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Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. We're recording this at 13 hours GMT on Thursday the 17th of July.

A fire ripped through a new shopping centre in Iraq, killing more than 60 people.

Syrian government forces pull out of the province of Sweda after days of sectarian violence

and Israeli airstrikes.

And Ukraine's president, Vladimir Zelensky, appoints a new prime minister.

Also in the podcast, the Malian photographer displaying his work on local buses.

People don't really know what is Mali.

And I think Mali is one of the biggest culture in West Africa,

so I really want to show the world. And a woman who avoided death by playing cello for the Nazis in Auschwitz turns 100.

The shopping centre, which burnt down in the Iraqi city of Kutovonite is reported to have only opened five days ago.

At least 67 people were killed as the blaze swept through the five-story building.

The fire appears to have begun on the first floor above the main shop before quickly spreading.

Aerial footage from the scene showed the entire front of the building in flames lighting up the night sky,

while a group of people huddled on the roof hoping to be rescued.

Today, mourners visited the charred structure.

Emergency services have been working to recover bodies from the rubble.

I got this update from our Arabic correspondent, Sally Nabil.

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