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Priyanka Shankar

@priyankashankar.bsky.social
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Independent journalist with a keen interest in human rights & scuba diving. Work seen in Al Jazeera English, The Guardian, El Pais, Nikkei Asia, Reuters, DW, Lighthouse Reports, BBC Travel, The World, etc. priyankashankar.pressfolios.com

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Priyanka Shankar @priyankashankar.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Foreign aid cuts have hurt the most vulnerable people in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh including people with cognitive disabilities and those who have survived landmine explosions. What do solutions to help look like? www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
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Foreign aid cuts hurt the most vulnerable in world’s largest refugee camp
In recent months, healthcare in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh has been badly affected by foreign aid cuts.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 14/05/2025
Diplomats said the move to abruptly end special trade arrangements — which allowed most Ukrainian goods to enter the EU duty free — came after Poland led a push to protect the bloc’s farmers. www.ft.com/content/8733...
Farmers harvest a wheat field in Ukraine. Overlaid text reads: FT exclusive – The EU is set to impose much higher tariffs on Ukrainian imports
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 04/05/2025
EU eyes closer ties to transpacific bloc as Trump jolts trade order www.ft.com/content/bee31826-012d-4b…
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EU eyes closer ties to transpacific bloc as Trump jolts trade order
Brussels revives plan to forge strategic partnership with CPTPP to defend rules-based global system
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
This is one of the best ads I have ever seen and I can’t believe I missed it
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Priyanka Shankar @priyankashankar.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The $10 BILLION India-Pakistan trade secret hidden by official data Backdoor trade between India and Pakistan is much higher than official figures say – but can it survive the latest hostilities? Latest for @aljazeeraenglish.bsky.social with Yashraj Sharma. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/....
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The $10bn India-Pakistan trade secret hidden by official data
Informal trade between India and Pakistan is much higher than official figures say – but can it survive new hostilities?
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 23/04/2025
Indian security forces are searching for the gunmen behind an attack on tourists in Pahalgam, Indian-administered Kashmir, that killed 26 people. 🟡 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/zk4bkq
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 24/04/2025
Spain scraps €6.6m arms order from Israeli company after outcry
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Spain scraps €6.6m arms order from Israeli company after outcry
Coalition allies of Pedro Sánchez said the purchase of millions of bullets jeopardised country’s efforts to hold Israel to account over war in Gaza
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 19/04/2025
#BREAKING Putin announces 'Easter truce' in Ukraine conflict: TV
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Priyanka Shankar @priyankashankar.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Part-school, part-social network, a Mouride circle on the Spanish island is helping teenage asylum seekers prepare for adulthood and navigate a challenging welfare system. Latest for @theguardian.com from Gran Canaria 👇🏽 www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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‘We feel like we’re back in Senegal’: the Sufis helping migrants in the Canaries
Part-school, part-social network, a Mouride circle on the Spanish island is helping teenage asylum seekers prepare for adulthood and navigate a challenging welfare system
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Priyanka Shankar @priyankashankar.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
X has filed a lawsuit alleging that New Delhi is unlawfully censoring content online. But will it hurt Musk’s interests in the country? More 👇🏾 with insights from Apar G. and @Michael Kugelman. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/...
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Why is X suing the Indian government as Musk woos Modi?
X has filed a lawsuit alleging that New Delhi is unlawfully censoring content online.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 18/03/2025
Duterte’s arrest gives ‘a sense impunity ends’, says Nobel peace prize winner
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Duterte’s arrest gives ‘a sense impunity ends’, says Nobel peace prize winner
Maria Ressa said rules-based order ‘can perhaps still exist’ but social media is being used to undermine democracy around the world The arrest of Rodrigo Duterte is a welcome sign that the rules-based order continues to hold, the Nobel laureate Maria…
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Priyanka Shankar @priyankashankar.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Around 15 Members of the European Parliament are “on the radar” of the investigation. www.ftm.eu/articles/hua...
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Huawei targeted in new European Parliament corruption probe
Chinese tech giant Huawei is at the centre of a new corruption case in Europe’s capital. On Thursday, Belgian police raided the homes of its lobbyists, Follow the Money and its media partners Le Soir ...
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The New Humanitarian @newhumanitarian.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
The fallout from the US aid funding freeze continues. In Haiti, could this actually be a moment for optimism? What’s Unsaid is a podcast by The New Humanitarian, where we explore open secrets and uncomfortable conversations around the world’s conflicts and disasters. Listen: buff.ly/xcSogRG
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10/03/2025
What are smartphones stealing from us? When mine was taken away, I found out | Alexander Hurst
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What are smartphones stealing from us? When mine was taken away, I found out | Alexander Hurst
As a Paris film extra, I surrendered my device and discovered the extraordinary connections I miss while staring at my screen
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101 East @aj101east.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Millions of young people in China are grappling with unemployment amid a prolonged economic slowdown. Increasing numbers are growing disillusioned as they navigate the country’s tough labour market. aje.io/chinajobs
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+972 Magazine @972mag.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
🎉 No Other Land Wins the Oscar for Best Documentary! 🎉 Congratulations to +972 Magazine’s very own reporter, Yuval Abraham, and long-time contributor, Basel Adra, on winning the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for their powerful film, No Other Land. #NoOtherLand #Oscars2025
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 24/02/2025
‘We have nothing now’: Myanmar’s exiled media face existential crisis after Trump severs aid
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‘We have nothing now’: Myanmar’s exiled media face existential crisis after Trump severs aid
Organisations that take extreme risks to document atrocities, corruption and war crimes fear for their future after USAid cuts Each month Su Myat secretly crosses the border from Thailand into Myanmar to report on her conflict-ridden homeland, covering…
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Thread - I've been thinking a lot about Walter Lippmann’s Public Opinion lately, especially in the context of Musk’s role in dismantling the federal workforce through DOGE. It’s a perfect example of what Lippmann warned about over a century ago.
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Priyanka Shankar @priyankashankar.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Germany heads to the polls tomorrow, amid fears that far-right sentiment is rising while migration policies sit at the centre of political debate. How are migrants and asylum seekers in the country reckoning with the new shift to the right? More: www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/...
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Uncertainty grows among refugees and migrants as Germany heads to the polls
Rights groups say migrants and refugees live in an atmosphere of fear amid a far-right resurgence.
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The Listening Post @ajlisteningpost.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
On the show this week: • The US and Russia compete to influence Germany’s election • Trump’s turn on Zelenskyy is celebrated by media outlets in Moscow • President Nayib Bukele’s media machine in El Salvador Watch now ▶️ youtu.be/nrP1VABrRGs
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Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Commission trade spox Olof Gill at today's media briefing: "As longstanding allies the EU and US have built a strong economic partnership based on strong values, mutual trust and cooperation. Tariffs would put into question the spirit of cooperation that has long-defined Transatlantic relations"
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10/02/2025
‘Total chaos’: Monkey blamed for nationwide power cut in Sri Lanka
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‘Total chaos’: Monkey blamed for nationwide power cut in Sri Lanka
Energy minister says monkey ‘came into contact with grid transformer’, causing hours-long outage in sweltering heat A countrywide power outage in Sri Lanka has been blamed on a monkey that clambered into a power station south of Colombo. The blackout,…
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 03/02/2025
Immigrant advocacy groups filed the first major lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s claim that there is an “invasion” on the U.S.-Mexico border to justify summarily expelling migrants without giving them a chance to apply for asylum.
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Immigrant advocates file lawsuit challenging Trump asylum shutdown
The Trump administration has claimed there is an “invasion” on the U.S.-Mexico border to justify summarily expelling migrants without giving them a chance to apply for asylum.
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Priyanka Shankar @priyankashankar.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Have you ever wondered what happens to the land a person owns when they are forced to flee and seek refuge elsewhere? This has been a question in the minds of many Nepali-speaking citizens of Bhutan who fled their country to escape oppression under the country’s “One Nation, One People” law.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 01/02/2025
Arab FMs have rejected the transfer of Palestinians from their land “under any circumstances or justifications”, presenting a unified stance against US President Trump’s call for Egypt and Jordan to take in residents of Gaza. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/bzs9od
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
The Westminster whistleblower: how my friend Sergei tried to expose the Kremlin plot against Britain www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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The Westminster whistleblower: how my friend Sergei tried to expose the Kremlin plot against Britain
Russian-born UK citizen and Tory party activist Sergei Cristo fought to make MI5 sit up and take notice of the Russian political interference operation now threatening democracy in Britain – and aroun...
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 12/01/2025
“The Blind Football Premier League is a dream come true for both me and the teams.” The blind footballers of South Sudan.
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‘Voy! I’m coming!’: The blind footballers of South Sudan
Against a backdrop of violence and hardship, a group of young men defy the odds.
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Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Last yr, Trump team told EU officials to leave “lecturing and moralising” at the door if they want to do deals on tariffs & Ukraine As Brussels makes "political choice" to keep quiet on Trump's threats & Musk courting the far right, that advice appears to have sunk in www.scmp.com/news/china/a...
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EU stays mum as Trump eyes Greenland and Musk courts far-right
Told to cease ‘lecturing and moralising’, Brussels officials ready for ‘strong transatlantic agenda’ as they ‘defend’ trade interests.
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Priyanka Shankar @priyankashankar.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Thousands of Nepali-speaking Bhutanese were forced to flee their homeland in the 1990s. Decades later, many remain in limbo, torn between dreams of repatriation and the harsh realities of statelessness. Latest from Damak, Nepal with Rojita Adhikari: www.dw.com/en/bhutanese...
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Bhutanese refugees in Nepal: 'We want to return home' – DW – 12/19/2024
Thousands of Nepali-speaking Bhutanese were forced to flee their homeland in the 1990s. Decades later, many remain in limbo, torn between dreams of repatriation and the harsh realities of statelessnes...
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Priyanka Shankar @priyankashankar.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
"We are Gurkhas. Our motto that says ‘it’s better to die than be a coward’ motivates us to fight..." Why Nepal’s Gurkha fighters want to join India’s army again aje.io/ev92o Latest from Pokhara, Nepal :
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Ian James @ianjames.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Fire hydrants in Pacific Palisades ran dry during last night's catastrophic fire. City officials are blaming 'tremendous demand' and say 114 tanks that supply the hydrants were fully filled before the fires. By Matt Hamilton and @davidzahniser.bsky.social @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Fire hydrants ran dry as Pacific Palisades burned. L.A. city officials blame 'tremendous demand'
Firefighters battling the Palisades fire dealt with hydrants that had little to no water flowing out. By 3 a.m. Wednesday, all hydrants 'went dry,' an LADWP official says.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 26/12/2024
On the waterfront in Helsinki – a zen regeneration game
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On the waterfront in Helsinki – a zen regeneration game
The world’s most sustainable travel destination is giving its harbour a facelift with an eco-friendly hotel that whispers cool Scandi minimalism while reconnecting guests with nature On a windswept late November evening at the edge of the waterfront in…
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Natalie Sedacca @nataliesedacca.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
The Supreme Court of the British Indian Ocean Territory has found that 61 Tamil Sri Lankan asylum seekers, including 16 children, who were held for over three years on Diego Garcia were unlawfully detained www.leighday.co.uk/news/news/20...
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Supreme Court finds asylum seekers were unlawfully detained
The Supreme Court of the British Indian Ocean Territory has found that Tamil asylum seekers held on Diego Garcia were unlawfully detained.
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Bram Frouws @bramfrouws.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
“The way European states tumble over each other to all suspend processing asylum claims, or even start talks about returns of those who have already received protection is embarrassing,” My take on the very premature statements by European states in this piece www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12...
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Why is Europe pausing Syrian asylum claims after al-Assad’s fall?
Some European countries are freezing asylum applications for people from Syria in the wake of the fall of its regime.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 08/12/2024
🔴 Syria’s armed opposition says they have captured the capital, Damascus, and that President Bashar al-Assad has fled the country. LIVE updates ⤵️
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Syria’s opposition declares Damascus ‘free of tyrant Bashar al-Assad’
Syria’s armed opposition says they have captured the capital and that President Bashar al-Assad has fled the country.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 25/11/2024
Human Rights Watch (HRW) says an Israeli air attack, which killed three journalists and injured four others in southern Lebanon last month, was most likely a deliberate attack on civilians and an apparent war crime. 🔴 LIVE updates ⤵️
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Half a million in Gaza threatened by sewage flood amid rainy season: UNRWA
Agency says no waste infrastructure left after a year of Israeli attacks, as cold threatens thousands of malnourished.
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William Christou @willchristou.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Breaking- A Guardian investigation can reveal Israel used a US munition to target & kill 3 journalists in south Lebanon on 25 Oct, a potential war crime. Israeli surveillance tech & use of precision bomb means it likely knew it was targeting journalists. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
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Killing of journalists in Israeli strike could be a war crime, legal experts say
Israel used US munition to target and kill three members of the press in Lebanon, Guardian investigation reveals
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Steffen Lüdke @stluedke.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Merkel, in her interview with El País, says the migration deals with Tunisia and Libya are a continuation of her policy (the agreement with Turkey).
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Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
We'll *all* miss Borrell's outfits
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 24/11/2024
Russia recruits Yemeni mercenaries to fight in Ukraine www.ft.com/content/da966006-88e5-4c…
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Russia recruits Yemeni mercenaries to fight in Ukraine
Mysterious Houthi-linked company duping men into joining Moscow’s war machine
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@amrutabyatnal @amrutabyatnal.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
A push by India and Bangladesh to boost the use of solar power and renewable energy is resulting in increasing land conflicts, as farmers worry about losing key agricultural land to renewable energy projects. From our climate duo Bhasker Tripathi and Md. Tahmid Zami www.context.news/just-transit...
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South Asia's solar energy push faces a battle for land | Context
As the COP29 summit eyes a surge in renewable energy, competing demand for land creates conflict in India and Bangladesh
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Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Two months before Trump’s return some speculate the EU and China could patch up their frayed ties in a bid to avoid a multi-front trade war. In reality, the sides are a million miles from a detente - my report www.scmp.com/news/china/d...
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Little room to mend EU-China ties amid differences over trade, Ukraine
Dialogue and action urged ahead of Donald Trump’s return and as mainland ship is detained by Danish coastguard over cut undersea cables.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 22/11/2024
Spain said it could give residency and work permits to about 900,000 undocumented migrants in the country over the next three years to help address a growing need for workers, even as other European countries embrace tougher stances on immigration.
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Spain Looks to Grant Residency to Nearly 1 Million Migrants
The government said new rules could give legal status — and work permits — to about 300,000 people a year over the next three years to address gaps in the labor market.
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