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A fresh look at the stories of the week with journalists from our 41 language sections, with presenter David Amanor.

What is it like to work in Jerusalem right now? BBC journalist Shaina Oppenheimer shares her experience of living in Israel and monitoring t...

Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar. It’s a period of prayer, celebrations and community gatherings and Muslims worldwide obs...

After an election held just days after his release from prison, Bassirou Diomaye Faye is set to become Senegal's next president, and at 44,...

As a new school year starts in Afghanistan, 330,000 more girls will be excluded from secondary education, one of the ways in which women and...

The war in Gaza is forcing Israeli society to confront a long-standing conflict over who serves in the army. Ultra-Orthodox Jews enjoy an ex...

The Caribbean nation of Haiti is in the grip of gang violence, with armed groups controlling much of the country. The lawlessness came to a...

The Eagles of the Desert are a group of volunteers who look for migrants who've been reported missing while crossing the hazardous Sonoran D...

Two years after the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, we hear from colleagues in BBC Ukrainian about life in Kyiv. How different is th...

BBC Arabic's Gaza Lifeline launched 3 months ago to provide life-saving information for citizens forced from their homes by the ongoing war...

There have been concerns about the safety of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the largest in Europe, which was seized by Russian forces...

Electoral symbols are crucial in Pakistani elections, helping illiterate voters find their party on the ballot paper. So when Pakistan's Sup...

This month Iran launched a missile attack into Pakistan's Balochistan region, claiming to target an Iranian anti-regime militant group based...

Since the 7th October attacks, BBC Arabic's Michael Shuval has interviewed many of the families of those abducted by Hamas and held captive...

A BBC Africa Eye investigation has found evidence of widespread abuse and torture by the late TB Joshua, founder of the Synagogue Church of...

The BBC’s Gaza correspondent Rushdi Abualouf reported from Gaza for more than 20 years, but last November he and his family left for the saf...

BBC language service journalists share stories and experiences that lifted their spirits in a year with more than its fair share of tragic n...

Presented by Irena Taranyuk A stalled front line and diplomatic challenges - we look at the pressures on Ukraine with Vitaliy Shevchenko, Ru...

Somalia is struggling with the aftermath of its worst floods for many decades, which have affected more than two million people. Some were a...

A BBC Arabic investigation has revealed that toxic pollutants released during gas flaring are endangering millions more people than previous...

It's seven months since fighting in Sudan erupted between the national army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. Peace talks in Saudi...

Following the Hamas attacks on Israel on 7th October, conservationists have been using unconventional methods to locate the bodies of the de...

Presented by Andrea Kennedy BBC Arabic has begun an emergency radio service for Gaza in response to the conflict in the region. Adel Soliman...

Presented by Irena Taranyuk The intense focus of the world’s media on events in the Middle East has taken attention away from the war in Ukr...

The Fifth Floor visits the BBC's Seoul Bureau to meet the journalists working for BBC Korean, serving audiences across the whole of the Kore...

With constant new developments in Israel and Gaza, we find out how BBC Monitoring is reporting and analysing news from the heart of the conf...

A week after the attack on Israel by the Palestinian militant group Hamas, we look at how some of the BBC’s major language services have bee...

Presented by Sana Safi Millions of Afghans living in Pakistan and Iran are facing growing pressure to return to Afghanistan. In Pakistan, ar...

Last week Venezuela sent 11,000 troops into the notorious Tocorón jail to retake control. For years it's been run by inmates, and was headqu...

In the aftermath of the devastating floods in Derna, following the collapse of two dams, we hear from Sara Alhouni, outreach officer for BBC...

As the world marks the first anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death, we hear from journalist Farzad Seifikaran, who gained an exclusive intervie...

There has been a spate of protests across Syria, with unrest spilling into areas which were previously strongholds of support for President...

BBC Urdu’s Azizullah Khan was on the scene soon after last week’s dramatic rescue in northwest Pakistan, when a broken cable car was left da...

Officials in Ethiopia's Tigray region have reported that more than 1,400 have died of starvation since international food aid was suspended...

Since August 2021 when the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, an estimated 600,000 Afghans have crossed the border into Pakistan. Pakistan...

July 2023 was world’s hottest month on record, with extreme temperatures and weather patterns making global headlines. We asked colleagues f...

Beirut's devastating port explosion killed more than 200, and injured thousands, but three years on, while neighbourhoods have largely retur...

It’s been two months since violence in Manipur broke out between the majority Meitei and minority Kuki communities. When a video emerged sho...

It's three months since the beginning of the conflict in Sudan between the army and the Rapid Support Forces militia, and since the launch o...

BBC Russian editor Famil Ismailov shares his insights into what's been going on between Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin and President Vladimir...

BBC Urdu’s Saher Baloch follows in the dirt tracks of the petrol smugglers bringing fuel from Iran into the border town of Mashkel in Baloch...

Captagon, a highly addictive amphetamine-like drug, is causing huge problems around the Middle East, as millions of pills are smuggled out o...

After the capsize of a migrant boat off the Greek coast BBC Arabic's Murad Shishani went to the Greek port of Kalamata to meet relatives hop...

BBC Mundo's correspondent in Bogota, Daniel Pardo, shares the story behind the extraordinary survival of four indigenous children who used a...

The Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have sent anti-narcotics units across the country to destroy this year's opium poppy crop. BBC Afghan...

BBC Delhi explores the steady rise in female-led households in their documentary "Women in Charge: Is India Changing?" From widows to the gr...

Violence broke out in the north eastern Indian state of Manipur earlier this month after a rally by indigenous communities protesting agains...

BBC Bengali's Shahnewaj Rocky shares the experiences of the fishermen of Teknaf in Bangladesh following Cyclone Mocha. Plus BBC Burmese Edit...

BBC Arabic’s Mohamed Osman has reported from Sudan for two decades and is used to covering conflict. But two weeks ago he was forced to flee...

This week, BBC Arabic launched an emergency radio service for Sudan, providing information and advice. Editor Adel Soliman tells us how they...

High profile artists and cultural figures in both Iran and Russia face punishment and restrictions on their work if they speak out against t...