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Ilya Barabanov and Anastasia Lotareva BBC News Russian BBC Sergei and Tatyana Voronkov had long been disillusioned with modern Russia when they decided to move to Ukraine It was shortly after Moscow annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 that Sergei and Tatyana Voronkov decided they would leave Russia. The couple, who had long been critical…

Mansur Abubakar BBC News, Abuja AFP via Getty Images In Nigerian politics, there has long been an informal understanding: presidential appointments should carefully balance the country’s many ethnic and religious differences. Today, there are growing concerns that this is being ignored. While the constitution requires regional representation in cabinet positions, the broader distribution of other…

Nick Beake Europe Correspondent Kostas Kallergis Senior Europe Producer Greek Coast Guard The migrant boat sank with 650 people onboard A naval court in Greece has charged 17 coastguards over the deadliest migrant boat disaster in the Mediterranean Sea for a decade. Up to 650 people were feared to have drowned when the overcrowded Adriana…

Getty Images The snap vote follows the impeachment of former president Yoon Suk Yeol South Korea will elect a new president on 3 June to replace Yoon Suk Yeol, who was removed from office for placing the country under martial law for six hours in December. The winner will be tasked with managing the political…

Cherylann Mollan BBC News, Mumbai Farooq Ahmed Mohammad Iqbal died on 7 May in cross-border shelling in Indian-administered Kashmir Farooq Ahmed still bristles with anger when he talks about his brother’s death. Mohammad Iqbal, a resident of Poonch city in Indian-administered Kashmir, died in cross-border shelling on 7 May, the morning after India launched a…

Former Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila is back in the country for the first time in two years, having arrived in the rebel-held eastern city of Goma, spokespeople for the rebels as well as a youth leader from his party have said. Kabila’s arrival comes after senators stripped him of his immunity over…

Fake discounts, pressure selling, and other practices on Chinese fast-fashion website Shein breach the law, the European Union (EU) has said. The bloc said it has given Shein one month to respond to its findings or face fines based on its sales in the EU countries where it says it has breached the law. “It’s…

Wyre Davies Reporting fromDamascus Gate, Jerusalem Getty Images Israeli police remove a right-wing activist in Jerusalem’s Old City Crowds of far-right Israelis chanted insults and assaulted Palestinians during an annual parade for Jerusalem Day on Monday. Chants of “death to Arabs” and nationalistic slogans were repeated during the event, which commemorates Israeli forces taking Palestinian-majority…

Video footage shared online shows six-year-old Ward Jalal Al-Shaikh Khalil escaping a blaze at a Gaza City school following overnight Israeli air strikes. Among the 35 Palestinians reported to have been killed at the the Fahmi Al-Jargawi School were Ward’s mother and two siblings. Her father is in intensive care in hospital. Our Middle East…

Nick Ericsson BBC Africa Eye BBC Four years on from her husband’s brutal killing, Ngabi Dora Tue continues to struggle with the fallout Ngabi Dora Tue, consumed by grief, was barely able to stand on her own. The coffin of her husband, Johnson Mabia, sat amid a crowd of stricken mourners in Limbe in Cameroon’s…