Sierra Leone: The price of going home

What happens to migrants who give up trying to reach Europe – and go home as failures?

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Russian women fight back

Domestic violence is endemic and often deadly in Russia but some women are fighting back

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The man who laughed at al-Qaeda

Remembering Raed Fares the Radio Fresh FM founder who fought hatred with humour in Syria.

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Sri Lanka: The new climate of fear

Muslims in Sri Lanka are deciding whether to stay or leave amidst a new climate of fear

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A fight for light in Lebanon

How a corrupt system condemns Lebanese to the misery of constant power-cuts

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County lines: Girl drug runners in the UK

The story of girls trapped in the violent world of cross-country drugs gangs in the UK

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Iceland: The great thaw

Iceland's glaciers are melting and scientists predict they could all be gone in 200 years

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Disappeared in Thailand

A grisly discovery in a murder investigation in Thailand may lead to significant change.

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Belarus: The wild world of Chernobyl

'We lived with wolves' says 90-year-old Galina - a witness to life before Chernobyl

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Ayahuasca: Fear and healing in the Amazon

Psychedelic plants, the spiritual tourism backlash - and sexual abuse

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Finland's race to go carbon neutral

The Finnish fisherman who believes he has a solution to climate change

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Colombia’s new cocaine war

Michael Buchanan gets rare access to Colombia’s cocaine producers and smugglers

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Panic in Bulgaria

“They’re coming for our children”: How fear of social workers has gripped Bulgaria

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El Salvador: The story of Karla Turcios

A woman is murdered in El Salvador every three days. Karla Turcios was one of them

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Riding the Motel 22: Homeless in California

California’s homeless take a ride on the ‘Motel 22’

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Confessions of a mafia boss

Dominic Casciani gets exclusive access to a former mafia boss turned prosecution witness

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Something in the air?

Cabin crew claim toxic air is harming them, but airlines say there is no proven link

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The trees that bleed

Illegal logging of the endangered rosewood tree is decimating forests in Casamance

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Ireland’s housing hunger

How young people in Ireland are facing a huge housing crisis

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Indonesia: Not cool to date

Saying no to dating is part of a growing ultraconservative social movement in Indonesia

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The man who died for trees

A mystery killing has shocked Romania as the fight over its ancient forests turns deadly

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Extreme measures

Jack Merritt was killed trying to deradicalise extremists. Can rehabilitation work?

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Chile: An education for all

Students and teachers in Chile demand an end to inequality in education

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Saving Zimbabwe’s forests

Honey bees, cow dung and mulch; how a company in Zimbabwe is preventing deforestation

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Spain’s care home nightmare

Why did so many people die in just one elderly care home in Madrid?

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Hanging by a thread: Bangladesh’s garment workers

The devastating effect of the coronavirus pandemic on Bangladesh’s garment industry

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Boris Johnson and Britain’s Covid-19 crisis

What catching Covid-19 reveals about the politics and leadership style of Boris Johnson

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SOS from the Mediterranean

The desperate race to save migrants at sea over one weekend

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Belarus: Masking the virus

Carry on regardless says Belarus’s president in the face of the coronavirus pandemic

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The Chechen blogger on the run

Who is behind the wave of assassinations and attacks on Chechen asylum seekers in Europe?

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The seafarers stranded on the high seas

How thousands of seafarers are stuck working on vessels and unable to go home

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The 5G con that could make you sick

Some think that 5G can make you ill and there are scientists who say they can prove it

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Kenya’s locust hunters

As desert locusts swarm across East Africa, can Kenya’s locust hunters prevent a plague?

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Wuhan: City of silence

Where did Covid-19 come from? John Sudworth searches for answers where it first emerged

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The missing bodies of Guayaquil

Families search for their loved ones, victims of Covid-19, in Ecuador’s largest city

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What the sediment revealed in Lebanon

What’s behind the scandal sparked by a delivery of tainted fuel to crisis-ridden Lebanon?

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The many colours of Raqqa

How Syria's secret photographer worked and survived under every force in the conflict

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Venezuela's 'Bay of Piglets'

A failed coup in Venezuela - a story of hubris, incompetence, and treachery

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Algeria's plague revisited

A tale of two plagues in the Algerian city of Oran - one fictional and the other Covid-19

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Milton Nkosi: The apartheid child who changed Africa’s story

How a boy from Soweto rose to become the BBC’s chief journalist in Africa.

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Barbara Demick: True stories from North Korea

The writer Barbara Demick discusses her ‘narrative non-fiction’ style of journalism

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Hugh Sykes: Reporting from the frontlines

Hugh Sykes recounts the drama, danger and humour of life on the journalistic frontline

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Naziha Syed Ali: Pakistan’s fearless female reporter

The Pakistani journalist on holding her country’s powerful elite to account

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South Africa moonshine

The price of going ‘dry’ during the pandemic

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The trouble with Dutch cows

Must the Netherlands' world-beating cows be sacrificed to save the country's environment?

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Poland's gay pride and prejudice

The row over sexuality that threatens to unleash a culture war in Poland

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Portland, prisons and white supremacy - part one

How the death of Larnell Bruce highlighted America’s struggle with white gang violence

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Portland, prisons and white supremacy - part two

How the death of a black teenager highlighted America’s struggle white gang violence

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Reza's story

A death-defying migrant's story

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The British and their fish

Grimsby, the once-mighty UK fishing port that hopes Brexit will bring a renaissance

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US election: Socially distant

Two socially distanced views of the pre-election political landscape of America

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Sicily’s prisoner fishermen

Eighteen Sicilian fishermen are in jail in Benghazi, accused of fishing in Libya’s waters

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The burning scar

Investigating a palm oil giant buying vast areas of Asia’s largest remaining rainforest

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Martinique: The poisoning of paradise

The historic link between slavery and the toxic contamination of a Caribbean island

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