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Afghanistan’s Taliban leaders have been more successful in cracking down on opium than anyone ever has, a BBC investigation has found.
The BBC has travelled to major poppy growing areas and had exclusive access to remote provinces where our journalists have seen that farmers have either not grown opium poppy complying with the Taliban’s ban, or they’ve had their poppy crops destroyed if they defied the order.
This is backed by research from UK based experts who have analysed satellite images and said the drop in opium cultivation is likely to be as much as 80%.
The crackdown has big global ramifications, with most of the world’s opium coming from Afghanistan.
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Summer 2026 was the UK’s hottest on record, according to provisional data from the Met Office.
Figures for the months of June, July and August show that the average mean temperature – which includes day and overnight temperatures – was 16.5C, the warmest on record in a dataset going back to 1884.
The highest temperature recorded this summer was 38.1C (100.6F) at Kew Gardens in London on 13 August.
At a more regional level, England, Wales and Northern Ireland also broke their respective mean temperature records for summer, while Scotland reported its joint-sixth warmest summer on record.
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Xbox chief executive Asha Sharma says the gaming giant needs to be “thinking about” affordability for its next-generation console, amid a “crisis” in computing prices.
Speaking exclusively to the BBC’s Laura Cress at Gamescom in Cologne, she said rising hardware costs partly driven by AI spending mean firms need to find ways to make gaming affordable.
She also revealed gamers will soon be able to get digital versions of many of the physical games they currently own, potentially meaning their old games can be played on future Xbox consoles without having to put a disc in a drive.
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A 23-year-old Utah man has pleaded not guilty to the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk – as a judge ruled prosecutors can seek the death penalty at trial.
Tyler Robinson denies aggravated murder, a capital offence in Utah, and six other charges in connection with the shooting of Kirk at a campus event on 10 September 2025.
Defence lawyers had tried to have the death penalty taken off the table, but prosecutors argued that aggravating factors, such as firing into a crowd in the presence of children, warranted a capital trial.
Turning Point USA co-founder Kirk, 31, was shot in the neck while speaking at Utah Valley University in Orem.
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Hundreds of people have become ill with salmonella linked to imported eggs, say UK authorities, who say they have identified two new clusters of the infection.
Some of the cases date back a year, but all involve bacteria that are almost genetically identical, suggesting a common food source.
BBC Health Correspondent Dominic Hughes answers some of the top searched questions.
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