UN food distributed to refugees, 2009. Many Gazans have been dependent on food aid, restricted by Israel, for years.
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Water, food, energy and fuel supplies have been severed as retaliation for Hamas’s attacks.
Palestinians carry a body on a stretcher following Israeli bombing in the southern Gaza Strip.
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Research explains why Palestinians experiencing despair may gamble with their own lives despite little real hope of improving things.
The statue of Cardinal John Henry Newman in front of Brompton oratory in London.
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Many Catholic schools in Britain retain the name John Henry Newman, despite his opposition to abolishing slavery.
People affected wait for relief in the earthquake-hit Enjil district of Herat, Afghanistan, in October 2023.
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The Taliban is increasingly demanding a say in how aid is delivered and to whom.
Presidents Xi and Putin met in Moscow in March 2023, and are due to meet again in Beijing.
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Vladimir Putin’s expected meeting with President Xi in Beijing is likely to cement China’s position as the most power partner.
An Israeli artillery unit stationed near the Israel-Gaza border.
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An onslaught of fake videos on social media is relaying confusing and deliberately misleading information about the Israel-Gaza conflict.
The Welsh National Mining Memorial was unveiled in Senghenydd in 2013.
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Four hundred and forty men and boys were killed in the Senghenydd colliery disaster, with the youngest victims aged just 14 years old.
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Playgroups are good for parents’ wellbeing – and are a place where they can take a first step into volunteering.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky is briefed on the counteroffensive and military situation during a visit to the frontlines, October 3 2023 in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
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A selection of the best of our coverage of the conflict from the past fortnight.
Finnish prime minister Petteri Orpo during a press conference on a possible attack on the Balticconnector natural gas pipeline.
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Nato has promised to act if the pipeline has been attacked, but a thorough investigation is needed before jumping to any conclusions.
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The group was founded in 1987 and since seizing control of Gaza in 2007 have clashed with Israeli government frequently.
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Governmental support is failing the country’s most vulnerable households. Politicians need to act now.
President Putin.
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Conflict in the Middle East may distract the west, which could be to Russia’s advantage in the Ukraine war.
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An inquiry into conditions at Brook House immigration removal centre found ‘credible evidence’ of breaches of human rights.
Masculinity is complex, diverse and can be expressed in multiple ways.
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A new wave of research shows how working-class young men are changing their behaviour. But some remain hostile to the term “toxic masculinity” and see it as a vehicle for shaming men.
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The answers lie in early human evolution.
Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, speaking at the UN General Assembly on September 22, 2023.
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Is the much-heralded Israel-Saudi peace deal now dead? And how is Iran likely to respond? An expert in Middle Eastern politics explains
Keir Starmer has indicated Labour would work with Europe on tackling illegal migration.
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Labour has vowed to crack down on smuggling gangs.
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The need for the Labour leader to reclaim his personal narrative had become urgent – so did he succeed?
The Winchester City Mill youth hostel, in 1945.
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Youth hostels can play a key role in blurring class lines and connecting travellers to both each other and the places they visit.
A Palestinian child amid the destruction of October 9 2023.
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Politicians and even charities often don’t speak out about the failure to protect children.
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The way we develop urban peripheries is central to tackling both the housing crisis and the climate emergency.
Israel strikes back: the aftermath of an airstrike on a residential apartment block in Gaza.
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The incursion into Israel was textbook terrorism and the response appears to be exactly as Hamas and its backers will have hoped.
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Angela Rayner’s expansive policy brief faces the threat of ‘short-termism’ perhaps more than any other. If Labour win power, will Rayner be able to fight against these short-term political incentives?
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Shouting at children or calling them names is a kind of emotional abuse.