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Tens of thousands of ordinary people have had to flee their homes – with hundreds killed or injured in recent weeks – as Taliban insurgents continue to gain ground in Afghanistan. As foreign troops withdraw, many Afghans fear a brutal return to the regime of the 1990s, which was characterised by public executions, stonings and…

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.”…

The international community has made a good start in tackling climate change, says Prof Dr Niklas Höhne of the New Climate Institute. But he told BBC World News more still needed to be done and China was still cautious with its commitments. He said: “The developed countries need to go first and I think they…

People in Zimbabwe are living at the very edge of survival, the writer Tsitsi Dangarembga, has said. She told BBC Hardtalk that young girls are engaging in transactional sex just to be able to eat. “We no longer look at each as co-nationals, as people who have a common history and should be constructing a…

In the United States a person’s willingness to get vaccinated against Covid-19 varies by religious affiliation, with white evangelicals being the least likely demographic to get the vaccine, the Pew Research Centre has found. Nine out of ten atheists would definitely or probably get a vaccine or have already had one, compared to 77% of…