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Crossing Continents
Page last updated at 15:28 GMT, Thursday, 16 July 2009 16:28 UK
THURSDAY, 16 JULY 2009

Natalya Estemirova and Lucy Ash
Chechnya
Lucy Ash reports from Chechnya where prominent human rights worker called Natalya Estemirova was shot dead this week.
Remembering Natalia
Vow to catch Chechnya assassins

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Ashley Chalfant Hard times in Middletown, USA
Stephen Smith reports from Muncie on how the economic crisis is affecting the people who defined the American middle class.
Hard Times in Middletown
Family at Red Shirt rally Thailand's Red-Shirts
As the Red-Shirts prepared to descend on the capital, Lucy Ash met the activists from the poor north east of Thailand who have vowed to bring the government down.

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HIGHLIGHTS FROM WINTER 08/09

Bahrain Protest Police 'use guns' at Bahrain protests
A human rights organisation in Bahrain accuses police of opening fire on protesters campaigning against brutality.
UNT1 in concert The Iraqi Backstreet Boys
Caroline Hawley reported from the Middle East on the remarkable Iraqi boy band - Unknown to No one.
Young Malaysian Malaysia - racial supremacy no more?
Mukul Devichand meets the young people struggling for a more equal future for all Malaysians.

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