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05/11/2016 GMT

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Dicing with Danger

Stories from 'Trump Country' in the USA, a migrant camp in France, Uganda and Montenegro

Meeting Trump loyalists at 30,000feet in the air; the characters of France's 'Jungle' camp in Calais; Uganda's motorbike taxis rule the road; Montenegro's fear of lethal draughts

Owen Bennett Jones introduces correspondents' tales of risky business from around the world.

Flying into Las Vegas, Rajini Vaidyanathan finds herself surrounded by Americans who strongly back Donald Trump for President - or is it just that they don't trust Hillary Clinton?

Gavin Lee has been reporting from the so-called "Jungle" - a migrant encampment - in Calais, northern France, for over two years - and as the French authorities dismantle the place and remove most of its thousands of residents, he remembers some of its great characters and its rougher edges.

Tom Shakespeare tangles with the atrocious road traffic of the Ugandan capital - and finds that in Kampala it's the drivers of 'boda boda' or motorcycle taxis who really rule the streets.

And Elizabeth Gowing reveals why Montenegrins have such a mortal terror of draughts: around here, there's a folk belief that 'promaja' or sinister air currents can cause illness or even death. 

Photo: Three "boda" (motorcycle taxi) drivers wait for passengers by the roadside in Kampala, Uganda. (c) ISAAC KASAMANI/AFP/Getty Images

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