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Orbán's secret weapon

Meet Árpád Habony, the mysterious man behind Viktor Orbán’s rise to power. He’s now working in the shadows to take Hungary’s far-right model global. Connor Mulhern and Balázs Turcsán investigate.

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Coming back from the brink?

India’s vultures nearly went extinct. Graeme Green on the efforts to save them.

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Early in the morning, workers set off to collect shellfish on the polder (dyke) site. Only 16 per cent of the country is arable land and much of it is exhausted; consequently the State has backed polder construction since the early 1950s to create land suitable for rice cultivation. There are now more than 300,000 hectares of reclaimed land. But the polders require constant upkeep.Photo: Alina Paul/Jérôme Bossuet

Inside North Korea

A rare glimpse into the world’s most secretive country, by French aid worker Jérôme Bossuet who spent three years there.

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