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Father-of-three and high-tech company chief executive Eitan Singer tries to reassure his children about the future as they face nightly rocket attacks from Hamas and have to rush to a shelter in Jerusalem. He told BBC World News: “We try to confront the situation. “It is not easy – seven days in a row when…

The US diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics was not about lecturing China but about “standing up for human rights”, the US climate envoy has said. John Kerry told Stephen Sackur, of BBC News’s Hardtalk programme, that addressing climate change was so important, it should be kept separate from other areas where there is…

LJ Rich looks at some of the best technology news stories of the week including: Royal Mail announces a trial of autonomous drones to deliver packages remotely from the mainland UK to the Isles of Scilly Tesla suspends the option to purchase its vehicles using Bitcoin due to climate change concerns, its CEO Elon Musk…

As Covid cases among children in the US rise dramatically, a doctor is calling for them to be prioritised for the vaccine over many adults who are due a third jab. Dr Paul Offit, of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and a member of the US Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine advisory board, said all…

Under Taliban rule, female judges in Afghanistan have reportedly been tortured and received death threats. Hundreds were forced into hiding, worried that those they’d convicted would now come to seek their revenge after being released from prison. BBC Newsnight’s Sima Kotecha spoke exclusively to female judges who have just arrived in the UK as part…

Electric vehicle start-up, Arrival says it has sold more than 50,000 vans and buses even before one has hit the road. Arrival, founded in 2015, has designed a new style of electric vans and buses which will start being delivered to customers in 2022. Other manufacturers also offer all-electric versions typically of their most popular…