How can Europe tackle climate change? - BBC News
Climate change needs to be tackled by a global effort, with the countries creating the biggest emissions required to make the biggest adaptations.
The EU and UK create more than 7% of CO2 emissions worldwide.
Almost 200 countries are being asked for their plans to cut emissions at the upcoming COP26 climate conference, and it could lead to major changes to our everyday lives.
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October 20, 2021
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Polish PM accuses EU of blackmail as row over rule of law escalates - BBC Newsnight
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has accused the EU of blackmail in a heated debate with European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen over the rule of law. But why is Poland fighting the supremacy of EU courts? Please subscribe HERE http://bit.ly/1rbfUog
The clash in the European Parliament follows a top Polish court ruling that rejected key parts of EU law.
Mrs von der Leyen said she would act to prevent Poland undermining EU values.
In response, Mr Morawiecki rejected "the language of threats" and accused the EU of overstepping its powers.
Poles overwhelmingly support being part of the EU, opinion polls suggest, but Poland's right-wing nationalist government has increasingly been at odds with the union on issues ranging from LGBT rights to judicial independence.
The latest row has come to a head over an unprecedented and controversial ruling by Poland's Constitutional Tribunal that in effect rejects the core principle that EU law has primacy over national legislation.
The case, brought by the Polish prime minister, was the first time that an EU member state's leader had questioned EU treaties in a national constitutional court.
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October 19, 2021
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Can you stop Norway drilling the oil that made it rich? - BBC News
As world leaders prepare for the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow in November, soaring gas prices in Europe have exposed the continent’s deep dependence on fossil fuels.
Young climate activists in Norway are asking European judges to stop their government allowing more drilling for oil and gas.
It’s one of many similar fights emerging across Europe.
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October 19, 2021
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'Heaviest' kidneys removed in high-risk operation - BBC News
A man who is believed to have had the heaviest kidneys on record has spoken of his determination to get his life back following surgery to remove them.
Warren Higgs, 54, from Windsor, UK, suffers from polycystic kidney disease.
The inherited condition causes fluid-filled cysts to grow in the kidneys and can lead to kidney failure. It affects around one in 1,000 people and there is no cure.
The BBC met Warren a few weeks before his major operation at Churchill Hospital in Oxford, and caught up with him three months later.
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October 19, 2021
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French far-right journalist Eric Zemmour cast as Macron election rival - BBC News
With six months to go until the next French presidential election, it’s not Emmanuel Macron or Marine Le Pen dominating the magazine front covers.
A new face in French politics, Eric Zemmour, hasn’t even formally announced his candidacy yet, but polls suggest he’s on track to challenge Le Pen for leadership of the hard right in France.
The child of Jewish Algerian immigrants, Zemmour has long drawn attention for his controversial views.
Now, he says, France is being "submerged" by migrants, and parents should be forced to give their children "French names".
His speech at a rally in Béziers targeted France's education system - "infiltrated by Marxism, anti-racism, and LGBT ideologies", in his view.
The BBC’s Lucy Williamson attended the rally to meet him.
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October 19, 2021
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North Korea fires suspected submarine-launched missile off Japan - BBC News
North Korea has fired a suspected submarine-launched ballistic missile into waters off the coast of Japan, South Korea's military has said.
Pyongyang unveiled the missile in January, describing it as "the world's most powerful weapon".
It comes weeks after South Korea unveiled a similar weapon of its own.
North Korea has carried out a flurry of missile tests in recent weeks, including of what it said were hypersonic and long-range weapons.
Some of these tests violate strict international sanctions.
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October 19, 2021
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Flying Doctors take vaccines to Australia's outback - BBC News
Australia's vaccination rollout has really picked up in recent months, partly due to Covid outbreaks in Sydney and Melbourne.
But in remote areas hardly touched by the virus, it’s often a different story.
Australia's famous Royal Flying Doctor Service is part of a huge logistical effort to get jabs in arms.
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October 19, 2021
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Colin Powell: From Vietnam vet to secretary of state - BBC News
Colin Powell came from a humble background to become the first African-American US secretary of state.
A highly decorated army officer, he saw service in Vietnam, an experience that later helped define his own military and political strategies.
He became a trusted military adviser to a number of leading US politicians. And, despite his own misgivings, he helped swing international opinion behind the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
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October 18, 2021
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Has Covid changed New York City nightlife forever? - BBC News
Photographer Dina Litovsky was used to taking pictures of rowdy crowds in the chaos that is nightlife in the Big Apple. Then she was suddenly confronted with the new pandemic reality of empty streets and closed clubs.
This is how she adapted her art - and what she learned about humanity in the process.
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October 15, 2021
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Lebanon crisis: What caused violence in the country? - BBC Newsnight
Newsnight reports from Lebanon after violence escalated over an investigation into last year's devastating explosion at Beirut's port. Please subscribe HERE http://bit.ly/1rbfUog
The tragedy of Lebanon has been unfolding for many months now, but the last week has seen an extraordinary new urgency to the violence.
Gunshot on the streets is making some think back to the country’s decades long civil war.
The trigger for many was the enormous explosion at the port that killed more than 200 people in Beirut more than a year ago.
Many were promised accountability, but that still hasn’t come.
Could Lebanon descend into a full-blown political crisis?
Newsnight’s Diplomatic Editor Mark Urban reports.
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October 18, 2021
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Malala Yousafzai joins campaign to get Afghan girls' back to school - BBC News
Malala Yousafzai has helped launch a campaign calling on world leaders to take urgent action to help get girls in Afghanistan back to school.
The Nobel Peace Prize winner, together with women’s rights advocates Zarqa Yaftali and Shaharzad Akbar have written an open letter to the Taliban.
In it they say the Taliban are “denying millions their right to learn” and urge them to “re-open girls’ secondary schools immediately”.
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October 18, 2021
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Colin Powell, former US secretary of state, dies of Covid complications - BBC News
Tributes have been paid to former US Secretary of State Colin Powell, who has died of Covid complications aged 84.
The former top military officer died on Monday morning, his family said.
He rose to become the first African-American secretary of state in 2001 under Republican President George W Bush.
Powell, who was fully vaccinated, later prompted controversy for his role in garnering support for the Iraq War.
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October 18, 2021
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Why are women targets for online abuse? - BBC News
Online abuse against women is on the rise, but why aren't the police, the government and social media companies doing more to stop it?
A BBC Panorama investigation into the matter has revealed how social media companies are using algorithms to promote misogynistic hate and failing to act when it's reported.
The BBC's disinformation reporter Marianna Spring has been to meet politicians, Love Island contestants and a front-line doctor to explore the impact of online hate on women who use social media as part of their jobs.
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October 18, 2021
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Waterspout spectacle off the coast of Cuba - BBC News
This is the moment a huge waterspout was captured on camera by people living in Cienfuegos, Cuba, on Saturday October 16.
The phenomenon lasted for about 10 minutes according to the country’s meteorological agency.
Although waterspouts can pose a danger in some circumstances, no damage was reported.
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October 18, 2021
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Hundreds strip naked by the Dead Sea in Israel - BBC News
More than 300 people have stripped naked by the Dead Sea in Israel to draw attention to its dramatically receding shoreline.
The event was part of a live installation by the artist Spencer Tunick, who’s used similar photo-shoots around the world to highlight environmental change.
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October 18, 2021
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Afghan women disappear from public life by order of Taliban's Vice and Virtue Ministry - BBC News
The Taliban have banned girls from secondary schools across most of Afghanistan.
Women, except those in the public health sector, have not been allowed to return to work.
The fear is that they are being treated once again as second-class citizens under a hardline Taliban regime.
The BBC has obtained access to the Taliban's Vice and Virtue Ministry in the capital Kabul - what was formerly the Women’s Affairs ministry before they seized power.
Clive Myrie presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Yogita Limaye.
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October 17, 2021
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The mystery of how long Covid damages our memory - BBC News
“Overnight, my independence was taken away”
In the last 16 months since Chrissy Gibson was diagnosed with Covid-19, she has had to re-learn many aspects of her life. How to walk, how to talk, how to live.
She is one of millions of long Covid patients, who despite no longer testing positive for the virus, continue to have life-altering side effects like memory loss.
This is how long Covid has changed her life.
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October 15, 2021
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“Using my domestic abuse story as power to fight back against the law" – BBC News
Nearly 13,000 cases of domestic abuse have been dropped in the last five years because of a six-month time limit on prosecutions of common assault in England and Wales, according to figures obtained by the BBC.
Campaigners say women are being denied justice and the police and prosecutors should be given more time.
Erica made a report of domestic violence to the police but was told there was no time left to press charges.
Now she’s campaigning for change and says she is using her story as “power to fight back against the law."
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October 15, 2021
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Killing of MP Sir David Amess was terrorist incident, police say - BBC News
UK PM Boris Johnson and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer have laid flowers at the scene of the stabbing of Conservative MP Sir David Amess in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex.
Police are treating the attack as a terrorist incident, which may be linked to Islamist extremism. A 25-year-old British man is being held on suspicion of murder.
Sir David had been holding one of his regular Friday meetings with his constituents at Belfairs Methodist Church when he was stabbed multiple times.
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October 16, 2021
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Nasa mission to seek out Solar System 'fossils' - BBC News
A spacecraft has launched from Cape Canaveral on a mission to uncover "the fossils" of the Solar System.
The Lucy probe will head out to the orbit of Jupiter to study two groups of asteroids that run in swarms ahead of, and behind, the gas giant.
Nasa scientists say the objects are leftovers from the formation of the planets.
As such, these trojans, as they're known, hold important clues about the early evolution of the Solar System.
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October 16, 2021
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