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Stories from the Karrada neighbourhood of Baghdad in Iraq, India, the West Bank and Italy

Two view of Iraq in a time of bombing; how prejudice still hinders India's low-caste entrepreneurs; rock climbing in the West Bank and marble mining in Carrara, Italy

Stories of despair and determination from around the world, introduced by Pascale Harter. 

Lyse Doucet reports from the Karrada neighbourhood of Baghdad on two Iraqis mourning the casualties of the recent IS bombing there. Once this district was a byword for prosperity and coexistence - as well as a great place to shop - but since July 3 2016 its name has become a synonym for horror.

India's Dalits - once called 'untouchables' - have made great strides in recent decades - but they're often still held back by social prejudice, menaces and violence. Soutik Biswas traces the stories of two Dalits and the village rivalries which have hindered them in Gujarat. 

Edward Lewis aims for new heights at an unusual new facility in the West Bank: a rock-climbing gym hoping to get more Palestinians out of doors and exploring the natural world around them.

And Antonia Quirke visits the marble quarry in Carrara which has supplied some of the world's most coveted stone - since the era of the Roman Empire. But these days, the excavation's more mechanised than ever, and much of the product ends up in luxury bathrooms from China to Dubai. 

Photo: Iraqis perform the Friday prayer on July 8, 2016, in front of a memorial for the victims at the site a suicide bombing in Baghdad's busy shopping district of Karrada which killed 292 people ( AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images)

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