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World Service,19 Nov 2009,28 mins

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Emma Jane Kirby introduces reports on the isolated Russian republic of Ingushetia; the lingering political confusion in Bosnia; the reaction to an American president in the coffee shops of China; the perils of paragliding in the Himalayas and the Iowa boom town that turned to bust after a third of the population disappeared overnight.

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