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On 29 March this year, two female suicide bombers attacked the Russian metro, killing 38 people and injuring more than 60. Maryam Sharipova (28) was one of the suicide bombers. Last May, Yuri Kozyrev travelled to her home province Dagestan. This province in the North Caucasus has great ethnic diversity, including many muslim ethnic groups. Yuri Kozyrev met with Maryam's father and reported on the region.
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After two Intifadas and a blockade that has lasted for more then two years now, the 1.6 million people of Gaza feel abandoned. There is a lack of everything, and everyone struggles. Despite all the media coverage, however, one critical aspect of the Gaza’s’ struggle to survive has been overlooked: water. ‘If nothing changes, Gaza will have NO drinkable water in ten years time. Already today, only 10% of Gaza’s groundwater meets the WHO standards and is drinkable’, says Monther Shablak, the director of the ‘Gaza Coastal Municipalities Water Utility’. © Kadir Van Lohuizen
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As a result of the worst floods in nearly a century, more than fifteen hundred people died and and estimated four million are affected and in need of assistance in the war-torn North of Pakistan. Entire villages have been washed away and whole regions devastated. Much of the population of Khyber Pakhtunwa has no access to water, food, medicine, electricity or communications. Alixandra covered the situation extensively since she stranded in the Swat Valley last week.
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Sarino Damiano is free to fish the seas once more. He is also free to run his business without the constant escort of armed police officers. In 1990 he refused to pay protection money, known as ‘pizzo’, to a local Mafia clan, who had set about establishing an extortion racket in his hometown, Capo d’Orlando, a small beach resort on the Northeast coast of Sicily, where Mr Damiano owns a restaurant-hotel called “La Tartaruga” (the turtle).
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Located in a remote corner of southern Pakistan, the Thar Desert borders the military line of control on the frontier with India. Home to a population of one million Muslim and Hindu pastoralists, this arid, poverty stricken region is literally a dead end. The traditional marginalised communities who eke out a life in the sands have little access to health facilities, education or the outside world.
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The Clerger family lived in a house in the area of Carrefour before the earthquake that hit Haiti in January destroyed everything and took the life of their eight year old daughter. Nelvis, his wife Elvire and their seven children lived in a shack next to their house before Elvire and four children moved to Moron where they have better living facilities. Nelvis has to travel eleven hours by bus and hike another two hours to see his wife and children.
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Environmentalists such as Greenpeace say Dzerzhinsk, 450 kilometres east of Moscow, is the most poisonous town on earth, severely polluted with dioxins and heavy metals from the chemical waste. Dzerzhinsk is a large centre of the Russian chemicals production industry. In the past, the city was also among Russia's principal production sites for chemical weapons.
© Yuri Kozyrev
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Thousands of Mexican and Central American migrants are returned to their home countries each year by the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement or ICE. The agency operates about 48 flights each week to deport people from the United States back to their country of origin. Approximately 400,000 people were deported this past year.
© Jon Lowenstein
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A cornerstone of the early Zionist ideal was “to make the desert bloom”. The water needed to achieve this unsustainable dream comes mainly from the exploitation of the river Jordan basin. 75 per cent of the water of the river was diverted to Israeli territories as early as 1964. Israel’s discriminatory policies and practices denying Palestinians access to water are striking if compared to Israeli intensive-irrigation farms, lush gardens and swimming pools.
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South Africa is often associated with its Apartheid history, with its crime, its increasing poverty and high level of HIV infections. However there is a very different story to be told of the country - one of hope, resilience and positive change. Together, Line Hadsbjerg and Pep Bonet set out to capture these stories of hope, interviewing individuals across the country who have made an inspiring contribution to the society in which they live.
© Pep Bonet
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The latest version of the quarterly 'Dispatches' is now available at selected bookstores and online. It features the latest work of Philip Blenkinsop from Bangladesh called 'The Ark'.
© Philip Blenkinsop
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