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Antarctica and India

Even remote Deception Island can be full of tourists; why many Indians avoid sunbathing

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Mali and Angola

With the French Foreign Legion in the Sahara and visiting Neto's grand mausoleum in Luanda

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Swiss bedbugs and Italian trotting races

Switzerland gets itchy about national service and Rome's chariot races run out of time.

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Weekend Edition 6 April: Single ladies

The pick of recent dispatches from Mali, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and Malaysia.

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Slovenia, Bulgaria and the UK

Political and economic revolt in Ljubljana and Sofia; missing lambs in wintry Welsh hills

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National Heroes

Is South Africa already in the post-Mandela era? And why do the French so admire a thief?

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Ukraine and Israel

Meeting an ex-addict and prostitute turned HIV educator; exploring blunt Israeli manners

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Japan and Colombia

Two years on, what's the true toll of Fukushima? And why cosmetic surgery's so big in Cali

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Enduring Mauritius and changing Marseille

Lorraine Mallinder on an island haunted by its past; Mick Webb in a city buffing its image

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Weekend Edition 13 March 2013: Risky business

French thieves, Ukrainian cats and the price of fish in Yemen.

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Kenya and Mali

Inaugural omens for Uhuru Kenyatta in Nairobi; an influx from the rural north in Bamako

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Looking to the future

What does the future hold for Afghanistan? And tackling domestic abuse in Bhutan.

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No room for the living or the dead.

Why the dead have their own estate agents in Hong Kong, and vigilante groups in Mexico.

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Tunisia and Vietnam

Sufi shrines attacked in Tunisia and crossing a road in Vietnam.

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England - A trip down the River Trent

What can a journey down the River Trent tell us about the currents of history in England?

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Weekend Edition: Cityscapes

Stories from Bamako, Marseille, and Hong Kong; and escapes to the River Trent and the Jura

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Canada and Norway

We find out who's getting Canada's Liberals excited; and the Sami people of Norway.

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Syria special

Memories of the way Syria used to be; Jordanian Salafists fighting in Syria.

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Lithuania and Jamaica

A university in exile in Lithuania; why dreadlocks aren't always appreciated in Jamaica

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Georgia and St Helena

Why are Iranians moving to Georgia? St Helena awaits a new airport

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Food for the troops

Underseasoned truffles in Libya; a gourmet revolution for the British military.

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Weekend Edition: Roots of Conflict

Stories on rebels in Syria and Jordan; Bhutan's violence; Israeli mores and Jamaican hair

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Minority Voices In Hungary and America

Anti-Roma prejudice in Hungary and the legacy of Wounded Knee

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Nigeria and Mozambique

Glamour, glitz and gangsters in the Niger Delta and rebuilding the city of Quelimane

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South Africa and the UK

Stories from an open-air courtroom dispensing village justice and an undersea potash mine

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Bangladesh and Malaysia

Hard lessons from the Rana Plaza disaster; opposition voices filter into rural Borneo

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Weekend edition - Food For Thought.

Glitz and guns in Nigeria; prejudice in Hungary; Libyan truffles; British army food.

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North Korea and Burkina Faso

How Choco Pies reveal Pyongyang's weakness; why 'human flystrips' fight river blindness

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Mexico's Rude Rich and Canada's Language Police

Snobbery and abuse of power in Mexico City and tussles over terminology in Montreal

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Addiction in Afghanistan

What can be done to curb Afghanistan's new wave of heroin abuse?

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