Meet Bucha’s female unit who gun down Russian drones
BBC/James Cheyne The Witches of Bucha are part of a volunteer defence unit made up almost entirely of women It’s when dark falls over Bucha that the witches come out,…
Drone attack on Israel puts spotlight on Iron Dome’s limitations
Reuters Sunday’s drone attack was one of Israel’s biggest in more than a year – four Israeli soldiers were killed Slow, small and relatively cheap to make, drones have become…
What’s behind China-Taiwan tensions? – BBC News
Relations started improving in the 1980s as Taiwan relaxed rules on visits to and investment in China. In 1991, the ROC proclaimed that the war with the People’s Republic of…
Canary Islands migrants: ‘Try or die’
BBC Senegalese farmer Mouhamed Oualy has never been to sea, but he is about to embark on a perilous sea journey – one that has turned the Atlantic Ocean into…
What the stabbing of a schoolboy tells us about the dangers of Chinese nationalism
BBC On a Tuesday morning in September, a 10-year-old boy was approaching the gates of a Japanese school in Shenzhen in southern China, when a stranger walked up and stabbed…
Ukraine’s fierce battle to defend the eastern city of Potrovsk
Imogen Anderson/BBC “We have not been able to stabilise the front,” says Oleksandr “This is the most dangerous of all front lines,” says Oleksandr, the head of a medical unit…
Eastern Ghouta: Mattis warns Syria over ‘weaponised gas’
Image copyright AFP/Getty Image caption The Syrian army says it has completely surrounded the town of Douma, which has been under heavy bombardment US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis has warned…
Rwanda Seventh-Day Adventist churchgoers killed by lightning
Image caption Churchgoers were killed in southern Rwanda, near the border with Burundi A lightning strike killed at least 16 people and injured dozens more at a Seventh-Day Adventist church…
Russia ‘test-fires hypersonic Kinzhal missile’
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionRussia’s defence ministry released footage of the Kinzhal missile test-launch Russia says it has successfully test-launched a hypersonic missile, one of a…