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Mar 17, 2023 7 tweets 3 min read
🇮🇶 This month marks 20 years since the United States and its allies invaded Iraq

Many Iraqis still remember the horror they went through as if it were yesterday

🧵THREAD 👇 The 20th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq is an important At least 210,000 civilians are estimated to have been killed and hundreds of thousands fled in the violence that followed the 2003 war
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Mar 17, 2023 12 tweets 4 min read
Sesame Street's Cookie Monster #NFT and 10 pop culture moments on the #blockchain

🧵 Coca-Cola

• The world-famous soft drink brand launched four NFT collections in 2021 to celebrate its first anniversary in the metaverse.

🧵 The world-famous soft drink brand launched four NFT collecti
Mar 17, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
We mark 20 years since the US-led invasion of Iraq with a special podcast series, examining the era that shaped a generation

🧵 All episodes are featured in this thread We mark 20 years since the US-led invasion of Iraq with a sp 🔊 Episode 1: ‘Time will tell’

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Aug 30, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
#Breaking:

Iraq cleric Moqtada Al Sadr says demonstrators must leave the parliament square and Green Zone within the next 60 minutes ...

"This is not the way to end corruption, you must go home," he adds #Iraq: "I am not going to interfere in politics. I am just an ordinary citizen, I have no right in politics. I am saddened by what has happened to my country. My country is a prisoner of corruption, and has become a prisoner of corruption and violence together." Al Sadr added
Aug 30, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
Iraq unrest: four rockets hit Baghdad’s Green Zone as death toll rises to 23

Here's the latest ⬇️
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Aug 29, 2022 4 tweets 3 min read
The day is here

🚀🌔Nasa’s #Artemis 1 Moon mission ready for launch – here’s how to track it in real time thenationalnews.com/uae/2022/08/23… #Artemis1: here's a look at five 🧪 experiments planned for Nasa's test flight to the Moon

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Aug 28, 2022 9 tweets 4 min read
#EmiratiWomensDay: These are the stories of trailblazing women in the UAE, from the first female captain in the country to the first female astronaut in the Arab world

🧵THREAD Image Every year, Emirati women break new barriers, and recently Aisha Al Mansoori became the first Emirati woman to become a captain at Etihad Airways, providing inspiration for future generations thenationalnews.com/travel/2022/08…
Jun 12, 2020 5 tweets 3 min read
UAE Ambassador to the US, Yousef Al Otaiba, explains to @TheNationalUAE why he decided to write in the Israeli press thenational.ae/world/mena/isr… UAE Ambassador: Why I wrote an article in the Israeli press bit.ly/2MOT7QO