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Riot police have fired tear gas at pro-democracy protestors in Hong Kong.

Iran says the British flagged Stena Impero was violating international maritime law. Not true, says the UK government, with Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt calling the seizure “totally and utterly unacceptable”. The oil tanker was captured by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard in the Strait of Hormuz yesterday, in retaliation for Britain’s role in capturing an Iranian ship in Gibraltar…

We investigate what appears to be a disturbing pattern of attacks on farmers and their crops in Idlib, Syria.

It was a death that shocked the political world. Days after he was sacked from his role in the Welsh government after being accused of inappropriate behaviour towards women, Carl Sargeant was found dead at his home.  

We speak to former US deputy assistant secretary of state and law professor, Colleen Graff, and begin by asking her what she made of our report. 

Fleeing civilians from all over the country have been thrown together and usually have no-one else to depend on but each other.

Nicholas Burns was the US Ambassador to NATO from 2001 to 2005.

Military authorities in Sudan have lifted an internet blackout, allowing people to upload videos of last month’s violent crackdown.

Over the next few days we’ll be running a series of special reports from inside the Syrian province of Idlib, the last remaining rebel enclave opposed to President Bashar al-Assad.

If yesterday’s Pride parade was a  celebration of LGBTQ rights the struggle for equality is by no means won.

Exit polls in today’s snap parliamentary election in Greece suggest that the conservative opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis has won a majority of the seats.

A woman is raped in India every fifteen minutes. Sohaila Abdulali is one of them. She was just seventeen when she was gang raped in her home city of Mumbai, in India.

It’s raised hopes there’ll be a peaceful end to the country’s political crisis.

Donald Trump says his Independence Day party overnight was a ‘spectacular success’.

We speak to the Chinese international relations expert Victor Gao.