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Airstrikes, banditry, drones and a ban on girls’ education: four teachers on educating students amid conflict
ByGuardian staff September 16, 2025

Educators working in extremely challenging conditions in Lebanon, Niger, Ukraine and Afghanistan explain what drives them onMohamad El Dirany, 24 Continue reading…

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Pépé le Moko review – mysterious and passionately despairing French noir with a luminous Jean Gabin
ByPeter Bradshaw September 11, 2025

Powerful French film that inspired Casablanca stars Gabin as a holed-up gangster in Algiers lured to his doom by infatuationJulien Duvivier’s mysterious and passionately despairing 1937 movie is rereleased, with its luminous lead performance from Jean …

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Pépé le Moko review – mysterious and passionately despairing French noir with a luminous Jean Gabin
ByPeter Bradshaw September 11, 2025

Powerful French film that inspired Casablanca stars Gabin as a holed-up gangster in Algiers lured to his doom by infatuationJulien Duvivier’s mysterious and passionately despairing 1937 movie is rereleased, with its luminous lead performance from Jean …

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Ethiopia inaugurates Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam as Egypt rift deepens
ByReuters in Guba September 9, 2025

Ethiopian PM says dam will electrify entire region but Egypt fears it could restrict water supply during droughtsEthiopia has officially inaugurated Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam, a project that will provide energy to millions of Ethiopians while …

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Ethiopia inaugurates Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam as Egypt rift deepens
ByReuters in Guba September 9, 2025September 9, 2025

Ethiopian PM says dam will electrify entire region but Egypt fears it could restrict water supply during droughtsEthiopia has inaugurated Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam, a project that could transform the country’s energy sector but may also increa…

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The Voice of Hind Rajab review – docufiction is fierce, vehement and heart-shattering
ByPeter Bradshaw September 4, 2025

In an audacious move, director Kaouther Ben Hania reconstructs the killing of the five-year-old in Gaza using her real voice as she is bombarded by the Israeli armyThere can be no doubt about which movie has set the Venice film festival ablaze – it is …

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Sudan landslide kills at least 1,000 people, rebel group says
ByReuters September 2, 2025September 2, 2025

Landslide destroyed a village in the Marra mountains area of western Sudan and left only one survivorMore than 1,000 people were killed in a landslide in western Sudan on Sunday, according to a rebel group that controls the area.The landslide, which fo…

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Relics From an Ancient Egyptian ‘Party Town’ Are Pulled Out of the Sea
ByJenny Gross August 28, 2025

Remnants of a 2,000-year-old sunken city, Canopus, were lifted from waters off Alexandria, Egypt, revealing the city might have been larger than thought.

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‘I sit alone and talk to myself’: a family ripped apart by Europe’s migration crisis
ByOkba Mohammad and Tom Levitt August 27, 2025

An Algerian mother blames people smugglers and opportunists for the death of both her daughters. Now she cares for four grandchildren aloneEach morning Zahia leaves the home she shares with her four grandchildren in the Algerian coastal city of Bou Ism…

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‘I sit alone and talk to myself’: a family ripped apart by Europe’s migration crisis
ByOkba Mohammad and Tom Levitt August 27, 2025

An Algerian mother blames people smugglers and opportunists for the death of both her daughters. Now she cares for four grandchildren aloneEach morning Zahia leaves the home she shares with her four grandchildren in the Algerian coastal city of Bou Ism…

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