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Rory O'Neill @roneilll.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
My final story for @politico.eu: A dozen Palestinian students have scholarships in Belgium but no way of getting there, as the government has suspended evacuations from Gaza. www.politico.eu/article/belg...
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Belgium awards scholarships to Palestinian students — but gives them no way to leave Gaza
Belgian evacuations from Gaza have ground to a halt amid disagreements in Prime Minister Bart de Wever’s coalition government.
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Rory O'Neill @roneilll.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Saudi Arabia and Qatar have entered the race to lead the @who.int with the first official candidates to succeed @drtedros.who.int next year. Story for POLITICO PRO subscribers below. @politico.eu pro.politico.eu/news/221507
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Rory O'Neill @roneilll.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
German medtech company Altona Diagnostics tell me they will be able to supply a new test for Bundibugyo virus, which is behind the rapidly worsening Ebola crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo, “in the coming weeks." Full story for subscribers: pro.politico.eu/news/218930
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Shamim Malekmian @shamimmalekmian.eurosky.social · 20/05/2026
Still hurt by Bertie Ahern singling out Congolese people, loss of a community member opened a fresh wound, they say. Read more here www.dublininquirer.com/still-hurt-b...
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Still hurt by Bertie Ahern singling out Congolese people, loss of a community member opened a fresh wound, they say
“It’s literally George Floyd on the streets of Dublin. I can’t believe that scene and that guy with his knee on his neck.”
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Ciarán Fahey @cfahey.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Israel has killed at least 259 journalists since 2023. "We denounce strongly what has now become a standard, dangerous practice of Israel to target and kill journalists and then claim, without providing any credible evidence, that they were involved with armed groups."
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Lebanon: UN experts call for international independent investigation into Israel’s killing of journalists
GENEVA – The targeted killing of three Lebanese journalists constitutes another egregious attack on press freedom by Israeli forces and must be promptly, fully and independently investigated by an int...
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Rory O'Neill @roneilll.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
I spoke with Gustavo Petro, President of Colombia for @politico.com. His message: Latin America is not a “land to be conquered”. Plus his views on the climate crisis, a capitalist "culture of extinction" and Rubio's notion of Western, Christian civilization. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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Colombia’s President Says We Are Heading Toward 'Extinction'
In an exclusive interview with POLITICO, the outgoing Colombian president argues the war on drugs has failed and fires back at Donald Trump.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11/03/2026
The U.S. was responsible for a strike on an Iranian elementary school, an ongoing military investigation found. The inquiry said the strike — which Iranian officials said killed at least 175 people, most of them children — was the result of a targeting mistake. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...
A photo shows the aftermath of the strike on an Iranian school. A headline reads: "U.S. at Fault in Strike on School in Iran, Preliminary Inquiry Says." More copy reads: "An ongoing military investigation has determined that the strike, which killed mostly children, was the result of a targeting mistake. The finding undercuts President Trump’s claim that Iran could be to blame." Photo by IRIB TV, via Agence France-Presse
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 05/03/2026
The humanitarian crisis in Gaza is "still catastrophic" and has seen only a "marginal" improvement since the ceasefire, with worse to come due to the Middle East war, senior WHO officials told reporters today.
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Middle East war threatens ‘marginal’ progress in Gaza since ceasefire, WHO warns
Humanitarian crisis “still catastrophic” and supply disruptions in Middle East preventing $6 million worth of medicines from reaching Gaza, says WHO.
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Rory O'Neill @roneilll.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Israel’s war against Iran could “advance the genocide” in Gaza, the head of mission in Gaza for @doctorswithoutborders.org told me today. “The world has turned its eyes away to focus on this other conflict,” Helen Ottens-Patterson. www.politico.eu/article/us-i...
Israel’s war on Iran could ‘advance the genocide’ in Gaza, MSF warns

Israel’s war against Iran could “advance the genocide” in the Gaza Strip, the head of mission in Gaza for Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said.

“The world has turned its eyes away to focus on this other conflict,” Helen Ottens-Patterson said in an interview Sunday.

MSF is among the chorus of states, NGOs and international agencies that have accused Israel of committing genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza, a claim Israel denies.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
I’m not normally that person but…. It’s really annoying that Democracy for Sale a has hardly been credited anywhere in last 24 hours for breaking story of Labour Together paying to spy on journalists *almost two weeks* ago Hadn’t expected Tory press office to be the exception!
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
New: Alex Pretti, the man killed by the Trump-Vance mob of agents was an outdoorsmen, a mountain biker, an ICU nurse who "would go out of his way to help," say Veterans Affairs colleagues. Cheerful. Funny. Gentle. And still, per sources, Trump officials are urging staff to call him a "terrorist."
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DHS Shooting Victim in Minneapolis Was a ‘Sweet’ and ‘Principled Person’
Zeteo spoke with two doctors who worked with Alex Pretti, a nurse who is the latest victim of Trump’s violent invasion of Minnesota.
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Tomorrow's front page 📰 'The UK is letting these people die'
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Rory O'Neill @roneilll.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
When the world’s largest tobacco company needed help lifting international restrictions on its products, it enlisted an unlikely ally: the European Union, a leader in tobacco control. Read our investigation with @theexamination.org.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Watching Ireland play international football has taken years off my life.
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Virgin Media News @virginmedianews.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
President Catherine Connolly has called for action on war, genocide and climate change, saying the normalisation of war “has never been and will never be acceptable” to Ireland, a nation with a long tradition of neutrality and peacekeeping. #VMNews
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Rory O'Neill @roneilll.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
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FAI to bring motion to ban Israel from Euro competition
The FAI has voted to submit a motion to UEFA to ban Israel from its European club and international competitions.
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Shailly Gupta @shaillygupta.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
TB anywhere is TB everywhere. Join us to know the challenges people with TB continue to face in accessing the TB treatment in EU and EEA region. #TBSky #IDSky
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Aidan Fitzmaurice @fancyvegaspro.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Imagine being that tenant, having tried every single avenue of contact over 16 years only to be ignored time and time again, and then be told the issue was buried somewhere in the recesses of his mind.
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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
It looks like Colston was among those abducted by Israel yesterday. Ordinary people are capable of such bravery. I don’t know what to say
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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Breaking Terror charges against Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh THROWN OUT
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Rory O'Neill @roneilll.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
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Israel attack on Yemeni newspaper was second deadliest on journalists ever recorded
Press freedom group says ‘brutal and unjustified attack’ is deadliest since 2009 Maguindanao massacre in Philippines
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 17/09/2025
We are horrified and saddened by the death of our colleague Hussein Alnajjar who died yesterday in #Gaza. His death was due to shrapnel injuries caused by an Israeli airstrike near his tent five days earlier.
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Rory O'Neill @roneilll.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
He didn't just call for the exclusion of Israel, but those that arm Israel too. "We must look at their exclusion from the United Nations itself, and we should have no hesitation any longer in relation to ending trade with people who are inflicting this at our fellow human beings."
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President suggests Israel should be excluded from the UN
President Michael D Higgins has suggested Israel and countries that supply it with weapons should be excluded from the United Nations.
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 16/09/2025
Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, a United Nations independent commission concluded in a report published today.
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Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, UN Commission says
“The responsibility for these atrocity crimes lies with Israeli authorities at the highest echelons,” says group’s chair.
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Rory O'Neill @roneilll.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Very Important reporting from @bigevupdates.bsky.social on the biggest story in sport, Evan Ferguson's loan spell at Roma. Forza Evan 🇮🇪 bigevupdates.substack.com/p/pisa-previ...
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Pisa Preview: Great Satisfactions
Liam Brady//Filippo Inzaghi//Barry Lyndon
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The National Union of Journalists @nujofficial.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
The NUJ has renewed calls for global action to end the Israeli government’s war on journalism and truth after at least 20 people, including five journalists, were killed in strikes on Nasser hospital on Monday. www.nuj.org.uk/resource/pal...
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Palestine: hospital killings by Israeli forces show need for global action
The airstrikes on Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis in which at least 20 people were killed, including five journalists and media workers, underlines the need for global action to end the Israeli governme...
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Abby Sewell @sewella.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Four journalists were killed by an Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital today, including Mariam Dagga, a freelancer with the @apnews.com. She has a 12-year-old son, who was evacuated from Gaza earlier in the war. She was a true hero, like all of our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza. tinyurl.com/3cn5c9vb
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Multiple journalists killed by Israeli strikes on Gaza hospital
A hospital strike in southern Gaza has killed at least eight people, including four journalists. The attack happened on Monday.
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Kareem Chehayeb @chehayebk.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
#GAZA: Multiple journalists killed by Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital, including a freelance journalist who worked for @apnews.com. At least 8 people were killed in a double-tap strike on the 4th floor, Gaza's Health Ministry said, the second attack came as rescue crews arrived.
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Aidan Fitzmaurice @fancyvegaspro.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Piece in the Times today about the how Freeman of the Land types have taken over the IRB, and it's full of delicious nuggets like them operating under their own timezone: Irish Rising Time
The new IRB: a band of conspiracy theorists who have set up a parallel Irish ‘government’
This fringe group, drawn from the ranks of anti-lockdown protesters and business people laid low by the crash, have a cabinet, local co-ops and even a network of ‘courts’This version of the IRB is now in the process of establishing a shadow government to run in parallel with what it calls the “corporate government” in Leinster House. It has a cabinet of ministers (which it calls secretaries), a nascent court system and a network of local government bodies. It has also adopted a new time zone, called Irish Rising Time, which is 25 minutes slower and based on the time zone used in Dublin until the 1916 rising.
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Rory O'Neill @roneilll.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
NEW: Dangerous viruses that cause paralysis are spreading in Gaza, due to Israel's blockade and destruction of the sanitation system. www.politico.eu/article/doct...
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Doctors in Gaza struggle to fight rare paralytic illness under Israeli blockade
Israel’s destruction of sanitation systems is allowing dangerous viruses to spread unchecked.
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Karl Mathiesen @karlmathiesen.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
NEW: Saudi Aramco employee named lead author of global climate report www.politico.eu/article/saud...
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Saudi Aramco employee named lead author of global climate report
Mustafa Babiker was proposed for the key role last month.
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+972 Magazine @972mag.com · 14/08/2025
NEW: The Israeli army unit tasked with linking Gaza journalists to Hamas The 'Legitimization Cell' scoured Gaza for material to boost Israeli hasbara — including questionable claims that would justify the killing of Palestinian reporters. By Yuval Abraham www.972mag.com/israel-gaza-...
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Israeli army unit tasked with linking Gaza journalists to Hamas
Treating the media as a battlefield, a secretive intelligence squad scoured Gaza for material to bolster Israeli hasbara — including questionable claims that would justify the killing of Palestinian r...
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Rory O'Neill @roneilll.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Israel has banned humanitarian groups from delivering aid to Gaza unless they hand over details of their Palestinian staff. NGOs say they have no guarantees of their employees' safety if they do.
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Israel locks aid groups out of Gaza as Palestinians starve, say NGOs
Israel has threatened to ban nonprofits from Gaza unless they hand over details of their Palestinian staff, 100 NGOs say in joint statement.
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 12/08/2025
Brussels civil servants are locked in an escalating standoff with the European Commission over their right to protest the EU’s stance on Israel.
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EU staff revolt over Gaza stance
Internal unrest increases as protestors accuse Commission of violating its “moral and legal obligations.”
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
“How many murdered Palestinian journalists will it take for the mainstream press’s cowardly fever to break?” asks ⁦‪Prem Thakker,‬⁩ in the wake of Israel’s killing of ⁦‪Anas al Sharif. ‬⁩
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BREAKING: Israel Killed Al Jazeera Journalist Anas Al-Sharif
Journalists in Gaza continue to be murdered in record numbers, while Western media outlets and reporters show little or no outrage.
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Rory O'Neill @roneilll.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Rare W for Dublin.
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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Mailing list sign ups are not members. But this level of interest suggests a new left party can't simply be dismissed, like some people are doing/hoping.
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Rory O'Neill @roneilll.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
“Tweets don’t feed people. Statements don’t open aid crossings." As Palestinians starve to death under Israel's blockade, humanitarian leaders told me the EU's pleas for aid count for little without sanctions.
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EU ‘too little, too late’ on Gaza, NGOs tell von der Leyen
Humanitarian groups are urging the EU to impose sanctions on Israel.
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Rory O'Neill @roneilll.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Israel is starving Palestinians to death, health workers in Gaza told me. "This is not hunger, this is not malnutrition. This is forced starvation, this is torture." www.politico.eu/article/war-...
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Images from Gaza are ‘unbearable,’ von der Leyen says
Over 100 people have starved to death due to lack of aid, local authorities say.
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 23/07/2025
UK opinion on Gaza war (YouGov, July 2025) 18% support Israel’s actions in Gaza, 55% oppose 81% of those who oppose say it’s a genocide Large margins in favour of: - trade embargoes (48% to 20%) - financial sanctions on individuals (52% to 19%) - suspending arms exports to Israel (57% to 18%)
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Andy Kaczynski @kfile.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
TBH this could be a problem for them
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Rory O'Neill @roneilll.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Great work by @healthpolicywatch.bsky.social
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EXCLUSIVE: WHO Has A New $4.2 Million Contract Pending With Boston Consulting Group - Health Policy Watch
The World Health Organization has a draft $4.295 million contract with the Boston Consulting Group pending in its Global Management System (GSM), Health
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Any use of the word "populist" in a present-day context, by any media outlet or any journalist, is a colossal red flag. If I were to write a module on media literacy, I'd dedicate an entire lecture to this one word.
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Matthew Garrahan @mattgarrahan.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
NEW: Tony Blair's staff took part in a BCG project for the redevelopment of Gaza along the lines of the 'Trump Riviera' plan www.ft.com/content/0b1b...
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Tony Blair’s staff took part in ‘Gaza Riviera’ project with BCG
Former UK prime minister’s institute participated in meetings on plan to turn shattered enclave into trading hub
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Rory O'Neill @roneilll.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
A deeply embarrassing story to have written.
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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Real change is coming.
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Today, after 14 years, I’m resigning from the Labour Party. Jeremy Corbyn and I will co-lead the founding of a new party, with other Independent MPs, campaigners and activists across the country. Join us. The time is now. Sign up here to stay updated: actionnetwork.org/forms/join-t...
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