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The Meteor •

‘I really thought there were no Jews left in the whole world’: the story of a Holocaust survivor in Manchester - The Meteor

Sara survived the Holocaust thanks to the kindness of a stranger in the Netherlands. Others from her family and wider community were not so lucky and were murdered in concentration camps such as Auschwitz. Nazi Germany and its collaborators killed six million Jews during the Holocaust. Joseph Draper traveled to Manchester, as an ambassador of the Holocaust Educational Trust, to hear Sara’s story.

As drops of rain gathered in oily puddles at our feet in the car park, we were greeted by a man who
The Independent •

Just Stop Oil activists spared jail after M25 protest

Just Stop Oil activists who caused “massive disruption” on the M25 in “deliberate defiance” of an injunction have been spared jail by a High Court judge.

Theresa Norton, 65, and Mair Bain, 36, were found to have breached the injunction when they protested on the M25 with 10 others in November 2022.

Delivering his ruling at the High Court in London on Monday, Mr Justice Soole said both defendants had crossed the custody threshold.

He decided not to impose any penalty against the remaining 10 d
The Independent •

‘I’ve lost an entire world’: Grandfather’s agony as British-Israeli killed by Hamas

The heartbroken grandfather of a British-Israeli soldier killed as he rescued hostages from Hamas said he has “lost an entire world”.

Yosef Guedalia, 22, was shot as he fought gunmen at Kibbutz Kfar Aza during the attack by Hamas who killed more than 1,000 people in southern Israel on October 7.

His grandfather Isidore Zuckerbrod, whose parents survived the Holocaust, said Mr Guedalia returned to the kibbutz four times to rescue hostages as Hamas militants shot at him.

On his fourth journey i
The Independent •

‘Long nightmare’ for UK-Israeli man as relatives still missing after invasion

A British-Israeli man and his family are caught in a “long nightmare” as their elderly relatives are still missing more than 10 days after Hamas militants invaded their community.

Gad Haggai, 73, and his wife, Judih, 72, were on an early morning walk near Nir Oz, their home of nearly 30 years in southern Israel, when Hamas gunmen broke through the border with Gaza on October 7.

Mrs Haggai’s final message to her four children, sent in the family group chat, said they were laying face down as “h
The Independent •

London Mayor fears ‘disproportionate’ Israeli response in Gaza

The Mayor of London said he fears a “disproportionate” response by Israel to the attacks by Hamas could lead to “inexplicable suffering” in Gaza.

Sadiq Khan also called for the Israeli government to reconsider blocking off food, water and electricity to the region in response to the killings and kidnappings by the militant group, which led to the deaths of more than 1,000 Israelis last weekend.

Israel’s military has since ordered more than one million Palestinians living in northern Gaza to ev
Byline Times •

‘They Taunted our Children with Knives’: Armenia’s Exodus from Nagorno-Karabakh –

When the drumbeat of artillery began on 19 September, six-year-old Robert Khosrovyan was ambling home from school. Instead of taking the usual path, he fled down a rocky embankment to reach his house in Chartar, a town in the self-declared Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh in Azerbaijan.

His parents, mad with worry, went in search of him when his classmates returned without him. Unbeknown to them, Robert had crept into an outhouse on their property and crawled into a fridge to hide from the
The Independent •

7/7 bombings ‘hero’ stripped of MBE after child sexual assault conviction

A “hero” of the 7/7 London bombings has been stripped of his MBE after he ‘groomed’ and sexually assaulted a child.

Raymond Parry, from Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, was a Transport for London (TfL) worker when suicide bombers killed 52 people and injured hundreds more in a series of co-ordinated attacks on the London underground and bus network on July 7 2005.

He was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 2007 for his role in leading TfL’s services to support victims’ lov
Daily Mail •

King Charles welcomes world leaders to St James's Palace

The King has tonight hosted world leaders at St James's Palace on the eve of the Ukraine Recovery Conference - where he also fielded questions about his horse's poor performance at Royal Ascot today.

Charles, 74, held an audience with figures including Ukrainian prime minister Denys Shmyhal, US secretary of state Antony Blinken, and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen this evening.

Greeting the King, the EU chief said: 'We are in this together.'

They arrived at the Palace ahead
Evening Standard •

Trans rights protesters interrupt Kathleen Stock’s Oxford Union talk

Prof Stock had only been talking for around five minutes before three protesters jumped out of the audience chanting, “no more dead trans kids”.

Two activists waved rainbow flags and threw leaflets before being booed by members of the audience and escorted out by security.

Another protester, wearing a t-shirt saying “no more dead trans kids”, glued herself to the floor in front of Prof Stock before being removed by police.

Four officers spent around 10 minutes attempting to remove the protest

About Joseph

Joseph Draper is a journalist from South Wales based in London. He worked his way up to senior reporter at an agency on the south coast where he edited and pitched stories to the national press. Joseph began his career reporting and editing for the Penarth Times, a weekly paper, where he provided trusted news to an isolated community in the pandemic. He is passionate about Ukraine's struggle for freedom and in 2022, just weeks after Russia's full-scale invasion, accompanied an aid convoy to the country where he reported on the refugee crisis at the Polish border. In 2023, he was one of the few British journalists to report on the Armenian exodus from Nagorno-Karabakh. His exclusive report featured in the Byline Times. Joseph has lived in the United States where he studied Middle Eastern and American history.

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