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Martin Patience recently visited Iran - the first trip in 5 years that BBC News has been granted access. What impression did he get of how the country's coping with new US sanctions? And how free is cultural life in Tehran these days? Pascale Harter introduces his insights, along with dispatches from other reporters and writers around the world. By global standards Ethiopia is one of the most dangerous places to be a pregnant woman - but its maternal mortality rate has fallen sharply in the last three decades. Many people still live far from hospitals and don't have much access to obstetric care, though. Ruth Evans went to see how the country's health system is saving lives by training up mid-level health workers like nurses and midwives, meaning they're able to perform Caesarian sections and other urgent procedures in emergencies. Neil Kisserli's on the streets of Algeria's second city, Oran, to see how far freedom of speech and political debate is spreading through society after the ousting of its former President, and amid ongoing weekly protests. And Michael Wendling explores the new fringes of American political thought at a pro-Trump event in Scranton, Pennsylvania. In a mirror world of 'snowflakes', ironic neo-Nazis, Twitter trolls and lagging 'normies', what does the idea of a counterculture even mean any more? Photo: Women carrying shopping bags walk through a tunnel in Tehran on July 3, 2019. (ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images)