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• i visited a refugee camp that's home to 20,000 people - scars of conflict are on every corner

  

  Metro’s foreign correspondent Gergana Krasteva reports from Lebanon My taxi driver keeps one eye on the road and the other on the rear-view mirror,as if expecting smoke to rise ahead of us.

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• how a chess club took on a refugee camp's darkest forces - and won

  

  Metro’s foreign correspondent Gergana Krasteva reports from Lebanon When Mahmoud Hashem witnessed two boys fighting in Shatila Refugee Camp,in Beirut’s southern suburbs – one of them threatening to

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• putin\u2019s boast of new \u2018flying chernobyl\u2019 missile is all talk, says expert

  

  It is 'more likely a propaganda ploy to generate concern in the West about possible nuclear escalation'

  10-27

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• rare bengal tiger which escaped zoo during mexico floods found dead

  

  Authorites warned that the large feline posed a risk to local residents

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• world's tallest bridge is 2,050ft tall and is twice the height of the shard

  

  The Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge has reduced travel time for locals from two hours to two minutes.

  09-30

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• blow for putin after pro-eu party triumphs in moldova elections despite 'russian interference'

  

  'The fact that Russia has failed in this instance does not mean that the confrontation is over.

  09-30

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• what does it mean to recognise palestine as a state? list of countries for and against the move

  

  Check out this map of every country in the world that recognises Palestinian statehood.

  09-22

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• gaza death toll reaches 65,000 one day after israel accused of committing 'genocide'

  

  The Palestinian death toll in the Israel-Hamas war has surpassed 65,000.

  09-18

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• fire breaks out in central paris restaurant amid violent nationwide protests

  

  A restaurant in the centre of Paris has been engulfed in flames amid the nationwide ‘Block Everything’ protest attended by around 200,000 people today.

  09-11

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• israel bombs qatar in strike that threatens to tear middle east apart

  

  Qatari prime Minister bin Abdul-Rahman stressed that the country ‘will not compromise’ on territorial integrity and reserves the ‘right to respond’.

  09-11

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