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Drama for Dilma
Colouring in the spaces between the world headlines. In this edition, trouble for ladies who lead - with Brazil's President Dilma Roussef facing impe…
10 years, 3 months ago
The Babylon Brigade
In this edition: a greyish sticky dough called fufu from the Democratic Republic of Congo; pesto Genovese from Italy, made as it used to be, with a p…
10 years, 4 months ago
Even the Dead Can’t Escape Politics
Insight, colour, analysis. Steve Evans visits a cemetery which poignantly illuminates present day politics in the troubled Korean peninsula; Owen Ben…
10 years, 4 months ago
Memories of Murder
The lives behind the headlines. In this edition: forty years in prison for the former Bosnian Serb Leader Radovan Karadzic, found guilty of war crime…
10 years, 4 months ago
Dancing in Damascus
There's dancing in a nightclub in Damascus, though some remain seated during the songs played in honour of the leaders of Syria and Hezbollah. And no…
10 years, 4 months ago
No way to Macedonia
Refugees stuck in Greece keep trying to cross into Macedonia even though the border is now closed. One man has got through the fence, and then been t…
10 years, 4 months ago
Stuck in Turkey.
Turkey and the EU are hammering out a deal that would turn Turkey into the gatekeeper of Europe, to stop undocumented migrants from reaching the West…
10 years, 4 months ago
China's corruption clampdown
In China, customers are staying away from the pearl and jewellery shops, but lingerie sales are soaring. The strange effects that the clampdown on co…
10 years, 5 months ago
Donald Trump 2.0
They are coiffed, lacquered, expensively attired and perfumed - and that's just the men in a Donald Trump audience in Florida. And while our North Am…
10 years, 5 months ago
Trapped in a dead end
Having reached Greece after often perilous journeys, many migrants now find that their hoped-for route north is blocked. Danny Savage meets some of t…
10 years, 5 months ago