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Hay Festival announces final guests for The News Review panel series 2025

Sessions will feature some of the greatest minds in arts, science, politics and history

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‘I can’t protect my unborn baby from HIV’: The stark reality of Trump’s aid cuts

ON THE GROUND: From the pregnant woman who fears HIV will now be transmitted to her child, to the father of four lying in agony on a mattress with no access to drugs. In Uganda and Zimbabwe, chief international correspondent Bel Trew finds the US president’s brutal severing of aid…

The Independent UK

The Aids crisis was set to end by 2030 – now Trump’s cuts will mean 4 million more deaths

IN FOCUS: HIV infections and deaths from Aids are set to skyrocket in the next five years if US-funded programmes are not reinstated, write Rachel Schraer, Alicja Hagopian, Bel Trew and Rebecca Thomas

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The deadly truth as family planning slashed in Trump’s global aid cuts

ON THE GROUND: With the wiping out of global aid to maternal health, it feels necessary to point out that fewer unplanned births means fewer mothers dying, writes chief international correspondent Bel Trew from Uganda

The Independent UK

There is a ceasefire in Gaza – but war in the West Bank could just be beginning

ON THE GROUND: Palestinians and Israelis have barely had time to process the end of a ruinous 15-month war before Israel launched a ‘major counter-terrorism’ operation in the West Bank. Bel Trew reports from Jenin where families are fleeing their homes as the bullets and bombs rain down, sparking fears…

The Independent UK

Families of hostages still inside Gaza say ceasefire is ‘one and only chance’ to bring loved ones home

Supporters call on all parties to maintain ceasefire until remaming 90 hostages released

The Independent UK

Countdown to Gaza ceasefire and release of hostages begins

SPECIAL REPORT: ‘No one should be left behind’ declare families of Israeli hostages to Bel Trew in Tel Aviv, as Netanyahu’s government finally approves historic Gaza truce – with the first captives expected to be set free by Hamas on Sunday

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‘Happiness, sadness, grief and worry’ across Israel and Gaza following ceasefire deal agreement

People are celebrating in the streets as a ceasefire deal is reached, but they still have 72 hours to wait, writes Bel Trew from Tel Aviv

The Independent UK

Vanished without a trace: Inside the desperate search for US citizens disappeared in Syria

SPECIAL REPORT: Bel Trew joins those searching Damascus and other sites across the country for journalist Austin Tice and other American citizens who went missing under the brutal regime of Bashar al-Assad

The Independent UK

Inside a stunning week across Syria following the overthrow of the Assad regime

FIRST PERSON: Bel Trew spent days travelling across Syria – from Aleppo in the north, to the capital Damascus and Deraa in the south – charting a nation coming to terms with the end of decades of brutal rule by the Assads. From families trying to find missing loved ones…

The Independent UK

Christians in Aleppo are celebrating Christmas – but fear for their future

ON THE GROUND: As Syria marks the overthrow of the Assad regime, Bel Trew visits Aleppo, where Christian residents are beset by uncertainty. She speaks to families worried about life under a new Islamist-led administration

The Independent UK

‘I feared I would end up in the trench’: Digging Assad’s mass graves in Syria

IN FOCUS: Bel Trew reports from the site of a mass grave at Qutayfah, about 25 miles from the Syrian capital Damascus. There, she speaks to someone who dug the trenches before realising the true horror of what was happening at the site – while others warn of the scale…

The Independent UK

Could Syria return as a tourism destination? What to consider after years of devastation under Assad

Exclusive: While Damascus airport is currently closed, daily flights connect the UK with Beirut, which is only 60 miles from the Syrian capital

The Independent UK

Syria’s rebels took Homs back from Assad in a matter of days. Now they have to police it

ON THE GROUND: Bel Trew meets the new police chief in Syria’s third city, tasked with keeping the peace now that forces led by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham have ousted the regime of Bashar al-Assad. Every city across the country is now facing the same question: who will rule…

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Syrian defector who smuggled torture images out of country warns of hundreds of thousands of deaths

ON THE GROUND: Photographer codenamed Caesar who captured more than 53,000 pictures documenting the horrors of the Assad regime tells Bel Trew how he risked his life to show the world what was happening – and his fears for what is still to be found

The Independent UK

Thousands of Syrians escape horrific conditions of besieged camp

ON THE GROUND: The Rukban camp was supposed to provide refuge to those fleeing chemical weapons attacks and other atrocities, writes Bel Trew. The thousands who became trapped there could only pray for survival until the fall of Assad’s regime

The Independent UK

Thousands take to the streets around Syria to celebrate end of Assad regime: ‘It’s like a dream’

ON THE GROUND: Bel Trew meets some of the many gathered in the capital Damascus, hearing tales of hope – and a recognition of the work ahead

The Independent UK

I sparked Syria’s revolution as a teenage boy – now I’m here to finish it

ON THE GROUND: Muawiyah Syasneh was 16 when his anti-Assad graffiti on a school wall led to his arrest, sparking protests that ended in civil war. Now, in the very same spot, he tells chief international correspondent Bel Trew about the years-long war – and his role in bringing it…

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The Independent UK

‘They used us as a testing ground for all kinds of weapons’: Syrians return to destroyed town

ON THE GROUND: Bel Trew visits Jobar – north of Damascus – which was devastated by some of the fiercest battles of the civil war. She meets residents returning home for the first time in more than a decade. Both they, and Syria itself, face major challenges in starting anew

The Independent UK

‘We think he died just before regime collapsed’: Syrians scour morgues full of tortured bodies

SPECIAL DISPATCH: From Assad’s slaughterhouse jail to the hospital morgue piled up with mutilated bodies, desperate Syrians search for family members disappeared under a despot’s brutal regime, reports Bel Trew

The Independent UK

The Independent’s Bel Trew shows struggle of crossing Syria border after fall of Assad dictatorship

A border that would have been populated by Bashar al-Assad's regime forces was deserted as The Independent international correspondent Bel Trew crossed over from Lebanon.

The Independent UK

‘Death is chasing us’: Syrian refugees flee Lebanon airstrikes straight into jaws of fresh war against Assad

SPECIAL REPORT: Bel Trew and Rana Najjar speak to those who have tried to escape Israeli strikes, only to find themselves on the front of another conflict, and visit a refugee camp in Lebanon to speak to those who fear for their relatives

The Independent UK

Ghost towns rattled by sporadic gunfire: Tensions run high in fragile Lebanese-Israeli ceasefire

On the ground: Three days after Israel and Hezbollah agreed a ceasefire, Bel Trew visits the decimated towns on the southern Lebanese border where locals are not yet allowed to return

The Independent UK

Lebanon counts cost of the war between Israel and Hezbollah: ‘We need a miracle to rebuild’

ON THE GROUND: Bel Trew and Rana Najjar meet residents in and around Beirut looking to reconstruct their lives as a fragile ceasefire holds

The Independent UK

Abortion rights won major victories on Election Day. But Trump and his allies could threaten them

Trump says he wants to leave reproductive healthcare up to the states, where millions of women delivered a powerful rebuke to anti-abortion laws. Lawyers and civil rights groups are bracing for what’s next, Alex Woodward and Bel Trew report

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