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EXCLUSIVE - EXODUS FROM IRAQ: Erbil Archbishop interviewed

by - 8th August 2014

‘I IMAGINE a country where churches are just for tourism,’ the head of the Catholic church in Erbil – the destination for Christians fleeing Mosul – tells ANDREW BOYD

Funeral fiasco shows Tibetans right to fear Chinese hand in Kathmandu

by - 6th August 2014

SHAMAR RINPOCHE, the Tibetan Buddhist leader third only to the Dalai Lama, was eventually laid to rest but, finds SLOK GYAWALI, not before Nepal played politics with his funeral.  

Long-term Gaza solution lies in Fatah pushing Hamas out of strip

by - 1st August 2014

FORMER government spokesperson Mr Uri Dromi challenges Israel to work alongside Abu Mazen’s Fatah party in Gaza.

Plea by former mayor to help town hit by 8,000 Hamas missiles

by - 29th July 2014

'Children are reaching bar mitzvah age without ever having known what it is like not to be under rocket attack.' The former mayor of Sderot is in London to ask for help and understanding for his besieged home town. Ruth Gledhill reports.

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