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UNBELIEVABLE: 3 - Caught on Camera

Desperate search for missing mum and daughter, 7, who vanished from their home

Maryam, 46, and her seven-year-old daughter Aizah were last seen on Friday morning before they disappeared from their home in Sparkhill, Birmingham, as concerns grow

Daily Mirror

'Embarrassing': Iranian-Australians slam PM's response to crisis

Iranian-Australians are calling for the Australian government to take stronger action of human right abuses and protests in Iran

The Canberra Times

The ferries of Istanbul: a day at the crossroads of Europe and Asia

Photojournalist Frankie Mills captured some of the thousands of daily journeys across the divided city, from those fleeing turmoil in Iran and Russia to locals feeling the strain of the global economic crisis

The Guardian - UK

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Nadiya Hussain: 'I was afraid to speak up when my skin got lightened on shoots'

Great British Bake Off star Nadiya Hussain talks about diversity in beauty and finding confidence from within

Daily Mirror

Calls grow to give free school meals to all children in poverty

Special investigation: David Cohen talks to increasingly desperate parents queueing with empty shopping bags outside a school near Battersea Power Station

Evening Standard

‘It’s too expensive to eat lunch and feed my children’: The rise of the school food bank

Feed the Future: Demand for help putting food on the table continues to grow – hence The Independent’s call for free school meals to urgently be extended to all those in need

The Independent UK

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.

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Chilling documentary reveals women's struggle for survival in Afghanistan

British-Iranian correspondent Ramita Navai was in Bayeux, Normandy on Thursday to present the première of her documentary "Afghanistan: No Country for Women", a harrowing look at life under the Taliban. Often using a hidden camera, she witnessed the daily struggle women face to stay alive.

Radio France Internationale

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 Independent 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

Seven big-hitter books for autumn 2022, from Maggie O’Farrell to Cormac McCarthy

It’s going to be a vintage autumn for fiction, with new novels from some of our finest writers. Here’s our essential guide

The Guardian - UK

Send us a man to do your job so we can sack you, Taliban tell female officials

As economy collapses, women from Afghanistan’s finance ministry say they have been asked to suggest male relatives to replace them

The Guardian - UK

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Review: 'Harry Sylvester Bird,' by Chinelo Okparanta

FICTION: A white American teenager who wishes to identify as a Black African navigates the complexities of his racial identity.

The Guardian - UK

‘We are worse off’: Afghanistan further impoverished as women vanish from workforce

From civil servants, teachers and doctors to journalists and business owners, loss of female workers under the Taliban has already cost the economy $1bn

Al Jazeera

Nearly 10 million children going hungry in Afghanistan, says NGO

Save the Children says almost 50 percent of the population needs urgent support to survive despite continuing food aid.

Al Jazeera

Indian activist spends third Ramadan in jail over Delhi riots

It has been a long wait for the family of Khalid Saifi who, like several other Muslims, was charged under a terror law.

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MPs call for British child and ill mother to be returned to UK from Syrian camp

Mother is unlikely to survive without medical intervention, leaving her young son orphaned, say doctors

Al Jazeera

‘Starting over’: FGM clinic gives hope to traumatised Egyptians

Restore is Egypt’s first health centre that offers treatment for survivors of female genital mutilation.

The Guardian - UK

Nadiya Hussain looks back: ‘I wasn’t raised to know my worth, but she will be’

The Bake Off winner and her daughter Maryam recreate their victory dinner – and talk about what the future holds

Asharq Al-Awsat

Iran State TV Hacked with Graphic Calling for Khamenei’s Death

Multiple channels of Iran's state television broadcast images on Thursday showing the leaders of an exiled dissident group and a graphic calling for the death of the country's supreme leader, an incident that authorities described as a hack. For several seconds, graphics flashed on screen, interrupting the broadcast to depict…

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