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US President Joe Biden and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin have been holding talks for the first time since Biden became leader. One of the issues scheduled to be discussed at the summit was nuclear arms control. Speaking as the summit was underway, former Nato deputy secretary general, Rose Gottemoeller, told BBC World News that despite…

Politicians need to come together to prevent further violence in Northern Ireland, the former British chief negotiator for the Good Friday Agreement has said. Jonathan Powell told BBC World News: “I don’t think this will take us back into the Troubles but I do think politicians are playing with matches. This is the time of…

A BBC investigation has uncovered British waste being illegally shipped to Romania and dumped. The Romanian authorities say that the shipments, labelled as second-hand goods, were really just worthless junk destined for landfill. Millions can be made from this so-called waste crime – because it’s cheaper to send junk abroad and dump it, than to…

Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya has spoken about the trial of her husband Sergei Tikhanovsky which is taking place in a closed court. He is accused of inciting violence ahead of the election and she rejects the charges. “It is fake trial of course and fake judges, fake prosecutors, because they made this process closed…

Beheshta Arghand, an anchor for Tolo News, made headlines when she interviewed the Taliban just days after they took control of Afghanistan. Two weeks later, she has fled the country amid fears for her life. Arghand spoke to the BBC’s Christian Fraser about the fears she has for her country’s future.

The German climate change campaigner Luisa Neubauer says that awareness about the “climate catastrophe” is “higher than ever” among Germans as they prepare to go the polls. The 25-year-old activist, who is one of the organisers of school strikes for the climate in Germany, told BBC World News that more than 80 per cent of…