Afghanistan reported 2,313 cases yesterday and its total cases for the entire pandemic is under 100,000. This shows the scale of under-reporting of cases in a large number of countries.

https://twitter.com/NicolaCareem/status/1405795630597951488

https://twitter.com/Humble_Analysis/status/1405269321140498433

Continuing in alphabetical order. Bizarrely low case numbers in Albania.

https://twitter.com/Humble_Analysis/status/1405269321140498433

https://twitter.com/BBCAfrica/status/1392854661560946695

In Algeria a sporting event has been cancelled.

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X Soviet

@XSovietNews

9 Jun

We've also heard from the MH17 trial that Russian propaganda is very badly made and easily refuted by science. The only reason they've got this far in geopolitics is their ruthlessness in using deadly weapons.

At the same time as this tragedy that killed 298 civilians, Russian state TV was telling Russians that Ukraine had been overrun by fascists who were committing a genocide of Russian speakers. If you had watched Russian TV in 2014 you would have been staggered at how crude it was.

They falsely claimed that Ukrainians had crucified a young boy and that a far-right leader had left his business card at the scene of a shooting.

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X Soviet

@XSovietNews

9 Jun

The MH17 trial has resumed this morning. A judge is saying that the Buk 9M38M1 that was used has a range of about 40 km.

Photos presented by Russia at a press conference were digitally analysed by Dutch experts and Bellingcat and found to have been manipulated using Photoshop. Areas including vehicles that had a different pixel compression from the rest of the picture lit up, and dates were changed