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Since the fall of the Islamic State group’s attempted caliphate in Syria, hundreds of its prisoners have been freed. Few were brutalised more by IS than Yazidis, a religious minority who were captured and enslaved when IS swept through their homeland in Sinjar, northern Iraq. The UN says IS killed or enslaved thousands of Yazidis, […]

It’s night-time at Ola During Children’s Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone and doctors Nehlama Barrie and Winstina Gbondo are on shift. Most nights here see children die of Malaria complications but a free health programme has given them a fighting chance of saving lives. Filmmakers: Paul Myles and Zoe Jewell Producer: Abdul Samba Brima Editor:

Romanians living abroad faced long queues at polling stations across Europe. West Midlands Police said they were called to a polling station in Birmingham, England due to the size of the crowd. Romanian voters received three voting slips – one for the EU parliamentary vote, two for a national referendum. The country’s state broadcaster said

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has been inaugurated at a stadium in the capital Pretoria. The African National Congress (ANC) leader vowed to tackle corruption and rejuvenate the struggling economy. More than 30,000 people gathered to witness the ceremony which included a flypast and military parade. Mr Ramaphosa was elected earlier this month with a

Women have been taking to the streets of Saudi Arabia’s cities in increasing numbers – to go running. Jeddah Running Community was founded in 2013, challenging cultural norms under which it has long been widely considered inappropriate for women to participate in sport in public. It was one of the first groups to hold mixed

The writer and executive producer of Netflix’s Black Mirror have joked the news is copying their hit series. Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones laughed they “should sue” saying there isn’t enough hope in the news. They were speaking ahead of the release of the show’s fifth season. Black Mirror is a bleak take of modern

Sinikiwe Kademaunga was born with a condition that stopped the growth of her limbs, but the Zimbabwean is not letting her physical limitations hold her back. Sinikiwe is a blogger, life coach and social worker on a mission to change negative stereotypes around disability. BBC Africa’s Ashley Ogonda and Anthony Irungu caught up with her

The SpaceX company has begun the roll-out of its orbiting broadband system. A Falcon-9 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida late on Thursday, packed with 60 satellites capable of giving users on the ground high-speed connections to the internet. Entrepreneur Elon Musk’s firm aims eventually to loft nearly 12,000 spacecraft for its “Starlink” network.

Hundreds of derelict apartments sitting on Italy’s south coast have become a home to migrants and people in poverty. Parco Saraceno, near Naples, was built in the 1960s as a luxury tourist resort, but many residents were forced to leave because it was in breach of planning laws. It then became a ghost town where

Director Quentin Tarantino rejected a question from a reporter at the Cannes press conference for his latest movie Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood. The reporter asked why he had not given Margot Robbie more lines in the film. She defended the director by saying, “to show those wonderful sides of her [the character Sharon]