Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from Zahra

‘We saw death’: In Lebanon, people flee for their lives as Israel attacks

People around the country speak of their fear, their tension and their yearning for home.

Al Jazeera

How the world’s first open-source digital map of mass graves could help bring justice to victims in Ukraine and other war zones

These newly reported discoveries [of mass graves] confirm our darkest fears. The people of Ukraine and the world deserve to know how exactly those buried in the forest near Izium have died. Amnesty International

The Conversation

Hero Afghan pilot finally reunited with wife and daughter after long-running Independent campaign

An Afghan pilot who The Independent fought to be allowed to build a life in Britain, has finally been reunited with his wife and daughter. Holly Bancroft met the young family as they begin to attempt to rebuild their lives after fleeing the Taliban and years of separation

The Independent UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

The Mother of All Lies review – pursuing the truth of Morocco’s brutal dictatorship years

Asmae El Moudir employs a delicate mix of handmade replicas and oral testimony to brilliantly evoke personal and collective trauma

The Guardian - UK

‘Why the silence? Why the inaction? It breaks my heart’: Malala and Jennifer Lawrence take on the Taliban

The Oscar-winner and the Nobel laureate have teamed up to make Bread & Roses, a new film about the abuse of women in Afghanistan. In an emotional interview, they warn that the west ignores its message at their peril

The Guardian - UK

‘They are birds in a cage’: the Afghan girls fleeing to Europe in hope of education

At a makeshift school in a refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesvos, Afghan girls embrace the learning denied to them by the Taliban — and dare to dream of a new future

Evening Standard

10 Red, White, And Royal Blue Movie Quotes I Can't Stop Thinking About

Red, White and Royal Blue is full of memorable quotes, but there are 10 in particular that I definitely can't stop thinking about.

Cinemablend

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Red, White & Royal Blue Made Me Feel All The Feelings (But Here Are The Main Ones)

Red, White and Royal Blue made me feel a lot of different feelings, but here are the main ones.

Cinemablend

What daily life in Afghanistan looks like after two years under the Taliban

It has now been two years since the Taliban toppled the Afghan government after Western nations chaotically withdrew after a 20-year occupation.

The Week

Panic attacks and malnutrition: Afghan family on what life is like in UK

Exclusive: Two years on from the Taliban takeover, one of the first Afghan families to arrive in the UK by small boat remains in Home Office limbo, as Nicola Kelly reports

The Independent UK

Best of Friends by Kamila Shamsie audiobook review – women driven apart

The close friendship between two women from Karachi who are high flyers in London is put to the test when a figure from their past reappears

The Guardian - UK

Man jailed for 55 years in US after ‘road rage’ killing of Muslim

Dustin Passarelli shot dead Afghan-American Mustafa Ayoubi by the side of the road after hurling racist abuse at him.

Al Jazeera

Minding the gap

Carers of adults with complex disabilities say they don’t know where to turn to get crucial medical help for their loved ones — now a group of health professionals is taking matters into their own hands.

ABC News

Lives torn apart by British airstrikes in Mosul give lie to UK’s ‘perfect’ precision war

Exclusive: Britain says no civilians died in its targeted bombing of Islamic State in Iraq. The Guardian went in search of the unacknowledged victims

The Guardian - UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - AU

Sahar won a scholarship to study law at uni – but then the Australian government stepped in

When the refugee reached 18 and left high school, her right to earn a degree was suddenly withdrawn

The Guardian - UK

Zar Amir Ebrahimi on fleeing Iran and her Cannes comeback: ‘If you lose everything, it’s easier to rise up’

Forced to leave Iran after an intimate video of her was leaked, Ebrahimi has rebuilt her career. Her latest film, for which she won best actress at Cannes, celebrates the defiance of women in her home country

WEKU

'The Taliban took our last hope': College education is banned for women in Afghanistan

On Tuesday, the Taliban announced the women could no longer attend university. One educator in Afghanistan called it "gender apartheid." The highest grade girls will be able to attain now is grade 6.

The New Daily

Rapidly rising rents are way ahead of government assistance

Rents help has failed to keep up with prices, shrinking from 24.4 per cent of costs to just 16.9 per cent for a family with two children.

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - AU

Disadvantaged students at risk of falling behind as parents struggle to afford school costs

Uniforms, lunches and excursions heap pressure on parents already dealing with rising cost of petrol, groceries and rent

The Conversation

Kamila Shamsie's Best of Friends is an affecting novel of friendship, power and ethics

Best of Friends, the latest novel from Women’s Prize-winner Kamila Shamsie, explores complexities of power and ethics within an enduring female friendship. Focused on two central characters, Zahra and Maryam, the novel considers questions of integrity, loyalty, and platonic love.

The Independent UK

5 new books to read this week

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of Best Of Friends by Kamila Shamsie and A Sliver Of Darkness by C. J. Tudor.

The Independent UK

Kamila Shamsie: ‘The government’s anti-migrant position is outflanking that of the public’

A pivotal moment from her own past forms the engine for Kamila Shamsie’s first novel since winning the Women’s Prize in 2017. She talks to Claire Allfree about ‘Best of Friends’, the dangers faced by young women, and her fears about applying for British citizenship

The Guardian - UK

Best of Friends by Kamila Shamsie review – anatomy of a friendship

Shamsie’s latest novel deftly follows a friendship forged in a Pakistan school over 30 years, but where is the tension?

The Guardian - UK

Best of Friends by Kamila Shamsie review – Karachi to London

A friendship is charted from girlhood to middle age, in this admirably thorny novel of postcolonial adolescence and contemporary politics

The Guardian - UK

American Fever by Dur e Aziz Amna review – a subversive debut

A spiky teenage heroine from Pakistan brings a fresh perspective to the coming-of-age, coming-to-America novel

1 2

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Amnesty International

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.