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jitendraraut
(BBC journalist since 2000. Desk Editor, BBC Nepali. Radio Sagarmatha founding team. Believes in the power of media in bringing +ve change! (Re)Tweets r personal)
As Leicester becomes the first city to be subject to a local lockdown, misleading claims are being shared across social media. A number of local councils have come out on Twitter and Facebook to counter online rumours of imminent lockdowns in their…
The New York Times
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Mujib Mashal
– Jul 1, 4:16 PM
KABUL, Afghanistan — He was a lowly drug smuggler, neighbors and relatives say, then ventured into contracting, seeking a slice of the billions of dollars the U.S.-led coalition was funneling into construction projects in Afghanistan. But he…
BBC News
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Issariya Praithongyaem
– Jul 1, 4:22 PM
Sitanan Satsaksit was on the phone to her brother early in the evening on 4 June when he told her to hold the line. Wanchalearm, also known as Tar, was handing over a few dollars for meatballs at a stall opposite his home in the Cambodian capital…
The New York Times
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Apoorva Mandavilli
– Jul 1, 1:53 PM
The Trump administration plans to adopt a decades-old testing strategy that will vastly increase the number of coronavirus tests performed in the United States and permit widespread tracking of the virus as it surges across the country. The method…
