Dragged up the stairs for my hospital appointment
The healthcare system lacks equipment, buildings are crumbling and many healthcare workers have left in search of better lives.
A British woman who joined the Islamic State group with her young children has said UK politicians should “open your minds” to allowing them to return. Nicole Jack and her three daughters are currently being held in a detention camp in Syria alongside thousands of wives and children of IS fighters.
A 400m-long (1,312ft) container ship has become wedged across Egypt’s Suez Canal, blocking one of the world’s busiest trade routes. Dozens of vessels are now waiting to go through the canal. “We will see a lot delays in shipping moving ahead now for the next few days until the canal is cleared,” Carl Schou, CEO…
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is putting US President Joe Biden and America’s allies and partners to the test, Evelyn Farkas, a former US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia has said. She told BBC World News the Russian leader was sabre-rattling and carrying out “very dangerous” deployments. “That, plus all the…
Hundreds of migrants have gathered at a crossing on the Poland-Belarus border but are being stopped from entering the EU by Polish troops. The EU has accused Belarus of pushing migrants towards its eastern borders to undermine security, a charge it denies. The BBC’s Steve Rosenberg reports from the scene, where the migrants are trapped…
The presence of Nato in Afghanistan in the past 20 years produced mixed results, a former president of Afghanistan has said. The reconstruction of the country’s infrastructure, helping with education and other areas was very welcome, and produced good results for the country, Hamid Karzai told BBC World News. But the military plans to fight…
Violence in the Israel-Gaza conflict was instigated by Hamas, a global Jewish advocacy group which supports Israel has said. The American Jewish Committee spokesman Avi Mayer told BBC World News: “It is Hamas that has instigated this violence weeks ago and just this past weekend called on Palestinians in Jerusalem to acquire knives and behead…