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In the Philippines, election season is more like hunting season as rivals simply rub out their opponents instead of defeating them at the polls. In Afghanistan, the Taliban are now manipulating children and teenagers into carrying out suicide bombings.

North Koreans try to cross the border into China illegally every year--some via a modern-day underground railroad. VICE visits the most dangerous place in the world: Kashmir's line of control, which separates India from Pakistan.

VICE visits the New Life Baptist Church & Academy in Albuquerque, NM, where Pastor Larry Allen preaches guns and teaches guns. After ravaging Iraq over the past decade, the U.S. is exiting the country--leaving behind a toxic cesspool of military waste.

In China, where marrying-age men outnumber women by the millions, VICE looks at a lucrative business catered to matchmaking and the bachelors who use such services. Tired of the economic crisis, European youth are taking to the streets to demand change.

A look at the exiled sons of polygamists. In the West African country of Mauritania, parents send their daughters to rural fattening camps. A visit to Mumbai, where slums sit below billion-dollar, single-family skyscrapers.

How China's appetite for housing created huge ghost cities; the violent aftermath of Arab Spring in Egypt.

Tobacco obsession in Indonesia; treating heroin addiction with hallucinogens in Mexico.

The laamb-wrestling phenomenon in Senegal; rising sea levels in Venice, the Maldives and beyond.

The lethal combination of gangs and guns has turned Chicago into a war zone. VICE visits the city's most dangerous areas; plus, a visit to Africa's oil-producing region to meet with oil thieves, and one farmer's attempt to sue a foreign oil company.

VICE makes history on a trip to North Korea to play hoops and meet with supreme leader Kim Jong-un. With NBA great Dennis Rodman and a trio of Harlem Globetrotters in tow, the visit includes a first-ever meeting between the leader and a U.S. delegation.