Tim Whewell
Correspondent at BBC
BBC current affairs reporter, especially covering Russia, Ukraine and other former Soviet states, Africa and Middle East
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Oct 25, 2024 |
yahoo.com | Tim Whewell
There is one image that keeps a Gaza musician going like no other - that of the territory’s only concert grand piano. Khamis Abu Shaban had finally risked returning to the music school at which he taught - and which owns the piano - a few months into the current conflict. What he saw, at the Gaza branch of the Palestinian music school, the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music, was “a catastrophe”. Advertisement“More than half of the Conservatory was burned.
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Apr 23, 2024 |
yahoo.com | Grigor Atanesian |Tim Whewell
When more than 100,000 ethnic Armenians fled their homes in Nagorno-Karabakh last September, Nina Shahverdyan and her brother, parents and cousin spent 30 hours on the road trying to leave. "People died of heart attacks. People died because they were just too old to live through that pain. Children were crying," she remembers. In a matter of days Azerbaijan's military regained all the lands it had lost in a war triggered by the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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Dec 20, 2023 |
bbc.co.uk | Tim Whewell
Western donors have pledged billions to help rebuild Ukraine, a country with a reputation for high levels of corruption. The task of reconstruction is expected to be the biggest of its kind since World War Two. But the government hopes a flagship project in Bucha, a town shattered at the start of the war, will show new standards for transparency have been set. At least 245,000 buildings are estimated to have been damaged or destroyed in Ukraine, including many homes in Bucha, just outside Kyiv.
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