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Saturday, April 30, 2022

Defecting online: How Myanmar’s soldiers are deserting the army
Ghana's e-levy adds 1.5% tax to electronic payments
Ros Atkins on… China’s zero-Covid lockdowns
Asylum in Denmark: Is the country guilty of double standards?
Katie Taylor v Amanda Serrano: Charting the remarkable story of the rise of women's boxing
Mariupol civilians leave besieged Azovstal steelworks
Sri Lanka hikes price of medicines 40% amid economic crisis

Friday, April 29, 2022

China: The elderly people struggling in Shanghai's quarantine centres
Child hepatitis cases falsely linked to Covid vaccine
'Rise in Muslim families' seeking Ramadan food help
Week in pictures: 23 - 29 April 2022
James Corden: How his viral success divided the internet
The impact of miscarriage on families around the world
Dexter Jackson: How it feels to be pardoned by the US president

Thursday, April 28, 2022

How big are Donald Trump's legal problems?
India Covid-19: 'My father did not have to die'
Who owns the Arctic and should they drill for oil and gas?
US Army replaces cake it stole from Italian girl in 1945
Canada removes ban on blood donations from gay men
James Corden leaving Late Late Show after eight years
The children surviving Ukraine’s war without their parents
Ukraine round-up: UN visit and a Russian roubles row
Ukraine war: UN chief admits Security Council has failed

Wednesday, April 27, 2022

Denial of bail is silencing Hong Kong's democrats
Why the West is reckoning with caste bias now
What Singapore's move to legalise egg freezing says about its society
Viewpoint: The privilege of being the child of immigrants
Do you want to find out how much your colleagues earn?
Ukrainians flock to get patriotic tattoos
Nigeria's Kaduna train attack: New photos bring relief and pain

Tuesday, April 26, 2022

Ukraine round-up: UN chief appeals to Putin while Russia cuts gas to Poland
Colombia reports 52 activists killed already this year
War in Ukraine: Statue of Russian and Ukrainian friendship destroyed
Ukraine war: Putin tells UN chief he hopes for 'positive result' in Ukraine talks
Melissa Lucio: First Texas execution of Hispanic woman stayed
Ros Atkins on… Finland, Nato and Russia
Why are Sudan's Janjaweed on the attack again in Darfur?

Sunday, April 24, 2022

Ukraine war: False TikTok videos draw millions of views
SpaceX: Can meat be grown in space?
The Olympic hopeful turned bike-riding bank robber
Ethiopia's Lalibela struggles as war and Covid-19 keep tourists away
Macron defeats Le Pen and vows to unite divided France
France election: 'Many voted to build a barricade against the far-right', says Macron

Saturday, April 23, 2022

French vote as Macron aims to beat far-right Le Pen
David Nott: The war surgeon helping doctors save lives in Ukraine
The bombing survivor accused of being fake
Rwanda genocide: 'I forgave my husband's killer - our children married'
Colombia election: How TikTok is defining the presidential race
Cooma jail: Prison that was once 'world's only jail for gay men'
Puducherry prison uses dance therapy to rehabilitate inmates

Friday, April 22, 2022

Ukraine war: How Russia replaces Ukrainian media with its own
Mariupol: Videos appear to show dead civilians
Earl and Countess of Wessex: Why Grenada wanted to talk to royals about slavery
Art gets police escort out of Ukraine for exhibition
Mount Everest: Even world's highest peak not immune to the Ukraine war
French election: Macron and Le Pen trade taunts as campaigning ends
Carlos Ghosn: Ex-Nissan boss says he wants a trial
Somalia: At least six killed in Mogadishu attack near beach
Marjorie Taylor Greene: I did not call for violent capitol insurrection

Thursday, April 21, 2022

Why Argentina is embracing cryptocurrency
France election: What far-right leader Marine Le Pen said before… and now
Ukraine round-up: Putin backs off storming of Azovstal as Mariupol 'mass graves' found
Juan Orlando Hernández: Honduran ex-leader extradited to US
Mariupol: Satellite images suggest mass graves dug near besieged city

Wednesday, April 20, 2022

KGF 2, RRR, Pushpa: The southern Indian films winning on Bollywood's turf
Shanghai lockdown: Whole communities relocated in anti-Covid drive
Johnny Depp faces questioning in case against ex-wife Amber Heard
Russia releases video of intercontinental ballistic missile launch
Ukraine war: Holocaust survivor aged 91 among Mariupol's civilian dead - reports

Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Emmanuel Macron: From political outsider to president
French election: Far-right Le Pen's long quest for power in France
Why Koreans could soon become a year younger
Shark Tank: India TV show proves entrepreneurship isn't just for rich
Ukraine war: Kyiv's allies pledge more weapons to help win war

Monday, April 18, 2022

French elections: EU apprehensive of Le Pen ahead of French run-off vote
Why women vote for India PM Narendra Modi's BJP
Are there affordable ways to cut your heating bill?
Wayne Quilliam: Photographing the diversity of Aboriginal Australia
White House hosts first Easter egg roll since pandemic
Apple staff make bid for first union at a US store

Sunday, April 17, 2022

The elderly who can't flee their Ukrainian homes
Shanghai: China reports three dead in latest Covid outbreak
Nigeria's Spider-Man fighting for a cleaner society
Ukraine war: Germany's conundrum over its ties with Russia
Captagon: Jordan's undeclared war against Syria drug traffickers
Mariupol ‘doesn’t exist anymore’, says Ukraine’s FM Dmytro Kuleba
Sri Lanka healthcare on verge of collapse in economic crisis
Ukraine round-up: Ukraine defies Mariupol deadline as Kharkiv shelled
Ukraine war: Mariupol defenders will fight to the end' - PM

Saturday, April 16, 2022

Nigeria's Chibok girls: Why was this former captive treated differently?
Invictus Games: Prince Harry and Meghan join opening ceremony in the Netherlands
Angella Okutoyi: Kenya's rising tennis star
UK's Rwanda refugee plan against nature of God, says archbishop
Russian warship: Moskva crew 'shown for first time since sinking'

Friday, April 15, 2022

Sanctioned Russian oligarchs linked to £800m worth of UK property
Week in pictures: 9-15 April 2022
Merle Oberon: India's forgotten Hollywood star
Covid China: Elderly deaths contradict Shanghai figures
Chernihiv is silent, after having been under constant attack from Russian forces
Ukraine war: Minesweeping dog helps clear Chernihiv of Russian explosives
Ukraine round-up: Russia sends warning to US
Arizona man arrested after dogs, cats and snakes found in home freezer
Twitter's board readies against hostile takeover

Thursday, April 14, 2022

Ukraine's battle for control of its skies
Brazil: Wild animals take to the streets in Rio de Janeiro
Shanghai lockdown: How Covid tests China's 'Great Firewall'
Depp and Heard marriage ended in 'mutual abuse', says therapist
Ukraine round up: Flagship Russian warship sinks
Russian warship Moskva has sunk - defence ministry

Wednesday, April 13, 2022

Brazil's indigenous communities fear mining threat over war in Ukraine
How we verify social media posts from the war in Ukraine
Durban floods: 'I got no house, I got nothing'
Police arrest suspect in New York subway shooting 'without incident'

Tuesday, April 12, 2022

How posh British schools are branching out in Asia
Criminal Procedure Identification Bill raises fears of surveillance in India
Why Nigeria's historic dye pits in Kano risk closure
Zika virus may be one step away from explosive outbreak
27-year-old refugee Ludmyla Chyrkova is heading home

Monday, April 11, 2022

Ukraine: Our parents wouldn’t leave Bucha, then Russia moved in
The Ukrainian bride who fled to India from Kyiv with a coffee machine
Brittney Griner: White House tight-lipped on missing WNBA star
Britney Spears says she is pregnant after conservatorship ends
Ukraine round-up: Austria pessimistic after Putin talks

Sunday, April 10, 2022

'I'm under no illusions,' says British soldier in Ukraine, after comrades killed
Elon Musk will now not join Twitter's board, CEO says
French elections: Macron and Le Pen to fight for presidency
France election: This time it won’t be a walkover for Macron
Falklands War: 'The UK is still usurping our land'
French election: Macron pledges to create united France
Spanish police seize huge haul of illegal stuffed animals

Saturday, April 9, 2022

Mozambique Palma terror attack: 'I can't go back'
López Obrador: What's behind Mexican leader's recall referendum?
Saniya Mistri: The hijab-wearing teen rapper breaking stereotypes
Ukraine war: Disbelief and horror after Krematorsk train station attack
Imran Khan ousted as Pakistan's PM after key vote
Ukraine will rise again - PM Boris Johnson

Friday, April 8, 2022

Katty Kay: The most exciting thing about becoming Swiss
Imran Khan: Pakistan PM on brink as confidence vote looms
Ukraine war: The school that helped fleeing musicians find safety
Will Smith banned from Oscars for 10 years over slap
Biting 'unruly passengers' hit with largest-ever US fines
China Covid pandemic: Xi hails response as Shanghai hits record
First black woman on US Supreme Court: 'We've made it'
Zelensky: 'We are defending the right to live'
Gretchen Whitmer: Partial verdict in Michigan governor kidnap case

Thursday, April 7, 2022

NY attorney general seeks to hold Donald Trump in contempt of court
French winemakers fan flames to save 2022 crop
'I want my film to show that queer South Asians are thriving'
The moment Ketanji Brown Jackson is confirmed to Supreme Court
Israel: Two killed, several wounded in Tel Aviv shooting
Shock result in particle experiment could spark physics revolution

Wednesday, April 6, 2022

Donbas: Ukraine tells residents in the east to evacuate
What sanctions are being imposed on Russia over Ukraine invasion?
Bafta Games Awards 2022: 'Plucky underdogs' go up against hit titles
Helmut Sonneberg: A spellbinder's story of survival, no longer kept secret
Black Coffee - the South African DJ who made history at the Grammys
The hunt for superyachts of sanctioned Russian oligarchs
Ukraine's dream of a Eurovision win
Ed Sheeran hits out at culture of 'baseless' copyright claims after court victory

Tuesday, April 5, 2022

Brazil at work: Black and held back
Namit Malhotra: The Indian who won a VFX Oscar for Dune
War in Ukraine: 'I saw a Russian soldier shoot my father dead in Bucha'
Asghar Farhadi: Top Iranian director accused of plagiarism
Mother ‘begged for life' of IS hostage, court hears
Ivanka Trump to testify to Capitol riot committee
Cardi B wins order forcing YouTuber to remove defamatory videos

Monday, April 4, 2022

The Kenyan cafe that helps fight discrimination against deaf people
Ukraine war: International outrage grows over civilian killings in Bucha
Village head and family killed by Russia - Ukraine
Sacramento shooting: One arrest made after six shot dead
Curious owl inspects TV weather station camera

Sunday, April 3, 2022

Shanghai lockdown: Economy shaken by zero-Covid measures
The Ukrainian mother who had to bury her own son
Hungary election: Nationalist PM Viktor Orban claims victory
Ukraine war: The women sharing their memories of Ukraine before the war
Rogue pastors, fake miracles and murder
Ukraine war: The popular politician who escaped a targeted missile strike
EasyJet cancels 100 flights due to Covid absences
Sri Lanka's cabinet ministers resign as crisis protesters defy curfew
Sri Lanka: Tear gas and water cannon used in Kandy

Saturday, April 2, 2022

Ukraine war: Family’s bid to reach safety ends in tragedy
War in Ukraine: Koko’s phone is your phone as she makes her way out
Ukrainian refugee with Royal College of Music scholarship in visa limbo
The handshake in space that brought hope to the world
Search under way in English Channel for missing small plane
Sarah Palin announces US Congress bid
War in Ukraine: Evidence grows of civilian killings in Bucha
Imran Khan: Support for Pakistan PM despite likely defeat
War in Ukraine: Street in Bucha found strewn with dead bodies

Friday, April 1, 2022

Surya Kasibhatla: Actor with cerebral palsy shines in Bollywood thriller Jalsa
One mother's mission to ban 'vulgar' books
What we now know about long Covid
Ukraine: Why the cartoon Masyanya was banned in Russia
Sri Lanka imposes state of emergency amid protests