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Andrew Connelly

Largest-ever human trafficking trial ends with 20-year sentence
5:04
Demonstrators accuse police of brutality in Georgia
5:45
Students lead protests in Georgia
5:29
UK nurses’ strike
Violence between Hindu and Muslim youths shocks UK city
Ukrainian artists reunite in Scotland
Northern Ireland still in a battleground for abortion rights
Sinn Fein set for Landmark victory
Next door to Ukraine and Russia, tiny Moldova is struggling
What about Moldova?
Lviv station in western Ukraine, a transit hub in a time of war
Protecting cultural treasures of Lviv
Lviv safest place to be, for now
Alongside hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians, foreigners are fleeing the war
Ukrainians return home
Refugees from Ukraine cross into Poland
Afghans stuck in Albania
Some Poles living along the border help migrants crossing from Belarus
The Greek island of Samos
Divided Cyprus sees influx of migrants
There is no fuel shortage — but UK gas stations are out of fuel
Migrants in Lithuania
Belarusians in Vilnius
British government attempts to close avenues to migration
Recent violence in Northern Ireland stems from Brexit and history
Local Scottish elections raise question of independence from UK 
Armenia’s winemakers struggle to recover from war
Russian peace deal in Nagorno-Karabakh
A bitter goodbye for Armenians leaving Kelbajar after Nagorno-Karabakh peace deal
An ambulance is parked outside Portcullis House, backdropped by the Elizabeth Tower, commonly known as Big Ben, in London, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022.
Jobs
‘Winter of discontent’ for UK as nurses begin strike action
street intersection
Conflict
Leicester’s Indian diaspora searches for answers after violence rocks multicultural British city
Some Ukrainian students were evacuated from Ukraine thanks to a Czech circus company, Cirk La Putyka. “Boom," a performance they took to Edinburgh, was rewritten to reflect the students’ perspectives of war and displacement.
Ukraine
A bittersweet experience for Ukrainian artists at Edinburgh Festival
a woman enters the Supreme Court in London
Abortion
Northern Ireland decriminalized abortion 3 years ago. But services are still difficult to access.
Natalya, a 70-year-old retired epidemiologist from Odessa, has lunch at the Asconi Winery near Chisinau, in Moldova, where she is being hosted for free.
Ukraine
Moldova struggles amid fallout from war in Ukraine
A Moldovan volunteer distributes food to refugees who are leaving to Romania after fleeing from Ukraine, at the border crossing in Palanca, Moldova, March 17, 2022.
Ukraine
Many Moldovans are wary of their proximity to the conflict in Ukraine 
A woman walks past the Museum of the History of Religion in Lviv, western Ukraine, March 4, 2022. Workers are assembling metal containers in the patio at the museum to safely store the remaining items before placing them in basements in case the Russian i
Ukraine
A race against time to preserve Lviv’s cultural treasures
woman praying
Ukraine
The Ukrainian city of Lviv is a sanctuary. But a humanitarian crisis is deepening.
People fleeing the conflict from neighboring Ukraine arrive to Przemysl train station in Przemysl, Poland, on Feb. 25, 2022.
Ukraine
Ukrainians abroad return to defend their homeland 
The luxurious Rafaelo resort is in stark contrast with the conditions in Afghanistan. At least 2,000 Afghans feel fortunate to stay here but also guilty about those left behind.
Afghanistan
Afghans endure indefinite limbo at 5-star hotel in Albania
A protest by mothers in the Polish eastern town of Hajnowka over the deaths of migrant children in the forest. 
Migration
An underground network of locals in Poland self-organize to help migrants who face ‘pushbacks’ by the govt
Migrants arrive aboard a dinghy accompanied by a Frontex vessel at the village of Skala Sikaminias, on the Greek island of Lesbos, after crossing the Aegean sea from Turkey, Feb. 28, 2020. 
‘A Bermuda triangle for people’: Claims that the Greek govt pushes back migrants are mounting 
A migrant looks through a fence as others wait in a line to be registered inside a refugee camp in Kokkinotrimithia, outside Nicosia, Cyprus, Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2021.
Refugees
Cyprus takes a hard line against immigration, trapping migrants in limbo
Protesters hold signs
Refugees
‘We cannot close the door or turn the page’: Belarusian dissidents in Lithuania fear Lukashenko’s crackdown
Blue British National Overseas passports (BNO) and Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China passports are displayed
Migration
Tens of thousands of Hong Kongers have applied for special new UK visas
Napier barracks
Migration
‘It’s un-British’: UK government crackdown on asylum courts controversy