'UN intervention needed over Myanmar'

The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, has said “certain EU member states” are preventing visa liberation which would allow visa-free travel in the Schengen area. Mr Kurti told BBC Hardtalk’s Stephen Sackur that although he was critical towards the EU, he was not bitter about it. The EU helped Kosovo a lot and the…

The number of cases are under control but more clean drinking water is needed, a charity says.

As Covid cases among children in the US rise dramatically, a doctor is calling for them to be prioritised for the vaccine over many adults who are due a third jab. Dr Paul Offit, of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and a member of the US Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine advisory board, said all…

Several European countries have paused their use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine over reports of blood clots in a small number of individuals who have received the jab. But lives have been put at risk by not giving people the vaccine, the director of the vaccine centre at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine…

Mahbouba Seraj is a prominent Afghan women’s rights activist and journalist. When the Taliban came back to power in August 2021, she stayed in the country and continues to voice the concerns of Afghan women. From Kabul, she tells Yalda Hakim for BBC 100 Women about her fears for her nation, and has a personal…

BBC Click’s Paul Carter looks at some of the best technology news stories of the week including: Google’s sister firm, Sidewalk Labs, cancels a smart-city project to track mobility patterns in the US city of Portland, Oregon Boston Dynamics criticises an art installation that will allow people to control a version of the firm’s robot…