Israel-Gaza conflict: ‘There is no magic fix here’
A premature ceasefire will not solve the problem, the senior adviser to the Israeli prime minister says.
Afghan singer Aryana Sayeed fled the country on a US army plane after the Taliban took control of the country’s capital Kabul. She told BBC World News: “It’s very sad, very unfortunate that Afghanistan is all the way back to 20 years ago when life was so miserable for a lot of women in Afghanistan.”…
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…
On World Press Freedom Day, the journalist discusses attacks on female reporters and disinformation.
A UN Security Council delegation should go to Myanmar, human rights campaigner Debbie Stothard says.
A Taliban spokesman has been asked if women and ethnic minorities will have a place in the new Afghan government. In an interview with BBC Pashto, the deputy head of the Taliban political office in Qatar said women could continue in their work but in the top posts or cabinet there “may not” be a…
A lack of trained doctors, nurses and support staff is affecting the ability of large scale hospitals to cope with the coronavirus pandemic, a doctor treating coronavirus patients in the state of Gujarat has said. Dr Devashish Palkar, who is in his final year of training to be a psychiatrist told BBC World News that…