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‘Devil, we’ve had enough’: Inside the Christian nationalist movement to outlaw abortion

Evangelical activists spent decades using the levers of power and the courts to enforce an anti-abortion agenda. Pro-democracy Christian groups and pastors are pushing back, Alex Woodward reports

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America’s ‘war on women’: The Independent’s film and investigative series examines reproductive rights post-Roe

THE A-WORD: ‘The A-Word’, a new documentary by The Independent, investigates the state of reproductive rights two years after the Supreme Court revoked a constitutional right to abortion, sending shockwaves through American healthcare

The Independent UK

Gaza hostage families blast air raid siren outside Netanyahu’s home as wake up call to agree release deal

Relatives march in Jerusalem on anniversary of Hamas attack in which their loved ones were taken to urge Israeli PM to bring them home, writes Bel Trew, while airstrikes continue in both Gaza and Lebanon

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‘I didn’t see the sun for 10 months’: American journalist reveals her ordeal in a Russian prison

Alsu Kurmasheva was among 16 people freed in the largest US Russian post-Soviet prisoner swap. She tells Bel Trew about life in prison and the moment she was snatched from her mother’s apartment by a swarm of men in black masks

The Independent UK

Gaza hostage families beg Netanyahu to agree ceasefire deal: ‘Last chance to bring them home alive’

In Tel Aviv, Bel Trew speaks to loved ones of those still held in Gaza about the need for a deal that will bring their relatives home – and end the bloodshed

The Independent UK

‘We’ve all broken the Ten Commandments’: Evangelical Christians on why they’re still backing Trump

‘I’m not voting for a pastor. I’m voting for someone that leads the country,’ conservative Christians tell Bel Trew at the Road to Majority conference in Washington, DC

The Independent UK

The families forced to flee the clashes on the Lebanon-Israeli border: ‘A shell landed in the garden’

Alongside the bombardment of Gaza, Israel and Hezbollah have been exchanging artillery and missile fire on the Lebanese border. Bel Trew travels to Tyre to speak to families who have fled the border regions to escape the fighting, with a number of them having had to flee war before

The Independent UK

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Bethlehem prays for peace in Gaza: ‘I have never seen a Christmas like this’

Normally at this time of year, Bethlehem is full of thousands visiting one of Christianity’s most holy cities. But Bel Trew finds empty streets, shuttered shops and a central square without its famous Christmas tree. Church leaders say the situation in Gaza makes any form of celebration impossible – and…

The Independent UK

How a sniper’s bullets utterly shattered the last vestiges of sanctuary in Gaza’s only Catholic church

Hundreds of Palestinian Christians already faced dwindling food, dirty water and the constant fear of bombs as they sought shelter from Israel’s war on Hamas in northern Gaza, before a mother and daughter were shot trying to reach the toilet at the Holy Family Church. Bel Trew speaks to the…

The Independent UK

The Independent’s Bel Trew wins prestigious journalism award

Chief international correspondent Bel Trew was described as one of the world’s leading foreign correspondents at the British Journalism Awards

The Independent UK

Locked up with no charge, Palestinian prisoners tell of pain and sorrow as they are freed in hostage exchange

Dozens of women and children released from prison in Israel were held without trial or charge, a practice rights group says violates international law, writes Bel Trew

The Independent UK

A Pennsylvania family waited weeks to be evacuated from Gaza. Then they were bombed

Palestinian-Americans say they have been treated like second-class citizens by the US government in their efforts to evacuate from Gaza, Richard Hall writes.

The Independent UK

Beatings, threats at gunpoint and fleeing in terror: Inside the most aggressive West Bank land grab in 50 years

Bel Trew visits villages in the occupied West Bank and hears harrowing tales of settler violence in which Palestinian families describe being forced from their homes – in what human rights groups say is the single biggest land grab since Israel captured the region in 1967

The Independent UK

The Independent highly commended at prestigious press awards

The Independent was praised as one of the daily newspapers of the year, while chief international correspondent Bel Trew was highly commended for her brave reporting from Ukraine

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‘Kfar Aza smells of death’: Inside the Israeli border village where ‘babies were slaughtered’ in Hamas attack

Warning: Distressing content ‘When Hamas came they cut the heads of women and children,’ an Israeli major claims while making a chopping motion towards his neck, writes Bel Trew. The bodies are hidden so it’s impossible to verify, but it is clear much blood has been shed in the village…

The Independent UK

‘We still don’t know if my brother made it’: Armenians fleeing Nagorno-Karabakh worry for missing relatives

In just a few days more than 100,000 people have fled the separatist enclave, fearing persecution as Azerbaijani forces closed in, Bel Trew writes

The Independent UK

A People lost: The end of Nagorno Karabakh’s fight for independence

From the mountainous border of Nagorno Karabakh, as more than 100,000 Armenians flee the breakaway enclave, Bel Trew reports on the people who believe the world has abandoned them

The Independent UK

The Independent nominated for London Press Club Awards’ newspaper of the year

The winners will be revealed at the London Press Club Awards lunch on 17 October

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From the command centre in Kyiv, Olena Zelenska’s urgent plea to help her nation as war rages around her

Bel Trew sits down with the first lady in a wide-ranging interview discussing her work rebuilding Ukraine in the middle of war – and the pressures on her family

The Independent UK

After the flood: The nightmare is just beginning for those left to rebuild after the Ukraine dam explosion

Bel Trew travels the Dnipro River speaking to some of those who have been left with nothing after the floodwaters wrecked their homes, and hears from officials warning of the extreme long-term consequences that could be felt by the rest of the world

The Independent UK

Inside Ukraine’s ‘D-Day’ counteroffensive

On the frontline of Zaporizhzhia, soldiers are poised. In Kyiv’s corridors of power, plans have been drawn up to end Putin’s occupation. Chief international correspondent Bel Trew talks to the key players as Ukraine prepares to strike back against Russia – and break the war’s brutal deadlock

The Independent UK

Bianca Jagger hails Independent TV’s ‘powerful and moving’ Ukraine documentary after UK premiere

More than 100 people gathered at the Frontline Club in central London to watch international correspondent Bel Trew’s documentary The Body in the Woods

The Independent UK

The Independent’s Bel Trew wins Foreign Reporter of the Year at The Press Awards

Bel has spent over a decade reporting from the front line and many months covering Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

The Independent UK

The Body in the Woods: Independent TV premieres first feature-length documentary

Bel Trew’s documentary about Ukraine’s search for its missing and dead premiered in Kyiv on Saturday

The Independent UK

Refugees, mass graves and liberation: A year on the ground in Ukraine – in pictures from The Independent’s Bel Trew

Across multiple trips since the start of Russia’s invasion, Bel Trew has been charting the devastating impact of the war on people all over Ukraine

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