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Lemma Shehadi

Lemma Shehadi

Senior Correspondent
London
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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Protesters at the SOS NHS demonstration in London in March demand emergency funding for the NHS from the government to support services and staff. Getty
Britain embraces private health care as NHS creaks

The National's new global series on health care begins with stories of patients migrating from public to private systems in the UK

UKMay 30, 2023
File photo dated 07/01/21 of staff nurses on a hospital ward. The number of nurses working in the UK has risen to the highest level on record, according to new figures. There are now 788,638 nurses, midwives and nursing associates registered to work in the UK, according to the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). Issue date: Wednesday May 24, 2023. PA Photo. See PA story HEALTH Nurses. Photo credit should read: Victoria Jones/PA Wire
Travel kilometres or go private: GPs told to offer NHS choices

Patients will be offered up to five healthcare providers when clinically appropriate

HealthMay 24, 2023
The website for BBC Arabic Radio. Photo: Alamy
Scaling back BBC Arabic a 'big mistake' for British soft power in UAE, experts say

British institutions and businesses in the UAE could do more to integrate

UKMay 23, 2023
Three men who allegedly tried to smuggle more than 2.2 million Captagon pills were arrested in Abu Dhabi. Photo: Abu Dhabi Police
Captagon trade linked to Syria's corridors of power, report to claim

Imminent report highlights drug-trafficking networks in which Assad regime and Hezbollah are accused of playing a prominent role

UKMay 23, 2023
Shaheed Fatima KC, in March 2019. Getty Images
Shaheed Fatima acts for Prince Harry in security case

She has argued that the government exceeded its authority by denying the Duke of Sussex the right to pay for his own police protection

UKMay 17, 2023
A Free Palestine march in London. Getty Images
New Tory group calls for UK recognition of Palestine

Group is launched as British ministers decline to attend events commemorating the Nakba

UKMay 16, 2023
A guard walks past paint-daubed walls after a Palestine Action protest at the Foreign Office in London. Reuters
As Palestinians mark Nakba, UK Jewish groups debate the occupation

Condemnation of the occupation has become more pronounced, even if it is a struggle to acknowledge the day

UKMay 15, 2023
The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester at the Big Help Out event at St Mark's Coptic Orthodox Church in Kensington, west London. Reuters
What volunteers did for communities at Big Help Out events

The National talks to some of those taking part in third day of coronation weekend events in London

UKMay 08, 2023
From left: Counsellor Richard Cotton, Anne Marie Salmon, Paul Watkins, Dominic Powers and street party organiser Lindsay Douglas. Photo: Ian Cook
May Day licence to misrule for another 'king and queen'

Crowning of Jeffreys Street "commoners" is one of the many events planned for the bank holiday weekend

UKMay 08, 2023
Residents of the Kirby estate in Bermondsey enjoy a party with a BBQ, drinks and a bouncy castle to celebrate the coronation. Getty Images
Coronation street parties bring communities together

Nick Cave, bouncy castles and Victoria sponges form part of London’s celebrations

UKMay 07, 2023
King Charles and his wife Camilla at the Badshahi mosque in Lahore, Pakistan, in 2006. AP
King Charles's balanced approach to religion hailed before coronation

Monarch's long friendship with one of Britain's most prominent Muslim clerics reflects his keen and often surprising interest in world religions

UKMay 04, 2023
The Zayed Centre for Research is home to one of the largest laboratories in Europe. Photo: Universal Images Group
Meet the medics curing the 'incurable' children at London's Zayed Centre

Desperate parents with nowhere to turn often end up at Great Ormond Street Hospital, where cutting-edge gene therapy is delivering remarkable results

ScienceApril 28, 2023
People walk towards Sanaa airport in Yemen during a prisoner exchange earlier this month. EPA
Peace in Yemen is a regional challenge, expert says

Ongoing talks reflect Saudi Arabia’s desire to be the region’s peacemaker, Chatham House told

WorldApril 28, 2023
Operation Sagittaire is evacuating about 100 people from Sudan on the first French flight out of Sudan. AFP
International military operations fly foreigners out of Sudan

As diplomatic employees are rescued, thousands of people could be left behind

WorldApril 23, 2023
Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden tells the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg he is confident his staff would not describe him as a bully. PA
Raab's successor confident he will never be called a bully

New Deputy Prime Minister calls for a review of how ministers and civil servants work together

UKApril 23, 2023
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