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For the last five years, trolling, threats and harassment have been a part of daily life for Jessikka Aro, a journalist at Finland’s national broadcaster, Yle. It started in 2014 when she began to investigate what she calls “Russian troll factories” – places where people are paid to manufacture and spread deliberately misleading information. Disinformation […]

As the fighting worsened in Syria, Hazar Almahmoud knew she and her daughter had to flee. So they embarked on a perilous 2,200-mile journey by car, plane and boat for the safety of the UK. It meant paying a total of 13,000 Euros to smugglers and risking their lives to seek asylum. Now she calls

About half of all of the plastic waste that ends up in the oceans comes from just five countries: China, Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines and Thailand, according to a 2015 Ocean Conservancy report. As images of plastic-choked rivers in Indonesia and dead whales washed onto the shores of the Philippines circulate on social media, individuals

After years of anonymity, one of China’s leading dissident cartoonists has revealed his identity to the BBC. The Australia-based artist whose work satirises China’s one-party rule explains why, despite threats, he is choosing the 30th anniversary of the bloody crackdown on pro-democracy Tiananmen protests to reveal his identity. Video by: Danny Vincent, BBC Chinese Source

He had been labelled a spy, thrown in jail and tortured. So when Mike Espirion was released from Baghdad’s notorious Abu Ghraib prison after 10 years, he might have thought better times lay ahead. He was wrong. Instead, he had letters pushed through his door in the Christian area of Baghdad telling him: “Leave or

When Joseph Gnagbo and fellow activists recorded a rap video which criticised the leaders of a military coup in the Ivory Coast, they had no fears about performing it in public. But when rebel forces took over the city of Abidjan where he lived, Joseph had to go into hiding. More than 3,000 people were

Sudanese security forces have attacked a pro-democracy protest camp outside military headquarters in the nation’s capital, Khartoum. Sources in Sudan say that at least 13 people have been killed, with many more injuries reported. There have been protests in Sudan since last December. In April they caused former President Omar al-Bashir to stand down after

The four climbers who turned back and raised the alarm about their missing colleagues on India’s second highest mountain have since been assisting rescue efforts. They had turned around early because of the harsh weather, and were the last ones in contact with the larger group of eight climbers who disappeared after an avalanche. Rescue

Clashes between Israeli police and Palestinian worshippers broke out at Al Aqsa mosque compound, the holy site also known to Jews as Temple Mount. It comes as thousands of Israelis have taken part in their annual “March of Flags” in Jerusalem, marking 52 years since Israel took control of the whole city. It included Jewish

The defining image of China’s Tiananmen Square protest in 1989 was one man standing in the way of the government tanks cracking down on a peaceful student demonstration. But 30 years later, Chinese censorship has erased the memory of one of the most brutal nights of violence in the 20th century. John Sudworth took to