Deliberate strikes on civilians and medical personnel are a war crime, and yet here we are. My latest for BBC News:

Once again Shayan Sardarizadeh doing vital work debunking popular nonsense accounts.

The OPCW, the world chemical weapons watchdog, has published multiple reports blaming the Syrian government for carrying out chemical weapons attacks at the height of the Syrian civil war.

It began in brutal earnest thirty years ago today. I remember the the smell, the decomposing dead, the survivors, the fear, the abandonment, the lessons never learned, those days that seem like yesterday #Rwanda

Happy to inform the angry users in replies that this is obviously a fake Bill Gates tweet.

🧵I don't usually bother with this stuff but... I see people suggesting the BBC has somehow indulged me because I'm riding a £7,000 bike. I feel compelled to set the record straight on a couple of points 1/3

The Russian embassy in South Africa is falsely claiming that President Zelensky's bought Highgrove House from King Charles III for £20m, citing 'British media' outlet the London Crier.

But British media has reported no such thing. The London Crier is a Russian disinformation…

Crashes are never something we want to see in cycling. Sadly today we saw a really nasty one.

Wishing my teammate Jay and all my comrades in the peloton a speedy recovery after their tough fall today🙏

Church of the Holy Cobble is ready to receive you for communion

Riders reached, and we acted on their behalf. Now, with a slower entrance to Arenberg, riders won't hit it with speed and momentum. It's going to make this sector even harder than before.

And they're off!! Hoping the Easter bunny gives them some treats along the way 😂🥚

Let's gooooo 🤩 #RVV24

Guyana’s President is not to be messed with on questions of climate.

BBC Verify has examined the ongoing Russian campaign to blame Ukraine for the deadly attack on a Moscow concert hall - despite Islamic State claiming responsibility - and tracked how it unfolded.

With Shayan Sardarizadeh Paul Brown Benedict Garman Mina Al-Lami bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…

This video posted on X with more than 500,000 views doesn't show today's Baltimore Key Bridge collapse.

It's a video published by media outlets, including CNN, in October 2022 attributed to the explosion at the Kerch Bridge in Crimea.

No, it certainly didn't.

People like to mock Adrian Chiles but I think he's a magnificent, very direct, soulful writer, especially about masculinity. This, about the death of his old man, is tender, simple, moving:

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

British forecast: light scattered showers.

On January 7, the IDF targeted a car carrying 4 Palestinian journalists in southern Gaza, claiming their drone had threatened troops. Our review of the footage + interviews with 14 witnesses found no evidence to support Israel's claims. washingtonpost.com/world/2024/03/…