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Lemma Shehadi

Lemma Shehadi

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Lemma Shehadi covers stories of Middle East interest in the UK. She has reported from the Middle East, Europe and South Asia. She won The Independent’s Rupert Cornwell Prize for foreign journalism to write a series on the Yazidis of Iraq and the Caucasus in 2019. She was a One World Media Fellow 2022, looking at the impact of wildfires and reforestation in the marginalized north of Lebanon.
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Members of the military work to clear mud and debris in the town of Catarroja on Saturday. AFP
Spain set for largest military operation in peacetime after floods

More soldiers and police to be sent to Valencia to help with rescue operations, as the death toll rises to 211

NewsNovember 02, 2024
Kemi Badenoch said her priority was to develop a 'clear plan' to hold Keir Starmer's Labour government to account. PA
Badenoch wins race to succeed Sunak as UK Tory leader

Favourite beats Robert Jenrick in members’ vote after four-month contest

UKNovember 02, 2024
Refugees fleeing fighting in Darfur queue at the Sudan-Chad border. Getty Images
Hamdok urges UK government to help protect Sudanese people

Former prime minister of Sudan urges Britain to use UN Security Council presidency to energise peace process

UKNovember 01, 2024
Supporters of the ruling Georgian Dream party celebrate after exit poll results in Tbilisi. The party's Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze has rejected claims of election rigging, while the country's president accused his supporters of falsifying the results. EPA
Georgians fear 'difficult path' to democracy after pro-Russia party wins elections

Opposition claims election was stolen, but Georgian Dream's victory is blow to country's long-held aspirations to join EU

NewsOctober 27, 2024
An UNRWA vehicle is seen through the shrapnel-riddled windscreen of a bus damaged by Israeli artillery outside Deir Al Balah in the Gaza Strip. AFP
Israel's allies call out move to ban UNRWA

Seven countries urge Knesset MPs to 'abide by international obligations' ahead of Monday's vote on two measures outlawing agency

UKOctober 27, 2024
Palestinian families at Downing Street, where they met Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Husam Zomlot/X
Palestinians ready to pay for injured children to be treated in UK wait on PM's approval

British-Palestinian community has called on the government to fast-track the go-ahead

UKOctober 26, 2024
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, held talks with Jordanian counterpart Ayman Safadi as part of a round of meetings with Arab representatives in London. AFP
Jordan accuses Israel of 'ethnic cleansing' in Gaza at US-Arab talks

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken sees urgent need for diplomatic resolution in Lebanon

MENAOctober 25, 2024
Palestinian human rights lawyer Raji Sourani speaks during an interview at his office in Gaza in 2021. AFP
Gaza's 'Mr ICC' says UK failing to 'go by the rule of law'

Raji Sourani, founder of the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights in Gaza, says evidence of war crimes is extensive but Israel's allies are obstructing path to justice

UKOctober 24, 2024
Syrian Red Crescent workers tend to displaced people arriving from Lebanon at the Jdeidat Yabous border crossing in south-west Syria. AFP
UK pledges £3m to support refugees returning to Syria from Lebanon

Most of those who fled Lebanon into Syria 'have nothing to go back to'

UKOctober 23, 2024
An aid convoy moves into the Gaza Strip from Israel on Monday, a few days after the BBC launched its fund-raising appeal for the besieged enclave. AP
BBC concerns 'held up UK aid appeal for Gaza'

British government pledged to match first £10m in donations to Disaster Emergency Committee's Middle East appeal

MENAOctober 21, 2024
The Dog Tooth of Time by Sarah Al Sarraj. Photo: Sarah Al Sarraj
A space to celebrate Islamic astronomy and its contribution to our cosmic understanding

British-Iraqi artist Sarah Al-Sarraj hopes to break the National Space Centre's silence on the contributions of medieval Islamic scholars to modern astronomy

UKOctober 18, 2024
Protesters at a Stop The War Coalition demonstration against Israeli strikes on Gaza and Lebanon in central London. Getty Images
UK's 'remarkably cautious' Middle East policy fails to appease critics

Indecision on Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Palestinian statehood and arms sales to Israel have led to calls for a bolder stance on the Middle East

UKOctober 12, 2024
Hugo Shorter, who has worked in Lebanon and Syria, is the UK's new ambassador to Iran. Photo: UK Government
Britain’s new Iran ambassador has experience of Hezbollah’s rise

Hugo Shorter replaces Simon Shercliff in Tehran ahead of an anticipated Israeli retaliatory strike

UKOctober 04, 2024
Evacuees leave HMS Bulwark on July 21, 2006, at Limassol in Cyprus, Getty Images
As a 2006 evacuee, I understand the wrench of fleeing war-torn Lebanon

The UK's Operation Highbrow to evacuate 4,500 people from Lebanon in 2006 was widely praised, but a rerun is less certain today

CommentOctober 02, 2024
Heathrow arrival Lara said people in Lebanon were saying goodbye 'like they might not see me ever again'. PA
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Relief and fear as people in Lebanon manage to flee to London

The UK will charter a commercial flight from Beirut to Birmingham on Wednesday, but won't commit to further evacuations

UKOctober 01, 2024
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