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Tikrit: A bit of a nightmare for air traffic control

Reality Check: The battle for Tikrit: India rape; UNHCR; Migration Lab; Communal living

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An Iraqi soldier posing with a sniper rifle at a military barracks near Tikrit, Iraq

The Battle for Tikrit

A major offensive to retake the Iraqi city of Tikrit is currently underway. Most people had been expecting an assault on Mosul but it seems that this was all a clever piece of military disinformation.

UNHCR: Saving lives in the Mediterranean

The UNHCR is proposing that merchant ships be compensated for saving migrants adrift in the Mediterranean Sea. The idea is to help fill a gap left when Italy ended its Mare Nostrum programme last year; a programme that was replaced by the more restricted Operation Triton run by the European border agency, FRONTEX.

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Activists demand the death Penalty for covicted rapist, Muklesh Singh

India: Rape interview outrage

A BBC interview with one of the men convicted of involvement in the fatal gang rape of a young woman in Delhi in 2012 is causing outrage in India and around the world. The Indian authorities have now banned the interview in which the man shows no remorse and says the victim was to blame for what happened.

Migration Lab

Migration lab is a unique European project which aims to bring together migrants, refugees and host communities through creative cultural, educational and social programmes. The project is the brain child of Laura Pana, a Romanian who knows only too well what it means to be a migrant.

IGLU: Inclusive communal living

A flat-sharing idea which aims to bring together disabled and non-disabled people is gaining traction in Germany. The project is called IGLU (Inklusive WohnGemeinschaft Ludwigshafen) and is being hailed as a model for communal living in the future. We speak to the two people behind the project.

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