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Afghanistan: ‘Over 160 children die every day’

The BBC visited a hospital in the western province of Ghor where children sick with pneumonia were seen filling wards at least two to a bed.

The BBC has witnessed the plight of children in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan where the United Nations estimates more than 160 are dying every day of preventable diseases.

The warring military factions in Sudan have agreed to a seven-day truce starting on Thursday.

And four Nordic broadcasters say their investigation into the explosions that damaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea last September has found that Russian navy ships were present in the area shortly before the blasts.

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  • Wed 3 May 202306:06GMT