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In this edition of Back & Forth, we invited rapper AJ Tracey – aka 'The Prince of West London' – and Big Zuu to discuss some of the most important questions in life.

Africa is in the midst of an opioids crisis. The painkiller Tramadol is exploding on the continent – and the War on Drugs is making the situation even worse.

Forget the pandemic, Germany is plagued by conspiracies. In the birthplace of the Nazis, COVID-skeptics have formed an alliance with a cohort of far-right nationalists.

In our People Vs. series, we get artists to respond to the comments on their YouTube videos. After Stormzy and Headie One, it's AJ Tracey and Big Zuu's turn.

Serge Benhayon leads a group called Universal Medicine that an Australian court found it was true to call a "socially harmful cult". Despite this, it continues to attract followers around the world.

In 2020, Paris became the most expensive city in the world. With 15 percent of properties unoccupied, squatters who can't afford rent are moving into abandoned buildings.

Inside the booming marijuana industry in Catalonia, Spain, which due to permissive attitudes towards the drug, has become the main exporter to the rest of Europe.

Cannabis investors are flocking to Lebanon to capitalize on the recent legalization of medicinal cannabis.

Conflict photographer legend Lynsey Addario talks to VICE about how she was kidnapped in Libya by Gaddafi loyalist forces and held hostage for a week in 2011.

A vicious troll destroyed Guy Babcock’s reputation by writing hundreds of posts calling him a pedophile. After investigating, he couldn't believe who was behind it.

The murder of Sergei Magnitsky while in prison remains one of the darkest scandals in the history of the Russian criminal justice system. This is his story.

We hear from an escort about how the sex industry has been affected by the pandemic and the challenges she faces working in a job without protection and support.