Fleeing Lebanon to escape poverty: At least 100 die in migrant shipwreck

For more on the soaring poverty that's driving the exodus, and how smugglers are organising their activities, we speak to Sharif Bibi, journalist at the InfoMigrants website.

Finally, the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Iraqi Marshlands are getting drier each year due to what environmentalists say are ineffective government policies and the negative effects of climate change. Our correspondents went to meet farmers who now have no choice but to move to wetter lands. 

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