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Child soldiers & blood feuds: Sweden's growing gang wars
The violent wave of crime shaking the Nordic country
26 Feb 2024,23 mins
Bengal famine: The WWII tragedy the world forgot
Three million people died in this disaster but it is rarely remembered
23 Feb 2024,23 mins
Ukraine frontline: ordinary lives in extraordinary times
Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine enters its third year
22 Feb 2024,26 mins
Is #MeToo finally exploding in French cinema?
High-profile allegations are reigniting media debate in France
21 Feb 2024,24 mins,
'Category 6': the growing fury of hurricanes
Scientists clash on how to classify record tropical cyclones
20 Feb 2024,22 mins
How Denmark became a super producer of viral 'skinny jabs'
Weight-loss drugs Ozempic & Wegovy reaping windfall profits for Danish manufacturer
19 Feb 2024,22 mins
Alexei Navalny: The death of Putin’s biggest critic
What the reported death of the jailed opposition leader means for Russia
16 Feb 2024,25 mins
Andrew Tate effect: Is misogyny on the rise?
A generation of young men are being targeted by sexist influencers
16 Feb 2024,26 mins
Does Argentina have the patience for Milei’s shock therapy?
After two months in power, President Milei’s economic experiment is being put to the test
15 Feb 2024,26 mins
Ethiopia on the brink: Fears of a famine return and why you should pay attention
After years of hope and promise, warnings of famine in the cradle of humanity
14 Feb 2024,25 mins
Tucker Carlson: What next for America’s right-wing showman?
Access to Putin and Trump puts him in a powerful position
13 Feb 2024,26 mins
Global anxiety: You are not alone
What’s it like to have the world’s most common mental health condition?
12 Feb 2024,34 mins,
Could Taylor Swift swing the US election?
Allies of Donald Trump are worried she will push voters to back Joe Biden
09 Feb 2024,25 mins
Europe’s furious farmers and the far right
Why leaders in Paris, Berlin, Brussels and beyond fear protesting farmers
08 Feb 2024,24 mins
''People will keep dying": The spread of fentanyl across the US Mexico border
The Mexican border town battling fentanyl with scarce antidotes and mounting deaths
07 Feb 2024,22 mins
Rare earths: the minerals that could save the world?
The new geopolitical battleground over seventeen critical elements
06 Feb 2024,24 mins
Our memories, their data - the Facebook story 20 years on
How has the social network shaped our lives and our future?
05 Feb 2024,27 mins
I survived the Las Vegas shooting, then was convinced it was staged
BBC disinformation correspondent asks whether any of us are safe from conspiracy theories
02 Feb 2024,26 mins
BYD: The Chinese carmaker challenging Tesla’s dominance
Elon Musk says Chinese electric vehicles could ‘demolish’ competition
01 Feb 2024,24 mins
Families of Israeli Hostages: “Whatever it takes to get them back”
The politics of growing anger from desperate relatives
31 Jan 2024,25 mins
What’s the plan, Iran?
Tehran’s Middle East strategy after a lethal attack on US troops
30 Jan 2024,23 mins
Should Germany ban the popular far-right AfD party?
There is a debate over whether to ban the country's second most popular political party
29 Jan 2024,25 mins
Black market baby trafficking in Georgia
Thousands of children were stolen from their parents at birth and sold
26 Jan 2024,23 mins
‘Send back our husbands’ – Russian women taking the fight to Putin
BBC Russia editor Steve Rosenberg talks to Katya about the military wives he's spoken to
25 Jan 2024,23 mins
Meet Trump’s new inner circle
How Donald Trump's team has changed from his 2016 presidential campaign to the 2024 bid
24 Jan 2024,26 mins
American assassins operating in Yemen
The inside story of a wave of killings led by former US Special Forces
23 Jan 2024,28 mins
A temple at the heart of Modi's India re-election bid
The politics of prayer at a divine but divisive site that’s shaped modern India
22 Jan 2024,26 mins
“I won’t let my children suffer again” – BBC Gaza correspondent
How Rushdi Abualouf reported the Gaza conflict while getting his family to safety
19 Jan 2024,28 mins
Why book bans are spreading across the United States
Parents divided as books removed from schools
18 Jan 2024,24 mins,
Feuding, arrests, protests: Poland’s gripping political drama
The power struggle on Ukraine's border
17 Jan 2024,22 mins