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| - Features Editors: Paris: Kate Millar +33 1 4041 4636 Hong Kong: Liz Thomas +852 2829 6211 We are offering the following items: + 'Just God, the water and us': risking the Channel 'death route' to Britain + All-women band in Iran struggles to break through France-Britain-migrants-Channel-EU-Iraq-Kuwait,SPECIAL REPORT CALAIS, France Britain! After years trekking through countless countries, weeks in a filthy camp on the French coast, seven gruelling hours on a small boat tossed about by the Channel, Walid has finally made it. He's managed to cross the so-called death route. His friend Falah, though, is still waiting. For three weeks, AFP teams followed the two men who agreed to be filmed and photographed along their journey. 1,600 words by Clement Melki, Sameer Al-Doumy, Thomas Bernardi with the London bureau. Pictures by Sameer Al-Doumy. Video by Thomas Bernardi Also moving: France-Britain-migrants,Q&A Entertainment-Iran-music-women,FEATURE BANDAR ABBAS, Iran The men in the audience clapped and the women ululated as the band finished singing: it would have been commonplace except the venue was in Iran and the group on stage were all women. 1,100 words by Kay Armin Serjoie with Ahmad Parhizi in Tehran. Pictures by Atta Kenare. Video by Majid Sourati afp
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