Barred from deporting asylum seekers back to places they face jail or death, Trump struck 35 secret deals to send people to places which will deport them there instead. - 25,000 people deported - $410 million spent. - UN aid used to sweeten the deals. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Banished to alien lands: Trump’s secret deportation deals

After a plane journey in shackles, an Iranian woman found herself in the middle of Africa in a country she did not know existed. She is one of thousands deported from the US on the back of shadowy dea...

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Distressing footage shows Fahed Abu Haykal's car pulling to a stop, moments before an IDF soldier shot his 7-month old baby inside the vehicle. Troops claimed the car was accelerating towards them. "I stopped as required and then they simply opened fire,” Fahed said. www.haaretz.com/west-bank/20...

Thrilled to have joined the @theguardian.com’s brilliant Investigations team for the next year, and just so grateful to be back at work. Got a story? Email: louisa.loveluck@theguardian.com Signal: leloveluck.62 Contact the Guardian securely: www.theguardian.com/info/ng-inte...

How to contact the Guardian securely

Some of the most important stories published by the Guardian have come from confidential tips. If you have something sensitive to share with us, here’s how to get in touch

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Horrific news from Iraq where feminist activist and human rights defender Yanar Mohammed, co-founder and director of the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), has been assassinated by gunmen outside of her home just days after returning from Canada.

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Amazon Data Centers on Fire After Iranian Missile Strikes on Dubai

Some AWS services are down in the Middle East. Recovery is unclear as it requires 'careful assessment to ensure the safety of our operators,' according to Amazon.

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As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃@professormusgrave.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I have to say the Post chose a hell of a moment to lay off all their foreign correspondents

To do what this team does takes a village, and our employers celebrate that village when we win awards. Job cuts now risk leaving the most vulnerable behind - in conflict zones, or in environments where losing the Post's protection risks livelihoods or even lives.

Louisa Loveluck@leloveluck.bsky.social · 8mo ago

As @washingtonpost.com international & local correspondents, we have risked our lives, side by side, because we believe reporting from the ground serves the public good. To choke that engine of brave, committed colleagues would be devastating. If you value our work, tell Jeff Bezos to #SaveThePost.

As @washingtonpost.com international & local correspondents, we have risked our lives, side by side, because we believe reporting from the ground serves the public good. To choke that engine of brave, committed colleagues would be devastating. If you value our work, tell Jeff Bezos to #SaveThePost.

My @washingtonpost.com colleagues worked round the clock this weekend to expose the truth of what's happening in Minneapolis and bring urgent weather news to millions facing dangerous cold and snow. If you value this work, tell Jeff Bezos to #SaveThePost www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Federal agent secured gun from Minn. man before fatal shooting, videos show

A Washington Post analysis of videos sheds light on the encounter that left 37-year-old Alex Pretti dead.

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Famine has been officially confirmed in the Gaza City region and is projected to spread within weeks to two more population centers in the wider Gaza Strip, the global authority on hunger said Friday. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Famine confirmed in Gaza City region, global hunger monitor says

More than half a million people in and around Gaza City are facing catastrophic conditions “characterized by starvation, destitution and death,” the IPC said.

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'Women – especially single mothers and widows like herself – are all but absent from the scenes of aid drops. "We simply can't reach those areas. It's too violent, too chaotic and too dangerous. Only the strong or well-connected get through," she says.' www.haaretz.com/middle-east-...

Gaza Looters Wreak Havoc as Aid Seekers Remain Empty Handed

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State Dept fired top press officer for Israeli-Palestinian affairs, after vetoing his use of the line: “We do not support forced displacement of Palestinians in Gaza.” Also rejected his suggested condolences after Israel's killing of an Al Jazeera crew. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Trump administration to vet all 55 million foreigners with U.S. visas

The State Department plans to scour legal visa holders for “overstays, criminal activity, threats to public safety ... or providing support to a terrorist organization.”

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Figures from a classified Israeli military intelligence database indicate five out of six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza have been civilians. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Revealed: Israeli military’s own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza war

Figures from classified IDF database listed 8,900 named fighters as dead or probably dead in May, as overall death toll reached 53,000

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The Trump administration is planning to vet all 55 million foreigners who currently hold visas for travel to the United States. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Trump administration to vet all 55 million foreigners with U.S. visas

The State Department plans to scour legal visa holders for “overstays, criminal activity, threats to public safety ... or providing support to a terrorist organization.”

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Staggering numbers of Palestinians now being shot in Gaza as they try to find food at GHF sites, or along UN convoy routes. More than 4,500 people treated in a single Red Cross clinic. Almost 1,400 across two MSF clinics. Total is more than 12,000, according to health ministry.

For another comparison, there's also an aerial view from a similar perspective, though at lower altitude since it's from a drone photographer, here on Facebook from 2019: www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=... The drone photo is closer to 31.5057, 34.4619 whereas the plane photo is closer to the coast.

Can just barely see it but the massive destruction in Gaza City's eastern neighborhoods such as Shejaiya and Tuffah is visible in the background of the photo. When compared with a satellite image taken a week after the war started, can see thousands of homes have been razed.

An aerial view of what the Gaza City area looked like this week. Taken from a Jordanian military aircraft, by our colleague Heidi Levine.

The death toll in Gaza now stands, officially, at 60,000. Experts say this is a significant undercount. How many have gone unrecorded? www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

More than 60,000 people killed in Gaza war, local health officials say

The toll announced by the Gaza Health Ministry is likely to be an undercount as Israel pursues its war and starvation spreads.

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I spoke to the @washingtonpost.com's podcast this week about our reporting on starvation across the Gaza Strip. The number of people killed by malnutrition or starvation after four months of Israeli blockade has now risen to 154. 89 are children. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...

Gazans are starving. Will aid get in?

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Almost a week after Israel promised to increase aid to Gaza, UN says situation on the ground is mostly unchanged. A former Israeli military official described a “total breakdown of order” caused by IDF campaign. washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Looting, chaos and Israeli gunfire prevent aid from reaching Gazans

Israel said it would allow more food to enter Gaza and provide secure corridors for humanitarian aid. But U.N. officials say almost nothing has changed.

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Israel's military campaign in Gaza has killed 60,000 people. 18,500 were children. Here are their names. www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names.

Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.

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Medical Aid for Palestinians says that Baby Zainab, on the right, has now died. Her mother "couldn’t find the medical care Zainab needed here in Gaza, nor was she allowed medical evacuation, as her mother was hoping for. More children will die, one by one, as this madness continues”.

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Volunteer surgeon Prof. Nick Maynard on the malnutrition he witnessed inside a Gaza neonatal unit: "'Skin and bones’ doesn't do it justice. I had tears in my eyes seeing how unbelievably thin these children are. A doctor who tried to bring formula feed in, had it confiscated by Israeli authorities."

After 4 months of a near-total Israeli siege, Gaza’s hospitals now have wards for the malnourished children whose tiny bodies are just the width of their bones. Aid groups had warned of this for more than a year. Now a worst case scenario is upon us. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Mass starvation stalks Gaza as deaths from hunger rise

Aid agencies warned for months that Israel’s harsh limits on food aid would bring acute malnutrition and widespread suffering to Gaza’s 2.1 million people.

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Iran-linked militias in Iraq are earning billions of dollars from state coffers, operating extensive business networks and holding more power than ever before. There is much at stake if these groups become a target. — @leloveluck.bsky.social & Mustafa Salim www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Why powerful pro-Tehran militias in Iraq stayed quiet amid Iran conflict

As the U.S. struck Iran, the prospect for retaliation was running high in neighboring Iraq, where American and Iranian interests exist in close proximity.

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From the nightmarish early months of Israel's military campaign in Gaza, Dr Marwan Sultan had narrated its horrors to the world. Here is what he told us: 🧵 www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Gaza doctor’s death in Israeli strike devastates medical community

Marwan al-Sultan, director of Gaza’s Indonesian Hospital, provided harrowing accounts of how the health care system collapsed over the course of the war.

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Volunteer surgeon Prof. Nick Maynard on the malnutrition he witnessed inside a Gaza neonatal unit: "'Skin and bones’ doesn't do it justice. I had tears in my eyes seeing how unbelievably thin these children are. A doctor who tried to bring formula feed in, had it confiscated by Israeli authorities."

The build-up to an innocent man's murder felt like a horror story on so many levels. It's brutal watching, but in the words of Jean's mother: "Everyone should watch it.”

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Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes review – the horror is still breathtaking

On the fear and hatred left behind by Assad’s police state, as seen on a single street in Tadamon, Damascus. Wonderful journalism on a tragic subject by @leloveluck.bsky.social, Zakaria Zakaria, and @salwangeorges.bsky.social, for @washingtonpost.com. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

The fall of Assad’s informant state leaves Syria riven by betrayals

Neighbors and colleagues reported on each other everywhere. Now, Syrians are shadowed by the question of who among them had contributed to the regime’s tyranny.

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The Assad regime made Syria an informant state. Neighbours and colleagues reported on each other in every district and workplace: what they said, where they went, who came for dinner. With the dictatorship gone, our story on what happened next. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

The fall of Assad’s informant state leaves Syria riven by betrayals

Neighbors and colleagues reported on each other everywhere. Now, Syrians are shadowed by the question of who among them had contributed to the regime’s tyranny.

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