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Monika Sobiecki

@cybersobiecki.bsky.social
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Lawyer @BindmansLLP | Legal @Impatience Ltd | Waltham Forest Green Party 💚 | Postgrad researcher on surveillance and climate justice @QMUL | Lawyers Are Responsible (www.lar.earth) | Digital rights are human rights |

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Médecins Sans Frontières @msf.org · 05/10/2026
In Gaza, Palestine, Israel continues to systematically destroy the conditions people need to survive through violence, the deliberate blockade of essential supplies, and the destruction of healthcare and vital infrastructure.
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Three years on: Israel is asphyxiating Gaza and dismantling the means of survival | MSF
In Gaza, Palestine, Israel continues to systematically destroy the conditions people need to survive.
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Serene Doomer @serenaribena.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
'Empty shelves, riots on the streets over food and eventual societal breakdown may sound like something from the pages of a JG Ballard novel. But experts warn this scenario could well come to pass if summers like the one we’ve just had continue' www.thegrocer.co.uk/analysis-and... archive.ph/7vdEf
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Why Britain's food supply chains are 'frighteningly fragile'
After the hottest summer on record, UK food supply is teetering on the brink. What needs to be done to help farmers and secure our food system?
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Monika Sobiecki @cybersobiecki.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
“As a species, we are behaving like a pod of dolphins beaching themselves … Our ability to share knowledge and understand the situation we’re in has become utterly compromised, and deadly.” Adam McKay Heading for 3C. 4 billion dead. In the next 25 years. Will you or your loved ones be one of them?
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Monika Sobiecki @cybersobiecki.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
And what does Prime Minister Andy Burnham think the people of his constituency in Greater Manchester will be *eating* later on this year when he opens up the North Sea for oil and gas drilling? Future profits?
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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
YellowDot released this letter today calling for disaster preparedness for the heat jump this El Niño will bring. It’s signed by scientists, meteorologists, climate writers, concerned citizens & was sent to every Governor, major city Mayor, international Mayors. Sign + share if you can.
Letter outline the threats that will occur as a result of this looming historic El Niño will bring.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
🔴 For the past year @lucasamin.bsky.social and I have been investigating Palantir in the UK What we found was a company with unrivalled political access, selling a product many data experts in the NHS don’t use, and don’t rate Please read and share democracyforsale.substack.com/p/its-just-a...
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"It's just a waste of time": inside Palantir's £330m NHS failure
Our new investigation reveals the problems with Palantir’s NHS tech - and the unrivalled political access that fuelled the firm’s march into the British state
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IPBES @ipbes.net · 23/06/2026
The @unuinweh.bsky.social has published the Environmental Cost of AI’s Energy Use. Carbon, Water and Land Footprints. The report analyses the impact of AI beyond carbon footprint and calls for a responsible AI ecosystem 🔗 Learn more: ow.ly/fmjR50Zf38y
Cover of the report "Environmental Cost of AI’s Energy Use. Carbon, Water and Land Footprints" by the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health. The cover features data center aisles filled with blue-lit servers illustrating AI's energy consumption. The logo of the Institute appears in white in the bottom right corner.
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Monika Sobiecki @cybersobiecki.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
From @netpol.org “This report makes clear that the standardised approach to policing protest across the country is to treat protest as something to be neutralised or shut down…it is unmistakeable as a system premised on the suppression of dissent.” ccccjustice.org/2026/06/15/h...
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How repression became routine – Centre for Climate Crime and Climate Justice
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 28/05/2026
Cambridge University has started pulling hundreds of millions of pounds away from institutions that finance fossil fuels.
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HSBC, Barclays Among Banks Set to Lose Cambridge University Cash
Barclays Plc and HSBC Holdings Plc are among UK banks set to lose cash holdings from Cambridge University as it starts pulling hundreds of millions of pounds away from institutions that finance fossil fuels.
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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 11/05/2026
Waltham Forest Council Election Result #LE2026: GRN: 31 (+31) LAB: 15 (-32) CON: 14 (+1) Green GAIN from Labour. Changes w/ 2022.
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Extinction Rebellion Wimborne @xrwimborne.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Scientists warn we’re nearing a climate point of no return Politicians & corporations won’t act unless the pressure changes Hope is in protest & collective action. Together we must change the national conversation before tipping points lock in a hothouse Earth www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Point of no return: a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer, scientists say
Continued global heating could set irreversible course by triggering climate tipping points, but most people unaware
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Palantir, a US spy-tech firm, has been given access to millions of NHS patient records. Its founder has said the NHS should be 'ripped up'. Join me in calling on the government to end the dangerous Palantir contract. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
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Stop Palantir taking over our public services!
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.
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Natalia Krapiva 🕊️👩🏻‍💻 @natynettle.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
NEW: NSO tried to hijack the Pall Mall Process to whitewash their reputation in the midst of ongoing Pegasus abuses. France & UK govs leading the process say: "Not so fast!" Submitting comments ≠ participation/compliance! By @suzannesmalley.bsky.social therecord.media/spyware-make...
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Spyware maker is hijacking diplomatic efforts to limit commercial hacking, civil society warns
Spyware maker NSO Group trumpeted the company’s participation in the Pall Mall Process, which drew criticism from civil society leaders and government officials who called out human rights abuses.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
We urgently need a parliamentary debate on Palantir. Please sign this & share with your network. Via @the-citizens.bsky.social & @change.org. www.change.org/p/hold-a-par...
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Palantir’s stated mission is to defend America. Peter Thiel is a radical libertarian who does not believe ‘freedom & democracy are compatible’. Yet, the UK is overwhelmingly dependent on Palantir’s services. As a national security threat, this is off the charts. @thenerve.news 2/
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Brits: you are nowhere near frightened enough of what's happening in the US right now and what UK politicians are promising with the help of Palantir and friends. From @ markmcposts on IG.
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James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · 18/12/2025
Please share, and chip in if you can. www.crowdjustice.com/case/6-clima...
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6 medics face trial for climate action at time of record temperatures
We need your help to defend 6 health workers facing trial. They acted out of a duty to protect public health & planet, as politics and corporations fail to deliver their climate commitments.
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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Europe’s water reserves are drying up - freshwater storage shrinking across S & central Europe, & parts of UK Satellite data on changes in gravitational field show changes in available water as it's heavy Climate breakdown can be seen in the data say scientists www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Mastertwit 🇵🇸 @mastertwit.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
“The entire financial system, including government bonds and mortgages, is premised on the idea that tomorrow will look something like today. In a world that’s 3 degrees warmer, it assuredly will not.”
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 17/11/2025
Voices in the Global South say that AI computing (whose producers remain principally in the Global North) is evolving as a new form of extractive colonialism. Some Indigenous people say it is time to question limitless technological innovation with its heavy environmental and social costs.
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AI data center revolution sucks up world’s energy, water, materials
In 2024, the state of Querétaro in north-central Mexico suffered its worst drought in a century, impacting crops and communities. Seventeen of the state’s 18 municipalities were affected, putting…
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Today feels like a good day to remind everyone that there is literally no empirical evidence that economic growth will just continue if the world heats up to, say, 3°C by 2100. Continued growth is just *assumed* in every economic model of the relationship between temperatures and growth. 🧵
The word "growth" is a core term in the language of climate politics. As we just saw, climate economists estimate the costs of climate damages relative to the amount of economic growth they project into the twenty-first century, and by and large they assume that such growth will continue no matter how hot and chaotic the planet gets. Their belief in a future of continued economic growth enables another idea sometimes used to justify sustaining the fossil- fuel economy: the idea that economic growth is itself a climate-change solution, a form of environmental protection that will shield the prosperous from climate devastation. This belief is so bipartisan, so ubiquitous, that it's not quite accurate to call it propaganda. It's best understood as a *myth*. This myth is often taken for reality by both fossil-fuel partisans on the right and climate-conscious progressives on the center-left.
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Important thread. "I don't think many folks, apparently including Gates & advisors, appreciate just how radically transformed a 2.5-3C warmer world would be." Indeed that is the key problem. They don't get it. But whenever we try to state it clearly, it's dismissed as alarmist. Catch 22.
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Monika Sobiecki @cybersobiecki.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
“Derailment can result from climate impacts, like how worsening disasters…sap resources [for adaptation]…lead[ing] to more expensive disasters. Derailment can also result from the consequences of climate action, like how the impacts of green policies can be exploited…to drive a political backlash.”
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
🥳🎉 “This is a major step forward. It’s a relief to see the Court recognise... that new oil and gas fields threaten our most basic human rights. Requiring governments to assess the global #climate consequences of oil &gas combustion before approving new fossil projects is common sense,& long overdue"
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European human rights court sets climate limits for the oil industry - Greenpeace International
Today, The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that Norway must assess the global climate impacts of oil and gas before opening new oil fields on the Norwegian continental shelf in order ...
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Monika Sobiecki @cybersobiecki.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Can’t think of any possible historical parallels at all involving starving your own populace…
Workers demonstrating on the first day of the February Revolution in Russia, 23 Feb 2017
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Gregor Semieniuk @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
🚨NEW PAPER🚨 We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
River or sankey diagram showing the allocation of profits from global oil and gas companies to quantiles of the US wealth size distribution via financial system intermediaries, such as asset managers, and categories of ultimate beneficiaries, such as business owners, pension funds and shareholders in listed companies. The scale is hundreds of billions of US dollars, and ultimately 50.4% of profits reaching the US personal wealth distribution go to the richest 1% of households.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
"...for protests to succeed, they must be backed by movements with the ability to promise to withhold—labor, debt payments, rent payments, or consumer support—and to follow through if demands aren’t met." Glad to have gotten the opportunity to push this line in Time time.com/collections/...
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Why Protests Should Be Promises
Modern movements that aim to advance racial equity should withhold and promise, rather than perform, writes Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
When a collaborator is targeted because her scientific findings that attribute extreme weather to human-caused climate change is being used (effectively) in climate lawsuits against oil companies, you know times are dark indeed. ICYMI @davidho.bsky.social www.eenews.net/articles/cli...
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Climate critics try to discredit IPCC author for linking disasters to global warming
Roger Pielke Jr. and oil industry supporters are attacking climate scientist Friederike Otto, whose work has been used in lawsuits against polluters.
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Monika Sobiecki @cybersobiecki.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
“Oil companies may seem invincible but they are more vulnerable than you think” says climate justice litigator Melinda Janki Watch here: www.ted.com/talks/melind...
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How we took on an oil giant — and won
Oil companies may seem invincible, but they are more vulnerable than you think, says climate justice litigator Melinda Janki. She tells the story of how she took on ExxonMobil in her home country of G...
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The Centre for Climate Crime and Climate Justice @ccccjustice.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Securing access to minerals essential for the green transition will in the 21st century will be a resource curse, just like fossil fuels were in the 20th Century. Steve Rushton reports on the new mineral curse in our latest blog. ccccjustice.org/2025/09/25/m...
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James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · 23/09/2025
Each year >$550billion is invested in oil & gas. 90% of that is just to offset natural declines. If it were to stop, tight oil & shale gas production would decrease 35% within 12 months. We could be on track for Paris Agreement. What is stopping us? www.technosphere.earth/fossil-fuels...
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Fossil fuels are ending
They would end faster if we stopped being complete suckers
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
They are literally canceling culture
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Monika Sobiecki @cybersobiecki.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
See what you did there, Yvette Cooper & @teamlabouruk.bsky.social? Start proscribing protest groups you don’t like as “terrorists” in the UK… …And you encourage authoritarian governments to crack down on their own Is this what you think exporting British democratic values around the world means?
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🕸godhatesyeeeest🕷 @godhatesyeast.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
this this is ugly energy
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The Centre for Climate Crime and Climate Justice @ccccjustice.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Today we launch a major new report that reveals how British investors profit from the destruction of the third largest rainforest in the world, in West Papua. Those investors are implicated in a brutal campaign of political repression. Read the report here 👇👇👇 ccccjustice.org/publications/
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Monika Sobiecki @cybersobiecki.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
“At 3C or more of heating by 2050, there could be more than 4 billion deaths, significant sociopolitical fragmentation worldwide, failure of states (with resulting rapid, enduring, and significant loss of capital), extinction events… there was no realistic plan in place to avoid this scenario”
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The Centre for Climate Crime and Climate Justice @ccccjustice.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Yesterday the police raided the houses of our close colleagues in Defend Our Juries. They are facing very serious charges just for protesting against a genocide. We demand their immediate release. Read our statement here 👇👇 ccccjustice.org/2025/09/03/e...
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George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
End the Genocide now End the Occupation now Isolate Israel
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Monika Sobiecki @cybersobiecki.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
So this is what we call DEMOCRACY in the UK in 2025 Citizens with a CONSCIENCE arrested for calling out the UK Government’s authoritarian crackdown on a civil society group opposing Israel committing the international crime of GENOCIDE All while our Government openly supports a GENOCIDE !
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 24/08/2025
People have embraced authoritarianism in large part because they've been sold individualistic explanations for social problems. If you think people are poor or unhoused because they've made "bad choices," then you'll see appeal in authoritarian leaders who promise to punish those who are "bad."
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Monika Sobiecki @cybersobiecki.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
For this type of egregious SLAPP (strategic litigation against public participation), imho “Marzulla Law LLC” should be reported to their regulator for further investigation
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
For thousands of years, we have been parasitised, exploited and destroyed by elites. Our survival depends on overthrowing them. Fascinating article by @dpcarrington.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse
An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished
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The Centre for Climate Crime and Climate Justice @ccccjustice.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Just published!!!! CCCCJ member @billspence.bsky.social‬ reviews 'Overshoot', a book which seeks to explain why the world is carrying on as if climate change is a conspiracy (if though we all know its real).. 👇👇👇 ccccjustice.org/2025/07/31/t...
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 24/07/2025
📰The #CIJ_ICJ has spoken—fossil fuel production is no longer just bad policy, it’s a violation of international law. Read our NYT op-ed on why this ruling is a legal game-changer for climate justice. nyti.ms/3IKYNvs
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Opinion | Climate Science Is Now the Law
A landmark legal ruling leaves no doubt that continuing fossil fuel production and use, let alone expanding it, violates the law.
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Monika Sobiecki @cybersobiecki.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
The ARAP scheme data breach has dominated debate in the Commons, the headlines and our new enquiries line in the last few days - if you or someone you know has been affected, here’s some helpful info from our Media and Information law team: www.bindmans.com/news-insight...
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Ministry of Defence (MOD) Data Breach involving Afghan Citizens | Bindmans
Following the recent Ministry of Defence Data Breach, we have answered some key questions
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Hannah Keenan @hannahkeenan.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Lots of focus right now is (very rightly) on the use - and length of - the super-injunction. But this data breach is a sobering reminder of the extent to which gov botched the 2021 evacuation from Kabul and the impacts of it having done so. www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/afgh...
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Afghan data breach is the long shadow of a botched evacuation | Institute for Government
The government needs to learn the lessons of past crises.
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Monika Sobiecki @cybersobiecki.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
“Israeli forces and American security personnel have killed no fewer than 829 Palestinians and wounded around 5,500 others in less than two months near aid distribution points” Where are the sanctions on the US and Israel from the international community?
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Rather than place sanctions on those slaughtering babies on an industrial scale, those calling out are sanctioned. We are witnessing the utterly unthinkable, and the consequences will endure far into the future. share.google/EuCluGNbBiLa...
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US sanctions UN expert Francesca Albanese, critic of Israel's Gaza offensive
Secretary of State Marco Rubio linked the move to her support for the International Criminal Court (ICC).
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Chris Baraniuk @chrisbaraniuk.com · 25/06/2025
A spokesperson for the trust said a number of contributing factors led to the patient's death including "a long wait for a blood test result". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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NHS ransomware attack contributed to patient's death
An NHS trust in London confirms an unexpected patient death during the cyber attack on 3 June 2024.
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