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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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Graffiti in Sanaa, Yemen, shows a Houthi fighter stopping an Israeli ship. EPA
Houthis seize Yemen's western coast and strategic Red Sea islands

Iran-backed rebels now effectively control Bab Al Mandeb strait

MENASeptember 11, 2026
Ed Miliband, Britain's Foreign Secretary, announced the measures in parliament on Tuesday. AFP
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UK leads ban on Israeli settler goods over 'ethnic cleansing'

France and Canada also part of joint action to tackle expansion in West Bank

UKSeptember 08, 2026
Hind Kabawat, Syria's Minister for Social Affairs and Labour. Getty Images
Syrian minister asks for 'trust' in UK parliament hearing

Minister for Social Affairs Hind Kabawat says Syria wants direct support from Britain to rebuild

UKSeptember 07, 2026
An Israeli bulldozer works near the settlement of Migdalim, close to the Palestinian village of Qusra in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. AFP
Miliband's planned UK sanctions on Israel 'face five tests'

New UK package to punish Israel's settlement expansion is expected as early as Tuesday

UKSeptember 07, 2026
Omar Mohammed in Al Qosh, in Iraq's Nineveh Plains, in 2011. Photo: Omar Mohammed
The 'Mosul Eye' blogger whose live tweeting helped hundreds escape the ISIS occupation

Omar Mohammed's new book documents his remarkable role in the liberation of the city – and asks whether its spirit can ever truly be revived

MENASeptember 04, 2026
Giorgia Meloni entered politics on the far-right and has since tried to build a reputation as a more moderate leader. AFP
Giorgia Meloni congratulated on becoming modern Italy's longest-serving leader

Sheikh Mohamed praises prime minister's leadership as she kicks off campaign for next year's elections

EuropeSeptember 04, 2026
Charlotte Head, second from left, Samuel Corner, right, Fatema Rajwani, centre, and Elie Kamio, left, with two other protesters the night before the break-in
Four Palestine Action activists to appeal against terrorism sentences

Convicted campaigners to launch challenge after being jailed for break-in at Israeli-owned arms manufacturing plant

UKSeptember 03, 2026
Football being played on synthetic surfaces alongside cricket matches on drought-damaged fields in Gunnersbury Park, London, on August 22, 2026. Getty Images
UK experiences hottest summer on record, but not the driest

Met Office warns British summers will become hotter due to global warming

UKSeptember 01, 2026
UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood signed a deal in April to boost police enforcement on French beaches by 40 per cent in a bid to prevent illegal channel crossing at source. Getty Images
Small-boat crossings from France to UK fall to seven-year low

Shabana Mahmood hails border security deal ahead of Macron's visit to Downing Street

UKSeptember 01, 2026
Ceuta residents carrying Spanish flags take part in a protest demanding government action to prevent a repeat of the mass migration from Morocco last month. AFP
Spain rules out claims of Moroccan involvement in Ceuta migrant crisis

Tension with Italy remains as Rome extends suspension of border-free travel for Spanish citizens

UKAugust 31, 2026
A combine harvester crawls through a parched field at a farm in Bury St Edmunds, eastern England. Dry land has annihilated UK crops for the past three years. AFP
British farmers lose billions after three years of ‘devastating’ harvests

Deficit of 5.9m tonnes of cereal and rapeseed oil projected for 2026

UKAugust 31, 2026
Iranian designers Aria Kasaei and Elly Naghilou in Paris in March. Photo: Alexandre Arminjon
Iranian graphic designers arrested for the 'crime' of meeting French diplomats

It is a rendezvous that has escalated into a serious diplomatic incident - and caught in the middle of it are two of the leading lights of Tehran's increasingly persecuted arts scene

UKAugust 28, 2026
There has been hope that Andy Burnham will take a tougher stance on Israel than his predecessor. Reuters
UK warns Israel against expelling its diplomats

Prime Minister Andy Burnham reportedly considering wider trade embargo

UKAugust 28, 2026
A site previously used as a UK asylum accommodation centre in Manston, south-east England. Getty Images
Fears over 40 asylum-seeking children missing in the UK since 2023

Group that vanished from asylum hotels considered vulnerable to trafficking and exploitation

UKAugust 27, 2026
The Houthis are believed to be smuggling weapons alongside Al Shabab in Somalia and the Sudanese Armed Forces in Sudan. EPA
Houthis developing new arms-smuggling networks in Africa

Iran-backed militia's activity increasing in Sudan, Eritrea and Somalia, report finds

MENAAugust 26, 2026
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