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The queen and the Middle East, and Israeli raids in the West Bank

Here’s a round-up of Al Jazeera’s Middle East coverage from the past week.

Al Jazeera

Mashrou’ Leila is disbanding. Here are 5 songs to listen to

Fans take to social media to react to the news of the popular alternative rock group from Lebanon calling it quits.

Al Jazeera

Abandoned dog adopted seconds after being dumped at roadside by man in truck

Jonathan Romero thankfully spotted the puppy after it was abandoned by the side of a road by a trucker. On the drive home the dog kept licking his face and he later adopted it, naming the pup Maggie

Daily Mirror

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Other People’s Children review – a heartfelt modern love triangle

Venice film festival: This sweet, sad drama sees a teacher keen to be a mother bonding with her new boyfriend’s daughter, while dealing with the constant presence of his ex

The Guardian - UK

Mothers tell how Pakistan's monsoon floods have upended their lives

In the city of Nowshera, tent cities for flood refugees are springing up on college campuses. At one such haven, mothers spoke to NPR about their struggle to survive.

WEKU

NDIS participants are left waiting for too long in hospital beds due to bureaucratic delays

Eighteen months ago, a Melbourne woman named Leila had a stroke and went to a local hospital. After medical support over a few weeks, Leila was ready to be discharged from the hospital, but required some specialist support due to her disability.

The Conversation

Leaving London: This family swapped a basement flat in Highgate for a new-build townhouse near Cambridge

A basement flat in north London was perfect for two — but less than ideal when two became three, then four.

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‘Erasing our existence’: Ghana’s anti-LGBTQ+ bill blamed for rise in attacks

Draft bill would criminalise identifying as gay and could see intersex people compelled to undergo surgery

The Guardian - UK

Briton Leaves Iraq after Antiquities Conviction Quashed

A retired British geologist jailed in Iraq for antiquities smuggling has been freed and has left the country, his family said Sunday. Jim Fitton, 66, was sentenced in June to 15 years in an Iraqi prison. A Baghdad appeals court overturned the conviction and last week ordered his release. Fitton…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Vulnerable mum says NHS didn't 'care' if she died after being denied lifesaving drugs

Caroline Lea has said she felt the NHS didn't care if she dies after allegedly being denied antivirals for coronavirus, despite being clinically extremely vulnerable and having five Covid jabs

Daily Mirror

Jim Fitton: British geologist to be freed from Iraqi prison after smuggling conviction quashed

Briton, 66, had faced 15 years behind bars after collecting 12 stones and shards of broken bottery as souvenirs

The Independent UK

In Kabul, a new ritual: Hungry women wait for bread outside bakeries

Since the Taliban came to power, food insecurity has risen. Women in blue burqas sit in front of the city's upscale bakeries, silently waiting for charitable passersby to purchase bread for them.

WEKU

Secret schools enable Afghanistan's teen girls to skirt Taliban's education ban

The official rule: no secondary school for girls. But behind a veil of secrecy, women are opening small schools so that at least some of these teenagers are able to continue learning.

WEKU

Bride blames best friend after ‘awful’ groom called off their wedding: ‘I’m now being blamed for ruining her marriage’

‘Sounds like you helped her dodge a bullet’

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Evening Standard

‘Dating apps encourage us to play the field — and we’re morally bankrupt as a result’

Our dating columnist Lucy Holden on whether apps have created a ‘casual zone’ that’s making us all behave badly

Evening Standard

How Clean Break puts the plight of women in the criminal justice system on stage - ‘There’s so much damage’

For four decades, the theatre company has kept the subject of women in prison on the cultural radar, with its new play tackling addiction and the criminal justice system in a working-class Pakistani family

The Conversation

How refugees leading city walking tours helps increase their sense of belonging – new research

Worldwide, one person becomes forcibly displaced every three seconds. The thinktank the Institute for Economics and Peace estimates that the climate change crisis alone will account for 1.2 billion people having to migrate by 2050. That will only add to the major geopolitical shifts and conflicts that have led to…

Evening Standard

Jim Fitton: Safety fears mount for geologist jailed in Iraq as Truss is urged to intervene

The 66-year-old is being moved to a general population prison earlier than expected

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The Independent UK

Safety fears mount for geologist jailed in Iraq as Truss is urged to intervene

Jim Fitton, 66, is being moved to a general population prison earlier than expected.

Daily Mirror

GMB fans slam Richard Madeley for 'distressing' tearful daughter of jailed geologist

The daughter of Jim Fitton, handed a 15-year sentence in Iraq after collecting fragments during archaeology tour, burst into tears on Good Morning Britain

The Guardian - UK

‘The goal is to get a wave’: absent Queen fails to deter jubilee service crowds

Royal fans ‘a bit sad’ not to see monarch but relish the atmosphere outside St Paul’s thanksgiving event

Radio France Internationale

Postcard from Cannes #8: Making ends meet

Besides love stories, one of the recurring themes in films shown at Cannes this year is overcoming economic hardship, by any means possible. Two films in the main competition show very different families, from Iran and South Korea, who come up with ingenious and precarious plans to make ends meet.

The Guardian - UK

Leila’s Brothers review – one woman, five misogynistic parasites in fierce Iranian drama

Iran’s Saeed Roustayi puts the spotlight on a woman driven to distraction by the indolent, incompetent patriarchy

Zenger

A Tourist’s Nightmare: British Geologist To Be Tried In Iraqi Court Over Broken Shards Of Pottery

The family of a Brit facing the death penalty in Iraq for collecting “souvenirs” during a geology tour say they are “incredibly worried” ahead of his next trial taking place on May 22.

Daily Mirror

Retired Brit facing death penalty for 'stealing artefacts' to stand trial in Iraq

Father-of-two Jim Fitton, 66, was arrested and slung in an Iraqi jail after trying to take home 12 stones and pieces of broken pottery from an archaeology trip

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