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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 depth of anxiety many young people feel about climate change is illustrated by a global survey. Its lead author, Caroline Hickman, from Bath University, told BBC World News half of young people feared humanity was doomed. “What was news to us was the scale of that fear – two-thirds feeling sad, afraid and anxious…

UK online grocery retailer Ocado has been expanding its operations during the coronavirus pandemic. The company’s largest warehouse opened in 2018 and has 2,400 robots which pick orders from a range of 50,000 products. But they are also developing robots to work in other areas too including machines designed to collaborate with human workers to…

Ransomware hackers are now focusing on large supply chains to hit the public, the director of Cyber Threat Research at Immersive Labs has said. Kevin Breen told BBC World News it was too early to identify the source of a cyber attack on JBS, the world’s largest meat processing company. He said: “The attackers are…

Armed forces minister James Heappey has said that British soldiers in Afghanistan are facing “extraordinary circumstances” at Kabul airport. UK troops were deployed to Kabul airport to aid the evacuation of people from the country, following the Taliban’s total takeover of Afghanistan. Mr Heappey told the BBC that while soldiers are helping with the evacuation,…

Ahead of COP26, Ros Atkins looks at what the world’s biggest emitters are doing to tackle climate change.