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Two UK charities donate millions to Israeli settlement in occupied West Bank
ByHaroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent July 18, 2025

Charity Commission criticised for endorsing transfer of about £5.7m to a high school in illegal village of SusyaTwo UK charities have transferred millions of pounds to an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank with the endorsement of the charitie…

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Middle East crisis: Netanyahu speaks to Pope after three killed in Israeli strike on Gaza church – as it happened
ByJoe Coughlan July 18, 2025July 18, 2025

Leo urges Israeli PM to reach a ceasefire deal and expresses concern over ‘heartbreaking toll’ in regionTwo of Jerusalem’s most senior Christian clerics travelled to Gaza on Friday after a deadly Israeli strike on the Palestinian territory’s only Catho…

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Young, educated and knee deep in rubbish: the recyclers cleaning up in Cairo’s Garbage City
ByStefanie Glinski in Cairo July 18, 2025

Piles of waste line the streets of Manshiyet Nasr, turning it into a no-go zone for many. But a new generation see themselves as agents of change in the fight against plastic pollutionWhen Mina Nedi graduated with a nursing degree last year, his friend…

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Friday briefing: A ‘cruel and unlawful betrayal’ – why is the EU not doing more to sanction Israel?
ByNimo Omer July 18, 2025

In today’s newsletter: In failing to leverage its economic influence, the bloc is showing its threats are empty – and is breaking its own rulesGood morning. Before we get into the news of the day, a bit of housekeeping.I’ve been away from the newslette…

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‘Our silence didn’t protect him’: daughter pleads for father on death row in Iran
ByDeepa Parent July 18, 2025

Arrested in 2023 after helping those injured during Women, Life, Freedom protests, Rezgar Beigzadeh Babamiri has been subjected to torture and a forced confession, say family and campaignersIn late October 2022, as protests over 22-year-old Mahsa Amini…

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‘It’s impossible to tell who is killing us’: four days of violence end with hundreds dead in southern Syria
ByWilliam Christou in Beirut July 18, 2025

Sectarian divisions prompted the worst unrest in Syria since March as the Druze population of Sweida province suffered massacres and executionsBahaa* had no choice but to keep on working as patient after patient came through the doors of the Sweida Nat…

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Fire tears through Iraq shopping centre, killing at least 60 – video report
ByMiddle East and north Africa | The Guardian July 17, 2025

A fire has torn through a shopping centre in the eastern Iraqi city of Kut, killing at least 60, as desperate people searched for missing relatives. Officials have launched an investigation into the blaze, the latest in a country where safety regulatio…

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Israeli strike on Gaza church kills three and injures priest Pope Francis called daily
ByAngela Giuffrida in Rome July 17, 2025July 17, 2025

Two of the dead named as Pope Leo renews ceasefire call after strike on territory’s only Catholic churchAn Israeli strike has hit the only Catholic church in Gaza, killing three people and injuring 10 others including the parish priest, who used to rec…

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Fire at newly opened Iraqi shopping centre kills 61 people
ByAgence France-Presse in Kut July 17, 2025

Survivor says blaze at mall in eastern city of Kut started after air conditioner unit explodedA fire has torn through a shopping mall in the eastern Iraqi city of Kut, killing at least 60 people, as desperate people searched for missing relatives.Offic…

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More than 60 die in fire at newly opened shopping mall in Iraq
ByAgence France-Presse in Kut July 17, 2025July 17, 2025

Survivor says the blaze, which killed at least 61 people in the eastern city of Kut, started after an air conditioning unit explodedA fire has torn through a newly opened shopping mall in the eastern Iraqi city of Kut, killing at least 61 people, as de…

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