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Booker prize winner Richard Flanagan visits Lebanon, Greece and Serbia to report on the plight of the 5 million Syrians fleeing their country. ‘Forced to choose between life and death,’ he writes, ‘they choose life’
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Leaders fight to restore confidence in picking presidential nominee but CPAC attendees grow wary of any attempt to rig the nomination process
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In loyalist areas there is a sense that things are going well, but in the battered north-west there are doubts that the partial ceasefire will hold for long
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UKUKStorm Jake pushes freezing conditions southwardMet Office issues warnings of possible snow and ice in Scotland and the south-east of England
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EuropeEuropeWoman tells of her birth in barracks of Auschwitz-BirkenauAngela Orosz gave evidence in the trial of a Nazi guard: ‘I was so malnourished, I was unable to cry. That saved me.’
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The 2006 winter Olympics was a symbol of Turin’s regeneration – but since then, many buildings have been left to crumble. Now migrants and refugees occupy the deserted athletes’ village, turning it into a ‘symbol of their protests’
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After suffering its worst floods for a century, the Indian city of Chennai is consulting cities all over the world – from New Orleans to Jakarta – about the ambitious projects that could reduce their risk of flood devastation
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With a law change imminent, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s film about an attempted honour killing in Pakistan creates a perfect opportunity to end impunity for relatives who murder women seen as a source of family dishonour
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From child marriage to refugees, human rights issues are at the core of a forthcoming international film festival. We run the rule over five of the best
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Just 660 of 160,000 Europe agreed to share have been relocated as continent buckles under logistical and political weight of the crisis
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A review by the Guardian shows that nearly every person in the governor’s inner circle was aware of alarming concerns about the city’s toxic water supply
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The debate could have been conservatives’ last opportunity to examine each candidate’s policies – instead, the focus was on the size of Trump’s penis
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A backlash against refugees has led to growing support for the far right and the need to send a strong signal of disapproval
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Former pediatric neurosurgeon Ben Carson has announced that he is officially suspending his campaign for president
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Guo Li-Ming, neurology professor at John Hopkins Institute for cell engineering discusses how scientists have found a potential link between the Zika virus and microcephaly
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United Nations high commission for refugees (UNHCR) spokesman Babar Baloch says that refugees need to be moved to an appropriate location, in order to avoid a humanitarian crisis
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The Australian artist travelled to Lebanon, Turkey, Greece and Serbia, drawing the people he met in refugee camps
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The Booker prize-winning author visits refugee camps in the Bekaa valley of Lebanon as a guest of World Vision, accompanied by the artist Ben Quilty
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LAPD captain Andrew Neiman spoke to the press on Friday to confirm reports that a knife, which is alleged to have been found on the property of former football player OJ Simpson, is currently being examined by forensic officers
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Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz engages with various protesters at a heated campaign rally in Orono, Maine
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