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Syrian refugees struggling six months on from earthquake
It’s been six months since two massive earthquakes tore through southeast Turkey and northern Syria, leaving fifty thousand people dead. Countless more were made homeless when entire towns and cities were turned to rubble.
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Building collapse: have Turkish authorities learned lessons after the earthquake?
Ramazan Yildirim is a civil engineer who built fifty buildings in the city – all of which remained standing.
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Turkey earthquake survivors fear ‘toxic dust’ from debris
This weekend marks six months since the devastating earthquake that hit parts of Central and Southern Turkey and Northern Syria killing over 59,000 people and leaving millions of people homeless.
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‘We ask our partners for two things: weapons and patience’, says Ukraine Ministry of Defence adviser
We spoke to Yuriy Sak, an adviser to Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence.
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UN demands action to stop the deadly Darien Gap migrant route known as ‘hell on Earth’
The United Nations has called for urgent intervention in the lawless stretch of jungle between Colombia and Panama known as the Darien Gap.
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Headway: an art exhibition with a difference
An art exhibition with a difference has opened at the Barbican Gallery in London. Each one of the works has been drawn, painted or made by someone with a brain injury.
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Greta Thunberg: Heatwaves start of “escalating existential crisis”
The world’s most famous climate campaigner Greta Thunberg has been out protesting in London. Her target was the government’s plans to develop the Rosebank oilfield in the North Sea.
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Spain’s left and right parties both claim victory as election leads to hung parliament
Spain faces another hung parliament and perhaps weeks, or even months, of political uncertainty.
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Could Spain’s snap election end with the first far-right party in power for half a century?
In Spain, polls are about to close in the country’s snap general election. The Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez called the vote after his socialist party’s poor showing in recent local elections. His main rival is Alberto Nunez Feijoo – leader of the conservative Popular Party. If he’s unable to win outright, he may look to…
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Life in Khartoum: Sudan’s ‘ghost town’ capital as seen via drone
Last night we brought you evidence of a mass killing in Darfur in Sudan – where the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces stand accused of summarily executing dozens of ethnic Masil-eet people, in a school compound in May.
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By-election results: ‘We’re disappointed’ but have ‘defied’ odds, says Tory Party Chairman
We spoke to the Chair of the Conservative party and MP Greg Hands – and started by asking him what he made of the poor night at the polls for the Tories.
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By-election results: three parties claim victories – who’s the real winner?
So everybody wins and everyone gets a prize. Three by-elections and a victory for each of the three main parties. But the gleam on the Tory trophy shines less brightly than the other two with a major swing away from the party in all three contests.
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New photography exhibition challenges how western art depicts Black women
For centuries, western art has objectified black women, depicting them as exoticised and enslaved. Challenging that is a new photography exhibition at Somerset House called ‘Black Venus’.
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‘Eyewitnesses established the RSF were actively participating in the killing’, says Human Rights Watch researcher on Sudan massacre
We spoke to Mohamed Osman, the author of a Human Rights Watch report on killings that took place in the Western Darfur town of Misterei. We put it to him that the Rapid Support Forces had issued a statement saying none of this ever happened – and asked him if their denial was credible?
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Debate: Which political party can deliver more investment into UK?
We’re joined by Labour MP Darren Jones, who’s chair of the cross-party Business and Trade Committee, and John Penrose, a Conservative MP for Weston-super-Mare in Somerset.
