Syria, Jordan and Brazil

The gallows humour of wounded Syrians in Amman; trouble over dams and mines in the Amazon

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Syria and Burma

The real beliefs of the foreigners fighting Assad; Burmese daze on a train to Mandalay

• 11 mins

Tanzania and Ecuador

A poacher turned gamekeeper in the Serengeti, a former prison-radio DJ in Quito

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Heroes from all walks of life

In tribute to Nelson Mandela, we hear about all kinds of heroes from around the world.

• 24 mins

China, North Korea, Burma

Life in the border city of Dandong on the China-North Korea border

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Thailand and India

The real reasons behind Thailand's protests, and breaking the sex abuse silence in India

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United States and France

Nipple tattoos for cancer patients in the US, and the real reason French women stay slim

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North America

Coping with doormen in New York and the Canadian policeman who smokes medical marijuana.

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Syria and Brazil

A Syrian man whose life illustrates the conflict; and slavery-type labour in Brazil.

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Weekend Edition: Life on the Land

Stories of farmers and herders from Peru, the USA, Moldova, India, Mauritania and Austria

• 24 mins

Somalia and Greece

The lost spectacles that made it back from a Somalian battlefield, and hope for Greece

• 11 mins

Germany and Greenland

New tunnels add to the Christmas cheer in Leipzig; and being stuck for days in Greenland

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Christmas in Paris

The sights, smells, tastes - and joys - of the French capital at Christmas

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Reporting Africa

Gabriel Gatehouse considers who should be telling the continent's stories - and how

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India's Hunger

Why does malnutrition persist in India when there's no lack of food?

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Weekend Edition: Best of 2013

A special edition of some of FOOC's most memorable impressions, anecdotes and arguments

• 24 mins

Europe's Roma Migrations

Nick Thorpe meets Roma families on the margins of Spanish society after leaving Romania

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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

• 24 mins

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

• 24 mins

Syria and Romania

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

• 11 mins

Russia and Spain

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

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