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Good News Britain Former Iran detainee Anoosheh Ashoori ran the London Marathon in his Evin prisoner’s uniform on 2 October. He ran for hours each day in his cell hoping one day he would run the marathon as a free man. He dedicated his medal to the women of Iran, political prisoners and the freedom…
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Good News Europe Ukraine Railways and Doctors without Borders have created an ambulance train to carry patients from cities close to hostilities to hospitals some 1,000km away. So far they have carried over 650 patients. LGBTQ+ activists have set up shelters across Ukraine to help those who may need mental or physical support. The president…
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Good News World Research by Amnesty International which included 17,000 fans from 15 countries found that almost three quarters were in favour of compensating migrant workers who suffered abuses while working in Qatar in preparation for the football World Cup. Only ten per cent opposed this. The Australian government has promised to review the current…
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Bad News Europe According to Missing Migrants, a documentation project by the UN-run International Organisation for Migration, 19,705 people have gone missing in the central Mediterranean since 2014. The Red Cross and Red Crescent Separated Families and Missing Persons Centre registered 16,500 people who were looking for 25,600 missing migrants across Europe in 2021 alone. …
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Good News Britain The Bike Project, set up in 2013, refurbishes second-hand bikes and provides them to refugees and asylum seekers in London and Birmingham. Twenty Ukrainian medical students whose training was thrown into turmoil by the Russian invasion are starting clinical placements around Cambridge. Ahead of the court hearing this month scheduled to decide…
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Good News World President Biden took executive action in July to protect access to abortion. It directs agencies to work with medical providers and insurers to protect the privacy of women who seek or utilise abortion services, asks the Federal Trade Commission to protect the privacy of those seeking online information about abortion, and establishes…
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Good News Europe At the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the staff at TV Rain in Russia resigned on air and fled the country. They are now relaunching the channel and its immediate priority is to challenge official propaganda on Ukraine. Germany has agreed to return sculptures known as the Benin Bronzes to Nigeria.…
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Good News Britain The government has paused deportations to Rwanda until the new leader of the Conservative Party (and hence Prime Minister) is elected. The Divisional Court has granted the application to adjourn the legal review of the legality of deportations to Rwanda until September. The Home Affairs Committee has said that there is no…
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Good News World The Taliban have begun a campaign to eradicate poppy cultivation, aiming to wipe out the country’s production of opium and heroin. Afghanistan is the world’s biggest opium producer and a major source for heroin in Europe and Asia. The ban will, however, affect the livelihoods of many farmers and day labourers who…
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Good News Europe The Nobel Peace Prize auctioned off by Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov to raise money for Ukrainian child refugees was sold for £84.4mn. Bomb-disposal experts are clearing landmines from farms in Ukraine and the Halo Trust is training more women detectors to replace the men in Ukraine who have been conscripted. Belgium is…
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