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      Lemma Shehadi

      Lemma Shehadi

      Senior Correspondent
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      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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      Commercial vessels and a boat in the Strait of Hormuz, where Iran has proposed tolls on shipping. Reuters.
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      UKApril 13, 2026
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      UKApril 01, 2026
      British Prime Minister Keir Starmer with Syrian President Ahmad Al Shara at No 10 Downing Street in London. EPA
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