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Today, how to swindle billions from the Nigerian government,

a step-by-step guide from a man who knows how the fraudsters did

it.

We go aloft with an American eccentric, patrolling the skies over the wide open spaces of Arizona's

borderland. Politics, human rights,

Jedwood, Obagines on wheels. Tonight's Eurovision in Baku is not going to be

dull, but disappointment there is at a seaside tasting of one of Italy's most celebrated delicacies. But first, the sight of all those smiles in the polling station cues in Egypt this week showed that some at least of the shoots planted in the

Arab spring last year have begun to flower and there's been a degree of

admittedly cautious optimism surrounding the talks in Baghdad about Iran's nuclear program.

The region clearly would prefer that this particular argument doesn't explode into

a dispute with far wider implications. But Iran the Middle East there remain many concerns, not least, about Syria.

This morning activists there have been calling on the United Nations to do more to protect civilians.

They're saying about 90 people were killed by government forces in the town of Hula yesterday.

And the effects of the violence are increasingly being felt in neighbouring Lebanon from where Jeremy Bowen has

sent us this assessment. In Beirut the Jacaranda trees are in blossom, their

perfumed purple flowers swaying in the breeze off the Mediterranean. It should be a

perfect time. They're having a long weekend to celebrate the 12th anniversary of

Israel's withdrawal from the zone it occupied in the South. It's early summer and for secular

Lebanese that means the beach, the pool and the worship of the God of the Sun-Tann.

My hotel used to be pleasantly scruffy with an old-fashioned oblong pool that was excellent for doing lengths.

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