Following an amazing investigation by colleagues Jess Kelly Owen Pinnell Rosie Garthwaite and others at BBC News عربي into gas flaring in Iraq, we heard today that Ali's father is seeking compensation over the loss of his dear son

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If you need any proof of how untenable an idea the Rwanda legislation is Sally Hayden's My Fourth Time We Drowned is exceptional.
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Palestinian emergency crews say they’re uncovering several mass graves - this, inside the Nasser Medical Complex in Gaza’s Khan Younis on top of several at Al Shifa hospital

Sky's Africa correspondent Yousra Elbagir 's parents were trapped in Sudan's war - theirs is the story of millions of Sudanese people left to grieve their homes and their relatives with no sense of when the war will end

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Reuters photojournalist Mohammed Salem has now been named the winner of the prestigious World Press Photo of the Year Award for this heartbreaking image he took of a woman embracing the body of a Palestinian child killed in an Israeli airstrike.

Spring has arrived in Regents Park

NEW: #Syria : Mass death, torture and violations against people detained in aftermath of Islamic State defeat – @Amnesty report

'Children, women and men held in these detention camps and facilities suffer shocking cruelty and violence' - Agnes Callamard

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You are going to hear a lot about Iranian ‘Kamikaze drones’ such as the Shahed in the coming days.

Sanjana and the rest of our team wrote a brilliant visual piece if you want to understand them and the physical and psychological toll they have

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Here we go. I’m in Amman now. Jordan just closed their airspace. Iranian attacks on Israel have begun. Netanyahu acted incredibly recklessly and Iran took the bait. Zero adults in the room and the entire region now at risk.

After six months of war in Gaza, Arwa Damon was finally allowed in, to find a war being waged mainly against children. This is her dispatch for New Lines Magazine. newlinesmag.com/spotlight/gaza…

A decade ago the world united in outrage when 276 schoolgirls were kidnapped by Boko Haram. The world forgot, but the tragedy is ongoing. Amazing reporting from Azeezat Olaoluwa 💙 & Yemisi Adegoke, with James Reynolds. Produced by me and Richard Moran: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3…

The British government won't release its legal advise (probably because it admits that Israel is committing war crimes in Gaza, as is obvious) but Britain will continue to send arms to Israel anyway. theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

Distressing but vital report from Alex Crawford and team — Chris Cunningham + Ahmed Baider — with horrific scenes of child malnutrition caused by years of conflict

I left her home in the #Syrian capital #Damascus in 2013, soon after the start of the civil war. Recently I was able to travel back for the first time in years, finding a country both very familiar and utterly changed.

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Highly recommend listening to the BBC's Mideast Bureau Chief Jo Floto talking with his friend Katya Adler, on the six-month mark of Gaza war, on how he has been conducting a team of reporters in the region during such horror and with much criticism.
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I'm in Gaza with my charity INARA. As we were leaving one cluster of tents a woman came up and said “My son keeps screaming and shaking uncontrollably. It started when he saw his sister’s head blown off”.

'I'm sorry David I'm going to cut you off there, I'm just trying to get answers to questions and if you can't answer the questions I can't allow you to do the propaganda bit afterwards'

NEW: Three British aid workers are feared to have been killed in an attack in Gaza.

In total, seven staff from the World Central Kitchen, which distributes food in conflict zones, were killed, the charity confirmed.

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