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Election Excitement (USA and Ireland)

How one (very) vintage Republican charms Texans; Eurosceptic leanings on Arranmore Island

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Brazil and Nicaragua

Disrespect and disillusion roil Brazil; the fungus ravaging Central America's coffee crop

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Egypt and Nigeria

Egypt's history of political protest; bringing back Nigeria's missing schoolgirls

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Brazil and Kyrgyzstan

Ethnic tensions in Brazil, ethnic violence in Kyrgyzstan.

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Italy and France

Breaking the cycle of the Neapolitan camorra; neighbourliness in a Paris apartment block

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Brasil, Brazil

A panorama of Brazilian stories - from the Snake Man of Bahia to the Awa of the Amazon

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China and Ukraine

The spirit of Tiananmen, 25 years on; the myths of Odessa.

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Historic Victories

Will Sisi's election turn out to have been a real milestone? Plus, gay rights in Georgia

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Kashmir and the Camargue

Visitors rise, violence ebbs in Srinagar; the French town that's a Roma pilgrimage site

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Niger and Guatemala

People vs power: the struggles in the Agadez Governor's office and La Puya's protest camp

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Nigeria, Armenia, Syria

Teachers and pupils brave threats go to school in Kano; Syrian-Armenians retrace the past

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Weekend Edition

With stories from Niger, Nigeria, China, Kashmir and southern France

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Thailand and Kenya

Political life in Thailand's rural north-east stifled; who is killing Kenya's elephants?

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Libya and Ukraine

The battle to bring peace to Libya, and people who want the Ukraine like the old USSR

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Russia and Spain

National glory rising in Russia, and the medieval warriors fighting in southern Spain

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Fifa in Brasil and Mexico

World Football's Fifa under scrutiny and much needed reform of Mexico's education system

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Afghanistan and Cumbria, UK

Voters go to the polls in Afghanistan; The Roma people at a North of England horse fair

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Weekend Edition: Modern Scourges

From rogue militias to rampant fungus or nasty neighbours - the things that infuriate us

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American Guns and a North Korean Restaurant

Guns for prizes at a US campaign for county sheriff; eating in a North Korean restaurant

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Wars Without Borders

Thoughts on Syria, Iraq and ISIS; how Manas airbase changed Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan

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Burundi and Burma

Why jogging's subversive in Bujumbura - and how 'thyan chat' poetry speaks truth to power

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India and South Africa

Guitar or sitar in Mumbai's music shops; how the platinum miners' strike affects families

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Iraq and Syria, the US and Germany

The dilemmas ISIS pose for Iran and the US; a 1904 disaster for NYC's 'Kleindeutschland'

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Syria, US, Burundi, Myanmar, Niger

War in Syria, US gun culture, jogging in Burundi, poetry in Myanmar, skiing in Niger

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Antarctica and Iceland

How superpowers are jockeying for claims on Antarctica; on the trail of elves in Iceland

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Iraq and Trinidad and Tobago

Iraqi Kurds react to the country's crisis and gang violence in Trinidad and Tobago

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Nepal and Iraq

Meeting an Iraqi Kurd general; Nepalese who carry huge loads up Mount Everest

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Liberia and Bosnia

Women turning to prostitution in Liberia; Sarajevo remembers Archduke Ferdinand

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Iraq and Kenya

How Iraq's history shapes a fractured country; Kenyans confront problems beyond tourism

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Battlefields

Conflicts past and present - in Kenya, Iraq, Antarctica, Trinidad & Tobago and Spain

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