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Lockdown again in Melbourne
Australia had widely been seen as having successfully contained the coronavirus – an example to countries like the UK and the US where numbers of cas…
6 years, 1 month ago
Difficult choices in Hong Kong
It was a seminal moment when the UK foreign secretary, Dominic Raab first raised the prospect just over a month ago that 2.9 million Hong Kongers cou…
6 years, 1 month ago
From Our Home Correspondent 07/07/2020
In the latest programme, Mishal Husain introduces pieces from writers around the United Kingdom which reflect life as it is being led during Covid-19…
6 years, 1 month ago
Afghanistan: peace or more pain?
In Afghanistan, there’s growing concern over a wave of attacks against human rights activists, moderate clerics, aid workers and others. For a young …
6 years, 1 month ago
Did Japan get lucky?
Japan has some very densely populated cities and the world’s highest proportion of elderly citizens. A disaster waiting to happen in the coronavirus …
6 years, 1 month ago
Return to Lombardy
Italy's northern region of Lombardy became the epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic in February. Death rates soared. In Bergamo, six thousand people…
6 years, 1 month ago
New lockdowns in Germany
Germany had eased its lockdown, but after a spike in cases at a meat-packing factory the authorities have re-imposed lockdown restrictions in two dis…
6 years, 1 month ago
Indigenous Australians and the police
In Australia, the killing of George Floyd in the US has resonated strongly with indigenous Australians, who often face prejudicial policing, and make…
6 years, 1 month ago
Press Freedom in the Philippines
In the Philippines two journalists, Maria Ressa, the head of an investigative news website called Rappler, and one of their former writers, Reynaldo …
6 years, 1 month ago
From Our Home Correspondent 16/06/2020
In the latest programme of the monthly series, Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from journalists and writers which reflect the range of contempora…
6 years, 1 month ago