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Tom Quinn

@tomquinn.bsky.social
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Number cruncher. Story teller. Coalition builder. Vision setter. Working to build a better future and drive emissions down as fast as possible. #atypoineverypost #climate #energy #economy #IntRel Posting from Dja Dja Wurrung Country

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 12h
Politics: caught in the pincers of a fascist, hindu supremacist party (RSS, BJP) Economy: ensnared by Oligarchs Ecology: wrecked in the name of Development Grounds for hope? India's most youthful generation bursting with energy & creativity www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-a...
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From PhD student to Indian police’s most wanted Gen Z protester: Who is Neha Bora?
Neha Bora becomes a symbol of India’s Gen Z protests over voter roll deletions and calls for the election chief’s resignation. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 2h
There's a lovely mixed field of Milkmaids (pictured, burchardia umbellata), bulbine lilies, wax lips, tall sundews and grey parrot peas.
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Finding wax-lip orchids (glossodia major) everywhere. Really good season for these beautiful ones.
A purple flower,  four petals splay forward with a single petals pointing back.
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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 2h
Golden bulbine lilies are coming out in force now too. Big patches with a dozen or so plants in each.
An upright flower stem with buds emerging on all sides. The bottom is open and has 6 bright yellow petals.
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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 2h
First Bearded Orchid (calochilus robertsonii) we've seen on the block. Hopefully it has a good season and we see a few more next year.
A green upright orchid with a purplish 'beard' emerging from the orchids hood.
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(((Tendar))) @tendar.bsky.social · 7h
The Samara Linear Production and Dispatch Station in Russia is still burning, more than 24h after being hit a third time within a short amount of time. The facility hosts 71 storage tanks with a combined total capacity of over 10 million barrels of oil. It handles 25% of Russia‘s oil transfers.
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Haaretz's detailed story on the Israeli gulags, in which nearly 10,000 Palestinians are held, vast majority of them have not been charged or convicted. These are crimes against humanity. archive.ph/LdVXQ
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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
More than 100 humanitarian and human rights organizations said on Friday that the Gaza ceasefire “exists only on paper,” citing continued Israeli attacks and restrictions on aid and reconstruction a year after the agreement. v.aa.com.tr/4083509
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Gaza ceasefire ‘exists only on paper,’ say over 100 NGOs in joint statement
Groups say Israeli forces have killed over 1,400 Palestinians since agreement, while aid restrictions hinder recovery | Anadolu
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Catalina Fernandes @catalinafernandes.bsky.social · 18h
At least five Palestinians were killed this afternoon in a horrific Israeli attack on a group of civilians in western Gaza City, as Israeli assaults across the besieged territory intensify. The killings come as Gaza marks the first anniversary
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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 11h
"How much further into the moral quagmire must America wallow before Australia rethinks its craven military dependence on Washington – not least via the reckless shackling of our strategic reliance to the US via the $368bn (and counting) Aukus submarine deal?" - Paul Daley
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Execution TV? Pete Hegseth has taken the once ‘greatest democracy’ to a horrific new low | Paul Daley
A proposal to livestream the killing of Nidal Hasan by firing squad opens a window ever wider to the Trump administration’s complete moral vacuity
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Claire Connelly @claireconnelly.bsky.social · 13h
New Delhi is a tinder box. The Modi government is essentially shutting down roads, rail, metro, and cellphone networks, and deploying police and military personnel in response to protests calling for the resignation of the Chief Election Commissioner www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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India: Delhi police must facilitate right to peaceful protest amid lockdown-like restrictions in capital
Responding to the sweeping and disproportionate restrictions imposed by the Delhi Police and the Government of India ahead of planned protests in the capital on Saturday 10 October, Aakar Patel, Chair...
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Peter Jeffe @pjeffe.bsky.social · 21h
'Inger Ashing, Save the Children CEO, said: “A ceasefire is meaningless if children are still being killed and families are still unable to rebuild their lives. Since the ceasefire was announced, nearly one child has been killed every day.”'
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Gaza ceasefire exists in name only, say more than 100 organizations
One year since the ceasefire agreement, more than 1,400 people have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza, nearly two million still need shelter, not a single hospital is fully functioning, and 1.4 mi...
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 14h
Penny Wong has had 24 hours, but still nothing. No statement of concern, no raised eyebrow... and no late signing of this very reasonable joint statement of foreign ministers. The Australian govt's craven failure to say [let alone do] anything critical of the Trump regime is humiliating. #auspol
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Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 13h
Such a treat to visit an Australian icon, genius polymath and very dear friend, Barry Jones AC yesterday, ahead of Barry turning 94 today. We talked science, research, climate, and politics. There was a bit to cover…
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
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DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 15h
They dragged him from his car, handcuffed him, blindfolded him with his own tie, pulled his court robe over his head, beat him and robbed him. For hours, some 15 settlers held the Palestinian lawyer captive and abused him www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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'You're going to die, dog': Settlers took a lawyer captive and terrorized him
They dragged him from his car, handcuffed him, blindfolded him with his own tie, pulled his court robe over his head, beat him and robbed him. For hours, some 15 settlers held the Palestinian lawyer c...
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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
And now we have...
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 19h
The first Russian diesel cargo heading for the US left St Petersburg on September 22, two weeks *before* Trump announced the deal with Putin, Windward reports. The Greek-flagged tanker Minerva Zen carrying 275,000 barrels of diesel/gasoil is due at the US East Coast around 11–12 October.
Map of tanker’s route
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 18h
In more serious times, the US government trying to cover up the deaths of service members would be a career-ending scandal.
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Pentagon raises official toll of troops who died during war with Iran to 21 — The Washington Post
The Post exclusively reported last month that the numbers of service members lost was greater than what the Pentagon was reporting in its public database.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
“The dangers Trump and Putin face are so great they will go to any lengths to avoid them. They have no other choice.”
chadbourn.substack.com
The Next Three Months
Trump and Putin are now at their most dangerous
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 23h
An oil terminal in Rostov is transferring its diesel to the cloud. That's where Trump can get it if he wants to.
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Emily Mayo @emilymayo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Governments. Stop. Funding. Elite. Private. Schools. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
smh.com.au
Cranbrook gardener charged over alleged child abuse material
“We understand there is no evidence to suggest that this matter relates to any of our students,” the school head wrote in correspondence to parents on Friday.
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 18h
Hundreds of thousands march worldwide against Israel’s genocide in Gaza - www.middleeasteye.net/news/global-p…
middleeasteye.net
Hundreds of thousands march worldwide against Israel’s genocide in Gaza
Coordinated protests demand an end to Israel’s genocide and government complicity in arming it
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 18h
2024 election marked the end of a cycle of de-democratization by Modi's BJP. India’s opposition is back as a force to be reckoned with. Not just a reinvigorated party system but the creativity of social movements from below. Must read by the great political scientist Christoph Jaffrelot
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 18h
This. "The three most fundamental factors that have made India cohesive and stronger over the decades. These are: trust in the Constitution and the belief that nobody can take it away; fairness of the top judiciary; and independence of the Election Commission. All three are under strain now"
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Modi at 25 is staring at a cascade of crises. A perfect storm is building
Multiple headwinds make the turbulence Modi is battling as he steps into his 26th year in public office. This has brought the 3-point Modi proposition under the greatest pressure since 2014.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 19h
Modi has lost it. "The govt has responded by massively increasing the security presence in the capital. Around thirty thousand police and paramilitary personnel have been deployed, internet services have been disrupted, trains to Delhi have been cancelled, metro stations and roads have been closed."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h
“Zelenskyy could’ve stopped this war many times, and he chose not to … he better damn well stop” — Trump is no longer trying to conceal that he’s fully on Putin’s side
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 23h
Trump’s plan to save the midterms is…help Russia. The Trump-Vance-Kushner-Witkoff approach to the war has always been weaken Ukraine so they bow down to Putin. It hasn’t worked. With nearly two years of this, Ukraine has shown it can thwart ground offensives and strike Russian oil without US help.
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US warns Kyiv that strikes on Russia jeopardise intelligence-sharing
Donald Trump’s administration delivered threat after Volodymyr Zelenskyy criticised diesel deal with Moscow
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Elaine Johnson @elainejohnson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
thepoint.com.au/opinions/261...
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Big Coal's day in court
The Point, helping readers make sense of the issues shaping their lives today.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 10/10/2026
UN envoy warns Yemen has returned to ‘full-scale war’, urges dialogue aje.news/qjx0sv
UN envoy warns Yemen has returned to ‘full-scale war’, urges dialogue
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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
What’s happening to our climate is utterly terrifying. We’re looking at 4 degrees above average this southern summer www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
‘Jaw-dropping’ El Niño bursts through temperature record months before peak
‘Godzilla-level’ phenomenon is supercharging the climate crisis and will have a huge impact on communities across the world
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.
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Elaine Johnson @elainejohnson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Jake Godin @godin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Important to note that these bases are built on the cleared ruins of a densely populated area where people lived. Same thing has happened in Swedish Village, Bani Suheila, Al-Qarara, Shujaiya and Jabaliya.
a satellite image from planet labs showing the ma'an neighborhood in Khan Yunis at the beginning of the war on october 15 2023. the area is full of residential buildings and includes mosques and schools.a satellite image from planet labs showing the ma'an neighborhood south of Khan Yunis on september 17 2026. there are few, if any, buildings left standing and two idf bases are visible amongst the cleared ruins.
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Jake Godin @godin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Helped a bit with satellite imagery analysis for this new piece from WSJ's Anat Peled covering IDF outpost construction in Gaza. Currently, there are 32 active IDF bases throughout Gaza with 9 of them being newly-built since the ceasefire last year. Link: www.wsj.com/world/middle...
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
West Bank: Almost 20 Israeli settler attacks target Palestinians in day of mass violence - www.middleeasteye.net/news/west-ban…
middleeasteye.net
Almost 20 Israeli settler attacks target Palestinians in day of mass violence
Attacks on olive harvesters, farmers and their property come as settler violence escalates across the occupied territory during the annual harvest season
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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 09/10/2026
Today Navi Pillay has been awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to promote peace and international law. Read more about this year’s Nobel Peace Prize: bit.ly/4yB3yfM
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Nobel Peace Prize 2026
The Nobel Peace Prize 2026 was awarded to Navanethem "Navi" Pillay "for her efforts to promote peace and international law."
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 09/10/2026
Firmus has been telling an obviously absurd environmental / efficiency story and because Business Men genuinely have no critical faculties they all just believed it unquestioningly
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Hey guess what everybody? We’re doing a climate cartoon award again and we’re naming it in our dear, late friend Jon Kudelka’s honour!
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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Hegseth and Marles standing side by side smiling broadly.
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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"Shared values"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
El-Sayed: "Under Trump and Hegseth, you're seeing extremes that you never would have imagined. The idea that you want to livestream somebody's death for children to watch is truly extreme ... I don't want that to be politics as usual."
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 08/10/2026
In addition to the unrelenting bombardment, Palestinians in Gaza are at risk of losing their lives and limbs through the unexploded ordnances that the Israeli army leaves behind. mondoweiss.net/2026/10/unex...
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Unexploded ordnances left by Israel in Gaza pose a constant danger to Palestinians
In addition to the unrelenting bombardment, Palestinians in Gaza are at risk of losing their lives and limbs through the unexploded ordnances that the Israeli army leaves behind.
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Cool Zone Media @coolzonemedia.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
New It Could Happen Here 🇵🇸 @danaelkurd.bsky.social talks with @yara-asi.bsky.social about the attacks on Palestinian health in Gaza and the West Bank, and the Israeli policies and objectives driving these attacks. linktr.ee/ICHHpod
New It Could Happen Here 🇵🇸

@danaelkurd.bsky.social talks with @yara-asi.bsky.social about the attacks on Palestinian health in Gaza and the West Bank, and the Israeli policies and objectives driving these attacks.

https://linktr.ee/ICHHpod
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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is a really a key moment for Australia to rise to the moment and start walking the talk on a Future Made in Australia. We are the natural trading partner to deliver on this ambition with Korea. We can provide the clean commodities, like green iron, as Korea shifts away from coal and gas.
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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Must Read: "How a U.S. Diplomat Suppressed and Altered Reports Critical of Israel: A top aide to Ambassador Mike Huckabee skewed information to portray the Netanyahu government in a favorable light" www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/w...
nytimes.com
How a U.S. Diplomat Suppressed and Altered Reports Critical of Israel
A top aide to Ambassador Mike Huckabee skewed information to portray the Netanyahu government in a favorable light, according to multiple officials and documents obtained by The Times.
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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Absolutely huge announcement out of Korea with KGX now announced. Total package of 1,000 trillion won (that's ~1 trillion AUD!). Steel is a key focus. SK wants to become the first country to mass-produce hydrogen-reduced steel and use that capability to compete in the global green steel market.
esgnews.com
South Korea Announces $747 Billion Energy Transition Plan Through 2035
South Korea’s K-GX strategy mobilizes $747 billion through 2035, combining government spending and climate finance to accelerate the country’s energy
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Credit to the US for making the point the conference was trying to make about US foreign interference in European democracies for them, and bringing more attention to the conference and its themes than they could have possibly hoped for. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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EU, Canada and Lithuania pull out of disinformation conference after US pressure
The Trump administration was bothered by panels that referred to the U.S. as a disinformation threat.
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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 08/10/2026
Yet again, the EU surrenders to Trump. After facing pressure from the US State Department, @kajakallas.bsky.social's EU foreign service pulled out of a conference this week at the last minute – because one of the panels dared to discuss American disinfo in Europe.
theguardian.com
EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ request
Lithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website
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The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
More than one in four children recently screened by UNICEF in Yemen were acutely malnourished as renewed fighting deepens the country's hunger crisis:
newarab.com
Yemen war deepens hunger crisis as child malnutrition surges
More than one in four children recently screened by UNICEF in Yemen were acutely malnourished as renewed fighting deepens the country’s hunger crisis.
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