The desperation that drove refugees from Lebanon to their deaths at sea
Late one Saturday night towards the end of April, a boat set off to sea from near Lebanon’s second city, Tripoli. It was an ageing craft, nearly 50 years old, built to comfortably hold maybe a dozen p...
6 Maj 202219min
Is Rwanda really the solution to Britain’s migrant issue?
Rescued from the choppy seas of the English Channel or landing on the windswept beaches of the east of England, over the last three years thousands of people in small inflatable dinghies have made the...
29 Apr 202228min
The Ramadan food crisis
Muslims around the world are marking the first Ramadan in three years to take place largely without Covid-19 restrictions. But now another crisis is casting a pall over the holy month. The war in Uk...
22 Apr 202219min
Is this really the end for Imran Khan?
Pakistan has a new prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif. The 70-year-old this week replaced Imran Khan, who failed to stop a no-confidence motion against him in what was a dramatic last-minute vote on the n...
15 Apr 202225min
How Afghans in Poland are helping Ukrainian refugees
A group of Afghan refugees in Poland have rushed to support the millions of Ukrainians who fled the Russian invasion. The painful memories of their own war are a shadow only too recent. One of the gro...
7 Apr 202220min
What happens after Expo 2020 Dubai?
Your curtains open on a timer. You rise with the sun shining - which it does most days of the year here - and a sensor detects when you’re standing under the shower, activating the water at your prefe...
29 Mars 202216min
Ukraine’s women in war
Since the start of Russia’s war in Ukraine, millions of people have fled the country in search of safety elsewhere in Europe. Most are women and children, with men of fighting age required to stay and...
24 Mars 202222min
Why Iran is raining rockets on Iraq
In the early hours of March 13, 2022, streaks of light punctuated the sky above the northern Iraqi city of Erbil as a barrage of rockets rained down on a building near the old town. The thud and blast...
17 Mars 202226min
