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  • UK study of 1948 Israeli massacre of Palestinian village reveals mass grave sites

    UK study of 1948 Israeli massacre of Palestinian village reveals mass grave sites

    Researchers analysed cartographic data and aerial photos to identify three possible locations in former fishing village Tantura Bethan McKernan Jerusalem correspondent An investigation into a massacre in a destroyed Palestinian village carried out by Israeli forces in the 1948 war surrounding Israel’s creation has identified three possible mass graves beneath a present-day beach resort. Palestinian survivors…

  • Yemeni activist who revealed Houthi sexual abuses ‘detained by Saudi Arabia’

    Yemeni activist who revealed Houthi sexual abuses ‘detained by Saudi Arabia’

    Samira al-Houri disappeared after allegations that claims of female prisoners being raped were embellished Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor A prominent Yemeni human rights activist who revealed sexual abuse by Houthis in the country’s jails has been detained for more than a year by Saudi intelligence and her whereabouts is unknown, her friends have claimed. The claim…

  • Climate change: How is my country doing on tackling it?

    Climate change: How is my country doing on tackling it?

    By Jana Tauschinski | BBC News Every year countries pledge to cut their greenhouse gas emissions in an effort to curb the impacts of climate change. But still global temperatures keep rising. Just last month, scientists announced that average global temperatures would likely pass the 1.5C threshold for the first time in the next five years. As…

  • Afghan women in mental health crisis over bleak future

    Afghan women in mental health crisis over bleak future

    By Yogita Limaye | Afghanistan correspondent “I just want someone to hear my voice. I’m in pain, and I’m not the only one,” an Afghan university student tells us, blinking back tears. “Most of the girls in my class have had suicidal thoughts. We are all suffering from depression and anxiety. We have no hope.”…

  • Miles de voluntarios se unen contra la “basuraleza”

    Miles de voluntarios se unen contra la “basuraleza”

    Madrid/Santander, 3 jun (EFE).- Más de 17.000 voluntarios de toda España han participado este sábado en la campaña “1m2 contra la basuraleza”, una iniciativa de SEO/BirdLife y Ecoembes para celebrar el Día Mundial del Medioambiente, que tendrá lugar el próximo lunes, 5 de junio. La campaña pretende llamar la atención contra el abandono de residuos…

  • North Korea sends elite to work on rice farms after starvation deaths TRIPLE in a year

    North Korea sends elite to work on rice farms after starvation deaths TRIPLE in a year

    Kim Jong-un has ballooned to over 22 stone despite starvation deaths tripling in North Korea in just one year with Pyongyang elite sent to work on rice farms By Douglas Patient, World News Editor North Korea has ordered city workers and students to toil on its rice farms, after spy chiefs revealed starvation deaths have tripled…

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