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Latin America: Leaders and legitimacy

Will Grant considers the political challenges ahead for leaders across the continent

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Africa's Flourishing Farms

Susie Emmett finds a bumper crop of ingenuity and innovation on the slopes of Mount Kenya

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Sinai's Strategic Stresses

A special essay: Yolande Knell weighs up the prospects for the Sinai peninsula in 2014

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Sweden and Myanmar

Hunting for wolves in the Scandinavian forest and taxis on the empty streets of Naypyidaw

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Weekend Edition: Looking Ahead

Correspondents consider the stories which might evolve - or play out again - during 2014

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Ukraine and Belize

Worries over safety plans for the Chernobyl site; tracking jaguars through Mayan jungles

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South Sudan and the Dolomites in Northern Italy

Why there's conflict in South Sudan, and the bloody history of an Italian mountain path.

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Sweden and Lebanon

Ice-skating Somalis playing bandy in Sweden, and the politics of Lebanese basketball

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India and UK

Brickmakers' rights abused in Indian kilns, and Britain's battle with coastal erosion

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United States and Switzerland

In the US Hell has frozen over, and coming up with a new national anthem for Switzerland.

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Weekend Edition 11 Jan 2014: Dangerous Ground

Disputed territory from Chernobyl to Somalia, and the South China Sea to the Amazon basin

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Syria and Romania

Why the Turkish city of Gaziantep is the new Casablanca. And shepherds in Romania today

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Russia and Spain

Is Sochi's security dragnet catching the right people? Plus, branding bulls in Andalucia

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Iraq and Italy

Rugged lives of the PKK's women fighters; the decadent luxury of Rome at Hadrian's Villa

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India and Uruguay: Golden Dreams

How a holy man's dream sparked a giant dig; the true grit of Montevideo's football fans

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Turkey and the Dominican Republic

Istanbul's gas-mask sales a measure of public unrest; fun and games in Dominican baseball

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Travelling Woes

Correspondents brave the pitfalls of travel, from Burma to Vietnam, Greenland to Israel

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Afghanistan's Women and Homophobia in Russia

Female hopes and fears for the future in Kabul; the fear of homosexuality in Russia

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Egypt and South Sudan

Is Egypt returning to military rule? And is South Sudan sliding back into civil war?

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Mali and Germany

Collecting a dog from the police in Mali, and refugees staying put in tents in Germany.

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Central African Republic and South Africa

A saviour priest in the Central African Republic and a Zulu victory that still resonates.

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Thailand and Russia

Thailand's enslaved fishermen and what a double toilet tells us about Russia

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Weekend Edition 25 Jan 2014: Sports Mania!

True athletic grit - from Uruguay's football fanaticism to the Somalis on ice in Sweden

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Sierra Leone and Israel

Inter-faith harmony in Sierra Leone, and teaching children about the Holocaust in Israel

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Syria and France

Watching the war from a Damascus balcony; taking a municipally-funded shower in Toulouse

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Under the Gun in Central America - and in Syria

Violence burgeons across Central America; Syrians trapped in Turkey yet metres from home

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Guyana's scurrilous calypsos - and China's culinary heritage

Controversy swirls over "censorship" in Georgetown; a delicious museum visit in Hangzhou

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Searching for an Identity in Ukraine and Kazakhstan

Among protestors in central Kiev; and the Kazakhs reconnecting with their shamanic roots

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Change in Africa

Change in Africa, from pioneering agriculture to new sources of income, or armed conflict

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Labours of Love in Greece and Syria

Taking pride in work in recession-hit Athens; A modern-day Romeo and Juliet in Damascus

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