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      Lemma Shehadi

      Lemma Shehadi

      Senior Correspondent
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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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      A protest takes place in Berlin in opposition to Israeli actions in Gaza. Anadolu via Getty Images
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      Environmental consequences of Iranian attacks will be discussed by UN maritime body on Thursday

      MENAApril 29, 2026
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      UKApril 29, 2026
      A market in the West Bank city of Nablus. Getty
      Twinning boosts links between Palestinian and UK cities

      Community friendship efforts mean better connections with Palestinian towns and villages

      UKApril 28, 2026
      Governments and shipping industry leaders will meet at the UN's International Maritime Organisation in London this week. EPA
      Hormuz crisis haunts UN vote on carbon tax for shipping

      IMO chief urges countries to 'listen to one another' as divided global shipping industry gathers

      UKApril 27, 2026
      Women inside Al Roj camp in north-eastern Syria, where foreign citizens remain detained in overcrowded conditions. AFP
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      French lawyer Marie Dose is seeking their repatriation after their mother died of illness in the camp

      UKApril 24, 2026
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      US officials estimate it could take six months after end of war to demine channel

      UKApril 23, 2026
      Petra Bayr, president of the Council of Europe’s parliamentary assembly, warns Israel’s new death penalty law could be a 'red line' for its observer status. EPA
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      UKApril 22, 2026
      A screengrab from footage broadcast by Iranian state TV purportedly shows Iranian troops seizing the continer ship Francesca on Wednesday. Reuters
      Iran's fast boat attacks intensify Strait of Hormuz confrontation

      Despite a major US fleet assembling in the region, Tehran's vessels continue to escalate pressure on shipping

      MENAApril 22, 2026
      Green Party leader Zack Polanski, right, with Rob Yates, who won the seat in the Cliftonville by-election for Kent County Council. PA
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      UKApril 22, 2026
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      Masdar and ScottishPower install UK's largest wind turbines

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      UKApril 21, 2026
      Ed Miliband, the UK Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary, launches a new electricity price policy. PA
      UK to drop natural gas as benchmark for electricity prices

      Energy Secretary Ed Miliband announces reforms as energy crisis sparked by Iran war looms

      UKApril 21, 2026
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      BusinessApril 18, 2026
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      UAE welcomes IMO condemnation of Iranian actions in Strait of Hormuz

      UN agency to begin operation to evacuate seafarers stranded in Gulf during Tehran's blockade

      UKApril 17, 2026
      US President Donald Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian. There is a push to secure an agreement between the two countries. The National
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      American officials need to improve understanding of how Tehran works, former diplomats say

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