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The Headscarf and the Bicycle

A personal account of giving up the hijab; the bikes empowering young women in Rwanda

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Inequality in Indonesia and Hemingway's Paradise

How Indonesians feel about the country's wealth gap; an author's idyll in 1920s France

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Weekend Edition: Unusual Leisure Pursuits

Rowing choppy seas, reading poems on battlefields and dancing at Caribbean festivals

• 25 mins

Israel and Mexico: Matters of Life and Death

Love and loss in coma wards in Jerusalem; denial and paranoia about cartels in Nogales

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Iraq and United Arab Emirates

Evading IS in Iraq to reach a besieged Shia town and Indian kushti wrestling in Dubai

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Russia

Meeting President Putin at a mammoth museum, and hearing provincial Russians on Ukraine

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Pakistan and United States

What lies behind the Pakistani protests? And an African-American seaside resort in the US

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Catalonia and Sweden

Catalans eye up Scotland on national day and will Sweden's politics get a shake-up?

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Weekend Edition: The Reporter's Story

Correspondents' personal insights from Iraq, Egypt, Israel, Mexico, Crimea and Jersey

• 25 mins

The Aftermath of the Malaysia Airlines Disasters

Emotional scars from working at the MH17 site, and MH370 relatives' inability to move on

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Lebanon and Germany

Why IS is boosting sectarianism in Beirut; the century-old boardgame Germans still play

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Ivory Coast and Estonia

Errant Ivoirian men tamed by soap opera and 'husband schools'; Tallinn's European dreams

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Jamaica and New Caledonia

How did Mario Deane die in police custody? And the Pacific islands still part of France

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The USA and Afghanistan

Grand dilemmas for the Grand Canyon - and a peek into Kabul's presidential palace

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Weekend Edition: Displacement

Correspondents meet people who have been displaced by religion, politics or to find jobs.

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West Africa and Pakistan

How Ebola damages social life as well as health; a gulf between rich and poor in Karachi

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Syria, Iraq and Mexico

Choosing potential allies to fight IS, and getting a driving licence in Mexico

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Canada and Bulgaria

Toronto's controversial mayor Rob Ford, and the hopes of a young Bulgarian Roma man

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Ukraine and Sicily

Eastern Ukraine seems out of Kiev's reach now, and Sicily's pervasive corruption goes on

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Amsterdam Mayors' Conference and France

Big city mayors join up to get things done and a top French chef takes meat off the menu

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Weekend Edition: Ferocity, Prosperity and Subservience

Stories from Syria, Ukraine, Pakistan, Bulgaria and Liberia

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Pacific and Greece

US Navy exercises with an eye on China and a modern day Robin Hood in Greece

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Lessons from History in the Middle East

The past and present of the Middle East, and an oil bath in Azerbaijan

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Yemen and Hungary

Iona Craig on the politics of Yemen; Nick Thorpe picking mushrooms in Hungary.

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Egypt and Sweden

Life in Abdul Fattah al-Sisi’s Egypt, and the Sami of Sweden being forced off the land

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Myanmar and Zimbabwe

Charlotte McDonald on change in Myanmar; Chris Haslam finds a lonely baboon in Zimbabwe

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Anything Goes

A Frank Sinatra song is strangely apt in Russia, and why Egyptians complain about nothing

• 25 mins

France and Kyrgyzstan

Why opticians in France need more scrutiny, and the Nomad Games in Kyrgyzstan

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Fear in Baghdad, and the changing times in Yangon

Militant Islamist fear in Baghdad, and times of change for Rangoon or Yangon today

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Syrian refugees unwelcome in Turkey, and the Chinese monks who tweet and meditate.

Syrian refugees unwelcome in Turkey, and the Chinese monks who tweet and meditate.

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