Bethan Mckernan

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Bethan Mckernan

A British freshman at Harvard fears he will not be able to return to the US to complete his degree after Donald Trump demanded it stops teaching international students. Alfred Williamson, 20, from Cardiff, left Boston when the academic year ended two weeks ago to visit family in Denmark, only to wake up on 23 May to dozens of missed calls and messages from loved ones about the decision to prevent the Ivy League university from enrolling or retaining foreign nationals.

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Bethan Mckernan

A Welsh farmer has been handed a 12-month suspended sentence after pleading guilty to stealing more than 70 sheep from a neighbour, citing financial stress. At least 73 ewes in lamb were rustled in March by Hywel Williams, of Llangadog, Carmarthenshire, from land belonging to Rhodri Llyr Evans near Llandysul.

1 week ago | msn.com | Bethan Mckernan

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1 week ago | msn.com | Bethan Mckernan

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1 week ago | theguardian.com | Bethan Mckernan

Three days before Hamas’s 7 October 2023 attack on Israel, I was helping friends who live in Gaza City gather armfuls of guava in their orchard in Beit Hanoun, in the north of the Strip, when something strange happened. Hamid and Rania* had bought the small plot the year before. It was overgrown, but over the changing seasons they’d worked hard on their expensive acquisition. I called it the secret garden, a tiny oasis in the midst of the dry, dirty misery of Gaza.