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Trending: Colombia’s guerrilla recruitment video problem
Fighters from dissident armed groups in Colombia are using TikTok to glorify their lives as guerrillas and recruit youngsters. These armed groups did…
2 years, 2 months ago
Assignment: Decolonising Russia
Is Russia Europe’s last empire? Is its invasion of Ukraine a “colonial war”? Is “decolonising” the country the only way of ensuring it stops being a …
2 years, 2 months ago
In the Studio: Nazanin Moradi
For artist Nazanin Moradi, who was brought up in Iran where women are “second-class citizens in every sense,” reversing the “unfair” gender roles is …
2 years, 2 months ago
Three Million: Silk scarves
Eighty years ago at least three million Indians, who were British subjects, died in the Bengal Famine. But today different generations in Britain are…
2 years, 2 months ago
The Fifth Floor: My AI boyfriend
Would you turn to AI to create your perfect partner? Wanqing Zhang from the BBC Global China Unit has been looking into an AI dating trend that is go…
2 years, 2 months ago
BBC OS Conversations: Far-right voters in Europe
Politics in Europe took a shift to the right following the recent European parliamentary elections, with far-right parties making gains in several co…
2 years, 2 months ago
Losing Attar
Attar is the essential oil that is produced when aromatics like jasmine and sandalwood are pressed and distilled. It has been a feature of life in In…
2 years, 2 months ago
Heart and Soul: Last Christians of Gaza
George Antone is a member of the only Roman Catholic Church in Gaza, part of a dwindling Christian community whose roots in this area, go back to the…
2 years, 2 months ago
Trending: The Kenyan influencer championing climate denial
Jusper Machogu is a farmer from south-western Kenya who describes himself as a “climate sceptic”. He wrongly claims that climate change is a “scam” o…
2 years, 2 months ago
Assignment: Ireland’s phone-free town
Greystones made global headlines a year ago when, concerned by rising anxiety levels among their pupils, the headteachers from all the primary school…
2 years, 2 months ago