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This week clashes that broke out between supporters and opponents of India’s new citizenship amendment law has turned into rioting. The Â鶹Éç’s Yogita Limaye is in Delhi and reports on the deadliest religious violence India’s capital has seen in more than three decades.

Pascale Harter introduces this and other stories from Â鶹Éç correspondents and writers around the world.

In the United States the race for the Democratic presidential candidate is on and healthcare has been at the forefront of debates. Most candidates agree that the insurance system needs overhauling. This is something the Â鶹Éç’s Laura Trevelyan discovered when she broke her wrist. .

In October 2019 President Trump withdrew American forces from Northern Syria – seemingly abandoning their Kurdish allies who had helped them in the war against both Islamic State and the Syrian Government. Days later Turkey took advantage of the power vacuum left by American troops to create a so called ‘buffer zone’ along the Syrian/Turkish boarder. Some 300,000 Kurdish people fled their home in the ensuing airstrikes, months later many attempted to return home, some never made it. Nick Sturdee documents one family’s quest to find their kidnapped son.

And to Mali, a country that although blighted by Islamic Insurgency and clashes between nomadic herdsman and farmers, still holds onto its creative past. Fleur MacDonald takes us into the living rooms of some of Mali’s most famous photographers.

(Image: Charred remains of vandalised vehicles and property set ablaze by rioters, New Delhi, India. Credit: Amal KS/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)