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São Paulo Governor João Doria has described President Jair Bolsonaro as a “crazy guy” who is making the country’s coronavirus situation worse. Speaking to the BBC, he said Brazil’s health system was “on the verge of collapse” amid a spike in cases and deaths. “Brazil is fighting two viruses – the coronavirus and the Bolsonaro…

Chris Fox looks at the best of the week’s technology news stories including: US tech company Yahoo ends its presence in mainland China Facebook says it will end the use of facial recognition on the social network to identify and tag people in photos Game streaming site Twitch adds a new category for animal livestreams…

Yemen is approaching six years of conflict, described by aid agency Unicef as the “world’s worst humanitarian crisis”. The World Health Organization’s representative to Yemen, Dr Adham Rashad Abdel-Moneim, told BBC World News as well as trying to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, the country was also trying to tackle other communicable and non-communicable diseases….

Former Afghan finance minister Omar Zakhilwal says there is no alternative to working with the Taliban. He travelled to Kabul after the city’s fall to the Taliban. Like the rest of Afghanistan he is waiting to see what the Taliban decide to do, but says he is in the capital trying to help form an…

Beijing says the deal, involving nuclear-powered submarines, undermines regional peace.

Auction house Christie’s New York recently sold a digital-only artwork by the artist known as Beeple for $69m (£50m). The artwork was sold as a non-fungible-token (NFT) which uses blockchain technology to create a unique digital certificate which states who owns it. It is part of a wider trend which has seen an animated Gif…