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Iraq is facing a water crisis. Last summer the city of Basra fell sick. More than 100,000 people were rushed to hospital after being poisoned by the city’s water supply. Around the same time, the country’s marshes – believed to be the original Garden of Eden – shrunk to a quarter of their original size. […]

A rabbi who was injured in the deadly shooting at a synagogue near San Diego on Saturday has described the moment he faced the gunman. Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein lost his right index finger in the attack, in which one woman died and two other people were injured. A 19-year-old man named as John Earnest was

A woman from Mongolia has won a prestigious environment award after successfully campaigning to stop mining firms destroying a critical habitat for snow leopards. Bayarjargal Agvaantseren persuaded her government to create a huge nature reserve in the South Gobi Desert and cancel 37 mining contracts in the area. She is one of six people recognised

National Army forces led by General Khalifa Haftar have launched air strikes on Tripoli in a bid to gain control of Libya’s capital. This comes as the government agreed to agree to negotiate with General Haftar on a ceasefire and insist on the withdrawal of troops to the east of the country. BBC Arabic correspondent

Nearly 27 million people are registered to vote in South Africa’s elections on May 8 – that’s less than half the country’s total population. Six million young eligible voters didn’t even bother to register earlier this year. So why are young people shunning the elections? The BBC asked a few rappers in Johannesburg if they

The town of Ii in northern Finland wants to be the world’s first zero-waste community. They stopped using fossil fuels – and the municipality is reducing CO2 emissions faster than any other community in Finland. Their target is to reduce carbon emissions by 80% by 2020, which is 30 years ahead of the EU’s target.

In Colombia’s capital Bogota, an organisation is using football to try to promote peace in violent neighbourhoods. Football has long been associated with violence in the South American country. But ‘Tiempo de Juego’ change the rules to encourage teams to get along with each other and reduce antagonism on and off the pitch. Maleja Riveros,

Brother Stanley was the pastor in charge of the Zion church in the Mattakalappu area of Sri Lanka when the bombing happened. Speaking to BBC Tamil, he recalls meeting the suspected bomber outside the church and inviting him inside after he had enquired at what time the Easter service would begin. The bombings targeted churches

A Korean War veteran from Britain has been searching for a little girl he saved during the conflict. Keith Leese from Telford was one of thousands of Britons who served there in the 1950s. He travelled back to South Korea to commemorate one of the bloodiest battles and remember the hundreds of British lives that

The surviving family of siblings who were killed in Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday attack have paid tribute to the teenagers. Amelie and Daniel Linsey, who had dual UK-US citizenship, died in a bombing at the Shangri-La Hotel in Colombo. Their brother David said the family now want to try to help families of Sri Lankans