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By Nadine Yousif,BBC News, Toronto It was a simple at-home DNA testing kit, a Christmas day gift, that upended the lives of two Canadian men forever.  Richard Beauvais, from the coastal town of Sechelt, British Columbia, grew up his whole life believing he was indigenous. But the test he took showed that he had a mix of Ukrainian, Ashkenazi Jewish ...

By Nadine Yousif,BBC News, Toronto It was a simple at-home DNA testing kit, a Christmas day gift, that upended the lives of two Canadian men forever.  Richard Beauvais, from the coastal town of Sechelt, British Columbia, grew up his whole life believing he was indigenous. But the test he took showed that he had a mix of Ukrainian, Ashkenazi Jewish ...

By:NEWS WIRES Louisiana’s strict abortion ban is having spillover effects across women’s health care in the US state, leading doctors to turn away patients for routine prenatal visits and perform unnecessary Cesarean sections, according to a report released Tuesday. Conservative Louisiana, in the Deep South, joined a dozen other states in implementing a near-total ban on abortion after the US Supreme Court ...

By Will Grant,BBC News, Cap-Haitien, Haiti “Port-au-Prince is in panic mode,” a friend in the Haitian capital texted me. Residents of Petionville, a wealthier area of of the city, are shaken after their most violent day so far in the country’s spiralling security crisis. More than a dozen bullet-ridden bodies lay in the street – the victims of the latest ...

By Florence Phiri in Lilongwe & Tamasin Ford in London,BBC Africa Eye BBC Africa Eye investigates how a WhatsApp group helped save more than 50 Malawian women trafficked to Oman to work in slave-like conditions. Warning: Some people may find details in this story distressing. A 32-year-old woman breaks down in tears as she relives the abuse she experienced when, ...

Lawyers for the Boeing employee-turned-whistleblower found dead by apparent suicide have hailed him as “a brave, honest man of the highest integrity”. Authorities are currently investigating the death of John Barnett, from what appeared to be a self-inflicted wound. Mr Barnett retired after working more than 30 years at Boeing in 2017. He was giving evidence in a lawsuit against ...

By Chris Ewokor BBC News, Kuriga Musa Garba,17, had to slither on the ground like a snake to avoid being detected by his kidnappers as he made his escape through the bush of northern Nigeria. Earlier, camouflaged by his school uniform, the teenager had managed to hide in a heap of cut grass as the group of schoolchildren he was ...

By Meryl Sebastian BBC News, Delhi The alleged gang rape of a tourist with Brazilian-Spanish dual nationality in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand has led to outrage. The 28-year-old woman and her husband, who were on a motorbike tour, had stopped for the night in Dumki district when the alleged attack took place. Police say that they have arrested ...

https://bbc.com/africalive Nigerian authorities have heightened security at government food stores around the country amid a crisis. With people struggling to afford food, recently there have been increased cases of attacks on warehouses to steal food items. On Sunday, the National Emergency Management Agency (Nema) said it was increasing security “to forestall any breaches” at its offices and warehouses nationwide. It ...

By Natasha Booty BBC News Some 170 people including women and children have been “executed” in attacks on three villages in Burkina Faso, a public prosecutor has said. Aly Benjamin Coulibaly appealed for witnesses to help find those who attacked Komsilga, Nordin and Soro. Separately, the army warned of the increased risk of attacks by Islamists, “including attacks on urban ...