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Seventy one-year-old British tourist Lorna McSorley went out for a walk near South Africa's Ghost Mountain. She never returned. In the first episode of this three-part investigation, we travel to the remote, superstitious heart of Eastern South Africa to retrace Lorna’s final ste ...  Show more

There has been a second night of riots in Belfast following a knife attack in the Northern Irish city on Monday. Yesterday authorities called for calm after vehicles and houses were set alight. As violent anti-immigration protests continue, what’s it like on the ground and what c ...  Show more

*This episode has been updated with the latest on the Gaza and Kilmar Abrego Garcia stories. Israel strikes a hospital in Gaza, killing at least 20 people, including five journalists who worked for Reuters, the Associated Press, Al Jazeera and others. Ukraine hits a Russian nucle ...  Show more

At Glastonbury, Britain’s biggest music festival, two artists called out Israel’s genocide in Gaza and accused the British government of complicity. On-stage remarks by one of them - Bob Vylan - plunged the country's public broadcaster, the BBC, which livestreamed the performance ...  Show more

Reporting on the war in Gaza has only been possible because of the work of Palestinian journalists, because the Israeli government will not let foreign broadcasters – including the BBC – inside the territory to report freely, even now a ceasefire is in place. One month ago, freel ...  Show more

For the past week, an international outcry has been building, particularly in Europe, over Israel’s plans to escalate its military campaign in Gaza and over its two-month-long blockade, which has put Gaza’s population on the brink of starvation.

On Wednesday in Washingto ...