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TALIBAN:The #Taliban overthrew the Rabbani government in September 1996. #Hekmatyar fled to northern #Afghanistan. Unwilling to join forces with his old rival #Massoud, he made plans to evacuate to #Iran.
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#Putin Accuses West of Using #Navalny to 'Contain' #RussiaVVP: "Our opponents or our potential opponents... have always relied on — and used — ambitious, power-hungry people"A short thread on this
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**THREAD** As a child, Princess Diana would take her sons to Centrepoint, the UK’s leading youth homelessness charity.She knew how important it was for both Princes William and Harry to
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Do you like your men on horseback? I know I do... Minutes away from hearing @DavidAvromBell discuss his new book with @agordonreed for @nypl #twitterstorians #history #revolution .@DavidAvromBell discussing #GeorgeWashington's
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“Feminism that doesn’t include transwomen isn’t feminism” - is a statement I’ve seen from several people, including Aimee Challenor. It’s one of the opinions from extreme Trans Rights Activists (TRA)
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Voting for #SNP2020 #NEC & other committees opens soon. A thread for those who want to vote for the independent minded candidates: First up, the one who thinks calling women
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a lot of the advocacy surrounding adhd recently still frames many of its common attributes as intrinsic shortcomings rather than what they really are, which is simply personality traits that
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1/ Dear @alexhern,I have just listened to your podcast for the @guardian regarding #bitcoin . You open by saying you first wrote about #bitcoin seven years ago yet you
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1/10 Again-Tenure clock extensions are a necessary but insufficient solution to the COVID-19 pandemic. They can’t expect the same level of research productivity! They need to recalibrate the weighting of
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The @CoalitionSahel presents structural criticalities and they can bring to a substantial fiasco of this effort. 1. A first issue is a step back on ownership. #CoalitionSahel is a French
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Big Brother is out of control.* Universities now need govt permission to hold 'international' seminars, conferences etc* Participant list needs govt approval* MEA political clearance needed if topic is India's
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Good quote from @sarahjolney1 here. An observation, if I may: The Lib Dems’ more ambitious climate targets are indeed ‘entirely achievable’, but would require swingeing cuts in motor traffic, effective
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Youre going to feel pretty foolish when all the truths come out..What they did to women and little girls is badImagine paying for a hunting trip on land where they
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I noticed I haven't heard about a lot of "big" indie games this year (apart from the deservingly successful Hades, and to some extent Spelunky 2), and so I thought
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One of the turning points for me was in college when I faced my first aggressive leftwing intimidation mob.I considered myself liberal.All of my friends were liberals.I was mostly apolitical.But
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I believe coaches, at their core, are psychologists. They might coach baseball or football but they tend to also be mental magicians. Here’s an observation that not many discuss. Great
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