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Back to Search''People will keep dying": The spread of fentanyl across the US Mexico border
As the US opioid crisis continues, politicians in Washington are blaming Mexico’s cartels. But what about Mexico itself? Our correspondent Will Grant…
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Rare earths: the minerals that could save the world?
As governments across the globe grapple with ways to tackle the climate crisis, seventeen critical elements known as rare earths are thought to be ce…
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Our memories, their data - the Facebook story 20 years on
It’s 20 years since Facebook was brought into the world by a group of Harvard University roommates. In the years since, millions of us have shared ou…
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I survived the Las Vegas shooting, then was convinced it was staged
In 2017, Stuart McCormick survived the deadliest mass shooting by a single gunman in US history, while visiting Las Vegas. In the months that followe…
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BYD: The Chinese carmaker challenging Tesla’s dominance
Elon Musk says Chinese electric vehicles could ‘demolish’ competition unless trade barriers are put in place. The Chinese company BYD sold more elect…
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Families of Israeli Hostages: “Whatever it takes to get them back”
The politics of growing anger from desperate relatives. Israel’s crushing military response to the Hamas mass murder and kidnapping on October 7th ha…
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What’s the plan, Iran?
Tehran’s Middle East strategy after a lethal attack on US troops. The risk of military escalation in an already volatile region is growing. President…
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Should Germany ban the popular far-right AfD party?
Germany is wrestling with the question of whether to ban the country’s second-most popular political party – Alternative für Deutschland – known as t…
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Black market baby trafficking in Georgia
Thousands of people from Georgia in Eastern Europe have found out that they were stolen from their parents at birth and sold. It’s believed the black…
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‘Send back our husbands’ – Russian women taking the fight to Putin
Since President Putin’s full scale invasion of Ukraine, protests related to the conflict have been supressed inside Russia. But one group are publicl…
2 years, 1 month ago