press Agency -
threatening to declare economic war (i.e. through higher oil prices) on the world, especially the US, is not the best way to keep friends, even close friends.
#KSA
#Global
#Economy
مصدر مسؤول : تؤكد المملكة أنها إذا تلقت أي إجراء فسوف ترد عليه بإجراء أكبر، وأن لاقتصاد المملكة دور مؤثر وحيوي في الاقتصاد العالمي، وأن اقتصاد المملكة لا يتأثر إلا بتأثر الاقتصاد العالمي.
#واس
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I marched and marched for a free South Africa. I marched against apartheid and for dignity for all South Africans. I always will.
Someone from the South African leadership please explain what is going on?
@UN_HRC
#Syria
#SouthAfrica
#Humanrights
South Africa took the floor
@UN_HRC
to oppose an Urgent Debate on latest massacre in Syria, objecting on grounds of "time efficiency." When it came to a vote, they were absent. Is this the country of Nelson Mandela? .
@GovernmentZA
, tell us more about your "Human Rights Month."
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#CovidBrexit
is a looming reality worth paying attention to, especially in the face of a no-deal
#UK
exit at the end of 2020.
Looking forward to reading this report by
@SMFthinktank
commissioned by
@BestForBritain
.
An in-depth report, produced for us by the independent SMF, looks at the double impact of Covid-19 AND either No Deal or a Free Trade Agreement.
It’s a sobering read.
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So precinct. A must read. Thousands of young Brits have lost the chance to live and work in 27 countries.
#Brexit
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Russia, Assad, Iran were buying time for a new Aleppo offensive. I can tell you that as a fact. I told folks in DC that as ceasefire started
@Salman_Shaikh1
dont think it was wrong for US to try to get latest CoH plan w russia to work, did not fail til last monday, no?
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As
#Paris
sieges come to bloody end, let us say as Muslims,we have a serious problem.Evil is shrouding our faith &we must do more to stop it
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Why does the
@UN
keep failing and then failing again more in
@Syria
?
@SoccerMouaz
is right.
#Assad
is being treated differently to other genocidal tyrants since it’s creation in 1945.
"The
@UN
seems to look at Bashar al-Assad as their Secretary General," says
@SoccerMouaz
. "They're waiting for him to give them the OK? Nine days into a major earthquake."
#earthquake
#Syria
#UnitedNations
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The barbarians. What glory is there in bombing the A & E Dept of a hospital? May all the lost souls rest in peace.
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Notable words from Ben Wallace. Some of us wrote about the dangers privately to leading foreign policy figures in our British establishment in the first week after Hamas’s terror attacks.
Such words have to be accompanied by a clear call to cease-fire, otherwise they look as if
Wow, that's quite something! Ben Wallace, who just left his job as UK Defence Secretary, writes a scathing (and extremely unusual for a UK politician) rebuke of Israel:
He says its "collective punishment" of civilians and "killing rage" is making Israel
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A call to genocide in his own words."Aleppo must be 'cleaned',declares Assad, amid outcry over bloody siege
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Something extraordinary is happening in
#Tunisia
today.
Can’t remember such protests in any Arab country as a major Arab leader visits.
"In an open letter addressed to President Essebsi, the National Syndicate of Tunisian Journalists expressed its indignation, calling bin Salman a threat to security and peace in the region and the world."
@MedDhiaH
@abdu
@sarahleah1
@DannyPostel
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Beware a civil war in
#Turkey
. Unbelievably, this has become a distinct possibility tonight. The military and security forces are split.
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Iran is the big winner in
#Aleppo
.Also those Sunni extremists/strongmen who will rise from its ashes.We're only reading the 1st few chapters
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My sources in
#Turkey
tell me this is a Gulen inspired coup. Whether enough military behind it is key. I am sure majority of Turks are not.
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Wow - am I wrong to say that it is incredible that a Chairman of the Joints Chief would say this, at this time, in this way?
General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff — speaking directly to Donald Trump.
Shots fired...
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Allegations of a mass grave of dozens of bodies found in the grounds of
#NasserHospital
#Gaza
is another extremely disturbing development.
#ICC
investigators and independent international human rights experts must be allowed to investigate these and other alleged grave
Mass grave.. parents searching about their children and dozens of unknown bodies.
Nasser Medical Complex, Khanyounis📍
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Whatever your opinion of Bernie - he is a sincere and authentic politician. He is probably the best foil to Trump.
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1:23 mins, if you want to understand what is going on in
#Lebanon
. Watch this.
Lebanese women are leading this revolution. We stand with you. 🇱🇧
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Today, people around the world are tweeting
#DoumaSuffocating
& sharing a selfie of themselves covering their mouths in solidarity with the victims of the Assad regime's chlorine attack today on Douma City.
This is the 3rd chemical gas attack in less than 1 month.
#ChlorineAttack
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#MiddleEast
facing prospect of an arc of failed states -
#Lebanon
,
#Syria
&
#Iraq
- from Mediterranean to Gulf.
I’ve been in 10 key capitals over past 4 months.
Frankly, policy-makers, peacebuilders, politicians don’t have a clue what’s coming.
We’re not listening to the people.
At least 75 persons were injured during clashes between the security forces and protesters in Beirut, reports the Lebanese Red Cross, as protests sweep Lebanon over delays in forming a new cabinet to address the growing economic crisis.
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More I hear Sanders on foreign & Middle East policy,less I like him. His pos on
#Syria
is downright immoral & will only lead to worse situ.
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If correct. This is a determined policy. It is a war crime.
Aid convoy w/ 7 trucks containing 4000 food parcels failed to reach
#Moadamiyeh
. Intercepted and destroyed by Syrian military 4th division.
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Landed in
#London
. Here to do my civic duty and Vote. If you haven’t done so, and you’re around the corner (I’ve traveled 6 hours), what are you waiting for?
There are many people in war-torn counties I know who would love to be in our position.
Pls VOTE.
#GeneralElection2019
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Becoming clear
#Assad
regime aircraft bombing largely civilians in same areas as Coalition aircraft. Outrageous. Time for NFZ north of Hama.
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This is no movie set. It is the ppl of a city celebrating the end of a medieval-style siege to starve and kill them.
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I am glad Dr. Hadi
@hadialbahra
is pushing the case to revive the political process. The UN process is part of the problem - its member states, without exception, are principally to blame.
The plight of Syrian refugees in Lebanon is a particularly worrying and dangerous
التقى رئيس الائتلاف الوطني السوري هادي البحرة، ليلة الخميس، وكيلة الأمين العام للأمم المتحدة للشؤون السياسية وبناء السلام روزماري آن ديكارلو في المقر الرئيسي للمنظمة في نيويورك، وبحث معها واقع العملية السياسية في جنيف، وأسباب جمودها، والسبل الممكنة لتفعيلها، في ظل المعوقات
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I'm tired of experts,academics & politicians who are not Syrian suggesting we should "divide up
#Syria
." No Syrian I've met has asked for it
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Thank you Norway. Read the 🧵
The situation in Gaza is catastrophic, and
@UNRWA
is the most important humanitarian organization there. Norway continues our support for the Palestinian people through UNRWA. International support for Palestine is needed now more than ever
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“I would like to welcome FM Al-Thani of Qatar to the State Department. A frequent visitor, you are always welcome...we have a number of important issues to discuss.”
This doesn’t sound like isolation of
#Qatar
. Surely, it’s time for the blockading Gulf States & Egypt to move on.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson welcomes
#Qatar
's Foreign Minister Sheikh MBA_AlThani_ to the
@StateDept
.
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Delighted to have made the longlist for
#Kensington
.
I'm running because I've always believed in public service, never shied away from injustice and always sought to engage and empower people.
Learn more about me and get involved 👇
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Don't let the people of Syria lose another year to bloodshed and suffering. We stand
#WithSyria
. RT if you do.
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A must read article
@BylineTimes
. Clear, we should take our political and cultural manipulation much more seriously.
We can not and must not stand by.
From Folklore to Wokelore:How Myths of Britishness are Turning Totalitarian
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Assad intelligence officer who killed many Syrians is among the regime’s delegation to Genevan
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Excellent thread from
@diplocharlie
- glad this European is in Washington.
Please read.
[THREAD] Morning DC, as a 🇪🇺 newly arrived at the
@Washinstitute
, I’ve been surprised by several things in the current US discussion on
#Syria
and the fight against
#ISIS
. I have focused on two in this piece on
@thehill
:
#endlesswars
&
#burdensharing
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Thinking about it
@BarakRavid
, has Mr. Bennett gone to Moscow to blow up an imminent P5+1 - Iran nuclear deal? Well, well, imagine if he’s doing just that?
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Good morning world. Beautiful....
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I believe this is the largest dissent call in USAID ever.
More than 1,000 USAID employees sign letter backing Gaza ceasefire
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I have a message for the person who stole my phone in Marrakech and forced me on a 12 hour detour back to Paris, bus rides and trains to get a new French SIM card and phone, before I head to Doha:
I wish you no ill.
Just do ten good things for other people in the next few days.
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I knew John McCain. I talked about
#Syria
with him.
He was straight talking and loved his country.
What is more, he would fight for justice to his last breath. And he did.
Conservatives need to build again a Republican party that John McCain would be proud of today.
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I'm standing to be Labour MP for Kensington because I think politics should be inclusive. Come and discuss your vision for the community.
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