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September 03, 2010 -- Dispatches from Washington, Pakistan, Iraq, Congo and Britain
This week, the Mideast peace talks begin, Pakistan's continuing flood woes, a man who has seen it all in Baghdad, a trip on the Congo river, and life gets harder in British villages.
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August 27, 2010 -- Dispatches from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Russia
This week, we hear about the floods in Pakistan, civilian war deaths in Afghanistan and at the Russian city of St Petersburg
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August 20, 2010 -- Dispatches from Iraq, Pakistan, Israel, Peru, and the State Department
This week, we hear about the withdrawal of the last combat brigade from Iraq, saving a village devastated by floods in Pakistan, Israel's decision to demolish a wall, rethinking the mandatory retirement age for U.S. diplomats, and a potion that's drawing tourists to Peru.
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August 13, 2010 -- Dispatches from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Cuba, and Italy
This week, we hear about the U.S. response to the catastrophic flooding in Pakistan, a key player in Washington's strategy in Afghanistan, the plight of kids orphaned by Al Qaeda attacks in Iraq, Fidel Castro's re-emergence on the political scene in Cuba, and a new use for wine in Italy.
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August 6, 2010 -- Dispatches from Mexico, Spain, and Egypt
This week, we hear about the social impact of the drug war in Mexico, the legacy of the civil war in Spain, and an attempt to unify the Islamic call to prayer in Cairo.
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July 30 , 2010 -- Dispatches from Afghanistan, Columbia and China.
On the podcast this week: the suicide bombers of Afghanistan; rumbles of war in South America; and an in-depth look at corruption in China.
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July 23, 2010 -- Dispatches from Moscow, central China, and Sudan.
On the podcast this week: New powers for successor to Russia's KGB; the female Imams of China; and dancing your way into marriage -- in Sudan.
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July 16, 2010 -- Dispatches from Pakistan and Amsterdam
On the podcast this week: The mystery of the vanishing Iranian scientist... militancy in the heart of Pakistan... and what's the future for the European Union?
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July 9, 2010 -- Dispatches from Baghdad, Afghanistan, and Moscow.
On the podcast this week, a perilous pilgrimage in Iraq; assessing the war in a tiny part of Afghanistan; the musings of a Russian oil magnate on trial; and the bomb that WASN'T dropped 41 years ago.
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July 2, 2010 -- Dispatches from Pakistan, Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Japan
This week, we hear about citizens taking the law into their own hands in Pakistan's Swat Valley, what's in store for General David Petraeus as he takes over military operations in Afghanistan, the 50th anniversary of independence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and a sumo wrestling scandal in Japan.
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June 25, 2010 -- Dispatches from The United States, Iraq, and Peru.
This week, we hear about the Pentagon's questionable allies in Afghanistan; Iraq's new army and its dependency on the US; the fate of Saddam Hussein's spy files; and the oil spills of the Amazon.
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June 18, 2010 -- Dispatches from Mexico, Turkey, more
This week, we hear about the intensifying drug war in Mexico; Turkey's efforts to continue dialogue with Iran; a growing humanitarian crisis in Central Asia; and an update on Pakistan's Swat Valley.
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April 23, 2010 -- Dispatches from the United Kingdom, China, and the Philippines
This week, we hear about the volcanic ash that brought chaos to European air travel, China's attempts to modernize its military, and one man's fight to get to the top in The Philippines.
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May 05, 2010 -- Dispatches from Pakistan, France, China and Kenya
This week, we travel to the home of the alleged Times Square bomber in Pakistan, hear how pirates are raking in the money in Somalia, an unloved US exhibit at the expo, Greek debt problems, and how France is celebrating impressionism.
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April 30, 2010 -- Dispatches from Afghanistan, Venezuela, the United Kingdom, more
This week, we hear about the efforts of Afghanistan's president to reconcile with the Taliban, a judge in Venezuela who has gone to jail, an upcoming election in Britain, more reports of child abuse by priests in Europe, and a battle over burqas in France.
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May 14, 2010 -- Dispatches from Afghanistan, Russia, Cuba and Japan
This week, we hear from an Afghan warlord, about a reopened factory near Lake Baikal, Russians getting sentimental about Cuba and about a monk who is circling the globe.
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Dispatches from Afghanistan, Mexico, and diplomacy with Iran
This week, we hear about the complex and often confrontational diplomacy surrounding Iran's nuclear program, a looming fight for control of a Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan, and growing pot in Mexico.
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May 28, 2010 -- Dispatches from Afghanistan, Sudan and France
This week, we hear about the challenges facing U.S. forces in Afghanistan, about a timeless South Sudan and we hear the story of Iran's Green Revolution in Paris.
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June 11, 2010 -- Dispatches from Israel, Turkey, Iraq, Italy, and France.
This week, we hear about the aftermath of the deadly Israeli commando raid on a ship carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza; the fire sale of equipment and materials as US troops begin leaving Iraq; and the continuing problems facing the Catholic church.
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June 18, 2010 -- Dispatches from Mexico, Turkey, more
This week, we hear about the intensifying drug war in Mexico; Turkey's efforts to continue dialogue with Iran; a growing humanitarian crisis in Central Asia; and an update on Pakistan's Swat Valley.
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