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Pope Francis is visiting Iraq in the first ever papal visit to the country. During the trip he is due to meet the country’s most revered Shia Muslim cleric and will also celebrate Mass at a stadium in Irbil in the north. The Chaldean Catholic archbishop of Irbil, Bashar Warda, has told BBC World News…

A picture of a hug during the coronavirus pandemic has been named World Press Photo of the Year. The image shows an 85-year-old Brazilian woman at a care home getting her first embrace in five months through a transparent hug curtain. The winner of the World Press Photo of the Year, Mads Nissen, told BBC…

As cinemas open up after lockdown they are looking at ways to make as much money as possible following months of closure. One solution is renting screens to gamers, allowing people to play their favourite games on screens that would normally be playing Hollywood blockbusters. BBC Click’s Marc Cieslak finds out what it is like…

The EU needs to impose further economic sanctions, focusing on the individuals and “entities” organising the illegal migration on the border between Belarus and Poland, the Polish deputy foreign minister has said. Pawel Jablonski told BBC Hardtalk’s Zeinab Badawi that it was important to act quickly and be united because “it’s the only language that…

Some grieved, some helped and some worried. Two decades after the terror attacks on the United States on 11 September, 2001, four people from around the world reflect on how they reacted that day, and what’s changed since. Video by Alexandra Ostasiewicz and Dan Lytwyn

The special security pact announced between UK, US and Australia has been welcomed by John Bolton, the former US National Security Adviser and Ambassador to the United Nations. He said, “Australia, the UK and the US are reacting to China. They didn’t put it that way, but there aren’t many other threats in the Indo-Pacific…