Though Iran has been in turmoil since a stolen election in June, there has been no sign that its nuclear programme, controlled directly by Iran's clerical supreme leader, not by its politicians, has paused for breath.

ECONOMIST: Diplomacy and Iran

Last year, he gave Abdul Monim Abu Zant, a radical Muslim preacher from Amman who calls for an Islamist state in Jordan, his own half-hour programme on Iraqi state-controlled television.

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This was tested for the BBC's 'One Show' programme, where presenter Marty Jopson controlled a 'real traffic light junction at the InnovITS proving ground using a laptop, while 30 volunteer drivers tried to negotiate the junction.

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The maize comes from the United Nation's World Food Programme (WFP), which is banned from operating in territory controlled by al-Shabab.

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"The free school programme involves substantial public funds and significant changes to the way the education service is controlled, managed and delivered, " the tribunal concluded.

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They are also demanding a managed reversal of the Arabisation programme which drove thousands of Kurdish families from the areas south of the old green line that demarcated government-controlled territory from the Kurdish autonomous area.

ECONOMIST: The Kurds of northern Iraq