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We spoke to Lily Caprani, head of advocacy for health and pandemic response at UNICEF, and asked whether speeding up the vaccine booster programme was the right priority for the UK.

France has called for a new post-Brexit agreement between Britain and the EU to deal with illegal immigration.

The trial of the British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell is getting underway in New York City, where she’s accused of recruiting and grooming underage girls for Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse over a period of ten years.

The UN has said that early evidence shows the global risk from the Omicron variant is “very high”.

If Covid fears have ramped up again in this country, in some parts of the world the older variants are still wreaking havoc. 

Now Barbados, the former British colony, is on the eve of taking a momentous step. 

Priti Patel will hold ‘urgent talks’ with her European counterparts this week over Channel crossings after the deaths of 27 people. 

Lights will be dimmed in London’s theatreland on Monday to honour the composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim who died yesterday, at the age of ninety one. 

The speed with which travel restrictions were brought in for parts of Southern Africa have left some British travellers unable to come back home. 

On today’s Fourcast, our Health and Social Care Editor Victoria Macdonald explains why Covid cases are rising in Europe and asks whether the compulsory jab mandates seen on the continent are coming to our shores next.

Conflict over diminishing resources is driving jihadi violence in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger. Today, our International Editor Lindsey Hilsum reports on her recent trip to Niger.

“I’ve always been ambitious to change the way British art galleries are,” says the artist Lubaina Himid, the first Black woman to win the Turner Prize four years ago. 

While Ethiopia’s conflict rages in the north of the country, another enemy is looking to exploit the situation in the east. 

A month after the military seized power in a coup, Sudan’s newly reinstated Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok pledged today to introduce a “technocratic government” of qualified professionals to lead the country on a path to democracy.

Police in Wisconsin have named the driver of a car which ploughed at high speed into a Christmas parade in Wisconsin on Sunday, killing five people aged between 52 and 81 and leaving dozens injured.