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Ten years after his death, some in Libya mourn the loss of Muammar Gaddafi

Libyans grow cagier; tales from the Netherlands, the West Bank, Mozambique & the Balkans

Show more Two hundred young women from Sierra Leone, west Africa, have been trapped in the Arabian sultanate of Oman, desperate to get home. Promised work in shops and restaurants, they say they were into tricked becoming housemaids, working up to 18 hours a day, often without pay, and sometimes abused by their employers. Some ran away, to live a dangerous underground existence at the mercy of the authorities – but now they’re being rescued and repatriated, and some are empo...

Sunday Feature: Regarding the Pain of Others (BBC Radio 3) | BBC Sounds 1Xtra Talks With Richie Brave (BBC 1Xtra) | BBC Sounds Today, on Radio 3’s Sunday Feature, the vastly experienced journalist Allan Little considers Susan Sontag’s 2003 essay Regarding the Pain of Others. In the essay, Sontag wonders about the ethics of war journalism, particularly photography. Do pictures of the horrors of war engage the viewer or make us turn away? Little has spent decades reporting from places such ...

Show more More than a century after its brutal colonisation of Namibia, including what it now accepts was the genocide of the Herero and Nama peoples, Germany is negotiating with the country’s government to heal the wounds of the past. The eventual deal may set a precedent for what other nations expect from former colonisers. But how do you make up for the destruction of entire societies? Germany has agreed to apologise - but Namibia also wants some form of material compensati...

Show more More than a century after its brutal colonisation of Namibia, including what it now accepts was the genocide of the Herero and Nama peoples, Germany is negotiating with the country’s government to heal the wounds of the past. The eventual deal may set a precedent for what other nations expect from former colonisers. But how do you make up for the destruction of entire societies? Germany has agreed to apologise - but Namibia also wants some form of material compensati...

BBC News By Tim Whewell image copyrightGetty Images A deal that could set a precedent for former colonies all around the world is being thrashed out between Germany and Namibia, to heal the wounds of whats now widely regarded as a genocide by colonial forces. But how do you make up for destroying an entire society? In Namibia, descendants of both victims and colonisers are arguing fiercely about the talks. "Along this whole beach, there was a concentration camp," says Laidlaw Peringanda. "The ...

BBC News Published image copyrightYouTube/Alexei Navalny image captionThe report claims the vast property features a casino, an ice rink and a vineyard Russian President Vladimir Putin says an opulent palace featured in a video by his arch-critic Alexei Navalny "doesnt belong to me". The video called "Putins palace" went viral on Russian social media last week - more than 86m people have watched it. The palace, by the Black Sea, was allegedly financed by billionaires close to Mr Putin. It is sa...

Show more Amid the anarchy of post-Revolution Libya, seven brothers from an obscure background gradually took over their home town near Tripoli. Theyre accused of murdering entire families to instill fear and to build power and wealth. They created their own militia which threw in its lot, at different times, with various forces in Libyas ongoing conflict. And they grew rich by levying taxes on the human and fuel traffickers crossing their territory. Now, the full horror of thei...