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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The Mapuche: Fighting for their right to heal

The Mapuche battle to get respect for their approach to healthcare in southern Chile

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Me and my trolls

One victim’s quest to discover why complete strangers tormented her on social media

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Syria's soldiers of fortune

The young Syrians who find themselves fighting in the war in Nagorno Karabakh

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Darfur: A precarious peace

As UN peacekeepers leave Sudan’s troubled Darfur region, who will now protect civilians?

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Shipwreck

Searching for the identities of those who died in a Mediterranean shipwreck

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Searching for Wisdom in Lagos

How one young man went missing after Nigerian troops opened fire at a protest

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Libya's brothers from Hell

How seven ruthless brothers held a small Libyan town in their murderous grip.

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Social influencers and the perfect body

How online influencers get paid to promote cosmetic surgery

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Lisa Montgomery: The road to execution

The story behind one of America’s most shocking murders – and the woman who did it

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The exiles: Hong Kong at a crossroads

Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters facing a tough decision. Do they stay or do they flee?

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Europe’s most dangerous capital

Bucharest’s crumbling buildings are full of life despite the frequent earth tremors

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Unmasked: Stories from the PPE frontline

How protected are the factory workers who make gloves used by doctors fighting Covid?

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Drug-free in Norway

Can Norwegians with psychosis benefit from radical, drug-free treatment?

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Kenya’s unhappy doctors and nurses

How one young doctor’s death has exposed problems in Kenya’s health sector

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A year of Covid

The story of a year of Covid-19 told through the voices of England’s doctors and nurses

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The disinformation dragon

China’s new strategy of promoting disinformation in the West through social media

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Scotland's contested identity

From Dundee to the Orkneys we hear voices on both sides of Scotland’s independence debate

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Shipping’s dirty secret

Lifting the lid on the dangerous and polluting world of international shipbreaking

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Namibia: The price of genocide

How can Germany make up for its colonial atrocities in Namibia?

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Denmark: Goodbye to mink

Can Denmark's mink industry rise again?

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Sexual healing in the Israeli military

Healing the deepest of battle wounds through ground-breaking sexual therapy

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America’s solitary inmates

What is it like to spend decades as a prisoner in solitary confinement?

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The Battle of Palma

Daring escapes and tragic consequences after militants attack a remote town in Mozambique

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Myanmar: The spring revolution

The brutal military coup puts three young activists in a fight for their future

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Saving the vaquita

Linda Pressly reports from the coast of Baja California on a dangerous clash of interests

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Syria’s decade of conflict: Damascus diary

Lina Sinjab presents a special series on the 10 years of civil war in Syria

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Syria’s decade of conflict: The battered champions of Aleppo

Lina Sinjab and Tim Whewell on a how civil war split friends from a Syrian football team

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Syria’s decade of conflict: Syria's secret library

The story of a library in a besieged Syrian town which was a lifeline to the community

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Syria’s decade of conflict: Islamic State’s most wanted

The young men from Raqqa who chose to resist the so-called Islamic State group

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Syria’s decade of conflict: The many colours of Raqqa

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

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Nigeria’s kidnapped children

How armed gangs are inflicting terror upon schools in northern Nigeria

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The runaway maids of Oman

Tricked, abused and trapped in a foreign land. Who will rescue the African maids of Oman?

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Missing from Manhattan

As America’s biggest city emerges from the pandemic, Lucy Ash asks what’s changed

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Finding Grace

James Clayton on a new technique for solving cold case murders using ancestry websites

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Dangerous liaisons in Sinaloa

The impact of Mexican 'narco cultura' on the women of Sinaloa

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Rebuilding Beirut’s village in a city

Can Beirut’s unique Karantina district survive after the blast that rocked the city?

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Malta and the El Hiblu 3

The story of how three teenage refugees ended up being accused of terrorism in Malta.

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What’s killing Israel’s Arabs?

The violent crime wave afflicting Arab communities in Israel

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India's living dead

Lal Bihari - the farmer who discovered he was dead when he was very much alive

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Catalonia: Squatters, eviction and extortion

How Catalonia’s housing crisis spawns opportunities for organised crime

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Moria: After the fire

Stories from people who survived the fire in the Greek refugee camp a year ago

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The mystery of Havana syndrome

The mystery illness that has struck American diplomats and spies

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The rise and fall of an international fraudster

The rise and fall of Hushpuppi – the social media influencer and global money-launderer

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A long way from Vietnam

BBC journalist Nga Pham investigates people-smuggling from Vietnam into the UK

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Northern Ireland’s Ceasefire Babies

Can a new generation of pro-British Unionists build a more harmonious Northern Ireland?

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