Katty Kay: 'It's been a privilege to sit in this chair'

People in Myanmar are risking their lives in anti-coup protests every day and the international community needs to step up and play their part, Burma Campaign UK’s Anna Roberts has said. “The military have huge business interests, so we need to see the EU, UK and others, ban companies from doing business with the military,”…

A second wave of coronavirus is sweeping through India overwhelming hospitals, morgues and crematoria. Protima Singh, who is managing operations on the ground for the International Federation of Red Cross, told BBC World News that the situation was very critical with so many people becoming infected with coronavirus. The needs are large, the hospitals are…

Hamas is co-operating with international mediators to achieve a ceasefire and calm, a spokesperson for the Islamist militant group which runs Gaza has said. Bassem Naeem told BBC World News: “The key is very simple, to withdraw the security forces from the al-Aqsa compound and to stop ethnic cleansing of Palestinian people from Sheikh Jarrah.”…

Avatar, Rabbids and an alien infection – Marc Cieslak runs us through the first day of E3.

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…

We need to look at the complex set of issues that are pushing people out of Central American countries as well as the pull factors attracting people towards the United States, the former assistant secretary at the Department of Homeland Security, Elizabeth Neumann, has said. Every administration dating back to George W Bush has looked…