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1 Nov 2010 9 minute read

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A sea returns to life, a sea slowly dies

Paul Lauener’s stirring report from the Aral Sea, scene of both environmental miracle and disaster.

1 Nov 2010 3 minute read

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Georgia

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The Rough Guide to the Music of Afghanistan

1 Nov 2010 2 minute read

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The Rough Guide to the Music of Afghanistan

By Various Artists

1 Oct 2010 5 minute read

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I put a spell on you...

Zuhra Bahman gives the inside story on how male sorcerers are keeping women down in Afghanistan.

1 Jan 2008 3 minute read

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Kazakhstan

A nation of extremes.

10 Oct 2007 2 minute read

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Torture - the deepest scar

Undoubtedly acts of torture are shocking. How could anyone extract information from others by breaking their back or boiling...

20 Feb 2007 4 minute read

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No sanctuary

In 1996, in the midst of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, my cousin Saboor, a fresh-faced and ambitious 20-year-...

2 Mar 2006 2 minute read

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Burned alive

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2 Dec 2005 7 minute read

This article is almost 18 years old.

Battle for the truth

Conflicted history in Armenia, Cambodia, Guatemala, East Timor and Japan.

1 Dec 2005 3 minute read

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Afghanistan

Afghanistan is arguably the country that has been most affected by 9/11. Less than four weeks after the terrorist...

1 Nov 2005 2 minute read

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No refuge

Anguish of Chechens in exile

1 Nov 2005 7 minute read

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The North Caspian - what am I bid?

A visit to the new oil frontier in Kazakhstan leaves Horatio Morpurgo wondering where on earth we go from here.

1 Sep 2005 5 minute read

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Toxic time bomb

Tonnes of poorly contained radioactive waste threatens to become an ecological disaster in Central Asia. Gulnura...

2 Jul 2005 1 minute read

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Onnik Krikorian

On 24 April a march in Yerevan marked the 90th anniversary of the Armenian genocide and was photographed by Onnik...

West Bengal bans strikes in call centres

2 May 2005 1 minute read

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West Bengal bans strikes in call centres

Although he calls himself a communist, the chief minister of West Bengal, Shri Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, has banned...

1 Apr 2005 1 minute read

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Cyberwar

In a new dimension to the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Lebanon-based Hizbollah group’s two websites were targeted by e-...

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