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Germany鈥檚 AI detectives
How German podcasters tracked down a terrorist suspect with an AI facial recognition tool
Decolonising Russia
Is Russia Europe's last colonial power? What would "decolonising" Russia mean?
Ireland鈥檚 phone-free town
The town where primary schools asked parents not to buy smartphones for their children
El Salvador: Life after the gangs
How people鈥檚 lives have changed since a crackdown on criminal gangs
Myanmar: Rise of the resistance
Quentin Sommerville reports from Myanmar on the rising resistance to the military junta
The Caspian crisis
Why is the Caspian Sea shrinking and what does this means for the region?
Return of the Benin Bronzes
Nigeria's long battle to bring home ancient treasures taken by British forces in 1897
Italy's mafia whistleblower
Why a high-profile mafia informant testified against his powerful family
Kosovo: Euro or bust?
Could new financial restrictions revive the spectre of violence?
Armenia's lost garden
The life and death of a non-existent country - and the rebirth of its improbable pub