‘Republic of fear’: A return to Yemen after 11 years | Features
Listen to this story: As the plane descended, a once familiar sight appeared outside the window, one that I had not seen for 12 years: […]
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‘Hurting people’: The ‘cover-up teams’ operating on the US border | US-Mexico Border
El Paso, Texas – In the early morning darkness of August 3, 2021, Lesvin Gamez rode in the back of an SUV with eight other […]
The Indian soldier who vanished on a glacier 38 years ago | Features
As the climate crisis causes water levels to plummet, riverbeds to dry and glaciers to melt, artefacts like old warships, an ancient city, a mosque, ‘hunger stones‘ and […]
‘Justice delayed’ in Texas city where police killed a Black woman | Black Lives Matter
Listen to this story: Fort Worth, Texas – If you walk up the hill at Hillside Park, roughly five minutes from James Smith’s house, you […]
Racing to develop Africa’s next-gen vaccines before new pandemic | Health
Cape Town, South Africa – It was early December 2021 and infections from a new coronavirus variant, Omicron, were ripping through South Africa, where 90,000 […]
‘I was desperate’: Young job seekers scammed, abused in Nigeria | Unemployment
Warning: This story contains details of sexual assault. Listen to this story: Uyo, Nigeria – When Blessing* boarded a bus early on a January morning […]
Belgium v Morocco: Can’t choose ‘between my father and my mother’ | Qatar World Cup 2022
Brussels, Belgium – On a warm, blue-skied Sunday afternoon, Aït Ahmed Abdelouhad, 46, was kicking a football around a small concrete football field with his […]
Hummus and chill: Doha weekends courtesy of Beirut Restaurant | Fork the System
Doha, Qatar – You know how they say good things come in small packages? While technically not small, Beirut Restaurant is certainly unassuming, and it […]
As climate clock ticks, war in Ukraine upends Arctic research | Climate Crisis
Listen to this story: Tromsø, Norway – In a cold basement room in the Arctic, Andreas Altenburger moves among row after row of marine specimens. […]
The Al Rasheed Hotel: 40 years of an iconic Baghdad landmark | Arts and Culture
When Baghdad’s five-star Al Rasheed Hotel opened four decades ago, it was billed as “more than a hotel”. The late-modernist building was intended, among other […]