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Albania’s Iranian guests
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The story of girls trapped in the violent world of cross-country drugs gangs in the UK
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Iceland's glaciers are melting and scientists predict they could be gone in 200 years.
Time has chosen us
The Soviet War in Afghanistan told through its teenage soldiers and their music
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Trans in Japan
The controversial laws over how people can change gender in Japan
Belarus: The wild world of Chernobyl
'We lived with wolves' says 90-year-old Galina - a witness to life before Chernobyl
Germany: Justice and memory
How has Germany tried to come to terms with the legacy of its Nazi past?
The Coffin Club
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Ayahuasca: Fear and healing in the Amazon
Psychedelic plants, the spiritual tourism backlash - and sexual abuse
Greenland: Why music matters
Kate Molleson explores music’s place on the world’s largest island
My father the killer
How would you feel if your father was a convicted torturer?
Disagreeing better
Why do we hold our opponents in contempt?
Finland's race to go carbon neutral
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The remarkable resistance of Lilo
Lilo and Erich Gloeden hid Jews from the Nazis in wartime Berlin
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