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He and his new girlfriend, Jimenez, then took Vargas to an alleyway in a nearby industrial area and began beating her.

“It used to feel like a mini-Palestine here. Streets, alleyways, shops and cafes — everything was named after places back home,” Ayoub said.

In Sydney's historic Rocks precinct, a cobblestoned alleyway has been transformed into a winter wonderland for two weeks of Christmas in July markets, complete with fake snow machines churning specks of foam onto passersby.

"We walked through the dust of ruins, past collapsed buildings and tents everywhere: in courtyards, alleyways, on the streets and on the beach," Pizzaballa said at the end of his four-day visit.

After five years using heroin, shoplifting, having her kids taken into care, and sleeping "in garages, on the streets, in alleyways", she has now been clean for 18 months.