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The Venezuelan diaspora is scattered wide, and for relatives and friends hit by a worsening

economic crisis at home, we hear help is coming via messaging apps from Texas to Brussels

to Nairobi. A shocking murder, gruesome details, and a young woman's fate all over the international

media, our correspondent tells how she tackled telling the story of Kim Wall, the Swedish

journalist killed on board a submarine, months of protest in India against planned agricultural

reforms, and the story of one young farmer who's been demonstrating about his fears for supporting

his family if the changes mean a poorer price for his produce. And what about having a referendum,

a divisive suggestion for some but not in Switzerland, where they've recently voted to ban

Islamic face coverings. First to Syria, and a decade of war with the dead and the missing

both reckoned in hundreds of thousands, and more than half the nation uprooted from their homes.

The northern city of Raka changed hands three times, and gained notoriety under Islamic

state, who brought a regime of terror and brutality with regular public executions in the city's main

square. It's been described as a modern-day Dresden after countless bomb and missile strikes.

There's now a fragile ceasefire, and Leyla Malana Allen has been talking about the future to one

of the original protesters. Raka, the very name evokes draconian dress codes, brutal beheadings,

and the twisted smoking debris of a city reduced to rubble. But it wasn't always so.

There was hope here once. Ten years ago, that hope took seed. Raka has lived many lives since then.

On a dark street in a neighborhood appropriately named Al-Nahda, Rebirth, sits an incongruous site

surrounded by the bullet-ridden concrete husks that now dominate the city, is a slick white cube

enclosed by panoramic glass windows. Negative cafe opened in late 2010. In early 2011,

young law student Abdallah Al-Halil and his friends watched in awe as neighboring countries

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