Israel-Gaza conflict: ‘There is no magic fix here’

Despite repeated warnings many ignore coronavirus safety procedures, a doctor in West Bengal says.

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…

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…

The Taliban have paraded military equipment, captured during their takeover of Afghanistan, through the streets of Kandahar. The militant showcase comes just days after US troops left Afghanistan, ending over two decades of military presence in the country.

A former British diplomat and long-standing friend of Myanmar’s elected leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, says he has heard nothing from her since she was put under house arrest. Sir Robert Cooper told BBC World News: “I don’t know how she is. She’s kind of use to this. She doesn’t give in easily, but what…

A ransomware attack on the US Colonial Pipeline was not a surprise, as experts have been warning of increased attacks, Oxford Information Labs chief executive Emily Taylor has said. She told BBC World News: “Experts have been warning about increased rates of ransomware attacks and also the vulnerability of critical infrastructure such as this pipeline…