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Assignment: Is Ireland’s reputation for tolerance under threat?
Ireland is known as the land of a hundred thousand welcomes. But the government says the country has run out of accommodation to house all new eligible refugee arrivals. Some properties earmarked to …
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
Bonus: Killer drug: Fentanyl in Mexico and the US
Fentanyl is deadly. Thousands of Americans die every year from a drug overdose – the majority of them after using a synthetic opioid like fentanyl. It was developed as a legal, and effective, pain ki…
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
Trending: Serbia’s real life ‘bots’
Over the summer, a mysterious Twitter persona published details of over 14,500 social media accounts - all of them controlled by real-life Serbian citizens, it's claimed. They stand accused of postin…
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
Cairo in comics
Modern Cairo is a crowded metropolis. The city’s ‘thousand minarets’ are now dwarfed by a new skyline of slick tower blocks. Modern highways fly over bustling kiosks where residents gather to smoke a…
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
In the Studio: Awais Khan - Overcoming writer’s block
The Pakistani author, Awais Khan, is working on his latest thriller, His Sister’s Secret, a look into the dark side of dating and family life. But Awais is also struggling with a familiar challenge f…
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
Bonus: The Global Story
A bonus episode from The Global Story podcast. Elon Musk says Chinese electric vehicles could destroy competition. The Global Story brings you one big story every weekday, making sense of the news wi…
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
BBC OS Conversations: Leaving Gaza
The BBC revealed this week that more than half the buildings in the Gaza Strip have been damaged or destroyed since Israel launched its retaliation for the Hamas attacks in October. The war has left …
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
Heart and Soul: Religion in the 21st Century - Hindus (episode 2 of 3)
What does it mean to be a young Hindu in 2024? The world's Hindu population is projected to rise by 34%, by 2050 to nearly 1.4 billion. So how does one of the world’s oldest religions fit with today'…
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
Assignment: Spain, the kiss and the culture war
When Spanish football boss Luis Rubiales kissed Jenni Hermoso after her team’s world cup victory last summer, it set a match to Spanish gender relations. On every chat show, on every campus, in every…
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
Trending: Power
Crude fakes in Uganda A BBC investigation has uncovered a network of fake social media accounts seemingly working together to promote the Ugandan government and the East African Crude Oil Pipeline. O…
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago