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Officials in Indian-administered Kashmir say the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha was celebrated in an atmosphere of peace, although some protests were reported in the Soura area of the city. Indian-administered Kashmir has been under lockdown since India revoked its special status. People were told to go to smaller mosques in their neighbourhood rather than […]

Typhoon Lekima in China has killed dozens of people, with over a million evacuated from Zhejiang province. The typhoon made landfall in the early hours of Saturday morning, leading to heavy flooding and landslides, and causing buildings to collapse. Officials say about five million people in Zhejiang province have been affected and around 250,000 residents

Police fired tear gas to disperse protesters across Hong Kong on Sunday night, as demonstrations in the territory continued for a 10th week. Tear gas was also fired into Kwai Fong station, with local media reporting that it was the first time police had fired tear gas into an enclosed metro station. The protests were

The Guardian Angels and their citizen “safety patrols” were born on the New York subway about 40 years ago in response to the city’s crime-ridden transport system. More recently, a new division of the group has formed – a women-led group called Perv Busters which aims to prevent sexual assaults on the transport network. The

Janne Utriainen, his wife and four daughters are tackling climate change in their own way: they’ve moved to a remote location in northern Lapland where they live off the land: they fish, hunt, pick berries, keep sheep and chickens and grow some vegetables. Janne believes that climate change is caused by overconsumption – so in

Globally, 800,000 children die every year due to a lack of access to breast milk, according to the World Health Organization. A new breast milk bank in Kenya is helping mothers donate their milk to babies whose mothers cannot breast feed them. Pauline Odhiambo from BBC Africa’s Life Clinic went to meet some of the

Major cities in Europe are warning about the growing number of property developers buying up residential apartment blocks to let them to tourists on Airbnb. The website started as a way for people to rent out their spare rooms but several local governments say an increase in professionals using the site is forcing residents from

Indian-administered Kashmir is still in lockdown, following India’s controversial decision to remove its special status. Article 370 had given the area significant autonomy from the rest of the country. India and Pakistan both claim the Himalayan region of Kashmir in full, but each nation only controls a part of it. Young Kashmiris say they feel

US President Donald Trump has visited emergency workers and survivors of a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas. The president shared a video on twitter of his visit to the hospital. Hispanic people were targeted in an apparent hate crime when a gunman in El Paso shot dead 22 people on Saturday. Mr Trump himself

It’s a year since President Donald Trump began re-imposing sanctions on Iran, three months after announcing the US was withdrawing from the landmark nuclear deal. The Trump administration has called these “the toughest ever” sanctions imposed on the country. It says they are only aimed at the government, not ordinary Iranians. But sanctions are affecting