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Leila Aboulela wins PEN Pinter prize for writing on migration and faith
ByElla Creamer July 9, 2025

Judges praised the Sudanese author for centring Muslim women, describing her writing as “a balm, a shelter, and an inspiration”Leila Aboulela has won this year’s PEN Pinter prize for her writing on migration, faith and the lives of women.The prize is a…

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Leila Aboulela wins PEN Pinter prize for writing on migration and faith
ByElla Creamer July 9, 2025

Judges praised the Sudanese author for centring Muslim women, describing her writing as “a balm, a shelter, and an inspiration”Leila Aboulela has won this year’s PEN Pinter prize for her writing on migration, faith and the lives of women.The prize is a…

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Seeking bulldozer drivers to demolish Gaza: how a genocide is being outsourced | Arwa Mahdawi
ByArwa Mahdawi July 9, 2025

The systematic destruction of Gaza is hardly a secret. Now, the IDF is posting Facebook ads for bulldozer operators to help demolish the stripOmer Bartov is an Israeli-American historian and one of the foremost scholars on genocide in the world. He has…

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Seeking bulldozer drivers to demolish Gaza: how a genocide is being outsourced | Arwa Mahdawi
ByArwa Mahdawi July 9, 2025

The systematic destruction of Gaza is hardly a secret. Now, the IDF is posting Facebook ads for bulldozer operators to help demolish the stripOmer Bartov is an Israeli-American historian and one of the foremost scholars on genocide in the world. He has…

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Gaza field hospital overwhelmed by casualties shot by IDF while seeking aid – video
ByMiddle East and north Africa | The Guardian July 9, 2025

Thousands of wounded people arriving from so-called aid distribution centres in southern Gaza have pushed operations beyond maximum capacity in Rafah’s last functioning hospital. An operating theatre nurse, Haitam al-Hasan, said his team had dealt with…

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Rescuers search for crew of cargo ship that sank after being attacked in Red Sea
ByReuters July 9, 2025

At least four of Eternity C’s 22 crew dead after reported Houthi assault with drones and rocket-propelled grenades A mission is under way to rescue crew from the Eternity C cargo ship which sank in the Red Sea after an attack that killed at least four …

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Seven crew rescued from cargo ship that sank in Red Sea after Houthi attack
ByReuters July 9, 2025July 9, 2025

Search goes on for 14 people missing from Eternity C after assault in which at least four were killedSeven crew members of a cargo ship that sank in the Red Sea after an attack by Houthi forces have been rescued but at least four were killed and 14 oth…

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Children among 20 people reported killed overnight by Israeli strikes on Gaza – Middle East crisis live
ByAneesa Ahmed July 9, 2025

Latest deaths come as humanitarian workers and doctors in Gaza say they have been overwhelmed by almost daily ‘mass casualty incidents’Gaza’s civil defence agency’s spokesperson Mahmud Bassal told AFP that 10 people, of the 20 Palestinians who were kil…

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Children among 20 people reported killed overnight by Israeli strikes on Gaza – as it happened
ByAneesa Ahmed July 9, 2025July 9, 2025

Latest deaths come as humanitarian workers and doctors in Gaza say they have been overwhelmed by almost daily ‘mass casualty incidents’Here are some of the latest images coming through from Gaza:On Tuesday, the European Union force patrolling the Red S…

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This column does not express support for Palestine Action – here’s why | Owen Jones
ByOwen Jones July 9, 2025

In Britain’s increasingly authoritarian society, any sort of protest can find itself at odds with the law. You might even go to jailThis piece must be carefully written to avoid my being imprisoned for up to 14 years. That’s a curious sentence to say a…

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