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Hello. Today the drones return to the skies over Pakistan.

What chance now over peace deal with the Taliban?

The strike in South Africa's platinum mine seems close to an end,

but the bitterness it's left behind will take a long time to clear.

We hear from the hills and valleys of Burundi, where going out for a jog, can land you in jail.

And I wish I were four years old and starting all over again we raise

a glass to a much-loved school in New York. But first, forces loyal to the government of Iraq have been reinforcing positions around the town of Samara, against ISIS and the other Islamist insurgents who have taken control of large parts of the West and north of the country.

The Iraqi authorities are reported to have shut down much of the social media in the country,

amid concerns it's being used by ISIS to spread fear.

The jihadis are said to be issuing warnings that more people

will be executed if they fail to respect the codes it's seeking to impose. The militants

are already in control of Mosul, Tikrit and a number of other Iraqi

towns and cities. They have also a sizable force in neighbouring Syria. Jeremy Bowen has been

considering their objectives.

On the road to Aleppo, a thought I've had often in the last few years dropped back into my head.

The modern world is in retreat. I was in a car moving along a bumpy dead straight road across a flat scrubby plain north of Holmes.

A year or so ago the territory was in rebel hands, but the Syrian army took it back, its tanks

had dug into the occasional hillocks.

That Syrian plane was desolate, the occasional villages abandoned and empty.

Some weapon had punched holes in the mud brick houses,

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