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We assess the importance of the Serb voter turnout to Kosovo’s municipal elections this Sunday, find out whether wine is really going to run out in the coming years and discuss the latest news out of Mali with Bamako correspondent Alex Duval-Smith.
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We meet the UN population fund’s executive director, speak to our man in Shanghai and discuss the legacy of ‘magician of popular science’ Fritz Kahn.
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We discuss the latest criminal charges against Russia’s main opposition leader Alexei Navalny, head to Silicon Valley for the RoboBusiness conference and speak to Hans-Ulrich Obrist, one of the most influential men in the art world, about his 89plus project that seeks to “collect” the next generation of art and…
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We discuss the latest on the US spying scandal with Jeffrey Kofman, London correspondent for ABC news. We also ask whether the Democratic Republic of Congo could defeat its most powerful rebel group – the M23 – and talk Mexican horror ahead of the Dia de Los Muertos celebrations.
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We unpick the Czech election results as the Social Democrat party fails to achieve a strong majority, discuss Silvio Berlusconi’s latest political stunt, and pay tribute to the vanishing art of letter-writing with author Simon Garfield.
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James Schneider, editor of Think Africa Press, sets the day’s news agenda, we head to Georgia as President Mikheil Saakashvili prepares to leave office, and pay tribute to the pioneering British sculptor, Sir Anthony Caro, who has died aged 89.
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Oscar Guardiola-Rivera sets the day’s news agenda, we discuss German chancellor Angela Merkel’s claims that her personal telephone was hacked by a US surveillance agency and take a whistle-stop tour through the movies – via infographics.
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Rafaello Pantucci sets the day’s news agenda, we hear the results of local elections in Israel, and ask what Sir Alex Ferguson can teach the rest of us about leading a team.
