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How a toxic pesticide poisoned French Caribbean island of Martinique
From 1972 to 1993, more than 300 tons of chlordecone were sprayed on the banana plantations of Martinique and Guadeloupe, in the French Caribbean. The highly toxic pesticide has...
Indian Railways hiring! World's largest recruitment drive now underway
The Indian Railways is India's biggest employer, with 1.3 million people in its workforce. The manpower is necessary to keep one of the world's biggest networks running. But the...
'New right', old ideas? A closer look at the far right in Germany
As Angela Merkel visits the eastern German city of Chemnitz, the scene of far-right unrest this summer, we look at how extreme-right ideas are continuing to make inroads across...
Video: Homophobic attacks on the rise in France
Last month, 30-year-old Romain was leaving a Normandy nightclub when he was bundled into a car and attacked by a gang, just because he's gay. Sadly his story is far from unique....
Syria's Armenian minority building new life in Yerevan
In the past few years, some 15 to 20,000 Syrians have found refuge in Armenia, the overwhelming majority of them of Armenian origin. Fleeing persecution of ethnic minorities...