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Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro took office at the beginning of the year with a promise to bring military values to a country weary of political corruption scandals. Nearly a third of his cabinet are from the armed forces, all graduates from the Agulhas Negras Military Academy that Bolsonaro also attended. ´óÏó´«Ã½ Brasil’s Julia Carniero took a tour.

Bats in Belarus
Bats in Belarus are being rudely awoken from hibernation by their freaked out human neighbours. But a bat friendly organisation in Minsk has come up with a solution to save them: tiny bat sleeping bags in fridges. Over to Tatiana Yanutsevich of ´óÏó´«Ã½ Russian.

Changing attitudes to intersex people in Kenya
Intersex people are those born with a combination of male and female biological characteristics. There is a cultural stigma attached to intersex children, and many undergo surgery to assign their sex after birth, though this can also be problematic in later life. But culture and the law is changing, as Judith Wambare of ´óÏó´«Ã½ Swahili reports.

DMZ village
Deaseong-dong is a village in the southern region of Korea’s de-militarized zone. It’s a volatile region, with villagers just a kilometre away from North-Korea, but still has a well attended primary school. Hyung-Eun Kim of ´óÏó´«Ã½ Korean spoke to two women who grew up there.

My Home Town: Chaah-E Anjir
Auliya Atrafi from ´óÏó´«Ã½ Afghan takes us to his hometown, named after the well by the fig tree.

Meet to sleep in India
Once a year women all over India defiantly sleep in public places. The ‘Meet to Sleep’ movement is protest against the sexual harassment and abuse that women experience, as Pooja Chhabria in the ´óÏó´«Ã½â€™s Delhi Bureau found out.

Image: President Bolosonaro
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