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Writing on the Wall
A week in the life of correspondents around the world. In this edition, the paint flies as the race for the presidency in Peru gets colourful; a batt…
10 years, 2 months ago
Strike! Strike! Strike!
Correspondents look at some of the week's developments. In this edition, how the mounting industrial strife in France presents an increasingly seriou…
10 years, 2 months ago
The Opium Field
People in the news. Today, how the policeman's helping the opium farmer in Afghanistan. The president’s critics say democracy's under assault, freedo…
10 years, 2 months ago
Death from Above
Insight, analysis, description and colour. Today, death on a dusty highway in Baluchistan and what that might mean for neighbouring Afghanistan; how …
10 years, 2 months ago
The Kurdistan Tapes
People in the news: it's a hundred years since the signing of the secret Sykes-Picot agreement under which the British and French agreed to divide up…
10 years, 2 months ago
Murder in Bangladesh
Insight, colour and analysis. In this edition: the authorities deny IS or al-Qaeda is active in Bangladesh but others believe a spate of vicious kill…
10 years, 2 months ago
A Complex Man
The newsmakers. In this edition: a foul-mouthed despot or a man to grapple with the problems of the Philippines? Jonathan Head considers the country'…
10 years, 2 months ago
What is Truth? What is Fantasy?
What's life like in North Korea? Our reporter Steve Evans gets rare access, but wonders if all is as it seems. Gabriel Gatehouse meets Hungarians onc…
10 years, 3 months ago
Peace for South Sudan?
It's been a momentous week in South Sudan, where a national unity government has been formed under President Salva Kiir as his old enemy, the rebel l…
10 years, 3 months ago
On board Air Force One
The plane where even the paper napkins sport the presidential seal, and where exclusive little boxes of chocolate sweets feature a picture of Barack …
10 years, 3 months ago