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In Africa in the 1800s, the women of the Dahomey people were incredibly powerful.

The British foreign office has summoned Iran’s diplomatic representative in the UK over the increasingly violent suppression of protests in Iran.

Brazilian voters are heading into an acrimonious run off in the elections after left-wing former President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva failed to secure the majority he needed to seal a first round victory.

We spoke to the Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto. We asked him whether he thinks that gains made by Ukraine mean that Putin is losing the war.

Russia has reportedly sacked the commander of its Western military district – the latest top official to be fired after a series of defeats in the war in Ukraine.

Brazilians are voting today in an election that will have a huge impact on the Amazon. 

At least 125 people have died after violence broke out following a football match in Indonesia. 

Pop star Ed Sheeran is being taken to court in the US over allegations that his hit song ‘Thinking Out Loud’ copied Marvin Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get It On.’

Oleksiy Gonkharenko is a Ukrainian MP and a member of the Ukrainian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

Yesterday President Putin declared the Donetsk region of Ukraine was now part of Russia. 

A suicide bomber has killed 19 people and injured dozens more at an education centre in Afghanistan where teenage girls were sitting an exam.

The UK has ramped up sanctions against Russia in response to President Putin’s illegal annexation of parts of Ukraine.

Russian troops are reportedly surrounded by the Ukrainian army in the strategic northeastern city of Lyman.

In Moscow tonight they threw a party to celebrate the annexation of Ukrainian territories, while daring the enemies of Russia to take them back.

Amid the war in Ukraine, statues and cultural monuments have been entombed in sandbags to ensure their survival against the missiles and bombs of war.