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Meanwhile... #WorldBookDay in the refugee camps of #Gaza & the world will be celebrated only thanks to the heroism of those storytellers who have survived.

And managed to keep to keep their books & stories in tact.

God bless every one of them.

#EndALLWars
#ReadingIsMagic

This is why representation is important. It won’t become the norm until IT IS the norm. Imagine a time when the casting of a South Asian actress as romantic lead isn’t newsworthy. So proud of Ambika Mod being at the forefront of this discussion.
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An eclectic combo of guest panellists coming up on Weekend BBC World Service; Burundi born musician JPBimeni-Mudibu and Catherine Barnard from Cambridge University join me this Sunday morning from 630-9G. We hope you will too!
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Nearly 75% of journalists killed in 2023 died in Israel’s war on Gaza: CPJ | Israel War on Gaza News | Al Jazeera aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/15…

If you missed #Weekend BBC World Service 📻 live with Krupa Thakrar Padhy & Olya Oliker aka Dr. Olga Oliker (she/her) Tom Nuttall you can listen back 👇

Featuring lyse doucet Steve Rosenberg Francis Scarr Roher Bill Browder Oana Lungescu Sergey Lagodinsky Marc Santora Stefanos Kasselakis - Στέφανος Κασσελάκης

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Wake up to Weekend BBC World Service. My guests guiding me through the week's stories Tom Nuttall & Olya Oliker aka Dr. Olga Oliker (she/her)
Also joining us
Marc Santora on #Avdiivka #Ukraine
Roher on #Navalny
Amre Moussa on #rafah
Plus more
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What a wonderfully written article, featuring people who stammer around the world and how they approach their stammers. A great read from Krupa Thakrar Padhy - we especially love how the interviewee's stammers are 'left in' the text. Have a look:

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Is it time to normalise disfluency in the media? Keeping those stumbles, pauses and stutters instead of intricately editing them out? My contributor BBC Future asked me to do just that. #Diversity #DEI
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'A part of me was crying for freedom': The people embracing their stutter bbc.com/future/article… via BBC Future

Beautifully written by Krupa Thakrar Padhy

Around 2 to 3 million newborns worldwide are impacted by hypoxia (oxygen deprivation). A million will lose their lives.Sudhin Thayyil Imperial College London told me BBC World Service it's an invisible pandemic. This test could mean better treatment #maternity
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Speaking to the BBC, one former US ambassador suggested the dissenting civil servants were determined not to repeat the mistakes of the lead up to the 2003 the invasion of Iraq -“Then there were people who knew better… but nobody said anything publicly”
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This is a big historic win for South Africa and many will say for international justice. Judges called for immediate protection of Palestinians in Gaza from potential genocide by Israel, and required Israel to report back to court in a month. This is huge.

NEWS: Today I am announcing the launch of a new national inquiry on birth trauma- the first in UK Parliament’s history- to understand how we can better help mums across this country. We will be publishing a report with recommendations to Government👇Department of Health and Social Care Maria Caulfield MP.

A pilot scheme to allow journalists to report cases from family courts in England and Wales is to be extended to almost half of the courts.

Krupa Thakrar Padhy hears from journalist Louise Tickle and Angela Frazer-Wicks from the Family Rights Group about the impact of this decision ⬇️

‘I feel that education was a sort of safety blanket’

Care leavers are far less likely to go to university than other teens, according to a Civitas think tank report this year.

Rebecca Munro and Lucy Barnes spoke to us about bucking the trend ⬇️