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Today, the young seem permanently attached to their smartphones.

In Cambodia, with two-thirds of the population under 30, the call to prayer is being rivaled by the call of the phone.

In Saudi Arabia, our correspondent ponders the supposed transformation of a conservative society, women taking off their scarves at

football matches, real change or window dressing.

As Greeks commemorate the university uprising almost 50 years ago that spelled the end of the military junta,

today's students are provoked about a law which allows the police back on campus,

and a story from a little-known bolt hole for French

collaborators at the end of World War II prompted by the death at 107 of the last surviving witness.

First, last week Zimbabwean police broke up a planned opposition rally by beating the gathering

crowd with buttons. The leader of the movement for

Democratic change, Nelson Chamizer, described it as the action of a regime close to

collapse. It's now two years since Robert Magabe was pushed out of office by the

military and replaced by Emerson Nangagwa. Critics of the ruling Zarnup-Pief elite say that the

mismanagement and misrule of the Magabe years has continued unabated.

But there's another grim element to the country's unfolding misery, prolonged drought, and alarming evidence of the negative impact of climate change.

Stephen Saka has found a country reeling from blows both natural and self-inflicted.

No photograph of Victoria Falls does justice to the breathtaking impact of standing on a rocky outcrop

facing the churning cascade of the Zambezi River.

You feel the roar of the plunging water in your gut as the spume of spray soaks your skin. Long before David Livingstone named the

Falls after his imperial queen, local people with more poetry in their souls called

them the smoke that thunders. But right now the smoke is

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