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Gisele Pelicot: Finding Sisterhood at France’s Mass Rape Trial An Avignon courthouse has become a site of pilgrimage for French women seeking catharsis and community

Pictures in support of Gisele have popped up across the world — in the streets of Krakow, New York, Milan and elsewhere.

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“Even Russian video games were created that projected the message that only the Kremlin could save Syria”. This is fascinating

With Assad in Moscow, Putin Scrambles To Save Face — and his Syrian Bases The Kremlin is in an awkward position, striving to curtail reputational damage but already making inroads with the rebels in Damascus

Wondering what Assad will do in Moscow? Our colleague @amiefr.bsky.social writes about Putin’s attempts to save face, and his base in Tarsus. newlinesmag.com/spotlight/wi...

Liberation in Syria Is a Victory Worth Embracing The country is now free, yet some remain trapped in the past

There is no better place on the internet to read deep, humane coverage of Syria than @newlinesmag.bsky.social. Just this week we published 6 different Syrian authors. Here's a thread of some of our best writing on Syria, starting here: newlinesmag.com/argument/lib...

Poland’s Primeval Forest Enters the Age of Polycrisis ‘Hybrid warfare’ in Bialowieza brings trash, violence and death to a fragile ecosystem

NEW: The ecosystem of Bialowieza, Europe’s oldest woodland, is fragile. Now geopolitics threaten its survival, reports Zuza Nazaruk for @newlinesmag.bsky.social with BIRN Network.

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With Assad in Moscow, Putin Scrambles To Save Face — and his Syrian Bases The Kremlin is in an awkward position, striving to curtail reputational damage but already making inroads with the rebels in Damascus

We shouldn’t be surprised by the Kremlin’s cautious refusal to condone or condemn Assad; few things are more important to Putin than saving face. I examine the Russian reaction to the fall of the Syrian regime, in @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/spotlight/wi...

How One Woman in France Is Battling the System That Was Meant To Protect Her Foreign women who experience sexual abuse must fight against overbearing institutions and discriminatory attitudes to find safety and justice

The rape trial of Gisele Pelicot has shocked the world. In @newlinesmag.bsky.social Waad Krouna tells her story from Paris where “Foreign women, esp those of us from Africa, flee only to find ourselves under French institutions even more skilled at manipulating us” newlinesmag.com/first-person...

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The Backstory Behind the Fall of Aleppo New Lines reports exclusively on the details leading up to the city's stunning capture

1. 🧵If you’re just starting to read our Syria coverage, here’s a thread of some of our best work on the region:

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Absolutely loving this by @joeshute.bsky.social 🐀 - a welcome distraction from the world. It feels comforting to be under the ground, even if that means being nestled with rodents

The Norwegian Archipelago That Became an Unexpected Melting Pot In Svalbard, near the North Pole, a global community has flourished, but its overseers in Oslo are now challenging the status quo

Longyearbyen, home to about 2,500 inhabitants, is located halfway between mainland Norway and the North Pole.

Today — more than a quarter of all of its residents are non-Norwegian.

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