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Digging up beer in Mali; and staging Shakespeare in Hungary

Stories about Mali, Hungary, Lebanon and more.

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A French bistro and the British pub

How microbreweries run by women is a new trend breathing life into Britain's pubs

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A Romanian palace and a fear of flying

The building with the biggest carpet in Europe; and a reporter's crippling fear of flying

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Murder in Corsica and home-made rockets in Syria

Crime isn't putting off the tourists in Corsica; while the death toll rises in Syria.

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Tunis losing the Paris feel while women swap lipsticks for knives in India

Is the shine coming off Tunisia's revolution? Plus the party arming women in India.

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Bread in Aleppo and tunnelling through the mountains in Italy

Winning over the people with food in Syria, while Italian protesters object to a tunnel.

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The life and death of a Syrian rebel, a trip through Bangladesh, and more

Stories on a rebel in Syria, a trip through Bangladesh’s richest region, and more.

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Stories of railways in Switzerland and Nigeria

From Swiss trains that run like clockwork, to Nigerian trains on a more leisurely pace

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America - fighting in the Philippines and welcoming immigrants at home

Joining US forces in the Philippines plus the story of a poignant reunion in New York

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The baton wavers of Japan and a return to Kenya

Stories on the strange jobs that prop up Japan’s economy and a reporter returns to Kenya.

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Preventing a deadly disease and a vegetarian visits a slaughterhouse

Efforts to prevent sickle-cell disease and a visit to a Romanian slaughterhouse.

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Nepotism in Italy and France’s rugby shrine

Stories on nepotism in Italian universities and a church in France devoted to rugby.

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Planes, trains and horse-drawn carts

The pick of recent personal stories and dispatches from correspondents around the world.

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Uganda’s rising prices and anger at immigration in Singapore

Dispatches on rising inflation in Uganda and anger over newcomers in Singapore.

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A little-known insurgency in Thailand, plus the price of limes in a rich Australia

An unheralded rebellion in Thailand, plus unintended consequences of wealth in Australia.

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Syria and Greece

The human and urban wreckage of civil war around Aleppo; the migrants keen to leave Patras

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India special: College corruption and cold in Calcutta

Personal stories, insight and wit from Craig Jeffrey in Meerut and the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s Rahul Tandon.

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Kenya special: coastal grudges and youth superheroes

The roots of today's divides in Kenya; Natasha Breed on a way to avert clashes

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Weekend Edition

Pascale Harter presents dispatches from Australia, Kenya, India, Thailand and France

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Guatemala and Canada

How Mexico's drug wars are spreading south; why Canadians have concerns about free trade.

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Mexico and Portugal

Meeting "La Maestra" doesn't go to plan; plus the young Portuguese leaving home in droves

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Bulgaria, Iraq and Britain

Nick Thorpe on the protests rocking Sofia and Kevin Connolly on what's in Iraq's future.

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Australia’s mining boom and Aboriginal lands

Neil Trevithick in Western Australia, where land is rich in memories as well as minerals.

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Georgia and Austria: Dealing with dictators

60 years on Stalin is commemorated by some; but few remember Hitler in his birthplace.

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Weekend Edition 9 March 2013: The Hard Numbers

Personal stories from Uganda, Guatemala, Mexico, India, Georgia and Western Australia.

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A personal take on homophobia in Russia

Paul Henley on the trials of being a gay correspondent reporting on anti-homosexual views.

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The Vatican's needs and Sweden's city on the move

Allan Little on why Catholics want "a pastoral man" for Pope; Steve Vickers visits Kiruna.

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Turkey and Tunisia

What might Erdogan and Ocalan have in common? And is hope or fear winning out in Tunisia?

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Bangladesh and Pakistan

Why 1971's news still roils Bangladeshis today; how chaos might feed literary creativity.

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Austerity in South Sudan and historical amnesia in Japan

Richard Nield on signs of a cash crunch in Juba; Mariko Oi queries Tokyo's history lessons

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