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Loveday Morris

Loveday Morris is an award-winning freelance journalist currently based in Beirut and covering the unfolding crisis in Syria. She regularly contributes to the Independent

<p>A container from China arrives at the port of Duisburg on 4 May </p>

Germany’s ‘China City’ doesn’t want you to call it that anymore

<p>Andre Kovalenko, (left), 34, and Victor, who gave only his first name, work to recover belongings from a badly damaged apartment</p>

Constant fear inside Ukraine’s captured nuclear plant

<p>A coal excavator next to the village of Luetzerath, Germany</p>

Is Germany really climate leading when razing villages for coal mines?

<p>The Biden administration has opened the door to lifting Trump-imposed sanctions against Iran that are “inconsistent” with the 2015 nuclear deal</p>

US says it’s willing to lift certain sanctions Trump imposed on Iran