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From Our Own Correspondent: 05/05/2012

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Correspondents with stories from Greece, Italy, Ireland, Kenya and the Russian Arctic.

In a week full of elections near and far, Mark Lowen says Sunday's vote in Greece could be the most critical of them all.

Justin Rowlatt is in Kenya noting a huge turnaround in the global economy -- while Europe and the USA are feeling the pain, the rest of the world is steadily getting richer.

Petroc Trelawney's been to find out why a new town in Ireland has houses and a new railway station, but very few people.

Lucy Ash is camping out in the Russian Arctic and seeing how Vladimir Putin's push for further energy supplies is affecting reindeer and their herders

And Alan Johnston - touring the celebrated sights of Rome - tells us there's one particular statue which casts a chill shadow -- even on the sunniest of Spring days.

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