Paris climate deal: EU and China rebuff Trump
Chinese and EU leaders are to agree a joint statement on the Paris climate agreement saying it is "an imperative more important than ever".
A draft of the document, seen by the BBC, stresses the "highest political commitment" to implement the deal.
It will be widely seen as a rebuff to the US, as President Trump prepares to announce on Thursday if the US is withdrawing from the accord.
The joint statement will be published on Friday after a summit in Brussels.
For more than a year, Chinese and EU officials have been working behind the scenes to agree a joint statement on climate change and clean energy.
The document highlights the dangers posed by rising temperatures, "as a national security issue and multiplying factor of social and political fragility," while pointing out that the transition to clean energy creates jobs and economic growth.
US anti-Trump protesters facing decades behind bars
More than 200 anti-Trump protesters are facing felony charges that could land some in prison for 70 to 80 years.
When Olivia Alsip travelled to the capital to protest against the inauguration of right-wing US President Donald Trump, she didn't imagine she would end the day behind bars and later face up to 80 years in prison.
Thousands of people journeyed from across the US to Washington, DC, to protest on the first day of Trump's presidency, January 20.
During the swearing-in, Alsip was among the more than 230 protesters arrested when officers from the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) blocked off a large area and hauled off nearly everyone.
Turkey presses Afghanistan to hand over control of Gülenist schools
Western officials believe a deal has been struck allowing Afghan vice-president to seek exile in return for schools’ closure
Sune Engel Rasmussen in Kabul
Afghan authorities have drafted a deal giving the Turkish government control of more than a dozen schools in Afghanistan affiliated with the exiled cleric Fethullah Gülen.
Western and Afghan officials believe the agreement is part of a bargain allowing Afghanistan’s vice-president, Abdul Rashid Dostum, who has been accused of abducting and torturing a political rival, to seek exile in Turkey.
Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, claims Gülen masterminded a coup attempt last year.
One in four children worldwide are being 'robbed of their childhood', finds major new report
New global index highlights extent of conflict, child labour, early marriage, lack of schooling and healthcare experienced by children around the globe
Displaced not just once, but twice by Isis, her family once again had to flee fighting six weeks ago, walking at night through mountains filled with landmines to avoid being caught.
Now safely in Jadaa Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp, she is enjoying being able to go back to school after two years – but misses home.
German students clash with police to fend off classmate's deportation
Germany's deportation policy is under renewed criticism after police clashed with students over the deportation of their Afghan classmate. It came the same day as a massive bombing in Kabul highlighted security.
Students clashed with police at a school in the German city of Nuremberg on Wednesday after authorities picked up an Afghan refugee for deportation, drawing renewed criticism over the government's controversial policy of deporting people back to the war-torn country.
Police took the 20-year-old Afghan from the classroom at a vocational school to bring him to a deportation center, triggering spontaneous protests from several hundred fellow students.
Nine police officers were injured and five people were taken into temporary custody in the ensuing scuffle, which saw police use pepper spray and dogs against some protesters hurling bottles and blocking patrol cars.
With few memories of Biafra War, young Nigerians renew calls for independence
When Nigeria’s brutal Biafran War ended in 1970, Sopuru Amah’s birth was still more than two decades away. The only knowledge the 22-year-old college student has of the war comes filtered through memoir and memory – the stories he has read and those he has heard from parents and relatives who survived the three-year civil conflict, which killed more than a million people between 1967 and 1970.
But today, nearly five decades later, Mr. Amah calls himself an “ever loyal, hardcore, and unrepentant Biafran,” referring to the short-lived state whose split from Nigeria began the conflict: the Republic of Biafra, which, had it survived, would have celebrated its 50th anniversary on May 30.
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