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Inside the ‘miracle’ drug rollout that could end Aids

ON THE GROUND: A groundbreaking new drug to prevent HIV infection – the closest the world has to a vaccine – is being rolled out in some of the worst-hit countries in the world. Chief international correspondent Bel Trew reports from Eswatini, southern Africa, where there is hope that the…

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‘It was like an earthquake’: Israeli strike kills 12 medics in bloody attack on Lebanon’s healthcare system

SPECIAL REPORT: In the past two weeks, Israel has pounded vast swathes of Lebanon, killing at least 850 people, according to health authorities. Health facilities are also being targeted, causing widespread casualties. Bel Trew reports from the scene of the latest deadly strike

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The forgotten victims of Israel’s bombing who hold little hope for Trump’s talk of ending the war

ON THE GROUND: Washington has given mixed signals in the past two days over how long its war in Iran will last. Families sheltering from Israeli bombs in the suburbs of Beirut tell Bel Trew that the devastation has left them without hope for their country’s future

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The Independent journalists shortlisted for prestigious Press Awards 2026

The Independent’s health, foreign and travel correspondents in the running for top industry awards

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The Independent calls on government to help end Aids pandemic

Chief international correspondent Bel Trew tells parliament’s International Development Select Committee that our call to protect funding will help save lives

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Syria’s mass graves haunt loved ones a year on from fall of Assad, as hunt for clues finally gets underway

SPECIAL REPORT: Syria has not yet begun a wide-scale search for those missing after the country was gutted by autocratic rule, civil war and crippling sanctions, writes chief international correspondent Bel Trew in Sayyida Zeinab, southeast Syria

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‘Foolish’ government cuts could take Aids pandemic back to 1980s, warns former cabinet minister

Funding cuts risk sending progress back decades, Lord Smith tells a gathering of campaigners organised by The Independent – but there is still hope of ending the pandemic by 2030 if investment is made in new drugs

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World is so close to ending Aids pandemic but must keep funding ‘miracle’ drugs, UN chief warns

IN FOCUS: Cutting-edge prevention drugs – hailed as being able to reduce new infections to zero – could see the end of the Aids pandemic, as long as funding continues amid massive cuts, UNAIDS chief tells chief international correspondent Bel Trew

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ICA to screen Independent documentary amid unprecedented cuts to global HIV/AIDs response

To mark World AIDS Day, the Institute for Contemporary Arts will screen our film tackling the collapse of USAID funding

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Giveaway: Claim free tickets to see Bel Trew’s documentary at the Institute of Contemporary Arts

The Independent is offering 10 pairs of tickets to Bel Trew’s eye-opening screening and panel discussion at the Institute of Contemporary Arts

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As Trump’s Gaza plan unravels, what’s next for the Middle East? Join live Q&A with Bel Trew

ASK ME ANYTHING: With tensions rising once more and Trump rushing to uphold his fragile deal, join chief international correspondent Bel Trew for a Q&A on what – if anything – is achievable for the Middle East under the current framework

The Independent UK

How the murder of an ice-cream seller from Florida embodies a hidden war on the West Bank

ON THE GROUND: Even as Donald Trump touts peace in the Middle East with his Gaza ceasefire deal, the families of US citizens killed in unprecedented settler violence in the West Bank are getting no answers, reports chief international correspondent Bel Trew in Al-Mazra’a ash-Sharqiya

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‘Bring them home now’: Thousands in Israel demand ceasefire holds and last hostages returned

Donald Trump’s top envoy, son-in-law and daughter addressed ecstatic crowds in Tel Aviv

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Trump-Gaza latest: ‘Dozens’ of airstrikes on Gaza despite Trump’s call for Israel to stop bombing immediately

Hamas has accepted certain key parts of Donald Trump's plan, including ending the war, Israel's withdrawal and the release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian captives

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A UN inquiry says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Is the world even listening?

ANALYSIS: As a UN body concludes – for the first time – that genocide is taking place in Gaza, it follows a chorus of global experts reaching the same conclusion. But is the world listening, asks chief international correspondent Bel Trew

The Independent UK

US joins UN Security Council’s condemnation of Doha airstrike ahead of Trump’s meeting with Qatari PM: Latest

Donald Trump has reportedly held a heated phone call with Benjamin Netanyahu over Tuesday's strike that killed six

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‘My colleagues are killed on live TV. The world does nothing’: Inside Al Jazeera’s Wael al-Dahdouh’s reporting from Gaza

IN FOCUS: Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief warns chief international correspondent Bel Trew that unless the world intervenes to protect journalists in the enclave and hold their killers to account there will be ‘no one left’

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‘We’re going to lose so many girls’: The deadly impact of Trump slashing aid for contraception

ON THE GROUND : The US president has slashed nearly $600m in funding for contraceptives and the impact of the cuts could be deadly for tens of thousands of women, reports chief international correspondent Bel Trew from Uganda and Zimbabwe

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‘Not in our name’: Fury grows in Israel over Netanyahu’s defiant bid to ‘finish the job’ in Gaza

SPECIAL DISPATCH: As Benjamin Netanyahu refuses to back down over military expansion into Gaza, hostages' families tell Bel Trew in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem why their government has got it wrong – and call for an end to suffering for Israelis and Palestinians

The Independent UK

Inside the aid drops onto Gaza’s torched ruins – with the starving too weak to fight for food

SPECIAL DISPATCH: As pallets of aid are flung out of aircraft onto those starving in Gaza, chief international correspondent Bel Trew joins a Jordanian flight – while Nedal Hamdouna watches from the devastated enclave below

The Independent UK

Why US-Iran strikes are raising fears of a wider conflict | Bel Trew explains

US airstrikes on Iranian nuclear sites on Sunday (22 June) raised “deep concerns” of an imminent international conflict, according to The Independent international correspondent, Bel Trew.

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Donald Trump must reverse his aid cuts and lift the death sentence on HIV patients

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: As a new Independent documentary shows, by shutting off US foreign aid and abruptly stopping the supply of HIV drugs to developing countries, the US president has punished some of the poorest people on the planet

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Trump blames Europe as deadly impact of US cuts on Aids pandemic grows

Trump lashes out at France and Germany amid growing evidence that HIV patients are being denied life-saving drugs. Bel Trew reports

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Hay Festival announces final guests for The News Review panel series 2025

Sessions will feature some of the greatest minds in arts, science, politics and history

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‘I can’t protect my unborn baby from HIV’: The stark reality of Trump’s aid cuts

ON THE GROUND: From the pregnant woman who fears HIV will now be transmitted to her child, to the father of four lying in agony on a mattress with no access to drugs. In Uganda and Zimbabwe, chief international correspondent Bel Trew finds the US president’s brutal severing of aid…

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