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Turkey is "certainly struggling"

Reality Check: Turkey faces mass influx of refugees from Syria; Moscow protests; Afghan presidency; measuring happiness.

Syrian Kurds flee to Turkey

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A Syrian refugee family waits near the Turkish-Syrian border after fleeing Syria. Nearly 100,000 Syrian Kurds fleeing the Islamic State militant group have crossed into Turkey in the past three days, a UN official said.

Over 100,000 Syrian Kurds flood into Turkey in a space of just two days, while young Kurds in Turkey want to join the fight against Islamic State. How is Turkey coping? A report from our correspondent Dorian Jones:

West Gate anniversary

A young Kenyan photographer reflects on the West Gate shopping centre attack, carried out in Nairobi year one ago by the Islamist group al-Shabab in response to Kenya's military involvement in Somalia:

March in Moscow against Ukraine fighting

Thousands of people took to the streets of Moscow at the weekend in a show of solidarity with people in Ukraine, and to protest against Russia’s involvement in the conflict. Our correspondent in Moscow Jake Rashbass reports:

Afghanistan’s power sharing deal

Former Afghan finance minister Ashraf Ghani has been named president-elect after he signed a deal to share power with his opponent Abdullah Abdullah. Thomas Ruttig of the Afghanistan Analysts’ Network explains what the deal entails and what it means for Afghanistan’s future.

A measure of happiness

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Bhutan measures prosperity by gauging its citizens' happiness levels, not the size of its economy.

An interview with Jigme Thinley, who was the first elected prime minister of Bhutan and is now the chairman of the “Gross National Happiness Centre” in Bhutan, an organisation which created an alternative measurement criterion for a country’s wealth: