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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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Fighters affiliated with Syria's Hayat Tahrir Al Sham group display drugs seized at a checkpoint they control in Daret Ezza, Aleppo province, in 2022. AFP
EU-Gulf taskforce could tackle Captagon crisis

Drug use in Syria is driven by people coping with trauma, unemployment or pain from conflict-related injuries

MENASeptember 30, 2024
Yasmin Almashaan, who now lives in Germany as a refugee, has filed a criminal complaint to a German court alongside three other families. Photo: Yasmin Almashaan
One woman's quest for bereaved Syrians to find justice in German court

Resident in Germany seeks accountability for Assad regime after losing five brothers in Syria

EuropeSeptember 27, 2024
Author Onjali Q Rauf and a drawing by Mykhailo, 11, a Ukrainian refugee from Lviv at a school in Eastleigh, UK. Photo: Hachette / International Rescue Committee UK
Teachers turn to poets to help refugee children in increasingly hostile Britain

Volunteers are using books and art to create a more welcoming environment for refugees in UK schools

UKSeptember 27, 2024
Nicolas Guillou, Iulia Motoc, and Reine Alapini-Gansou. AFP / Iulia Motoc / X / Wikimedia Commons
Three key ICC judges who could send Israeli leaders to The Hague

Little is known about the direction the court's panel could take after a request for arrest warrants against Israeli leaders

UKSeptember 27, 2024
More than 30 flights to and from Beirut's Rafic Hariri International Airport were cancelled on Tuesday. Reuters
Britain sends 700 troops to Cyprus as nationals told to leave Lebanon

Decision forms first stage of government's contingency plans as conflict intensifies in Lebanon

UKSeptember 24, 2024
The heavily damaged buildings of Al Azhar University in Gaza city. More academics are fleeing persecution and conflict than ever, a British NGO says. AFP
Gaza academics boost numbers seeking refuge in the UK

Charity sees a record 400% increase in applications in the last three years

UKSeptember 21, 2024
ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan in Kyiv last month. AFP
Former UK director of public prosecutions condemns Israeli PM comments about ICC

Ken Macdonald said Benjamin Netanyahu's accusations against ICC Prosecutor Khan were 'shameful'

UKSeptember 18, 2024
David Miliband speaks at the Aspen Security Forum in July. Photo: Aspen Security Forum
Miliband: UK should be ambitious without hubris on international aid

The UK has a role to play in supporting war-torn countries that are also most affected by climate change, says David Miliband

UKSeptember 11, 2024
Emily Thornberry at the Labour Party Annual Conference in 2022. Getty.
UK's foreign affairs committee to elect new leader

Labour veteran Emily Thornbury and former trade envoy Dan Carden are vying to lead the influential group of MPs

UKSeptember 11, 2024
ICC prosecutor Karim Khan. Pro-Israel lawyers have accused him of 'not complying with professional obligations' in arrest warrant proceedings against Benjamin Netanyahu. AFP
ICC prosecutor warns against 'threat and harassment' as pro-Israel lawyers file complaint

Karim Khan's office hits back after he is reported to barristers' regulatory body over pursuit of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

UKSeptember 10, 2024
Taliban security personnel in Khash district, Badakhshan province, north-east Afghanistan. AFP
UN human rights expert to call for more pressure on Taliban

Taliban 'tightening grip on country', emboldened by lack of unity from the international community, says envoy

AsiaSeptember 08, 2024
Childrens are seen playing in one of slum area with skyscrapers as background in Jakarta, highlight soaring global inequalities. Getty Images
Eighty years on from Second World War, can West eradicate poverty?

A new book on the economics of poverty by Iraq's former finance minister Ali Allawi questions the effectiveness of the World Bank and the IMF

NewsSeptember 06, 2024
Grenfell Tower in west London. PA Wire
Bereaved Grenfell families hope for prosecutions from inquiry findings

The final report on the fire in 2017 is being published, opening the way for a new phase in the aftermath of the disaster

UKSeptember 04, 2024
The top candidate of the Alternative for Germany party, Saxony Jorg Urban, during the party's election night in Dresden, on September 1. AFP
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German far-right party AfD wins first regional election

Alternative for Germany would be unable to form a state government as it lacks the required majority

EuropeSeptember 01, 2024
Iran's Morteza Mehrzadselakjani, second left, and his teammates before their men’s sitting volleyball match against Ukraine on Friday at the Paris Paralympics. AFP
No bed available in Paris Paralympic village for world's second tallest man

Sitting volleyball star Morteza Mehrzadselakjani 'going to lie on the floor'

NewsSeptember 01, 2024
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