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Top UK chefs cooking up a good cause

Action Against Hunger will be hosting a charity dinner next Monday for the Syria Turkey earthquake appeal

Evening Standard · Feb 22, 2023

WHO ‘Moving Rapidly’ with Syria Quake Relief as Sanctions Are Paused

The World Health Organization said on Wednesday it was taking advantage of a temporary easing of sanctions against Syria designed to allow humanitarian aid to be more easily distributed in the war-torn country after deadly earthquakes. "WHO is moving very rapidly right now together with our partners to take advantage…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Feb 22, 2023

WHO 'moving rapidly' with Syria quake relief as sanctions are paused

The World Health Organization said on Wednesday it was taking advantage of a temporary easing of sanctions against Syria designed to allow humanitarian aid to be more easily distributed in the war-torn country after deadly earthquakes.

Reuters · Feb 22, 2023

Key developments in the aftermath of the Turkey, Syria quake

A top European Union official says the powerful earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria will require a huge reconstruction operation at a scale “never seen before.”

The Independent UK · Feb 22, 2023

Shamima Begum: timeline of events as Isis bride launches appeal to regain UK citizenship

The straight-A student fled east London as a teenager in 2015 to join the terrorist group

Evening Standard · Feb 22, 2023

Shamima Begum loses bid to regain British citizenship

Amnesty International has criticised the ruling which followed a five-day hearing in November.

The Independent UK · Feb 22, 2023

Shamima Begum can never return to UK after losing court battle for citizenship

The decision was made eight years after she left the UK as a 15-year-old schoolgirl

Liverpool Echo · Feb 22, 2023

Ex-ISIS bride Shamima Begum loses legal bid to return to the UK

She was 15 when she travelled from Bethnal Green, east London, through Turkey and into territory controlled by the so-called Islamic State.

Daily Record · Feb 22, 2023

Shamima Begum will not be allowed to return to the UK as she 'poses a risk to national security'

ISIS bride Shamima Begum had her British citizenship revoked shortly after she was found, nine months pregnant, in a Syrian refugee camp in February 2019

Irish Mirror · Feb 22, 2023

Shamima Begum, British-born woman who joined IS, loses appeal over citizenship removal

A British-born woman, who went to Syria as a schoolgirl to join Islamic State, lost her latest appeal against the removal of her British citizenship, but her lawyers vowed to keep fighting and said the case was "nowhere near over".

Reuters · Feb 22, 2023