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Dr Sasa, Myanmar’s UN envoy, appointed by the disbanded parliament, says the country’s military is looking to cause as much pain and suffering as possible to retain control. Dr Sasa, fled Myanmar, also known as Burma on 1 February, the day of the military coup. He is asking the world to stand with the people…

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…

Deaths from opioid use in the US have skyrocketed over the last year. Provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed that 88,000 people had died from drug overdoses in the 12 month period ending in August 2020 – an increase of 27% on the previous year. The US authorities say…

The shooting at a school in the Russian city of Kazan has left everyone shocked and saddened, a resident of the city has said. Rezeda Kotdusova, whose husband works in a building next to the school where the attack happened, told BBC World News what her partner had seen. A 19-year-old suspect has been detained….

As the countdown to the opening of the new James Bond film, No Time To Die, continues, BBC World News‘s Lucy Hockings talks to Vue International chief executive Tim Richards and James Bond International Fan Club editor Ajay Chowdhury. Mr Chowdhury said: “Bond is the perfect tonic to get us out of this horrible situation…

Zalmay Khalizad, US Special Representative for Afghanistan speaks to the BBC as the Taliban capture a major border crossing between Afghanistan and Iran. He said that for Afghanistan’s war to end, there has to be a political agreement, and stressed that Taliban forces taking Kabul is an unlikely situation.