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Turkey likely to be excluded from Gaza stabilisation force after Israeli objection
ByPatrick Wintour Diplomatic editor October 25, 2025

Doubts over whether Ankara will be part of 5,000-strong force to be deployed to prevent postwar power vacuumTurkey will probably be excluded from the 5,000-strong stabilisation force that is to be set up inside Gaza after Israel made clear it did not w…

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Turkey likely to be excluded from Gaza stabilisation force after Israeli objection
ByPatrick Wintour Diplomatic editor October 25, 2025

Doubts over whether Ankara will be part of 5,000-strong force to be deployed to prevent postwar power vacuumTurkey will probably be excluded from the 5,000-strong stabilisation force that is to be set up inside Gaza after Israel made clear it did not w…

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UK’s biggest weapons firm BAE grounds ‘lifeline’ aircraft delivering food aid
ByMark Townsend October 24, 2025

Exclusive: In the year they announced record profits, Britain’s arms maker has revoked licence to fly for planes taking supplies of food to starving people in South Sudan, Somalia and DRCBritain’s biggest weapons manufacturer, BAE Systems, has quietly …

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UK’s biggest weapons firm BAE grounds ‘lifeline’ aircraft delivering food aid
ByMark Townsend October 24, 2025

Exclusive: In the year they announced record profits, Britain’s arms maker has revoked licence to fly for planes taking supplies of food to starving people in South Sudan, Somalia and DRCBritain’s biggest weapons manufacturer, BAE Systems, has quietly …

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Plain rice and little else: life for 120,000 refugees inside Mauritania’s vast camp on Mali’s border
ByEromo Egbejule in the Mbera refugee camp October 24, 2025

Over a quarter of a million refugees live in Mbera and nearby villages, and more than half are under 18. But aid cuts mean providing essentials has become even harderSeveral mornings a week, Mohamed ‘Momo’ Ag Malha walks at least 7 miles (11km) around …

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‘They told me not to speak out’: the woman who took on China – and won her husband’s freedom
ByTom Levitt October 23, 2025

After fleeing Chinese repression, Uyghurs Idris and Zeynure Hasan thought their family would be safe. But Beijing’s growing influence led to Idris’s arrest and a long battle to be reunitedZeynure Hasan was at home in Istanbul in July 2021 when her husb…

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Thousands trapped in El Fasher siege on ‘edge of survival’, says report
ByMark Townsend October 15, 2025

The city – the Sudanese army’s last stronghold in the west of the country – has withstood more than 500 days of attacks by paramilitary RSFThe besieged Sudanese city of El Fasher has been declared “uninhabitable” with new data indicating most homes are…

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‘This generation is defiant’: Gen Z protests set to resume in Morocco despite deaths and arrests
ByRenée Boskaljon October 14, 2025

Activists call for fresh demonstrations this weekend with three people killed and more than 500 reportedly arrested since unrest started in late SeptemberAyoub Oubalat shares a picture of what he says is his younger brother covered with a white blanket…

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Militia strikes kill at least 60 in Sudan displacement camp, says El Fasher group
ByOliver Holmes and agencies October 11, 2025October 11, 2025

Drone and artillery strikes by RSF paramilitary group hit Dar al-Arqam shelter in western city, says resistance committeeMilitia drone and artillery strikes have killed at least 60 people at a displacement shelter in the besieged city of El Fasher in w…

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‘I deserve to heal’: freed British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah on his prison ordeal and next steps
ByPatrick Wintour October 11, 2025

The campaigner, who spent more than a decade in an Egyptian ‘vortex of incarceration’, wants to join his son in the UK while he reflects on the fight for freedomThe British-Egyptian human rights activist and writer, released from more than a decade in …

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