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President Ashraf Ghani was “gutless” to flee Afghanistan as the Taliban advanced to take power, the former Afghan MP Elay Ershad has said. She told BBC World News: “He left his people behind and he left his country behind. He could have stayed. I am so angry I don’t have words to explain it.” Mr…

BBC Click’s Romana Kreider looks at the best technology news stories of the week including: Dating app Bumble temporarily closes its offices and gives its staff a week off to combat workplace stress An autonomous ship’s voyage to the US is cut short when it develops a fault and has to return to the UK…

Yemen is approaching six years of conflict, described by aid agency Unicef as the “world’s worst humanitarian crisis”. The World Health Organization’s representative to Yemen, Dr Adham Rashad Abdel-Moneim, told BBC World News as well as trying to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, the country was also trying to tackle other communicable and non-communicable diseases….

There’s growing evidence of a lack of support for Afghans who’ve arrived in Britain. Organisations supporting them say they fear many will have to live in hotel accommodation for up to a year. Schools have begun trying to help where they can. Watch as the BBC’s Home Editor, Mark Easton, visits a school in London…

Myanmar’s UN envoy, appointed by the disbanded parliament, says the world needs to co-ordinate its action against Myanmar’s military dictatorship. “It has to be targeted sanctions. It has to be tougher sanctions. There is no coordination. There is no targeting,” Dr Sasa told BBC World News. Dr Sasa fled Myanmar, also known as Burma, on…

A military ceremony has been held in honour of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who is due to step down next week after 16 years in office. Mrs Merkel chose three pieces of music – one of which raised a few eyebrows. She chose a popular song by Hildegard Knef called For Me It Should Rain…