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From Our Own Correspondent: Fraying at the Edges

09/11/2013

Fraying at the Edges

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Redrawing the map of the Middle East, and other stories from around the world.

A hundred years after the Great War, the map of the Middle East may soon need to be re-drawn. Plus reporters' stories from Sri Lanka, Germany, India and the Republic of Ireland.

Correspondents worldwide: Kevin Connolly talks of unfinished business in the Middle East finally being attended to after one hundred years. Historical and continuing allegations of rape and torture in Sri Lanka are investigated by Frances Harrison. For India, its mission to Mars is an opportunity to come out top of a new Asian space race. Justin Rowlatt examines the question: couldn't the cash instead have been used to lift many Indians out of poverty? Kieran Cooke boards a train in the west of Ireland to see if passengers feel optimistic now their prime minister has decreed the country is well on the way to seeing off an economic crisis. And David Mazower on stories of remembrance and loss which emerge in the wake of that extraordinary discovery of a huge cache of looted artwork in Germany. 

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