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Image caption, The ARVs were used to treat African swine fever By Dorcas Wangira Africa health correspondent, BBC News  Uganda’s National Drug Authority has admitted it knew HIV medicine was being used to fatten up animals in 2014 but did not warn the public.  The regulator’s senior drugs inspector Amos Atumanya told parliament it became aware anti-retrovirals were being given to ...

By Michael Ertl Watch: Footage shows impact of torrential rains in Greece BBC News An Austrian couple on honeymoon is missing in Greece after torrential rains swept away the house they were staying in. Emergency services have told the BBC they are searching for the couple and several other missing people. People in central Greece were trapped on the roofs ...

Image caption, Fred Leparan (left) was convicted after attempting to sell a baby boy to an undercover reporter By Joel Gunter & Anna Payton BBC Africa Eye A Kenyan hospital employee who was caught by the BBC selling a baby on the black market has been convicted of child trafficking. Fred Leparan, who worked at Nairobi’s Mama Lucy Kibaki hospital, was ...

By Ed Thomas A growing number of women who say their children were handed to abusive partners by England and Wales’ family courts have abducted them and fled to Turkish-controlled northern Cyprus. The BBC spoke to six of them to investigate some of their stories. “I’m told there is an arrest warrant out for me. Court orders say I can’t ...

Image caption, A teacher’s suicide has sparked huge protests in Seoul – more than 100,000 teachers protested over the weekend By Jean Mackenzie On 5 June, Lee Min-so* described in her diary the fear that overtook her body as she entered her classroom to teach: “My chest feels too tight. I feel like I’m going to fall somewhere. I don’t even ...

Video shows police fatally shooting pregnant black woman By Max Matza BBC News Police in Ohio have released bodycam footage showing an officer fatally shooting a pregnant black woman. Ta’Kiya Young, 21, died on 24 August when she was shot while in her car outside a Kroger grocery store in Blendon Township, a suburb of Columbus.  Footage shows officers attempting ...

The men confessed to the murder, saying they kidnapped the American for ransom but did not mean to kill him. A demonstrator holds an Iraqi flag [File: Thaier al-Sudani/Reuters] SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES An Iranian man and four Iraqis were given life in prison for the 2022 killing of US citizen Stephen Troell in Baghdad. An Iraqi court sentenced ...

Image caption, Joe Biggs (right) with Enrique Tarrio at a rally in 2019 By Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News, Washington A leader of the far-right Proud Boys has been sentenced to 17 years in prison, one of the longest terms yet handed out over the US Capitol riot. US Army veteran Joe Biggs, 38, was an instigator of the storming of ...

By Antoinette Radford BBC News At least 64 people have died after a fire broke out in a building in Johannesburg, South African authorities say. More than 40 others are injured. Johannesburg officials say it is unclear what sparked the blaze at the five-storey building in the city centre.  A spokesman for the emergency services, Robert Mulaudzi, told the BBC ...

By George Wright & Kathryn ArmstrongBBC News Image caption, Ali Bongo was declared the winner of Saturday’s election, which the opposition argued was fraudulent Army officers have appeared on national television in Gabon to say they have taken power.  They said they were annulling the results of Saturday’s election, in which President Ali Bongo was declared the winner.  The electoral commission ...