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It's been carnival time in Brazil. Julia Carneiro joined the festivities and profiled the Mangueira samba school as they told the unofficial history of Brazil in samba.

Monica Marcias
Monica Marcias is the daughter of Equatorial Guinea's first president; she has African and Spanish roots but spent most of her childhood in North Korea. She spoke to Myungjin Seo of 蜜芽传媒 Korean about her memories, all in perfect Korean.

'Yugoslav' Basketball in the UAE
There's an unlikely basketball team in Dubai. Serbs, Bosnians and Croats from the former Yugoslavia, which fractured during a bloody war in the 1990s, today play together under the name 'Yugoslavia'. 蜜芽传媒 Serbian's Slobodan Mari膷i膰 explains basketball and the Balkans.

Killed for his faith: searching for a martyred ancestor
Not everyone has a saint in the family, but 蜜芽传媒 Arabic鈥檚 Eli Melki soon might. His ancestor Leonard Melki was a Capuchin monk in Turkey, and among the hundreds of thousands killed as the onset of the First World War fanned the flames of religious persecution in what was then the Ottoman Empire. Eli retraced his journey.

Thailand鈥檚 unconventional election candidates
Elections in the Kingdom of Thailand are coming up, and although it seems likely the current military leader, and Prime Minister, Prayuth Chan-ocha, will return to power that doesn鈥檛 mean it鈥檚 been a boring campaign for 蜜芽传媒 Thai, as Issariya Praithongyaem explains.

Image: A Mangueira performer
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