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The Norwegian Refugee Council, which is providing aid in Afghanistan, is in talks with the Taliban in an effort to secure free movement for its aid workers, and to be able to work without interference. The council’s Secretary General Jan Egeland told BBC World News that the Taliban was responding positively. “We as humanitarians will…

Afghanistan has gone through a lot of transformation in the last 20 years and is a different country to the one the Taliban left in 2001, the author of The Kite Runner has said. Khaled Hosseini told BBC World News that his one sliver of hope was that the Taliban would realise the country had…

Former Manchester United and France football captain Patrice Evra has said although he supports taking the knee, because it sparks a conversation, he does not believe the will is there to tackle racism in football. Evra told BBC Hardtalk’s Stephen Sackur that he was not sure about the effectiveness of banning racist fans from football…

Social media companies have been introducing new features which offer the ability to shop within their platforms, so businesses can take customers to the checkout without leaving the apps. So how will this change how we interact with social media? BBC Click’s Osman Iqbal reports. See more at Click’s website and @BBCClick

The passing of sweeping changes to Hong Kong’s electoral rules will mean prospective MPs will have to go through a degrading and humiliating process, the former Democratic Party chairperson and legislator Emily Lau has said. Hong Kong does not have democracy but they had a system which allowed people to be free, safe and have…

Fifteen people from various backgrounds have recently left a cave in south-west France after 40 days underground. The experiment was designed to see how the absence of clocks, daylight and external communications would affect the participants’ sense of time. Project director Christian Clot and Marina Lançon, one of the volunteers in the study, told BBC…