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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Temujin Doran |Kyri Evangelou |Bethan Mckernan
For many Israelis, military service is a rite of passage that lasts two to three years. Being such a formative part of the social contract in Israel, it is unusual for eligible young people to refuse their draft orders. Every year some ask for exemptions, but only a handful openly declare themselves as conscientious objectors, commonly known as refuseniks.
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Dec 15, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Bethan Mckernan |Ayman Abu Ramouz |Jem Talbot |Kyri Evangelou |Temujin Doran |Katie Lamborn
Syrian airforce helicopters dropped two cylinders of chlorine gas onto the town of Douma on 7 April 2018. At least 43 people choked to death. For six years, afraid of reprisals, the town has grieved in silence for loved ones lost to chemical attacks and countless others killed by conventional weapons.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
businessandamerica.com | Christopher Cherry |Maeve Shearlaw |Kyri Evangelou |Harrison Taylor
Disability services in the UK have been consistently cut after 14 years of Tory rule and austerity, but with the promise of change from a new Labour government, musician and activist John Kelly is concerned that politicians are still not listening to disabled voices and what they want. Kelly chained himself to London buses in the 1990s to protest over a lack of access to transport, but has watched the right to an independent life be steadily eroded.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Christopher Cherry |Maeve Shearlaw |Kyri Evangelou |Harrison Taylor |Temujin Doran
Disability services in the UK have been consistently cut after 14 years of Tory rule and austerity, but with the promise of change from a new Labour government, musician and activist John Kelly is concerned that politicians are still not listening to disabled voices and what they want. Kelly chained himself to London buses in the 1990s to protest over a lack of access to transport, but has watched the right to an independent life be steadily eroded.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Richard Sprenger |Kyri Evangelou |Jem Talbot |Sinead McCausland |Temujin Doran
American research group Ocearch has more than 15 years’ experience in catching, tagging and tracking great white sharks all over the world, contributing to filling in the many gaps in knowledge about the ocean predator. Ocearch came to Europe for the first time in the summer, hoping to study the elusive Mediterranean great white – about which little is known.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Bethan Mckernan |Kyri Evangelou |Yotam Ronen |Temujin Doran
Before Hamas’s rampage through southern Israel on 7 October, the kibbutz of Nir Oz was home to 400 people. It was a lively community that had historically enjoyed good relationships with the population in neighbouring Gaza.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Richard Sprenger |Kyri Evangelou |Noah Payne-Frank |Temujin Doran
In the rolling hills of central Italy sits Honeydew, an eco-community created as a direct response to the isolation of the Covid pandemic, enabled by modern technology and aiming to address the profound changes the climate crisis looks set to bring. With stated aims to spread the project globally, the Guardian visited Honeydew to see how founder Benjamin Ramm's vision for the future is playing out, and to learn how sustainable such eco living projects really are.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Kyri Evangelou |Ben Jennings |Joseph Pierce |Temujin Doran
Ben Jennings is an award-winning cartoonist and illustrator who has been capturing the essence of UK politics for longer than a decade. Known for his humour and poignant commentary, he draws inspiration from daily breaking news, turning headlines about Rishi Sunak, Keir Starmer and other politicians into powerful satirical cartoons.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Katharine Viner |Nick Hopkins |Shaun Walker |Luke Harding |Phil Caller |Kyri Evangelou
In an exclusive interview with the Guardian, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, revealed the tactics and traits that help him face the daily frustrations of leading a country at war for more than two years. Within a ceremonial room inside Kyiv’s presidential compound, Zelenskiy spoke for nearly an hour with a Guardian team, including the editor-in-chief, Katharine Viner. The interview took place during perhaps the toughest time for Ukraine since the early days of the war.
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May 30, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Hannah Ellis-Petersen |Kyri Evangelou |Ahmer Khan |Temujin Doran
India is in the final stages of a general election, and almost one billion people are registered to vote. The country's prime minister ,Narendra Modi, has been in power for more than 10 years, and his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) is seeking a third term. But critics of Modi and the BJP say his government has become increasingly authoritarian, fracturing the country along religious lines and threatening India’s secular democracy.
