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Monday, February 28, 2022

Ros Atkins on... Russia’s nuclear threat
Why India is not criticising Russia over Ukraine
The Nigerians hoping to check out of their country
Uttar Pradesh elections: 'We Muslims are treated like the sacrificial goat'
The new wave of India's female Para-athletes forcing a shift in perspective
Ukraine conflict: Kharkiv and Chernihiv cities hit by heavy shelling
Ukraine invasion: 'There are no dollars - I don't know what to do!'

Sunday, February 27, 2022

Sid Meier warns the games industry about monetisation
Ros Atkins on... Western aid for Ukraine's military
Ukraine conflict: The civilian lives lost to Russia's war
Ukraine conflict: Your guide to understanding day four
Ukraine conflict: Putin's war prompts dramatic German U-turn
Ukraine conflict: Refugee's tearful description of why she fled
Ukraine invasion: Putin puts nuclear forces on high alert

Saturday, February 26, 2022

Swift payments crackdown on Russia edges closer
Germany to send weapons directly to Ukraine
Zelensky: The comedian president who is rising to the moment
Ukraine conflict: The women making Molotov cocktails to defend their city
Ukraine conflict: Children on their own, parents stay behind
Ukraine invasion: Kyiv imposes curfew amid sabotage fears

Friday, February 25, 2022

Ukraine conflict: Refugees from Ukraine arriving at Polish border speak to BBC
Ukraine conflict: Gunshots heard at Kyiv train station as crowds flee
Eurovision: Russia banned from competing at 2022 Song Contest
Ukraine conflict: President Zelensky vows to defend independence
Ukraine: Woman confronts armed Russian soldier

Thursday, February 24, 2022

Russian forces seize Chernobyl nuclear power plant
Florida House of Representatives passes 'Don't Say Gay' bill
Ukraine conflict: Shock and support on the streets of Moscow
Ukraine-Russia invasion: Europe prepares for wave of refugees
Ukraine crisis and Africa: The effects on oil, students and bread
WATCH: How Russia's invasion of Ukraine started

Wednesday, February 23, 2022

Why are black Americans being punished for their hair?
Ukraine crisis: 'Everyone is scared', say families evacuated to Russia
Breonna Taylor: Officer was 'reckless' during deadly raid
Ukraine-Russia crisis: What's Putin's next move?
Ukraine conflict: Where are Russia's troops?

Tuesday, February 22, 2022

Ukraine crisis: Is Russia staging "false flag" incidents?
US announces full-blocking sanctions on Russia
Massive bear named 'Hank the Tank' on the run from California police
Ros Atkins on... key moments in Russia's military build-up
Armed hostage situation at Apple Amsterdam shop
Ahmaud Arbery: Jury finds killers guilty on federal hate crimes charges
Kenyan food prices: Why have they gone up so much?
Deforestation threat to Amazon indigenous areas if protected status changed - report

Monday, February 21, 2022

Petrópolis: A perfect storm of weather extremes and deep inequality
Canada parliament backs Trudeau on emergency powers
IPCC: Climate change report to sound warning on impacts
Ayodhya: The neglected shrines of India's grand temple town
US reveals claims of Russian 'kill list' if Moscow occupies Ukraine
Vladimir Putin makes Donetsk and Luhansk recognition announcement
Russia recognises Ukraine separatist regions

Sunday, February 20, 2022

Covid: Australia's border reopens to international visitors
Bangkok: Exploring a lost world in an abandoned department store
Japanese-American internment: "It can't be undone"
Indian Muslim victims of hate crimes live in fear
How will the Beijing Games be remembered?
Ukraine tensions: US sounds fresh alarm over Russia invasion fears
Seven children killed in Niger 'by Nigerian air strike'
Credit Suisse denies wrongdoing after big banking data leak
Ferry fire: Missing Euroferry Olympia passenger found alive off Corfu

Saturday, February 19, 2022

Ukraine crisis: Criss-crossing the country with Zelensky
Petrópolis: Nearly 200 still missing in flood-hit Brazil city
The man who lived in a Singapore forest for 30 years
The Nigerian artwork challenging British history in St Paul's
Telegram: Why won’t you take my naked photos down?
Miami helicopter crash: Police share footage showing swimmers metres away from site
Ukraine will not respond to provocations, Zelensky says
Storm Eunice carves deadly trail across Europe

Friday, February 18, 2022

The amateur historians documenting Delhi's past
Do crime apps and viral videos stop bystanders from helping?
Letter from Africa: Nigeria's electioneering and the role of stomachs
Daunte Wright death: The moment Kim Potter is sentenced for gun mix-up killing
Canada Protests: Police clear demonstrators in Canada's capital
Week in pictures: 12-18 February 2022
Ukraine: Biden says he's 'convinced' Putin has made decision to invade

Thursday, February 17, 2022

Beijing Olympics: What’s wrong with natural snow?
Why are French troops leaving Mali, and what will it mean for the region?
Africa's week in pictures: 11-17 February 2022
Indian tea start-ups search for an exotic edge
Ukraine tensions: Three people injured after shell strikes nursery school
Judge rules Donald Trump must testify in New York investigation
Ukraine tensions: Russia looking for excuse to invade, US says
Canada protests: Police warn protesters to leave amid plans to clear blockade

Wednesday, February 16, 2022

Canada protests: Ottawa stand-off continues as blockades cleared
Petrol tanker crash causes massive fire in Long Island, New York
US accuses China of 'serious harm' to workers through trade
Covid: Austria and Germany decide to ease rules

Tuesday, February 15, 2022

US Kremlin backers seek to undermine President Biden
PJ O'Rourke: US conservative satirist dies at 74
Juan Orlando Hernandez: Former president of Honduras led away in handcuffs
Russian attack on Ukraine still possible - Biden
Rust shooting: Lawsuit alleges Baldwin 'recklessly shot' Hutchins
Novak Djokovic: Reaction from my colleagues 'hurt me a lot'

Monday, February 14, 2022

Flock of blackbirds drops dead mid-flight in Mexico
Trudeau vows to freeze anti-mandate protesters' bank accounts
Chagos Islands: Mauritian flag raised on British-controlled archipelago
Judge to dismiss Sarah Palin's New York Times libel lawsuit
Ukraine crisis: Biden and Johnson say still hope for diplomatic agreement
Chagos Islands: Mauritian flag raised on British-controlled islands
Kentucky mayoral candidate survives being targeted by a gunman
Ukraine: Social media videos show Russian military equipment on the move near border

Sunday, February 13, 2022

Scott Morrison criticised by New Zealand band over song use
India bourse head was a 'puppet' of unnamed yogi, regulators say
Jarryd Hayne: Ex-rugby star wins appeal in sexual assault case
Couple married for 91 years and still in love
Cuba's first gay hotel reopens as human rights deteriorate
Ukraine crisis: How is Russia shaping the narrative?
Goodbye Turkey, hello Türkiye
Ukraine seeks meeting with Russia within 48 hours to discuss build-up

Saturday, February 12, 2022

Hugo Torres: Nicaraguan ex-rebel leader dies after being jailed
Why are cryptocurrency adverts taking over the Super Bowl?
Swiss vote on tobacco ad ban long after neighbours
Royal Enfield: A family's decade-long search for a missing motorbike
Guinea-Bissau's mystery deepens over drug-trafficking coup plot
Ukraine tensions: After eight years of war, an eastern city unifies against Russia
Afghan woman activist released after arrest in January
Covid protests: Paris police fire tear gas at demonstrators

Friday, February 11, 2022

The hidden side of Ethiopia's brutal civil war
Freedom Convoy: Canada court orders end to trucks' bridge blockade
Amazon deforestation: Record high destruction of trees in January
Macron calls for calm as convoy of protestors nears Paris
Kanye wants Billie Eilish to say sorry or he'll pull out of Coachella
Ukraine tensions: Countries tell nationals to leave over Russia threat

Thursday, February 10, 2022

The engineers battling to stop global warming ruining roads
The deaths that came in the cold
Inventing Anna: The Netflix show versus reality
Trads: The young Indians spreading hate online
Misfire at Oregon bear results in death of two US brothers
Christian Eriksen: Denmark international on returning to Premier League with Brentford
Ukraine tensions: Russia accused of sea blockade
Luc Montagnier, co-discoverer of HIV, dies aged 89

Wednesday, February 9, 2022

Afghanistan: Evidence mounts of Taliban reprisal arrests and killings
How suicide became the hidden toll of the war in Ukraine
Pa Sorie: The Sierra Leonean proud to have fought in World War Two
Benin bronzes: ‘Africa wants to speak for itself’
Karnataka hijab row: Protests over classroom ban spread
'Don't Say Gay': White House denounces new Florida bill
ICJ orders Uganda to pay $325m for DR Congo occupation
Drunk truck driver leaves trail of destruction in Germany

Tuesday, February 8, 2022

Australian MP in emotional plea over religion bill
UCLA in $250m payout for gynaecologist's sex abuse
Bosnia shivers as ghost of nationalism returns
Why Uganda is investing in oil despite pressures to go green
What India's restless Gen Z really wants
Freedom Convoy: How might Canada's trucker protest end?
Starbucks fires organisers as union threat grows
Homes engulfed as deadly landslide hits Colombia
Record-high seizure of $5bn in stolen bitcoin

Monday, February 7, 2022

China encroaching along Nepal border - report
Freedom Convoy: Ceaseless horn blaring frays nerves in Canada's capital
Democracy in Africa: Spate of coups don't mean democracy's end
Uttar Pradesh assembly elections 2022: The Indian polls everyone is watching
Ros Atkins on... the Canada truckers protest
The Jews dressing as Muslims to get around a prayer ban
Canada truckers protest: ‘All we want is the right to choose’

Sunday, February 6, 2022

Lata Mangeshkar: Shankar Mahadevan remembers India's 'musical Koh-i-Noor'
Africa Union summit: Leaders complain about 'wave of coups'
Moment bridge in Germany is blown up for safety reasons
Lata Mangeshkar: A look back at the life of India's nightingale

Saturday, February 5, 2022

Ukraine tensions: US sources say Russia 70% ready to invade Ukraine
Lata Mangeshkar: India singing legend dies at 92
The fast fashion graveyard in Chile's Atacama Desert
Israel's Mossad suspected of high-level Iran penetration
Queen's Jubilee: Her Majesty's journey through Africa
Rayan: Moroccan boy taken out of well after days trapped inside
Cyclone Batsirai: Second storm in weeks hits Madagascar

Friday, February 4, 2022

Can tourism ease the inflation pressure in Turkey?
Iceland whaling: Fisheries minister signals end from 2024
Mount Everest: Mountain's highest glacier melting rapidly, new study shows
Huge bank of dead fish spotted off French Atlantic coast
US couple sue clinic after DNA kit reveals fertility mix-up
Environmental campaigners film '100,000 dead fish' spilled into the Atlantic Ocean
Drugs, weapons 'smuggled to prisoners by drone'

Thursday, February 3, 2022

Beijing Olympics: Winter Games start amid Covid and boycotts
How to store excess wind power underwater
Koo: India's Twitter alternative with global ambitions
Putin's Olympic trip signals warmer Russia-China ties
European oil facilities hit by cyber-attacks
Footage depicts aftermath of US raid in Syria
Don Euro: Italian ex-priest jailed for extortion
Ukraine tensions: US alleges Russian plot to fake invasion pretext

Wednesday, February 2, 2022

How Covid brought new roles for Singapore's theatre actors
Djokovic Covid tests were valid, Serbian officials say
Four charged in drug death of The Wire actor Michael K Williams
Afghanistan education: Taliban running out of excuses - Malala
'Electrifying' Vincent van Gogh self-portrait exhibition hailed by critics

Tuesday, February 1, 2022

A 477-mile-long megaflash crossed three US states.
Ukrainian civilians prepare as war with Russia threatens
Ukraine tensions: US trying to draw Russia into war says Putin
Syria war: Babies die from cold in storm-hit Idlib camps
Germany: Police killing suspects may have been poachers
Ukraine: We're defending ourselves - Volodymyr Zelensky