#Border

Today, Finnish Security and Intelligence Service published the third annual National Security Review.Chief @pelttariantti and I presented the report to the press today. A few notes on foreign intelligence activities
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1039AD: Gruffydd ap Llywelyn, son of Llywelyn ap Seisyll and great-great-grandson of Hywel Dda took the throne of Gwynedd and Powys. Soon after, he defeated a Mercian army at Rhyd-y-Groes
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Unsafe abortion kills about 47,000 women yearly. In top 5 killersI share 3 different cases.UNSAFE ABORTION-terminating an unwanted pregnancy either by persons lacking necessary skills/in an environment lacking minimal medical
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God help the UK..seriously. This dolt is a "trade representative"..& apparently does not grasp the basics that there's no external money coming in to the Treasury from tarriffs loaded onto
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Maltese Court orders seizure of €29.5m of assets belonging to 'Vatican Bank'Two Year Vatican Bank Comms tomorrow https://www.internationalinvestment.net/news/4013547/maltese-court-seizure-eur-assets-belonging-vatican-bank Q1002 actually hits
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I am stunned to see serious modelers argue that we should compare infection growth in different countries on absolute terms rather than per capita You are telling me population size
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home...just read the piece, thoughts 1/?...https://twitter.com/fleshwound_NPG/status/1319709355323904000 1. fuck drew. 2. like i said earlier, kinda glad ksk died the way it did; gone into the ether, mostly the good memories
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1. God bless @jheil who is doing right by his country and by his fellow Americans and are doing these things w/o regard to his professional concerns, which incentivizes us
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as the 70th anniversary of the korean war approaches, i want to dispel some common myths about it, namely:-the north started it-the US "liberated" the south from "tyranny"-the war is
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1) Another short thread on #Lesotho's colonial history and how it helped shape southern African history:So #Lesotho was a Crown Colony. This is often mis-represented by authors as Swaziland and
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'Turkish Tel Abyad', that is how the vast majority of its inhabitants (Arabs) call the Turkish half of Tel Abyad. I wanted to see it with my own eyes, cuz
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#Pakistan - why Paranoia is ETERNAL(My apologies to the Roman author of the phrase "war is eternal") Thread The partition of India has been discussed ad infinitum. I've done
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THREAD update on variants:Today PHE released more variant data (& split the B1617 ("Indian") variant into 3 subtypes).Big increase with 400 overall cases in UK - closing in on B1351
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Thread: A New "Order" in East Asia:Growing tensions with the United States appear to be leading China to double down on its immediate military and strategic periphery. Beijing's willingness to
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No,this isn't a http://nightmare.You  haven't died and gone to hell.This is it.This is America.This is the world we live in. The most powerful country in the world has elected Donald
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The recovery fund is a big step forward, to my mind. 390 bn in grants is lower than France/Germany originally proposed. But the transfers are bigger to Southern Europe than
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