Crossing Continents

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Crossing Continents

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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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Hard Times in the Big Easy

New Orleans is the murder capital of the United States: researchers into 2022’s crime figures say...

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Searching for my son

In the chaos following Turkey’s devastating earthquake in February, Omar was separated from his...

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Kenya's Free Money Experiment

Thousands of Kenyan villagers are being given free cash as part of a huge trial being run by an...

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Laos: the most bombed country on earth

50 years after the last US bombs fell on Laos, they’re still killing and maiming. In an effort...

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Leaving Sri Lanka

Record numbers are fleeing the island in the wake of a brutal economic crisis – perhaps one in...

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Gran Chaco - Paraguay’s vanishing forest

The Gran Chaco Forest is Latin America’s second largest ecosystem. It is a mix of hot and arid...

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Vienna: getting housing right

In Britain we have have failed for decades to build enough houses with good design and make...

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Iran Protests: Tales from the front line

Why did people take to the streets, risking arrest and a barrage of bullets? After protests...

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A Return to Paradise

In 2018 the town of Paradise in the hills of northern California was wiped out by one of the...

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Saving Children from the Mafia

Southern Italy is home to some of Europe's most powerful criminal organisations; the Sicilian...

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South Korea - a room with a view

“It’s like living in a cemetery.” Jung Seongno lives in a banjiha, or semi-basement apartment in...

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Fighting 'fat-phobia' in Brazil

As in many countries, obesity in Brazil is a major issue with one in four Brazilians now...

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Spain's Flamenco on the Edge

To many of us, the passionate music and dance known as flamenco is an important marker of Spanish...

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Hungary’s power dilemma

Paks, a small Hungarian town on the shore of the River Danube an hour or two south of Budapest...

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California's cannabis reparations

In California, cannabis is legal for recreational use and it’s created a multi-billion dollar...

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Cold-calling Siberia

Sasha Koltun volunteered to fight in Putin's war against Ukraine, though his mother Yelena begged...

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