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The medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières has warned of an unfolding health emergency as refugee camps on the Aegean islands see a spike in new arrivals from war-torn countries. It comes as ministers from around the world are meeting for the first-ever Global Refugee Forum in Geneva. On the Greek Island of Lesbos, almost 18,000 […]

There have been violent protests in Delhi – as anger at a controversial citizenship law spreads across India. Police have come under criticism for using “excessive force” against protesters, with some of those who were injured alleging that they were shot at. The police have denied these claims. But the BBC spoke to a man

An increasing number of children are self-harming and attempting suicide in the Greek migrant camp of Lesbos, according to psychologists working there. Almost 18,000 people are currently living in the camp which was built for just 2000. There has been a spike in refugees arriving on the Aegean islands in recent months, many of them

It’s 20 years since Vladimir Putin came to power in Russia. Since then he has been the most influential man in the country – even when not officially holding the office of president. Such is his authority that ordinary Russians have taken to appealing to him directly to solve their problems. The BBC’s Moscow correspondent

Captain Kgomotso Phatsima from Botswana describes the aviation industry as “white and male”. To combat this, she founded Dare to Dream – an organisation whose aim is to get more women into all aspects of the industry. In this BBC Africa One Minute Story she explains how she inspires young African women to reach for

Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan has told BBC Talking Movies’ Tom Brook about his accomplishments, his recent career misfires and his legacy. Asked about what he wanted his legacy to be for future generations Khan said he wanted to pass on a culture of “immense hard work with a lot of humour and without trying

Hasina Begun says 10 of her family members were killed when the Myanmar military set fire to their village and open fired on the community. She travelled from refugee camps in Bangladesh, where over 700,000 Rohingya are living, to attend a court case in which genocide allegations have been made. Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu

Days after a sudden eruption that has killed several visitors, the White Island volcano in New Zealand continues to spew gas and ash. The volcanic activity has hindered search and recovery efforts, with bodies thought to still be on the island. The BBC’s Shaimaa Khalil took a helicopter ride to see the island, also known

A police officer and at least five other people have died in a series of gun battles in Jersey City, in the US state of New Jersey. Two other police officers were wounded during the incident, which ended in a shootout after two gunmen barricaded themselves in a kosher supermarket. A motive for the incident

Namibia was a German colony for just over a century and in the early 1900s the Herero and the Nama people rose up against the Germans with tragic consequences. Some 65,000 members of the Herero tribe were killed by German troops. Every year the Herero people commemorate those that died in battle with a special