After Russian occupation, I can't paint, I don't know how to draw life

16-year-old Yryna Vroadii from Snihurivka talks about discovering her school had been destroyed by a missile attack and how education is now her only chance for a normal life.

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‘I remember when the missiles hit the school. It was so bad& & Ukraine&s students on rebuilding their lives, three years on from Putin&s invasion

Before the Russians came, Yryna Vroadii (16) loved to paint. She proudly points to her pictures, colourful still-life portraits and intricate charcoal sketches, stored in a photo gallery on her phone.

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Ali Sawafta: Palestinians now fear Israel wants to erase West Bank camps & ‘morally, financially and from our memory&

Israeli bulldozers have demolished large areas of the now virtually empty Jenin refugee camp and appear to be carving wide roadways through its once-crowded warren of alleyways, echoing tactics already employed in Gaza as troops prepare for a long-term stay.

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Hamas calls for talks on next phase of truce
GAZA CITY - Hamas called on Israel Thursday to enter negotiations for the next phase of the Gaza ceasefire after the group handed over the bodies of four hostages in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.

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Jailed PKK leader expected to make 'historic' call for peace with Turkey
ISTANBUL - Jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan was expected to make a "historic declaration" on Thursday on ending the decades-long conflict between Kurdish groups and the Turkish state.

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‘Escaping hell&: Myanmar scam centre workers plead to go home
MYAWADDY, Myanmar - Hundreds of exhausted young men lie in an open-sided detention centre in a seedy Myanmar border town, sweating through thick tropical heat by day and prey to clouds of mosquitoes by night.

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