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It's introduced by Kate Aide.

Today Remembrance Weekend and that map of the Middle East, the Great Powers drew up at the

end of the First World War, seems finally to be fraying at the edges.

Sri Lanka stands accused of serious and continuing human rights abuses

as it prepares to host the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting.

India's multi-million mission to Mars, can it really benefit even the poorest,

scavenging on the rubbish tips of Delhi?

And what would you take if you had to leave home in a hurry?

It's a question that emerges after the discovery of that huge

horde of looted art in Germany.

This is once again the season of remembrance, and it's the last one before the time comes to commemorate the

hundredth anniversary of the Great War. The idea of creating a national day to

remember the fallen of Britain and its empire grew out of the appalling sacrifice of that conflict.

The grinding misery of the trenches still exerts a powerful grip on our collective imagination

a hundred years on, when much else about that war has been forgotten.

How exactly did it start?

How exactly did it change the countries which fought in it?

What were the results when the guns fell silent?

As Remembrance Day approaches, Kevin Connolly has been traveling in Iraq, one of the countries

created in the aftermath of the Great War, and he discovered in the Kurdish city of E

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