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As tensions rise between Iran, the United States and its allies, the BBC has been given rare access to Iran. Iranians remain furious that President Donald Trump pulled out of the nuclear deal last year and has imposed crushing sanctions on the country. Our correspondent Martin Patience, along with cameraman Nik Millard and producer Cara […]

Rival demonstrations have been held over the consumption of dog meat, a traditional part of South Korean cuisine, outside parliament in the capital, Seoul. A vocal group of dog farmers ate the meat and handed out leaflets touting its benefits. Metres away, US actor Kim Basinger was among animal rights protesters who carried models of

Egypt’s matches at the Africa Cup of Nations were watched by huge crowds. But the women’s national team hasn’t played a game since 2016 and is now unranked by Fifa. But these three Egyptian footballers told BBC News Arabic why are fighting for proper recognition of the women’s game in their country and hope to

President Donald Trump will no longer pursue adding a question on citizenship to the 2020 US census questionnaire after efforts were blocked by the Supreme Court in June. Instead, he said he had directed officials to obtain the information through an executive order for government agencies, as court challenges would have delayed a census. But

There was a massacre on the streets of Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, on 3 June 2019. This is the story of that massacre, told through the phone cameras of those who kept filming, even as they came under live fire. BBC Africa Eye has analysed more than 300 videos shot in Khartoum that day. Using these

Paola Sanchez is 24 years old and risks her life every day, finding and deactivating landmines after five decades of conflict in Colombia. Many of the mines were laid by Farc rebels who, until recently, were engaged in a violent war with the government over land and power. Video produced by Sophie Eastaugh and Trystan

In Myanmar’s Rakhine state, hundreds of new houses have been handed over to families displaced by the violence of the Rohingya crisis in 2017. But none of the homes were for the Muslim minority group. Almost two years on, there’s that no sign the 700,000 Rohingyas who fled across the border to Bangladesh will be

In October, the BBC met Yusra and her family in war-torn Yemen. She had an aggressive tumour in her left eye, but couldn’t get the life-saving treatment she needed. Now she’s been fitted with a prosthetic eye in Jordan and is returning to her homeland. International Correspondent Orla Guerin reports for the BBC News at

It’s almost 10 years since hackers stole thousands of emails and other documents from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit. The scandal, known as “Climategate”, rocked the scientific world. Sceptics picked up on a small number of emails that seemed to suggest scientists had been deliberately manipulating data to exaggerate evidence of climate

West Africa’s most popular language Pidgin, a mix of English and local languages, is more likely to be heard on the streets than on the stage. But in Nigeria’s main city of Lagos, one woman is trying to change this. An opera written entirely in Pidgin is being performed there for the first time. We