Crossing Continents

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Crossing Continents

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American Mercenaries: Killing in Yemen

While recent attention has focused on the Houthi rebel movement in Yemen, BBC correspondent Nawal...

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Bulgaria: the people smugglers

Migration is high on the political agenda in countries across Europe, as the number of asylum...

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The Struggle for Barbuda's Future

Campaigners on the tiny Caribbean island of Barbuda are locked in a battle over its development...

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Bones that speak

In 2016, the Philippines’ newly elected president, Rodrigo Duterte declared there was one, common...

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Bolivia’s giant fish intruder

Some people said it was created by Peruvian scientists, that it gorged on the blood of farm...

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Ukraine: Building back better

Rebuilding Ukraine after the destruction inflicted by Russia will be a gigantic task. Foreign...

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Ukraine: Fighting for Openness

As hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers defend their country against Russia, many...

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Cyprus: The battle over songbird slaughter

Cyprus is one of the main resting stops for songbirds as they migrate between Europe, Africa and...

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Poland's Forest Frontier

Crossing Continents reports from Poland’s eastern frontier, where the Polish government has built...

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Florida's political refugees

Americans on both sides of the political spectrum are escaping states they no longer feel...

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How a war has changed a Norwegian town

Kirkenes, in the far north-east of Norway, once thrived on its close ties with neighbouring...

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Missing in Syria

There are one hundred thousand missing Syrians, according to the UN, who’ve been detained or have...

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Surviving Greece's migrant boat disaster

In the early hours of 14th June, a heavily overcrowded, rusty fishing trawler carrying as many as...

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Singing Morocco's New Identity

Gnawa music is a Moroccan spiritual musical tradition developed by descendants of enslaved people...

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Belize's Blue Bond

In 2020 Belize was broke. Again. This small, climate-vulnerable, Central American nation is home...

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Zimbabwe's worker exodus

Tens of thousands of Zimbabweans are fleeing their country, looking for work in the West,...

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When Wagner Came Home

Tens of thousands of Russian criminals – murders, rapists, robbers – were recruited from prisons...

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Returning to Romania

Millions of people left Romania after it entered the EU in 2007. They were haemorrhaging doctors...

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Botswana: Living with elephants

The battle to keep the peace between people and elephants in northern Botswana. The earth’s...

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Ukraine: the men who don’t want to fight

For more than 15 months the Ukrainian armed forces have held out against the superior numbers of...

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