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Al Jazeera’s journalist reporting from occupied East Jerusalem

04 Dec 2023 6 2

Hisham Mhanna

Inserted 5 days ago

“There should be a complete ceasefire so that the humanitarian aid can help alleviate, even if slightly, the suffering of civilians.”

Communication Officer at International Committee of the Red Cross - ICRC

02 Dec 2023 5 2

Seth Krummrich

Inserted 1 week ago

“The winter is just going to reinforce the misery … neither side is going to have a tactical or operational breakthrough. I think they're going to try to push through in the winter. The ground freezes, [they'll] try to make some moves because they're desperate. I don't mean the Ukrainians. I mean the Russians. The soldiers won't want to do it. It will be a disaster. There will be more dead bodies.”

Colonel who has led special forces detachments in Afghanistan and the Middle East - Vice president for Global Guardian

30 Nov 2023 3 2

Aboud Hamayel

Inserted 1 week ago

“In the event that Israel cannot take Hamas out, the fissure between the two Palestinian political groups will deepen. Hamas would remain standing, a valiant hero for Palestinians for fighting Israel, and the PA [Palestinian Authority] would appear weak, shamed for cooperating with Israel over the years. That would kick off a vicious cycle of a seemingly weak PA inspiring more settler activity in the West Bank, which would erode the group's control of the territory more and more. This could be the beginning of the end of the PA.”

Lecturer at Birzeit University in the West Bank

28 Nov 2023 5 3

Azizou Chehou

Inserted 1 week ago

“This decision is to be applauded since freedom of movement has been recovered through the order. We wanted to point out the injustice imposed on sub-Saharan citizens not only in their desire to reach destinations but also in damaging the circular migration in ECOWAS space for the sake of another geographic space of the European Union.”

Coordinator of Alarm Phone Sahara, an Agadez-based NGO helping migrants in the Sahel and Sahara

28 Nov 2023 4 1

Zein Basravi

Inserted 1 week ago

“For every Palestinian prisoner [the Israelis] release, there seems to be a continued disregard for the freedoms of Palestinians they continue to detain, a continuous disregard for Palestinian life as they continue to kill people in very violent and endless raids in the occupied West Bank.”

Al Jazeera’s journalist reporting from Ramallah in the West Bank

26 Nov 2023 3 1

Tzachi Hanegbi

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“The negotiations on the release of our hostages are advancing and continuing constantly. The start of the release will take place according to the original agreement between the sides, and not before Friday.”

Israeli National Security Adviser

23 Nov 2023 1 1

Riyad al-Maliki

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“Only this morning, from the Qadoura family in Jabalia, 52 people have been wiped out completely, killed. I have the list of the names, 52 of them, they were wiped out completely from grandfather to grandchildren.”

Foreign minister in the Palestinian Authority government based in the West Bank

22 Nov 2023 3 1

Issam Nabhan

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“There is no oxygen to supply the patients. All those on artificial respiration have died. We speak out to the free world. The Indonesian hospital has become a cemetery, not a hospital.”

Head of the nursing department of the Indonesian Hospital

21 Nov 2023 3 2

Christian Lindmeier

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“It's robbing the entire population of the north of the means to seek health (care).”

Spokesman for World Health Organization (WHO)

21 Nov 2023 2 1

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“Health workers and civilians should never have to be exposed to such horror, and especially while inside a hospital.”

Director-General of the World Health Organization

20 Nov 2023 3 1

Serhiy Popko

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“The enemy's UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) were launched in many groups and attacked Kyiv in waves, from different directions, at the same time constantly changing the vectors of movement along the route. That is why the air raid alerts were announced several times in the capital.”

Head of Kyiv’s city military administration

19 Nov 2023 2 2

Cindy McCain

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“With winter fast approaching, unsafe and overcrowded shelters, and the lack of clean water, civilians are facing the immediate possibility of starvation.”

Executive director of the World Food Programme

17 Nov 2023 3 1

Louis Charbonneau

Inserted 3 weeks ago

“Doctors, nurses, ambulances and other hospital staff must be permitted to do their work and patients must be protected. Hospitals only lose those protections if it can be shown that harmful acts have been carried out from the premises. The Israeli government hasn't provided any evidence of that.”

Human Rights Watch United Nations Director

16 Nov 2023 1 1

Ahmed El Mokhallalati

Inserted 3 weeks ago

“The tanks are in front of the hospital. We are under full blockade. It's a totally civilian area. Only hospital facility, hospital patients, doctors and other civilians staying in the hospital. Someone should stop this. They bombed the (water) tanks, they bombed the water wells, they bombed the oxygen pump as well. They bombed everything in the hospital. So we are hardly surviving. We tell everyone, the hospital is no more a safe place for treating patients. We are harming patients by keeping them here.”

Surgeon at the Al Shifa hospital

13 Nov 2023 4 2

Mohammad Qandil

Inserted 3 weeks ago

“Shifa hospital now isn't working, no one is allowed in, nobody is allowed out, and if you are wounded or injured around Gaza area you can't be evacuated by our ambulance to Shifa hospital, so Shifa hospital now is out of service.”

Doctor at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip

12 Nov 2023 3 1

Ashraf Al-Qidra

Inserted 3 weeks ago

“We have not been informed about any mechanism to get the babies out to a safer hospital. So far we are praying for their safety and not to lose more of them.”

Gaza health ministry spokesman

12 Nov 2023 3 1

Ahmed al-Mokhallalati

Inserted 3 weeks ago

“It's totally a war zone, it's a totally scary atmosphere here in the hospital. It's continuous bombardment for more than 24 hours now, nothing stopped, you know, it's all from the tanks, from the street, from the airstrike.”

Senior plastic surgeon at Al Shifa hospital

11 Nov 2023 3 3

Mohammad Shtayyeh

Inserted 4 weeks ago

“How many Palestinians must be killed for the war to stop. Is killing 10,000 people in 30 days enough?”

Palestinian Prime Minister

09 Nov 2023 3 1

Jan Egeland

Inserted 4 weeks ago

“Without a ceasefire, lifting of siege and indiscriminate bombarding and warfare, the haemorrhage of human lives will continue.”

Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council

09 Nov 2023 4 1

Benjamin Netanyahu

Inserted 1 month ago

“We are in a tough war. It will be a long war. I promise to all citizens of Israel: We will get the job done. We will press ahead until victory.”

Prime Minister of Israel

31 Oct 2023 (approx) 0 1

Benjamin Netanyahu

Inserted 1 month ago

“This is the second stage of the war whose goals are clear - to destroy Hamas' governing and military capabilities and to bring the hostages home.”

Prime Minister of Israel

28 Oct 2023 2 2

Herzi Halevi

Inserted 1 month ago

“This war has stages and today we are moving to the next stage. Our forces are currently operating on the ground in the Gaza Strip.”

Israeli armed forces chief

28 Oct 2023 (approx) 2 2

Richard Brennan

Inserted 1 month ago

“We are on our knees asking for that sustained, scaled up, protected humanitarian operation.”

Regional emergency director for the World Health Organization’s Eastern Mediterranean region

24 Oct 2023 2 1

Giora Eiland

Inserted 1 month ago

“Hamas isn't stupid. They won't release the hostages all at once. They'll stretch this out over five years.”

Former head of the Israeli national security council

23 Oct 2023 (approx) 2 2

Philippe Lazzarini

Inserted 1 month ago

“Without fuel, the humanitarian response will stop. There will be no water, no functioning hospitals and bakeries. This cannot and should not happen.”

Head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA

22 Oct 2023 2 2

Martin Griffiths

Inserted 1 month ago

“The humanitarian situation in Gaza - already precarious - has reached catastrophic levels. I am confident that this delivery will be the start of a sustainable effort to provide essential supplies - including food, water, medicine and fuel.”

United Nations humanitarian chief

21 Oct 2023 2 2

António Guterres

Inserted 1 month ago

“We are actively engaging with all parties to make sure conditions for delivering aid are lifted.”

Secretary-general of the United Nations

20 Oct 2023 3 1

Amotz Asa-El

Inserted 1 month ago

“It doesn't matter if there's a commission of inquiry or not, or whether or not he [Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu] admits fault. All that matters is what 'middle Israelis' think - which is that this is a fiasco and that the prime minister is responsible. He will go, and his entire establishment along with him.”

Research fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem

18 Oct 2023 1 2

Eyad Al-Bozom

Inserted 1 month ago

“The residents drink unhealthy water, posing a serious health crisis threatens the lives of the citizens.”

Hamas interior ministry spokesman

16 Oct 2023 3 1

Hussam Abu Safiya

Inserted 1 month ago

“In this ward as you can see, there are children who are attached to ventilators, and now we have been asked to evacuate the hospital, where should we evacuate these children?”

Intensive care doctor on a children's ward at the Kamal Edwan hospital in the northern Gaza strip

15 Oct 2023 3 2

Daniel Hagari

Inserted 1 month ago

“Residents of Gaza City, I call upon you again: Hamas is trying to prevent your evacuation. We will enable it southward. Leave Gaza City and all the surrounding areas for the sake of your personal security.”

Chief Israeli military spokesperson

15 Oct 2023 3 1

Ghassan Abu Sitta

Inserted 1 month ago

“There are thousands - if not tens of thousands - of people who have flocked to the hospital. They are sleeping on the ground, in the corridors, between patients' beds. People are absolutely terrified. They think this is the safest place and everything around them confirms that. Unless there is respite there is going to be a public health catastrophe at the hospital.”

Surgeon at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City

14 Oct 2023 2 2

Tarik Jasarevic

Inserted 1 month ago

“There are severely ill people whose injuries mean their only chances of survival is being on life support, such as mechanical ventilators. So moving those people is a death sentence. Asking health workers to do so is beyond cruel.”

WHO spokesperson

12 Oct 2023 2 1

Israel Katz

Inserted 1 month ago

“Humanitarian aid to Gaza? No electrical switch will be lifted, no water hydrant will be opened and no fuel truck will enter until the Israeli hostages are returned home. Humanitarian for humanitarian. And nobody should preach us morals.”

Israeli Energy Minister

12 Oct 2023 3 2

Fabrizio Carboni

Inserted 1 month ago

“Without electricity, hospitals risk turning into morgues. The human misery caused by this escalation is abhorrent, and I implore the sides to reduce the suffering of civilians.”

International Committee of the Red Cross regional director

12 Oct 2023 2 2

Itai Veruv

Inserted 1 month ago

“You see the babies, the mothers, the fathers, in their bedrooms, in their protection rooms and how the terrorist kills them. It's not a war, it's not a battlefield. It's a massacre. It's something that we used to imagine from our grandfathers, grandmothers in the pogrom in Europe and other places.”

Israeli Major General

10 Oct 2023 2 2

Volker Türk

Inserted 1 month ago

“International humanitarian law is clear: the obligation to take constant care to spare the civilian population and civilian objects remains applicable throughout the attacks.”

UN high commissioner for human rights

10 Oct 2023 1 2

Ofer Cassif

Inserted 2 months ago

“We condemn and oppose any assault on innocent civilians. But in contrast to the Israeli government that means that we oppose any assault on Palestinian civilians as well. We must analyse those terrible incidents [the attacks] in the right context - and that is the ongoing occupation. We have been warning time and time again… everything is going to erupt and everybody is going to pay a price - mainly innocent civilians on both sides. And unfortunately, that is exactly what happened. The Israeli government, which is a fascist government, supports, encourages, and leads pogroms against the Palestinians. There is an ethnic cleansing going on. It was obvious the writing was on the wall, written in the blood of the Palestinians - and unfortunately now Israelis as well.”

Member of the Knesset and leftist Hadash coalition

08 Oct 2023 3 3

Mohammed Deif

Inserted 1 month ago

“Today the rage of Al Aqsa, the rage of our people and nation is exploding. Our mujahedeen (fighters), today is your day to make this criminal understand that his time has ended. Every day the occupation storm our villages, towns and cities in the West Bank and raid houses, kill, injure, destroy and detain. At the same time, it confiscates thousands of acres of our land, uproots our people from their houses to build settlements while its criminal siege continues on Gaza. In light of the orgy of occupation and its denial of international laws and resolutions, and in light of American and western support and international silence, we've decided to put an end to all this.”

Palestinian militant and supreme military commander of Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas

07 Oct 2023 6 1

Seth Krummrich

Inserted 2 months ago

“You have a lot of wounded coming back to Russia who are disillusioned or resentful and you have a lot of people who are not coming back at all. The truth is definitely on the Russian street … this is like radiation or toxicity, slowly building up in the population, and over time it could become lethal to a government.”

Colonel who has led special forces detachments in Afghanistan and the Middle East - Vice president for Global Guardian

27 Sep 2023 2 2

David Babayan

Inserted 2 months ago

“Our people do not want to live as part of Azerbaijan. Ninety-nine point nine percent prefer to leave our historic lands. The fate of our poor people will go down in history as a disgrace and a shame for the Armenian people and for the whole civilised world. Those responsible for our fate will one day have to answer before God for their sins.”

Adviser to Samvel Shahramanyan, president of the self-styled Republic of Artsakh

24 Sep 2023 2 3

Ursula von der Leyen

Inserted 2 months ago

“Irregular migration is a European challenge and it needs a European response, we are in this together. You can count on the EU.”

President of the European Commission

17 Sep 2023 3 3

Paul Brennan

Inserted 3 months ago

“The far-right coalition of Netanyahu's government demand that instigators and ringleaders should be deported. The coalition blames the high court for blocking attempts to deport people in the past. Opposition members of the Knesset say successive governments have failed to grasp this issue and deal with the situation. There's politics involved in this. Netanyahu clearly wants to be seen to be doing something.”

Al Jazeera’s journalist reporting from West Jerusalem

03 Sep 2023 3 1

Zhu Ning

Inserted 3 months ago

“The traditional way of stimulating the economy, through a credit boom and leveraging, has reached an end.”

Deputy dean of the Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance

22 Aug 2023 2 1

Daniel Swain

Inserted 3 months ago

“Twenty years from now, a summer like this is going to feel like a mild summer. In terms of incredibly frenetic pace of global extremes we are seeing this summer, in terms of temperatures and precipitation, that's only going to get worse as the climate continues to warm.”

Climate scientist at the University of California Los Angeles

21 Aug 2023 0 2

Malik Traina

Inserted 3 months ago

“There are ongoing clashes. We can hear sporadic gunfire every 10-15 minutes. The Libyan Red Crescent said it has been able to evacuate dozens of families from the site of the clashes. People are suffering due to the lack of accountability towards powerful armed groups here in Tripoli. Both of these groups … are under the umbrella of the security apparatus. They are funded by the Libyan government.”

Al Jazeera's correspondent reporting from Tripoli

15 Aug 2023 2 1

Cameron Hudson

Inserted 4 months ago

“I think this has the potential to be disastrous. The only positive thing we can say about this coup so far is that there has been no violence. And I think we should preserve the peace in Niger for the sake of the people, and an intervention force led by Nigeria creates a very likelihood that perhaps uncontrollable violence will break out and that does not strike me as a positive outcome for anyone.”

Senior associate in the Centre for Strategic and International Studies’s Africa Program

06 Aug 2023 4 3

Tatiana Stanovaya

Inserted 4 months ago

“Prigozhin's rebellion - that was the strongest blow to the legitimacy of the leadership. And where does legitimacy come from? From the people. Therefore, the desire to throw oneself into the people and feel you are supported, it's the kind of need that arises against the backdrop of a rebellion.”

Senior fellow at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center

05 Aug 2023 3 2

Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Inserted 4 months ago

“This is very important because, on issues such as food security, the fate of millions of people in Africa, Asia and other parts of the world directly depends on how fast the world moves to implement the peace formula.”

President of Ukraine

04 Aug 2023 3 1

Annalena Baerbock

Inserted 4 months ago

“Russia's arbitrary justice system imprisoning Alexei Navalny for another 19 years is pure injustice. Putin fears nothing more than standing up against war and corruption and for democracy - even from a prison cell. He will not silence critical voices with this.”

Foreign Minister of Germany

04 Aug 2023 3 1

Izidine Pinto

Inserted 4 months ago

“European and North American temperatures would have been virtually impossible without the effects of climate change. In China it was around 50 times more likely to happen compared to the past.”

Climatologist of the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute

25 Jul 2023 0 2

Aleksandar Djokic

Inserted 4 months ago

“I believe that the indolent response of the elite, when Putin needed their support the most, speaks volumes. Out of the 83 Russian regions, not more than 10 governors publicly spoke in support of Putin. The governor of Moscow, Sergey Sobyanin, and the prime minister of Russia, Mikhail Mishustin, were completely silent during the mutiny. We have seen oligarchs like Vladimir Potanin and Arkady Rotenberg, who is very close to Putin, immediately fly away from the country while the mutiny was taking place. We must understand that the rational, technocratic parts of Putin's elites aren't disillusioned by the lack of democracy and human rights violations in Russia or war crimes in Ukraine - they are afraid that they won't have a secure future alongside Putin anymore. Prigozhin's action could only have cemented this feeling.”

Political Scientist

11 Jul 2023 5 1

Lauren Seibert

Inserted 5 months ago

“Not only is it unconscionable to abuse people and abandon them in the desert, but collective expulsions violate international law.”

Refugee and migrant rights researcher at HRW

06 Jul 2023 1 2

Kevork Oskanian

Inserted 5 months ago

“Among the few remaining sources of authority for the Putin regime was his longstanding claim that he restored 'law and order' after the 'chaotic' 1990s. This perception will now lie in tatters and leave him much more vulnerable over the longer term, even if he eventually prevails.”

Lecturer at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom

24 Jun 2023 1 2

Serhiy Popko

Inserted 6 months ago

“It was exceptional in its density - the maximum number of attack missiles in the shortest period of time.”

Head of Kyiv’s city military administration

16 May 2023 1 2

Titipol Phakdeewanich

Inserted 6 months ago

“The result is a very impressive victory for the Move Forward Party. It marks a big turning point for Thailand because it indicates most people in the country want change. We are really seeing the power of the electorate, who fought hard this time for change.”

Professor of political science at the Ubon Ratchathani University in eastern Thailand

14 May 2023 1 2

Rafael Grossi

Inserted 7 months ago

“The general situation in the area near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is becoming increasingly unpredictable and potentially dangerous. I'm extremely concerned about the very real nuclear safety and security risks facing the plant.”

Chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency

06 May 2023 2 1

Nataliya Humenyuk

Inserted 7 months ago

“Large flows of people leaving Crimea on all routes. Families of military personnel are also actively evacuating.”

Spokesperson for Ukraine’s southern forces

04 May 2023 (approx) 2 2

Park Jin

Inserted 9 months ago

“Cooperation between Korea and Japan is very important in all areas of diplomacy, economy, and security amid the current grave international situation and complex global crisis. I believe that the vicious circle should be broken for the sake of the people at the national interest level, rather than leaving the strained relationship unattended for a long time. I hope Japan will positively respond to our major decision today with Japanese companies' voluntary contributions and a comprehensive apology.”

South Korea Foreign Minister

06 Mar 2023 1 2

An Ho-young

Inserted 9 months ago

“It's a day of shame. Japanese companies embroiled in war crimes received indulgence without even budging, and the Japanese government managed to remove a trouble by having the grace to repeat past statements.”

Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) spokeperson

06 Mar 2023 1 2

Chiang Wan-an

Inserted 9 months ago

“As Taipei mayor, I give my sincere apology about the cigarette confiscation incident that occurred in front of the Tianma Tea House in Taipei's Dadaocheng area 76 years ago, which led to the historical pain of the 228 Incident across the nation.”

Taipeitimes

Mayor of Taipei and member of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT)

28 Feb 2023 2 2

Liu Fu-kuo

Inserted 9 months ago

“Public opinion is on the move as seen in the last two local elections. The government has made a number of quite serious mistakes which have already shaken the support of younger generation. Last year after the missile crisis - the Fourth Strait Crisis - the younger generation understands that if we don't improve things with China, Taiwan will be preparing with war.”

Professor and research fellow at the Institute of International Relations at Taiwan’s National Chengchi University

20 Feb 2023 2 3

Austin Strange

Inserted 9 months ago

“Given Sri Lanka's role at the epicentre of the 'debt trap diplomacy' narrative and the well-documented troubles of the Hambantota seaport, it is not surprising that residents in Colombo or elsewhere are sceptical of flashy projects like this [Port City Colombo (PCC)] one - they have good reason to be.”

Assistant professor of international relations at the University of Hong Kong and co-author of Banking on Beijing

17 Feb 2023 3 3

Ben Wallace

Inserted 9 months ago

“A whole Russian brigade was effectively annihilated. Moscow lost over 1,000 people in two days. The losses in Vuhledar showed the result of a president and a Russian general staff that defies reality or ignores reality and simply doesn't care how many people they are killing of their own, let alone of the people they are trying to oppress.”

UK Secretary of State for Defence

15 Feb 2023 4 1

Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Inserted 10 months ago

“The occupiers are not just storming our positions, they are deliberately and methodically destroying these towns and villages around them.”

President of Ukraine

28 Jan 2023 0 1

Piotr Cywinski

Inserted 10 months ago

“Similar sick megalomania, similar lust for power, and similar-sounding myths about uniqueness, greatness, primacy … only written in Russian. Innocent people are dying en masse in Europe, again. Wola district in Warsaw, Zamojszczyzna, Oradour and Lidice today are called Bucha, Irpin, Hostomel, Mariupol and Donetsk. Being silent means giving voice to the perpetrators. Remaining indifferent is tantamount to condoning murder. Russia, unable to conquer Ukraine, has decided to destroy it. We see it every day, even as we stand here.”

Director of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp memorial

27 Jan 2023 6 2

Park Kyung-sin

Inserted 10 months ago

“Even if there were individual members who actually had contact or relationships with the North Korean government, treating the entire union as an espionage organisation should be avoided. So far, some right-wing politicians are doing that and I hope that it does not actually affect the work of the Yoon administration.”

Law professor at Korea University

27 Jan 2023 5 2

Carlos Casanova

Inserted 10 months ago

“The data exceeded expectations over the board, which means fewer risks to Q1-23 growth. We have revised our growth forecast for 2023 to 6.0 percent. The latest official statistics contained warning signs for long-term growth, including the first official decline in the population since 1961. Namely, China experienced a permanent loss in potential output as a result of low fertility rates during three long years of zero-COVID, resulting in a marked population decline.”

Senior economist for Asia at UBP in Hong Kong

17 Jan 2023 2 7

John Dickie

Inserted 10 months ago

“He [Matteo Messina Denaro] was the youngest member of a leadership group within the Sicilian mafia that took control of the Sicilian mafia in the early 1980s, essentially by massacring all their rivals, and then mounted a major attack on the Italian state. All of this was aimed at trying to get the state to back down from a major onslaught against organised crime that had been gaining momentum … [but] that onslaught has continued and Messina Denaro was the last of that leadership group still at large. [His arrest] is a very important symbolic gesture which shows that ultimately the state will win, and the state is winning in the case of the Sicilian mafia.”

Professor of Italian studies at University College London and an expert on the mafia

16 Jan 2023 3 1

Giorgia Meloni

Inserted 10 months ago

“The prevention [of] and fight against mafia crime … will continue to be an absolute priority of this government.”

Italian Prime Minister

16 Jan 2023 1 1

Sara Ayech

Inserted 10 months ago

“We're in 2023 in the middle of a climate crisis, and while destroying a village to expand one of the biggest carbon bombs in Europe should be considered criminal, it is still legal. Fossil fuel companies' influence is so powerful that the ones considered criminals now are the ones fighting for climate justice. It is time to hold fossil fuel companies accountable.”

Climate campaign strategist at Greenpeace International

14 Jan 2023 3 3

Hassan Sheikh Mohamud

Inserted 10 months ago

“I'm calling to you, the people of Mogadishu, the Kharijites [renegades] are amongst you … so flush them out. They are in your houses, they are your neighbours, in cars that pass you by. I want us to commit today to flushing them out. They are like bedbugs under our clothes. We will never accept extremist killing or robbing our people and we will also never accept the killing of our innocent people. We will protect them from al-Shabab. Anyone who does that [kills innocent people] will face trial or justice. The people are tired of massacres, killings, and all kinds of misdeeds and they are now saying to al-Shabab: 'Enough is enough'.”

President of Somalia

12 Jan 2023 3 3

Monica Yanakiew

Inserted 10 months ago

“Bolsonaro's supporters have been organising these attacks on their Telegram channels, and during the past week buses carrying hundreds of people have been arriving in Brasilia. So it came as a surprise that the security forces in Brasilia were so slow to act, and this has cast some doubts about their loyalties because the military police and the armed forces, in general, have been staunch supporters of Bolsonaro. Earlier videos on social media had shown a limited presence of the capital's military police, with one of them showing officers standing by as people flooded into Congress, with one using his phone to record images. Lula's main goal now is to stop any attempted coups and further situations like this. We must remember that although there were only a few people who entered these three buildings and destroyed windows and furniture, Bolsonaro has many supporters throughout Brazil, who believe that the elections have been rigged, who believe the Supreme Court is biased, who believe Congress will wheel and deal with the government and who believe they are right in stopping Lula from governing.”

Al Jazeera’s journalist reporting from Rio de Janeiro

09 Jan 2023 4 2

Vladimir Putin

Inserted 11 months ago

“It is deeply gratifying to note the enormous constructive contribution of the Russian Orthodox Church and other Christian denominations in unifying society, preserving our historical memory, educating youth and strengthening the institution of family.”

President of Russia

07 Jan 2023 1 2

Bruce Bennett

Inserted 11 months ago

“While North Korea apparently lacks such [high-level] drone capabilities, it potentially could fly several dozen armed drones into the ROK Presidential Office or National Assembly or an oil refinery, causing serious damage. North Korea could also use drones to carry chemical and biological weapons. Only small amounts of biological weapons are required to cause a major disaster in the ROK. For example, the release of 1 to 2 kilograms of anthrax along the route the one drone took into northern Seoul could kill tens of thousands of people or far more and create a major medical crisis in the ROK.”

Koreatimes

Senior international defense analyst at the RAND Corporation

29 Dec 2022 3 2

Aleksandar Vucic

Inserted 11 months ago

“The removal of barricades will begin. This is not a simple process, and can't be done in two hours, as some imagined. But within 24 to 48 hours the barricades will be removed. But distrust is not removed. Those who are playing with [the] very existence of Serbs in Kosovo must know that, same like we didn't allow it now, we will not allow it in the future as well.”

Serbian president

28 Dec 2022 1 2

Tsai Ing-wen

Inserted 11 months ago

“The decision is a difficult one, but as the head of the military and for the continued survival of Taiwan, this is an inevitable responsibility.”

Taipeitimes

President of Taiwan

27 Dec 2022 0 2

Albin Kurti

Inserted 11 months ago

“Our worry [is] that removal of these barricades cannot exclude casualties. And that's why we want to be as careful as possible to make sure that there will be no destabilisation and relative peace and security will be in place. However, we cannot allow this violation of lawfulness and constitutionality for ever. So, yeah, this must end, sooner the better. The EU-US all agree that barricades should be removed. But they are also worried how this might be used and abused by Belgrade. I think that the worry of our western partners and friends is the links of Belgrade with Moscow. We do not know how they could be rendered operative in case of rising of tensions, towards escalation in the north. I think that their major concern is precisely this: now that Russia got severely wounded in Ukraine after its invasion and aggression, they have interest in spillover. They have interest in outsourcing their war-mongering drive to the Balkans where they have a client who's in Belgrade.”

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Kosovo Prime Minister

20 Dec 2022 7 3

Albin Kurti

Inserted 11 months ago

“The barricades in the north will not be tolerated for too long. I cannot say it is a civic protest when there are armed people there [at the barricades] who want to return Kosovo to 1999 and who hold up slogans and photos of despotic [Russian President Vladimir] Putin.”

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Kosovo Prime Minister

19 Dec 2022 3 2

Oleg Tinkov

Inserted 11 months ago

“If everyone around you is telling you for 22 years that you are a super-genius, then you will start to believe that this is who you are. Russian businesspeople, Russian officials, the Russian people - they saw a czar in him. He just went nuts.”

Russian billionaire who founded Tinkoff Bank, Russia’s biggest credit card issuer

18 Dec 2022 (approx) 4 1

Engjellushe Morina

Inserted 11 months ago

“I don't see a full blown-out armed conflict between Kosovo and Serbia for a very simple reason, NATO.”

Senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations

15 Dec 2022 2 5

Jill Ruby

Inserted 11 months ago

“Monday, December 5, 2022, was an important day in science. Reaching ignition in a controlled fusion experiment is an achievement that has come after more than 60 years of global research.”

Undersecretary for nuclear security at the Department of Energy

13 Dec 2022 2 2

Martin Griffiths

Inserted 1 year ago

“As a result of the attacks on civilian infrastructure, people are being deprived of health care and children deprived of education. In Ukraine today, the ability of civilians to survive is under attack.”

U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator

07 Dec 2022 3 2

Chen Gang

Inserted 1 year ago

“By now it should be clear to the Chinese leadership that it is unrealistic to hope to eliminate COVID-19 entirely through lockdowns and repeated testing, given the Omicron variant's high transmissibility and the large number of asymptomatic cases. The recent protests themselves have not dented Xi's political authority, but unless it adapts, the government may encounter a growing political backlash against its COVID-19 policy.”

Assistant Director and Senior Research Fellow of the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore.

04 Dec 2022 3 3

Siddharth Sridhar

Inserted 1 year ago

“We often pretend that China has a choice in terms of 'zero Covid' versus opening up. There never was a choice. The simple fact is that China is not ready for a wave on that scale.”

Virologist at the University of Hong Kong

02 Dec 2022 1 3

Urmas Reinsalu

Inserted 1 year ago

“Russia is weaponising civilian energy security, and it is truly shameful.”

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Estonia

28 Nov 2022 3 1

Hana Young

Inserted 1 year ago

“People have been incredibly patient with lockdown measures but authorities must not abuse emergency policies. These unprecedented protests show that people are at the end of their tolerance for excessive Covid-19 restrictions. The Chinese government must immediately review its Covid-19 policies to ensure that they are proportionate and time-bound. All quarantine measures that pose threats to personal safety and unnecessarily restrict freedom of movement must be suspended.”

Amnesty International's Deputy Regional Director

28 Nov 2022 2 2

Tsai Ing-wen

Inserted 1 year ago

“I must shoulder all the responsibility. Faced with a result like this, there are many areas that we must deeply review. The results failed our expectations. We humbly accept the results and accept the Taiwanese people's decision. It's not like the DPP [Democratic Progressive Party] has never failed before. We don't have time to feel sorry. We fell, but we will stand up again.”

President of Taiwan

26 Nov 2022 2 2

Volker Türk

Inserted 1 year ago

“Millions are being plunged into extreme hardship and appalling conditions of life by these strikes. Taken as a whole, this raises serious problems under international humanitarian law, which requires a concrete and direct military advantage for each object attacked.”

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UN high commissioner for human rights

25 Nov 2022 0 1

Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Inserted 1 year ago

“The Kremlin wants to transform the cold this winter into a weapon of mass destruction.”

President of Ukraine

22 Nov 2022 1 2

Murat Aslan

Inserted 1 year ago

“The police in general is on the highest level in this area. There are a lot of security cameras in the area. I think the police will identify exactly who did this and how he or she did this if it is a terror attack.”

Security analyst

13 Nov 2022 1 1

Tsai Ing-wen

Inserted 1 year ago

“I want to tell everyone that the existence of Taiwan and Taiwanese people's insistence on freedom and democracy are not a provocation to anyone. As president, my calling is to make every effort to let Taiwan still be the Taiwan of the Taiwanese people.”

President of Taiwan

12 Nov 2022 4 3

David B. Cohen

Inserted 1 year ago

“It [the Supreme Court's ruling in June that ended the constitutional right to abortion] was one of the most important motivating issues to get Democrats out to the polls. I think also the worry from many Americans about the threats to democracy - that issue was not looked at enough by prognosticators.”

Political science professor at The University of Akron in Ohio

09 Nov 2022 4 2

Valentyn Reznichenko

Inserted 1 year ago

“The occupiers attacked the area massively with kamikaze drones. Our air defense destroyed five barrage ammunition. They also attacked with drones the city of Dnipro, targeting a logistics enterprise. Four employees were wounded, three of them are in serious condition in hospital.”

Rferl

Governor of Ukraine's southeastern Dnipropetrovsk region

09 Nov 2022 2 3

Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Inserted 1 year ago

“The activity of the occupiers remains at an extremely high level -- dozens of attacks every day. They are suffering extraordinarily high losses. But the order remains the same -- to advance on the administrative boundary of Donetsk region. We will not yield a single centimeter of our land.”

Rferl

President of Ukraine

08 Nov 2022 2 2

Harry Fawcett

Inserted 1 year ago

“Ukrainians have been saying that the Russians have mined it [the Kakhovka hydroelectric dam] and intended to blow it, while Russia said that Ukrainian forces were planning to fire a missile at it. But if the dam was to be breached it would be a major catastrophe for both sides, “so there are still a lot of doubts as to whether either one would really want to do it.”

Al Jazeera’s journalist reporting from Kyiv

06 Nov 2022 3 2

Roman Tkachuk

Inserted 1 year ago

“We understand that if Russia continues such attacks, we may lose our entire electricity system. Officials in the capital have been told that they would be likely to have at least 12 hours' notice that the grid was on the verge of failure. If it reaches that point, we will start informing people and requesting them to leave. For now at least, the situation is manageable, and there were no indications that large numbers of civilians were fleeing Kyiv. If there's no power, there will be no water and no sewage. That's why currently the government and city administration are taking all possible measures to protect our power supply system.”

Director of security for the Kyiv municipal government

05 Nov 2022 3 2

Vladimir Saldo

Inserted 1 year ago

“Due to the possibility of the use of prohibited methods of war by the Ukrainian regime, as well as information that Kyiv is preparing a massive missile strike on the Kakhovka hydroelectric station, there is an immediate danger of the Kherson region being flooded. The decision (to expand the evacuation zone) will make it possible to create a layered defence in order to repel Ukrainian attacks and protect civilians.”

Russian-installed governor of Ukraine’s southern Kherson region

01 Nov 2022 3 1

Wasel Abu Youssef

Inserted 1 year ago

“The outcome of this election will be a government that will continue conducting crimes against our people while blocking the horizon for a political solution.”