Staying Alive

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Pascale Harter introduces dispatches from correspondents, writers and reporters around the world. On the Mediterranean shores of southern Italy and Sicily, Nick Sturdee wades into the growing backlash over migrant rescues at sea - and explores one community, the small town of Riace, which might be a blueprint for reanimating a dying region with new blood from outside. Laurence Blair's on the frontier between Brazil and Paraguay, learning how narcotraffic has turned to narcopolitics as drug money bled out of the criminal world, to corrupt local authorities and to distort community values. Aboard one of the most renowned of the houseboats on Kashmir's famously picturesque Dal Lake, Melissa van der Klugt leafs through the pages of a historic guestbook - with details of famous visitors who came here over seven decades. But now, with as conflict with Indian security forces becomes more acute, there are fewer outsiders willing to run the risks of a stay. And Dan Saladino's out searching for something nice to eat - with the Hadza of Tanzania, one of the world's last remaining groups to follow a strictly hunter-gatherer way of life. They don't farm or keep animals, meaning they can often be hungry ... yet never starve. What are their secrets of dietary success? Photo: Following a rescue at sea, would-be migrants are brought onto a vessel belonging to the Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) near Lampedusa island in the Mediterranean, on 18 May 2017 (Chris McGrath/Getty Images)